Anal cunt

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Anal cunt
Anal Cunt live at the 1993 Relapse Festival
Anal Cunt live at the 1993 Relapse Festival
General information
Genre (s) Grindcore
founding 1988
resolution 2011
Founding members
Seth Putnam (until 2011, † 2011)
Mike Mahan (until 1991)
Tim Morse (until 1997, from 2008)
Last occupation
singing
Seth Putnam
guitar
Josh Martin (1997-2011, † 2018)
Drums
John Gillis (1999-2011)
former members
guitar
Fred Ordonez (1991-1993)
guitar
John Kozik (1992-1997)
guitar
Paul Kraynak (1993–1996)
guitar
Scott "Pig Destroyer" Hull (1996)
Drums
Nate Linehan (1997-1999)

Anal Cunt ( German  Analfotze ) was an American grindcore band. They became known outside of the scene for their provocative and ironic style and influenced the further development of both grind and hardcore in this direction. The band's logo consists of their initials AC, whereby the “A” in the band logo is stylized like an anus and the “C” is stylized like a vagina.

history

The band was formed in 1988. In the same year she went on her first tour. In 1991 Slap A Ham Records released the 7 ”sampler Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh! - The Record with six untitled tracks by Anal Cunt. With the band Meat Shits also represented on it, a split 7 ”EP was released by Wicked Sick Records in the same year. In addition, the CD Fast Boston HC was released by Ecocentric Records. In 1993 Morbid Florist was released by Relapse Records and Anal Cunt signed with Earache Records . That same year, Seth Putnam and guitarist John Kozik quarreled . Years later, Putnam stated that he would "never see the asshole again". In 1994, Earache Records released Everyone Should Be Killed and the band went on a European tour. In view of the band's increasing contacts with right-wing extremist and clearly racist scenes, Earache Records separated from Anal Cunt.

After separating from Earache Records, the band moved to Menace to Sobriety Records. There followed in 2000 a split EP with The Raunchous Brothers. Sandro Gessner of Regurgitated Semen Records also offered Anal Cunt a platform and in 2001 released their split 7 ”EP with wildfire and the single Warning from Putnam's project You're Fired.

In 2004, a suicide attempt with an overdose of zolpidem caused a stroke that put Putnam into a coma. After his rehabilitation phase he was only able to walk with a crutch; initially he sat in a wheelchair when performing live. In 2006 the band was featured with a title on the soundtrack of the gonzo film Fuck the System by director Rob Rotten .

In 2008 Tim Morse returned to Anal Cunt. On June 11, 2011, Seth Putnam died of a heart attack at the age of 43 .

Music genre

Anal Cunt's music, known as Noisecore , “initially consisted of improvised noise”. According to Ingo Taler, the band was musically inspired by grindcore bands such as Napalm Death and American hardcore / speedcore bands such as Siege and combined "these varieties into a kind of noise core that is characterized by infernal 'noise'". On the 88 Song EP , the band noted that none of the pieces on it had "any lyrics, song titles, and with the exception of about 6 of 7 songs, no music written for them." On the 5643 Song EP , the songs were initially recorded on 16 tracks "before they were later mixed on top of each other and released as infernal noise". Anal Cunt only used song titles from Morbid Florist . Sebastian Böhmer from Legacy described Anal Cunt as one of the “most extreme bands on the planet [...]. Anyone who sounds sicker and wackier than this trio can actually only produce nonsense in the manner of Merzbow and similar Japanese bands. "

Over time, the band expanded "their eruption lengths from an average of two seconds to often-almost-a-whole-minute-long-infernos", which makes them "even weirder, faster and more brutal". Putnam justified the "musical development towards more complex song structures" attested by Böhmer instead of the earlier "3-second blast monsters" with the fact that the band "no longer wants to make 50 songs" that "always sound the same". During the 1990s the band turned from noise core to grind and hardcore. Martin Hamann of Legacy described the style of her last studio album Fuckin 'A as "Cock-Rock". It is "[in] the principle [...] of real punk and rock'n'roll , recorded with the typical ANAL CUNT garage sound and the screams that have become a trademark ." Although the material has nothing to do with grind or noise core have to do, it exudes “its very own ANAL CUNT charm” and “fits in more or less seamlessly in a discography that was repeatedly shaped by surprises, breaches of convention and, in a certain way, independence”.

Texts and controversy

On the first two albums, the band's tracks still had self-deprecating titles, and they staged a scene debate about the 'commercial sell-out' and made them ridiculous. In connection with this album Ingo Taler describes the homophobic title Art Fag as “the beginning of her conscious break with the 'political correctness' attitude”. Starting with the album 40 More Reasons to Hate Us from 1996, Anal Cunt “deliberately relied on sexist and homophobic statements”, thus went “on a course of confrontation with the ' political correctness ' faction of the HC scene” and broke with it.

The band printed their lyrics for the first time at It Just Gets Worse . When asked what the band wanted to express, Putnam replied: “Nothing at all. We're just a few assholes who hate everything and want as much trouble as possible. "He has" always found it funny "when" women are beaten up ". Examples of misogyne titles are Kill Women , You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You in the Stomach , Women: Nature's Punching Bag, and Domestic Violence Is Really Really Really Funny . Another recurring theme for song titles was X is gay , where the X was replaced with an almost arbitrary term. Examples are Tim Is Gay , The Internet Is Gay , Technology Is Gay , You're Gay , Recycling Is Gay , All Our Fans Are Gay , and The Word 'Homophobic' is Gay . Other metal musicians were also often attacked in their lyrics. A song against a child by Eric Clapton had to be renamed because Earache Records feared that Clapton could take legal action against the record company. With Easy E Got AIDS from Freddy Mercury , the band reached both Eazy-E of NWA and Freddie Mercury of Queen of. The controversy resulting from the lyrics printed for the first time at It Just Gets Worse led to Earache Records separating from the band. The decisive factor for this was Anal Cunts "previously unfamiliar sympathy for National Socialism , which moved to the center of attention on her album". Among other things, the band wrote songs called Body by Auschwitz , in which "a fat man goes there to lose weight", Hitler Was a Sensitive Man and I Sent Concentration Camp Footage to America's Funniest Home Videos . The band named their background choir Anal Cunt Gestapo. According to Taler, "the discrimination against women and homosexuals known from Anal Cunt should have been enough to cause indignation, which, however, did not lead to missing texts like the rape fantasy in the song 'I Sent A Thank You Card To The Guy Who Raped You'". The fact that Earache Records was only bothered by the lyrics that trivialize and glorify National Socialism is made clear by the US reprint published in 2003, in the supplement of which “the texts objected to by the label were overprinted with the slogan 'Anal Cunt fucking offensive' and thereby have been made unrecognizable ”. This only affected the Nazi-related texts, not the homophobic and misogynous.

For the split EP with The Raunchous Brothers, Anal Cunt had himself photographed in front of the gates of the former Dachau concentration camp and his inscription “ Arbeit macht frei ”. In the song Hogging up the Holocaust , the Jewish victims of the Holocaust are denigrated and accused of "exploiting their victim status". In I'm Hitler , the band identifies with Adolf Hitler . In Ha Ha Holocaust from the sampler 13 Bands Who Think You're Gay from 2004, Anal Cunt describes "the mockery of victims of the Holocaust as a change in content to the writing of songs about rape".

The band's stance is often perceived as ironic or mere provocation. The extent to which it can be described as consistently satirical has become questionable in view of multiple contacts with the clearly right-wing extremist spectrum (see above all the split single with The Raunchous Brothers). Seth Putnam is also associated with the far-right band Vaginal Jesus , which has very harsh, racist lyrics. He came out in the right-wing extremist magazine Resistance as the head of the band. Since then, magazines such as Rock Hard magazine have refused to cover Anal Cunt. However, Putnam's confession did little to harm the popularity of Anal Cunt. According to Ingo Taler, the European hardcore scene in particular found it difficult to get used to this idea. A punk festival in Stavanger, Norway, canceled the right-wing extremist band Les Vilains in 2006 because of their attitude, but let Anal Cunt perform in the same year. In the case of Trust magazine, on the other hand, the publisher Dolf Hermannstädter distanced himself from Anal Cunt because of the Nazi connections, while the employee Jan wrote that he “still doesn't believe that Anal Cunt is a right-wing band”, but the band had with their gay jokes "Provoked long enough". The band's homophobia was enough for him to criticize them. Several musicians from the right-wing extremist bands Mudoven, Vaginal Jesus and The Raunchous Brothers played on the last album Fuckin 'A before Putnam's death. As further evidence of the “insufficient discussion with protagonists of the extreme right in the HC punk scene”, Taler cites an obituary by Ox for Putnam, in which it says that he “got away from the provocative but acceptable enfant terrible in the developed into a somewhat questionable figure in recent years ”. With this “belittling of a neo-Nazis ”, the Ox “delivers a telling picture of how uncritically and unobjective a part of the HC punk scene deals with neo-Nazis and what of their self-formulated claim to be 'against Nazis' in practice hold is ".

Discography

Seth Putnam

Demos & EPs

  • 1988: 47 Song Demo (Demo)
  • 1988: 88 Song EP (7``)
  • 1989: 5643 Song EP ( 7`` )
  • 1989: We'll Just Have to Acclimatize Ourselves to the Post-Nuclear Area (Split-7 '' with Seven Minutes of Nausea )
  • 1991: Another EP (7``)
  • 1991: Another Split EP (Split-7 '' with Meat Shits )
  • 1991: Split-7 '' with Psycho
  • 1991: Unplugged (7``)
  • 1991: Live EP (7``)
  • 1993: Morbid Florist (7 '' / CD)
  • 1993: Breaking the Law (7 '')
  • 1995: Stayin 'Alive (Oi! Version) (7' ')
  • 1997: In These Black Days: A Tribute to Black Sabbath Vol. I (Split-7 '' with EyeHateGod )
  • 2000: Split EP (Split with The Raunchous Brothers)
  • 2001: Defenders of the Hate (7 ")
  • 2001: Howard Is Soon
  • 2001: Split-7 '' with wildfire
  • 2011: Wearing Out Our Welcome (Download, CD)

Studio albums

  • 1994: Everyone Should Be Killed
  • 1995: Top 40 hits
  • 1996: 40 More Reasons to Hate Us
  • 1997: I Like It When You Die
  • 1998: Picnic of Love
  • 1999: It Just Gets Worse
  • 2008: 110 song LP / CD
  • 2010: Fuckin 'A

Compilations and live albums

  • 1991: Fast Boston HC (Best Of)
  • 1994: Old Stuff, Part Two (Best Of)
  • 1999: Live in NYC / Live in LA - (split album with Insult )
  • 2000: The Early Years 1988–1991 (Best Of)
  • 2002: Very Rare Rehearsal from February 1989
  • 2007: Defenders of the Hate (Best Of)
  • 2008: Old Stuff Part 3
  • 2001: The Old Testament 1988–1991 (2CD)

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Jeffrey Tandy: AC Singer Seth Putnam Dead at 43. Examiner.com, June 12, 2011, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  2. a b c Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 170 .
  3. a b c d e f g h i j Ingo Taler: 88 more reasons to hate you . In: Plastic Bomb . No. 55 , 2006 ( online ( memento of March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed October 11, 2014]).
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  5. a b c d e f g h i j k l m Sebastian Böhmer: Anal Cunt . In: Legacy . No. 55 , August 7, 1999 ( online [accessed September 9, 2014]). online ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 178 .
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  9. German-Adult-News.com: Rob Rotten - From Punk to Porn. Retrieved May 21, 2017 .
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  12. a b Martin Hamann: ANAL CUNT "Fuckin 'A" . In: Legacy . No. 71 , August 7, 1999 ( online [accessed September 9, 2014]). online ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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  14. a b Rosie Swash: Seth Putnam, the 'GG Allin of grindcore', dies aged 43. Frontman with US metal band Anal Cunt has died after suffering a heart attack. The Guardian , June 13, 2011, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  15. a b c d e f Bill Zebub: Anal Cunt . In: The Grimoire of Exalt Deeds . No. 10 ( online [accessed October 16, 2014]). online ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. a b c Jan Jaedike: Anal Cunt . I Like It When You Die. In: Rock Hard . No. 121 ( online [accessed September 12, 2014]).
  17. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 177 .
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  20. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 183 .
  21. News . In: Rock Hard . No. 231 , August 2006, p. 7 .
  22. a b Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 176 .
  23. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 176 f .
  24. Booklet of the CD Fuckin'A , Patac Records, 2011
  25. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 307 .

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