Fear of God (Switzerland)
| Fear of God | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Grindcore , noise |
| founding | 1986, 2003 |
| resolution | 1988 |
| Website | http://www.fearofgod.ch/ |
| Founding members | |
| Erich Keller | |
| Reto Kühne (until 1988) | |
| Franz Oswald (since 1987) | |
Electric bass , vocals |
Dave Phillips (1988) |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Erich Keller |
guitar |
Hervé Geuggis (1988) |
guitar |
Giles Geuggis (1988) |
bass |
Massimo (1988) |
Drums |
Franz Oswald |
Fear of God is a former grindcore band from Switzerland that was active from 1986 to 1988 and briefly in 2003.
Band history
Fear of God (formerly Bunch of Lies ) was founded in 1986 by Erich Keller and Reto Kühne. Coming from the hardcore punk environment, their style was initially based on Discharge and Amebix (after the Amebix song Fear of God they were named unconsciously). At the latest with the entry of drummer Franz “Osi” Oswald, the style changed from Fear of God to Grindcore. Together with various other bands in the genre, such as Napalm Death and Repulsion , they quickly become popular abroad via tape trading . Various demos , live recordings and tape samplers are spreading in the small but rapidly growing underground scene. In 1987 the first, untitled 7 "appeared , which contained 21 songs, some of which were only 20 to 30 seconds long.
In 1988 the debut album As Statues Fell was released . The band disillusioned after a concert in the opening act of Henry Rollins .
“ It was mainly due to the massive acceptance that we suddenly experienced. Many of the bands we were friends with could be bought almost overnight or unexpectedly came out as complete idiots. (...) The performance with Henry Rollins finally gave us the rest. We experienced the whole rock & roll bullshit for the first time first hand: There was no sound check for us, and the hall music from the PA continued uninterrupted during the gig . We decided during the set to call it a day. "
The debut 7 "and the first album were repeatedly pressed. Numerous bootleg versions are in circulation. In 2003, Keller reanimated the band for about six months, but disbanded them after various appearances and called the reunification a" big mistake " In the same year, the exclusive double LP Zeitgeist was released , which summarizes all of the band's recordings from 1986 to 1988. Originally, the discography CD was due to appear on Ipecac Recordings due to Mike Patton's enthusiasm for FoG ; Version planned by Relapse Records Erich Keller, together with Thomas Mölch, also ran the fanzine Megawimp and the label Off the Disk in the eighties, on which the first Morbid Angel single, Thy Kingdom Come , was released.
reception
Albert Mudrian described the debut single as one of the most important releases in Grindcore and Death Metal of the late 1980s. The combination of noise and grindcore was groundbreaking for the later development of grindcore. Although the band was only active for two years, several epigones were founded, such as Anal Cunt (who, however, freed this music from everything political) and later bands called Fastcore or Noisecore such as Dropdead or Infest . The band, however, rejected the term Grindcore for themselves because "the term [came up] when we broke up" and simply referred to themselves as a noise band.
Between 2001 and 2002 Dave Phillips created the collage "The Hermeneutics of Fear of God", 61 pieces based on samples from pieces by Fear of God. Excerpts of the pieces were published between 2003 and 2007 before being presented in full on CD and LP in 2008. In 2004 the tribute album The End of the Fear of God was released on which 69 artists, including Jim O'Rourke , Merzbow , Mike Patton and Voice Crack Fear of God cover.
literature
- Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . Berlin: IP Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-931624-35-8
Discography
- Same (single, 1988)
- As Statues Fell (1988)
- Pneumatic Slaughter (live single, 1990)
- Zeitgeist ( compilation , 2003)
- Born Blind (single, 2003)