Powerviolence
|
Powerviolence
|
|
| Development phase: | Late 1980s / early 1990s |
| Place of origin: | United States |
| Stylistic precursors | |
| Hardcore punk , crustcore , grindcore | |
| Pioneers | |
| Capitalist Casualities , Infest , Man is the Bastard , Spazz | |
| Instruments typical of the genre | |
| Electric guitar , drums , electric bass | |
Powerviolence , sometimes also spelled Power Violence , is a genre of hardcore punk music that is stylistically based on Grindcore .
history
Powerviolence emerged as an independent style around 1986 in the United States and goes back to the hardcore punk band Infest . The music style combines the US hardcore punk style with crustcore in the style of Siege and early Corrosion of Conformity . Infest's Matt Domino later played with Eric Wood from Pissed Happy Children in the band Neanderthal and called the genre Powerviolence for the first time. As an independent scene, Powerviolence began to develop in the early 1990s via the Slap A Ham Records label . In addition to Infest, the most famous bands include Man Is the Bastard , Capitalist Casualities , No Comment , Spazz , Assück and Crossed Out . The scene reached its peak in the mid-1990s and then lost its importance after almost all of the founding bands and the leading label Slap A Ham disbanded.
Today there is a very small power violence scene in the United States around bands like Iron Lung .
Musical characteristics
Musically, Powerviolence often reaches the speed of Grindcore, but dispenses with metal influences. Only in the slow breakdowns and progressive solos are influences from Doom Metal recognizable. Elements of the music are the use of blastbeats , the simultaneous playing of bass drum and hi-hat , followed by a snare drum . Frequent tempo changes are characteristic . A lot of distortion is used and the music is very experimental. Influences from electronic music and noise are not uncommon, especially with Man Is the Bastard, which used broken Hammond organs and malfunctioning cassette recorders as instruments. The sub-scene has a radical leftist attitude and DIY influences. However, just Spazz, who played a major role in the later development of the scene, thwarted this development. Her texts were mainly based on references to pop culture , for example martial arts films or skateboarding .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Anthony Bartkewicz: Screwdriver in the Urethra of Hardcore. Decibel Magazine, July 2007, archived from the original on February 24, 2008 ; Retrieved March 17, 2011 .
- ↑ Brandon Ivers: What Is It? Powerviolence. (No longer available online.) XLR8R, March 20, 2009, archived from the original on September 26, 2008 ; Retrieved April 22, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andrew Marcus: Buzz Clip. SF Weekly, August 6, 2003, accessed April 20, 2011 .
- ^ Gabriel Kuhn: Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics . PM Press , 2010, ISBN 1-60486-051-0 , pp. 16 .
- ↑ Andrew Marcus: Buzz Clip. SF Weekly, August 6, 2003, accessed April 20, 2011 .
