Suicide Commando
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 Suicide Commando at the Free & Easy Festival 2015 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Belgium |
| Genre (s) | Aggrotech , electro-industrial |
| founding | 1986 |
| Website | www.suicidecommando.be |
| Current occupation | |
| Johan Van Roy | |
Suicide Commando ( Engl. "Suicide mission") is the music project of the Belgian Johan Van Roy . At first stylistically at home in the electro-industrial environment, from the end of the 1990s music increasingly tended towards aggrotech .
history
Johan Van Roy, the only member of the Suicide Commando band (named after a song by the German band No More ), began experimenting with electronic music in 1986. Two years later he released his first recordings on cassette under the name Suicide Commando. In addition, one of his pieces appeared on the Electronic Compilation on LP. Johan Van Roy continued to bring out cassettes himself and so other tracks appeared on the Compilations Rotation II and Induction, Variance and Their Sequences , both of which were released by Kugelblitz Records.
In 1994 Suicide Commando's first CD Critical Stage was released on the German label Off Beat. Shortly afterwards, in 1995, Suicide Commando's second CD, Stored Images , was released, on which the title See You in Hell can be found, one of the band's best-known pieces to this day.
In 1996 Suicide Commando celebrated its 10th anniversary and released the CD Contamination , which was also released in a limited box version, which also contained a 3 "CD. Contamination was released a year later in North America on the now-defunct Electronic Death Trip Records.
In 1998 the album Construct-Destruct and the related album Reconstruction were released , on which new club hits such as Desire and Better Off Dead were. Construct-Destruct was released in North America with additional tracks by Possessive Blindfold Records.
In 1999 Johan Van Roy was one of the co-founders of Dependent Records. There he brought out his next releases, the singles Hellraiser and Comatose Delusion and then the album Mindstrip , which made it to number 1 in the German Alternative Charts. Mindstrip later appeared in North America on Metropolis Records.
For the next release Axis of Evil , a special double single Face of Death was released beforehand , which was sold out within two days. The normal edition of the single is still available. Axis of Evil was voted album of the year (2003) by the German Alternative Charts. Suicide Commando later released another limited double single, Cause of Death: Suicide / One Nation under God .
In 2006 Suicide Commando returned with the album Bind, Torture, Kill , which was also released in a limited edition including a bonus CD, poster and sticker. Here you can also find the previously released singles Godsend / Menschenfresser , which like Bind, torture, kill appeared on Johan Van Roy's own label Noise Terror Productions (NTP). The album again reached number 1 in various alternative charts around the world. It was also voted album of the month by the German magazine Orkus.
In 2007, one year after the 20th anniversary of Suicide Commando, the X20 Box with 3 CDs (1 Remix CD, 1 Best Of CD and the Fuck You Bitch EP) and Suicide Commando's first live DVD was released. The Remix CD and the Best Of album were later released individually by Metropolis Records on North America.
In late 2007, Suicide Commando returned with the title Hate Me , the first new release since the Bind, torture, kill album. It appeared on the Noise Terror Volume 2 sampler on NTP / Dependent.
style
The demo cassettes released in the first few years were still clearly characterized by the minimalist sound of The Klinik . It was only under the increased influence of electro-industrial formations such as Mortal Constraint and Dive that the hard sound of Suicide Commando gradually took shape. This reference is underlined by the guest appearance of the clinic and dive singer Dirk Ivens on the album "Critical Stage", where he wrote the lyrics of the song "Where Do We Go From Here?" And took over the vocals. Over the years, the style of Suicide Commando gained more in-depth, technoid-influenced rhythms and is now considered to be formative for Aggrotech ; for example through mutual remixes or joint tours with bands of the same genre (e.g. Tactical Sekt or Hocico ).
Most of the texts deal with death , murder and related subjects (from suicide to euthanasia to necrophilia ). In addition, morbid or failed interpersonal relationships, critical religious considerations or social problems play a role in Suicide Commando's texts. In some cases, specific political or socio-political issues are taken up (e.g. the subject of the album "Bind, Torture, Kill" is the serial killer Dennis Rader , who has become known as the BTK killer , and "ogre" from this album deals with the cannibals of Rotenburg or "Evildoer" from "Axis of Evil" contains the Iraq policy of George W. Bush ). Most of the texts are in English; But since van Roy also speaks German and has a large fan base, especially in Germany, a few pieces have been published in German.
Discography
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In addition to some sampler contributions, two other versions of the "Contamination" MCD (1996 and 1997) were released, one MCD as part of the "4-in-1" CD "The O-Files II" (1997, this contained three other MCDs from the label Off-Beat) another version of “Construct-Destruct” (1998 as “Re-Construction”), a CD + DVD version of “Axis Of Evil” (2003) and since “Mindstrip” various (partially limited edition) single releases which also contain remixes by other bands.
On October 30th, 2015 the last demo tape "Electro Convulsion Therapy" was released as a limited (remastered) vinyl LP.
Web links
- Official website
- Suicide command at Discogs (English)
- Suicide Commando at laut.de
- Suicide Commando on Allmusic (English)
- Suicide Commando on MusicBrainz (English)
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- ↑ Breda Maßmann · Entry Music Magazine · Issue No. 1/96 Interview with Johan van Roy Page 18 February 1996