The Locust

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The Locust
Bass player Justin Pearson
Bass player Justin Pearson
General information
Genre (s) Electrogrind
founding 1995
Website www.thelocust.com
Current occupation
Bobby Bray
Synthesizer , vocals
 Joseph Karam
Justin Pearson
Gabe Serbian

The Locust is an American grindcore band. She is considered the founder of the subgenre Electrogrind .

history

The group was founded in 1995 in San Diego by members of the hardcore bands Struggle and Swing Kids . The aim of the group was to break the boundaries of grindcore , their tracks barely more than a minute long, they put keyboards . After various line-up changes, the debut album The Locust was released , on which the group offered 20 songs in just 13 minutes. The first edition in 1998 as a record in an edition of 2,000 copies was sold out within a week. In 1999 it was released on CD , which sold around 20,000 times. After this unexpected success, the band released a double single called Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle in 2000 , which contained remixes of various songs of the group in the style of drum and bass . Since David Astor left the band in 2001, it has been active as a quartet in the same line-up. This was followed by a record deal with the renowned independent label ANTI-Records and the studio albums Plague Soundscapes (2003) and New Erections (2007).

The Locust is boycotting venues owned by Clear Channel Communications . For Justin Pearson, the company represents the right- wing conservative wing and, as a multinational corporation, is not genuinely interested in music in his view, and Clear Channel was involved in the last presidential election as a supporter of George W. Bush .

Style and image

The group is known for song titles that don't seem to make sense and for their black humor. According to bassist Justin Pearson, there are also “political undertones” behind these “funny song titles”. Musically, The Locust leave the boundaries of grindcore by adding electronic instruments to their music. Pearson said: "We think Napalm Death ... great, but Scum has already been written, why should we do that again?" The group appears in bright green hot pants and with net masks, the sound is described as aggressive and biting. The stage uniforms are an expression for Pearson that The Locust is not an ordinary band.

Discography

  • The Locust (Gold Standard Laboratories, 1998)
  • Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Double single , Gold Standard, 2000)
  • Flight of the Wounded Locust ( EP , Gold Standard, 2001)
  • The Locust / Melt Banana ( Split -EP, Gold Standard, 2002)
  • Plague Soundscapes ( ANTI-Records , 2003)
  • Safety Second, Body Last (Single, Radio Surgery, 2005)
  • New Erections (ANTI Records, 2007)
  • The Peel Sessions (Radio Surgery, 2010)
  • Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs (ANTI-Records, 2012)

Web links

Commons : The Locust  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview The Locust. Scene Point Blank, October 16, 2010, accessed March 20, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag Jeske and Mader, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , p. 237 .
  3. ^ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore , p. 239.