Proper Fuckin' Muck

Fuck Earth. Fuck Khanate. Fuck early Swans. Especially Fuck Sunn O)). I've just dug out By God's Very Own Fuck by Come* and it frankly (to quote Mr Cope) kicks their collective dicks in the dirt. About the only other group I can think of with a similarly warped low-end aesthetic would be Harvey Milk, but even they didn't quite plumb the fantastically regressive depths of Come. Khanate at their nastiest can't hold a candle to this, it might just be the most unpleasant rock music you've ever heard. This is so far beyond doom, beyond sludge it's scary**. Mainly composed of nothing but kick drums and the most massively distorted bass ever, it's a beautiful coagulating mess of half formed riffs rolling around in the primordial ooze punctuated by drums like weather and some wonderfully unpleasant EDP Wasp. The flip, President, Your Prick's Stiff, is more of the same, with the addition of painfully high microphonic feedback and the most retardedly accelerating rhythm I've ever heard. Plus it has the bonus of lots of William Bennett hollering which sounds wierdly like the screaming on Sleezy D's I've Lost Control. In short, a lost classic. Track down both The Come Organisation Archive compilations on Susan Lawly records, and subject yrself to some real musical debasement. Alongside Ramleh's most psychedelic moments, these cds collect together some of the most astoundingly wrong music ever created.

Oh, and all you Black Metal freaks out there who think Abruptum are the last word in sonic flagellation, you need to hear this shit, because it plumbs the sonic and misanthropic depths that you lot would love to, precisely because this music didn't attempt to connect itself to an existing scene or ideology, didn't hanker after some long lost golden age that never fucking existed, wasn't trying to be "evil", it was an honest attempt to make music as fucked up, as confounding, as shocking and downright wrong as the world around us at the time.

*The Whitehouse affiliated lot, not Thalia Zedek's rather wonderful group of the same name...

**It was also recorded when Ozzy was just being kicked out of Sabbath...