Two young Slovenian keyboard enthusiasts produce great electro-industrial-noise-core-metal with only two keyboards and some samples. I have invited them to play at RNR666 Party and made this very short IT’S EVERYONE ELSE interview.

RNR666 – I think it’s not your first band. What were there before?
Luci – Pika (the female part of IEE) was a singer in a few bands during her high school years but she never found the right people to complete her musical visions. I myself had a little noise project going on, but for the both of us the first „serious” band was (and still is) IT’S EVERYONE ELSE. We played our first gig under the name „Hold Your Horses” but as soon as we found our sound, we changed the name to IT’S EVERYONE ELSE, because we thought it was more appropriate.

How IT’S EVERYONE ELSE started?
– It started after we exchanged some demos and realized that our ideas are pretty compatible. We started rehearsing and we just clicked. A few months later we player our first concert and after that we just kept going and going.

What are your inspirations?
– Our biggest inspiration is life itself. Don’t get me wrong, we enjoy a lot of music, movies, books, paintings etc. and we get a lot of ideas out of that, but there is nothing as inspiring as people, emotions and social interactions. We are the soundtrack to the rainbow of human emotions.

Sirens + Nirvana – Stay Away cover

Can you play other instruments beside keyboards?
– We have no formal music education and we can barely play keyboards:) We don’t really care about notes, scales or chords, we just play what sounds good to our ears. I think we developed our own way of playing synths, which is much more similar to playing riffs on a guitar rather than playing piano in the traditional sense.

Their second album is released on vinyl by Noise Appeal Records (Austria).

Buy digital copy here.

Two young Slovenian keyboard enthusiasts have produced this great electro-industrial-noise-core-metal with only two keyboards and some samples. References: Coptic Rain, Godflesh, Atari Teenage Riot and similars.

It’s Everyone Else – New Religion album on Noise Appeal Records (Austria) on vinyl. Or digital

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„The Trashmen covering Jimmy Reed” is said by Flesh Wounds about their trashy punk rock’n’roll music. This style is unusual from Merge Records (US). Good direction. Keep it up!

7″ vinyl with 3 tracks

Industrial surf gaze experimental cold wave disco
“punk or whatever i feel.”
Another fantastic Canadian band
ODONIS ODONIS
Order In The Court

from the album Hard Boiled Soft Boiled on Buzz Records

A synth-punk-pop song by White Reaper of Kentucky

from debut EP on Polyvinyl

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OvO  Italian industrial noise metal duo by Stefania & Bruno with guitar, drums, effects and electronics in the deepest corner of Hell. Averno/Oblio (ie. Arrow/Point)

12″ EP on Corpoc Records. Nice work

Western and South Euro tour from April to June

TI, KI IZZIVAS (You, Who Challenge) version 2014

original, 1984

LAIBACH > TODAY BUDAPEST AT A38 > EURO TOUR

About the band on RNR666 (in Hungarian)

Industrial blues where performance and body art meet improvisation and noise on the album „Wölfli’s Nightmare” by Sudden Infant on Voodoo Rhythm.

He is a Swiss composer, body and performance artist. Composed music for contemporary dance, theater, films, radio plays, and installations. Among his numerous collaborations there are Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and The New Blockaders.

Wölfli (1864-1930) was a Swiss art brut artist, unconscious father of the surrealism and a mental patient. He used the Campbell’s soup cans as artistic motif at first. An article about Art Brut and Wölfli in Hungarian.

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When I have heard the Sunday Morning at first yesterday I was delighted at it because I thought that it’s a „real time” song but it was written in 1958 by Margo Guryan.

She is singer, songwriter, lyricist and musician, her sole album was released in 1968. Her songs was recorded by Carmen McRae, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Nilsson, Saint-Etienne and many others. She refused to tour so she became disinteresting for the music industry as a performer, but worked on as writer and produced records for others. Then she worked as a piano teacher and produced music books for students. In 2007, she released a new single, entitled „16 Words”. The track refers to one phrase from a speech of G.W. Bush in 2003. Look!

27 Demos on CD by Oglio and cassette by Burger Records

Sonic Chicken 4 was a French garage punk band „before garage punk bands had booking agencies, five-page hospitality riders and tuners…” Their posthumous album was recorded in 2009 by King Khan and was continously re-set and re-postponed until this year, but meanwhile the band stopped his activity.

Bachelor (EU) and Dusty Medical Records (USA)

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Mixed Band Philantrophist was a project of English industrial noise group The New Blockaders. From their anti-manifesto: „It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…” The Mixed Band of Philantrophist is an international noise conspiracy (or anti-conspiracy). The Impossible Humane album is a sound collage, made from assembled tape recordings of Merzbow, Controlled Bleeding, Nurse With Wound, Etant Donnes and same industrial and noise artists.

It was released in 1987. Reissue with two bonus tracks by Staubgold. 12″ vinyl, only 400 copies. Listen to it entirely. So big, so fun!

„Allegedly the styles return 20 years after. So – if you didn’t recognize it – the 90s are came back.  By the way, we continuously repeat ourselves from the creation. Just our instruments are altered. ” Some years ago I wrote this in connection with previous Odonis Odonis records. It was a mix of 90s style music. The chaos keeps growing. Er industrial grunge experimental cold gaze “punk or whatever i feel.” Another fantastic Canadian band

„Hard Boiled Soft Boiled” album on Buzz Records in mid-April

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All is vice versa. Freethinkers of nightclubs pour melancholy slogans on the dance floor. Swiss psych kraut pop by Klaus Johann Grobe. By the way, this is a duo

7″ + debut album on Trouble In Mind Records

Old Order – Maybe the Eternal

The Whistleblowers by Laibach

from the album Spectre

Soon the day will come on the beat of the drum

Euro tour in April-May / Budapest 16.04. A38

Henry Rollins’ band in 1980/81: State of Alert. 1st demo on a 7″ vinyl

by Dischord

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2 men German Army in California. Early English-style post punk industrial in a little tribal and oriental mood.

C-45 by Yerevan Tapes (Italy) Full stream and digital buy here

1942. Napalm was developed in a secret laboratory at Harvard University in Massachusetts.  The name is a combination of the names of two of the constituents of the gelling agent: naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. The napalm fires can create an atmosphere of greater than 20% carbon monoxide and firestorms with self-perpetuating winds of up to 110 km/h (70 m/h).

1944. The first recorded strategic use of napalm incendiary bombs occurred in an attack by the USAAF on Berlin on 6 March.

1980. United Nations declared to use napalm against civilians is a war crime, but the international law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets.

1981. Napalm Death was founded at a little village in heart of England by Nicholas Bullen (vocals, bass) and Miles Ratlidge (drums). They were around 14 then and listen to too many punk music.

1981-87. Constant line-up changes. There were 15 members during this period. The first album was recorded in two parts in 1986 and 1987 by two different line-ups, only the drummer Mick Harris is same on both side of the „officially” first grindcore album ever. Both founders left the group, Ratlidge in ’85, Bullen in ’86 together with Justin Broadrick, because they were discontented with the direction of the band. After the B-side recordings Shane Embury who was drummer in death metal bands joined as bass player.

1989. Lee Dorian (vocal) and Bill Steer (guitar) left the band due to musical differences. Dorian rather to found one of the first doom metal bands Cathedral; Steer rather to want concentrate to his own band Carcass. They were changed by Mark Greenway (vocal) from the death metal Benediction, and a Mexican born American guitarist, Jesus Ernesto Pintado Andrade from Terrorizer. Jesus stayed until 2004.

1991. Another American guitarist in the band. Mitch Harris arrived from Righteous Pigs. About this time he had a common project with Mick Harris: Defecation. After the third album Mick Harris left Napalm Death, because it became too death metal for him. He was replaced by an American drummer Danny Herrera.

1994. Napalm Death remixed a song of a British hardcore-rap crew, Gunshot.

After and beside Napalm Death

Miles Ratledge (1981-85: drums) living in Aarhus, Denmark where he runs an Ashtanga Yoga school.

Nicholas Bullen (1981-86: vocal, bass) studied English Literature and Philosophy. In 1991 he joined Mick Harris brand new project, Scorn, left it in 1995, and gained another university degree in Computer Science. He is occupied with avant-garde electronic, ambient, experimental music, sound art and 8mm film making.

Mick Harris (1985-91: drums) while was in Napalm Death also played for Doom and Extreme Noise Terror. 1991 he has formed an electronic metal-industrial dub band Scorn with Bullen, and Broadrick also appeared in the early recordings, but today he is the sole member. In the same time of founding of Scorn he joined John Zorn and Bill Laswell’s jazzcore band Painkiller. He had also dark ambient and drum and bass projects.

Justin Broadrick (1985-86: guitar) grew up in a hippie commune. He was about 8 when he heard Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music at first. After Napalm Death he was influenced by 80s hip-hop sound and acid house. His bands: Final (power electronics, dark ambient, founded in 1982),  Godflesh (industrial metal, 1988), Techno Animal (industrial hip-hop with Kevin Martin from GOD, 1991), Jesu (post-metal, 2003), Pale Sketcher (“shoegazy dream-pop that’s almost techno”, 2010) and more

Some Shane Embury’s side-projects:
– Meethook Seed (industrial metal, 1992) with Mick Harris and Obituary members.
– Brujeria (as Hongo with ND guitarist Jesus Pintado as Cristo de Pisto) with Jello Biafra, Fear Factory and Faith No More members and more.
– Venomous Concept (grind-punk, 2004) with Danny Herrera, and Buzz Osborne (Melvins). Buzz was replaced by Dan Lilker (Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D., Brutal Truth)

Napalm Death on euro tour with Hatebreed
Budapest  Feb 25  at Barba Negra

„Throb/Clang” is the motto of the electro-industrial punk duo Multiple Man. It is founded by Aussie twin bros. They as if lived in the 80s.

debut 7″ by Major Crimes Records. The first EP

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„I wanted to do a rock ‘n roll band, because the best thing in the world is being in a rock ‘n roll band.  I guess I’d been friends with Nic (Bed Wettin’ Boys, RIP Society Records) for a really long time and I was saying that to him on a phone, and he’s like “I’m the guy for the job.” – said the Australian musician Angel Bermuda (Circle Pit, Southern Comfort, Straight Arrows) about her brand new project, Ruined Fortune. „It’s a really different sound to Circle Pit though: it’s a bit darker and weirder.” Tight, noisy punk rock in the manner of late 70s-early 80s with cheap Casios, drum machine and metal percussion.

S/T LP by Hozac Records. It was recorded with two drummers, Daniel Spencer (Blank Realm) and Joe Alexander (Per Purpose).