Industrial Metal

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Lava – May 2024

Back to Lava with DJ’s Translight and Mark13, featuring live bands Down from Above and Inertia (finally Reza and I on the same bill!). This time held in the legendary Cart and Horses pub in East London. Being the home of Iron Maiden, this set was more guitar heavy than what I’d normally do – but given it was an afterparty set, a lot of old favourites made it in. But not before a minutes noise in tribute to Steve Albini.

Big Black – The Power Of Independent Trucking
Earth Loop Recall – Optimism Creeping In
NIN – Sin
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Prodigy – Omen
Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Killing Joke – Millenium
Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing
Killing Miranda – Teenage Vampire
Ministry – Ricky’s Hand
KMFDM – Godlike (Chicago Trax)

Fear Factory – A Listener’s Guide

What do you mean, Fear Factory?  Why are you profiling a METAL band, Jonny?  Has the Listener’s Guide series jumped the shark already?  I’m pre-emptively calling out these potential criticisms, because I’ve got the rest of this guide to prove to you all that this is a band worth writing about. 

And they are a band with significant links to my own musical journey.  The first “metal” band I developed a taste for, and the first I saw live.  “Saw” is actually an understatement – heard, felt, smelt and otherwise lived through in every possible sense.  It was thanks to Rhys Fulber’s involvement on some of their most notable albums that I discovered Front Line Assembly, an act who themselves were hugely influential in the development of my tastes in the years to come.

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