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What the fuck is POWER VIOLENCE?
| Message Board > Music Chitchat - Heavy > What the fuck is POWER VIOLENCE? |
| jeff User Info... | Ive been listening to some bands(eg.Siege,Dropdead) and they have been labled POWER VIOLENCE what the hell is it? - Wed, 5 Jul 2006 5:09pm | ||
| moron User Info... | A totally stupid and unrepresentative name for what is essentially late period SoCal hardcore (i.e. heavy on the metal influences). Cue angry response from Curmudgeon Rocker. . . =) Cheers - Wed, 5 Jul 2006 5:51pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | You totally hit the nail on the head, though..... Despite the bands Jeff mentioned were Bostonian, p/v bands were mainly considered a left coast thing. Tuned down guitars, cookie monster vox, superlative production values (just kidding), blast beats. Chris Dodge's label - SlapaHam Records - was basically the progenitor (probably the last time I'll ever use tha word) of p/v. No Comment, Man is the Bastard, Spazz, and Lack of Interest are examples. /stupid and unrepresentative name? /hell yeah. /fucking beautiful? /yes sirree. - Wed, 5 Jul 2006 8:33pm Edited: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 8:35pm | ||
| stew User Info... | acrid were a great canadian power violence band, my all time favorite maybe? guess id thow swallowing shit up there too with em - Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:21am Edited: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:21am | ||
| James User Info... | Wow band genres are getting to be as bad as all the conditions they come out with so they can market drugs to you. Soon every band will be a different genre. Maybe to make it easy we can just use band names as genres from now on. My new genre is "Weed Metal". It's like traditional Metal only it kinda jams out and has a bit of a stoner feel. Another good genre would be "Yellow Pants". It's like Crusty but taking it too the next level. - Thu, 6 Jul 2006 3:44pm Edited: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 3:45pm | ||
| Nik Olaz User Info... | Shut the flying fuck up. - Thu, 6 Jul 2006 9:30pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | I like Jamesmetal. - Fri, 7 Jul 2006 1:01am | ||
| NOISE NOT BOMBS User Info... | power violance was a term coined by a group of about 9 bands in the usa (including charles bronston and capitalist casualties) to refer to a style of ethics and lyrics and a scene that they were connected to. Most powerviolance has songs under a minute, often under 30 seconds, with 3 cord power cord guitar, sceaming vocals, and verry violantly angry usually verry pollitical lyrics (good example is cost of an animal by dropdead) with exsteamly fast tempo, often using blast beats and a fuck lot of distortion. Meat Of Mankind could verry accurately be called Power Violance. PV melds tendancies of crustcore grindcore, thrash, and hardcore. DROPDEAD is one of the best examples of Power Violance (although they are second wave) as is Capitalist Casualties, or perhapse ROT from Japan, as well I have heard people refer to Melt Banana as a mix of NOISE pop and power violance. - Fri, 7 Jul 2006 1:25am | ||
| KnifeGhost User Info... | "My new genre is "Weed Metal". It's like traditional Metal only it kinda jams out and has a bit of a stoner feel." There's already a name for that. It's called "Black Sabbath". - Fri, 7 Jul 2006 1:22pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | I thought it was called "Acting Ensign". - Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:32pm | ||
| hesher User Info... | FYI Rot is from Brazil. and personally i don't consider drop dead a powerviolence band at all more fast h/c or crust maybe if ya wanna get tech. Not all pv is overly political either(with exceptions) I tend to think silly song titles and blast beats mixed with fast hc and the odd doomy breakdown. On the first man is the bastard split 7inch with aunt mary they had a song that named off all the west coast pv bands and it was basically the list of bands Doug already wrote. Also I don't think Charles Bronson deserve the tag of pv cause in my opinion they just plain out suck. My old band neckbeerd wished we were powerviolence. Neil Hamburger could very well be the powerviolence of comedy. - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 1:57am | ||
| Destroy_The_Flesh User Info... | Man I remember back in highschool a few freinds got me into Acrid, I think I had a 45 , that and a band called Jihad. At the time I don't remember it being called Power Violence, but then again I didn't know Acrid was Canadian. Agressive shit none the less. - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:25am | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | Neil Hamburger is the powerviolence of the western world's enitre socio-political infrastructure. /got any RHCP jokes, hesh? - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 3:02pm Edited: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 3:05pm | ||
| NOISE NOT BOMBS User Info... | well dropdead sounds pretty much like capitalist casualties, and from what I read tryed to have a sound like the first pv bands, as well I believe they concider themselves pv. - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:42am | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | If ya wanna get really nitpicky I'd say the vox are quite different between those two bands. CC had way more trade-off vox going on too, between their singer (forgot his name) and Jeff Robinson the bassist. I suppose though DD has shades of pv. - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 7:48am | ||
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