Sigh at B.B. Kings in New York, photos by Jon Wiederhorn
Mirai Kawashima, the frontman for Japanese experimental black-metal band Sigh, is pissed. He's not mad that the band's first New York date in years is on a Tuesday night and the venue is only half full. He's not upset that he's got a catalog of original material to draw from and certain members of the crowd keep yelling for songs by Venom, whose material Sigh cover on their new EP A Tribute to Venom. He's not even angry that Sigh's last full album, Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien, was one of the scariest, most inventive offerings of 2007, yet was but a flicker on the radar compared to a waterfall of uninspiring metalcore releases. No, Kawashima's rage has more to do with his generalized disgust for the values and beliefs of modern man.
"I hate 99 percent of the people on this earth," he says in a soft voice. "I hate weak people who have to cling to fairy tales like religion, and I hate greedy people that have nothing more than making money in their head. I just want all of them to die." Read more...
The correct answer to yesterday's "Indecipherable Logo" is Abacinate. We're pretty sure these New Jersey sickos got their name from Slayer's song "Angel of Death" and the line "Abacinate, eyes that bleed/ Showers that drain you of your life."
According to Websters Dictionary, Abacinate means "to blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes." Nasty. Read more...
What evil lurks in the hearts of the twisted bastards who concocted this logo? Judging from the sharp angles and claw-like construction that meets in the middle, these guys are pretty serious about their splattery death metal. The members probably all work in animal shelters or volunteer in an old age home. From our experience, the nastier the music, the nicer and more kind-hearted the musicians. Of course that's not always the case. We kinda doubt David Vincent has ever spooned out turkey dinners to the homeless on Christmas Eve. Oh, and these guys get extra points for using a sample from "Aqua Teen Adventures" in one of their songs and making it sound brutal.
Unholy Hell. This mess of a logo looks like a mass of squirmy blood-sucking centipedes wriggling around an inverted cross. We know they suck blood because of the drippy trails coming off their bodies and falling below the horizontal rung of the cross. Read more...
The ghastly logo above belongs to Intracranial Butchery. The two-piece Columbia, Missouri industrial death metal band features two dudes who have no last names -- singer Jaymes and drummer, guitarist and programmer Chris.
Before starting Intracranial Butchery, Chris was looking to form a band with guitarists, a bassist and a drummer, but no one met his venomous criteria, so he decided to write songs himself on guitar and back them with an old drum machine. Then he asked Urophagia singer, Jaymes, to track some vocals. A few sloppy sessions later, Intracranial Butchery were born. There was just one major problem. Jaymes lives in Colorado, which is over 1,000 miles away from Columbia. So, for now, everything with Intracranial Butchery has to be done over the Internet, limiting the band's ability to tour.
Chris says his biggest influences are Cephalotripsy, Devourment, Vulvectomy, Abominable Putridity, Glossectomy and Drowning in Phemaldehyde. According to his MySpace, one of Intracranial Butchery's tracks will appear on the compilation album Human Drummer Extinction Squad, which is scheduled for July. The band is currently working on a split-CD with Plerosis.
This must be what the ivy growing on the outside wall of King Ov Hell's castle looks like -- black, spiny and no doubt poisonous. We only hope the owners of this logo don't do serious psychedelics because in the wrong frame of mind we can imagine the jagged tendrils leaping off flyers, banners and merch designs and disemboweling unwary indulgers with a few swift jabs. Man, we gotta stop drinking absinthe and listening to Gorgoroth.
This disgusting looking logo belongs to a charming band from Berlin called Diarrhoea. Little information is available about the group's past history, but its current lineup consists of singer and guitarist Paul, guitarist Basti, bassist Erik and drumme Steppe. Read more...
Whatever way you want to slice it, this is not a pretty logo. It's sloppy, splattery and probably smells bad, too. The complete lack of angles is fairly uncharacteristic for extreme metal and the overall effect of the squishy white-on-black letters is kind of nauseating. By the look of things, pretty much any graphically violent or satanic band could wipe the floor with these guys. Hell, even Ratt's logo is more hardcore. Ahh, how looks are deceiving. And if you think the logo's messy, come back tomorrow to check out the band's music, which makes Anal Blast sound like In Flames.
Today's logo comes to you courtesy of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who surely could have put out a bestselling cannibal cookbook had he not been beaten to death in prison. The logo isn't too fancy. All of the letters features jagged barbs, which contribute to its illegibility. Maybe the name means prickly cactus in another language... and maybe it doesn't. Leave your guess in the comments section.
The two samurai swords don't make up an inverted cross or anything, but this logo is still unquestionably bad-ass and brutal. Read more...
