Most 'extreme' music

Self-Explanatory, post what you think is the most 'extreme', brutal or heavy music.




Early Swans come at the top easy, Every death metal band can growl and growl but it can't horrify you quite like the swans could back in the day.

Not the best band performing it, but Red by King Crimson is pretty 'brutal'.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d0S4-VA-0zY

Mr. Oizo - "Flat Beat."

BR000000000000TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL.

The first one wins the award for most extremly terrible. I can easily see how that would be horrifying, the prospect of having to sit though that whole song is enough to scare me senseless.


Most extreme Christian rock/rapcore: Family Force 5

Not at all "brutal (whatever that means)" but whatever.



These guys are awesome live.

I'm not really in the mood for some mind-pollution now, but does anyone know what band in the mid-90s had a vid in which a naked guy was strapped to this torture chair (kind of like a dentist's chair) with all these drills and pincers and other assorted nasty devices which basically mutilated him bit by bit? I'm pretty sure the victim was a psycho masochist who did it voluntarily, and there was a part where this pincer lifted up his penis by the head and........

Just curious if any of you know - I can't think of the band.

EDIT: Never mind. I found it.

4'33". Everything else is moderate copycatism compared to this.

I love these guys

Slayer - Angel of Death

Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

1986 was the year for brutality. Thrash is where you will find your brutality. That is where you find your 'extreme.'

If I am not heavily mistaken, this piece is by Penderecki, and nothing can beat him.


After Penderecki's stuff, there would be:

WARNING, contains notable ammounts of gore and brutality
Though most of it is filtered very strong, so it loses some of it's effect.


Some chuckling may occur.


There may be more, but I am yet to tired.

I used to like heavy metal, until I realized that I was past my early teens and that attention-seeking was not as fun as it used to be.

I doubt many people listened to heavy metal past the first year of high school, it almost became boring. I mean, having a 50 year old washed-out roadie yelling in your ear about philosophical things like politics, the life cycle, and religion -- is pretty absurd to me.

Pretty absurd = heavy metal.

It almost makes crunk rap look like reasonable music.

...though many would disagree

A lot of gabba hardcore is pretty 'extreme'. I'd probably put it up there with really brutal death metal. Not really my cuppa tea though.

Nothing like music that makes you want to kill something

Music that claims to be hardcore and edgy is pretty much rubbish.

That goes for "gabba," all metal, and any other lame genres.

Originally Posted by Juno

Music that claims to be hardcore and edgy is pretty much rubbish.

That goes for "gabba," all metal, and any other lame genres.

Such as blues, soul rock, n' roll, jazz, rap, rock, stuff byTchaikovsky...

Why don't you just say "I admit it, I am an un-hip dude and am totally not down with the radical totally bogus and happening tunes of the young folk, yo. Also, I do not have any ears so all music just sounds crap to me as I detect the minute vibrations through my jaw-bone. Yeah, music sucks".

WHY, YOU HEATHEN PHILISTINE!

Originally Posted by Richard

Such as blues, soul rock, n' roll, jazz, rap, rock, stuff byTchaikovsky...

Why don't you just say "I admit it, I am an un-hip dude and am totally not down with the radical totally bogus and happening tunes of the young folk, yo. Also, I do not have any ears so all music just sounds crap to me as I detect the minute vibrations through my jaw-bone. Yeah, music sucks".

WHY, YOU HEATHEN PHILISTINE!

If you want to go for totally hip and radical ideas in music, you might like to try the more extreme lines in classical music and art, which actively set out to be difficult to bear and understand, whose ideas make all-metal, death-rock, etc. seem MOR and derivative. Cage's 4'33" is probably the most extreme of these, a piece consisting of silence on the scoresheet to allow the listener to concentrate on the background sounds (compared to this, everything is MOR), but someone's posted some Penderecki above as well, which function according to different ideas.

4'33" as performed on acoustic guitar.

Originally Posted by pannonian

CAGE

Oh yeah, I have my reasons why I don't listen to his works.
Wasn't that "unusual" slowest piece in the world by him aswell (that with a timespan of several hundred years)? :hmmm:

Cannibal Corpse end of disscusion

They are crazy as hell and they lyrics pretty ****ed up

Most of the (mainly '90s and present day) stuff played on commercial radios. Extremely stupid.

Eh, Pannonian, there's nothing really 'extreme' in the idea that ambient, environmental sounds may have a musical quality. Where do you think the idea to create music came from in the first place? Cage only pointed that out explicitly.

Though I suppose it is 'extreme' to the crowd that thinks that if it ain't got lyrics about bi*ches and bling, it ain't music at all...

Have you ever heard any of Cage's other music, BTW - stuff that actually features instruments being played? Much 'crazier' and more 'extreme' than 4'33''.

Originally Posted by Visitor13

Most of the (mainly '90s and present day) stuff played on commercial radios. Extremely stupid.

Eh, Pannonian, there's nothing really 'extreme' in the idea that ambient, environmental sounds may have a musical quality. Where do you think the idea to create music came from in the first place? Cage only pointed that out explicitly.

Though I suppose it is 'extreme' to the crowd that thinks that if it ain't got lyrics about bi*ches and bling, it ain't music at all...

Have you ever heard any of Cage's other music, BTW - stuff that actually features instruments being played? Much 'crazier' and more 'extreme' than 4'33''.

It's extreme in that it took some nerve to come up with the idea and perform it in front of an audience in the first place. Musicians usually feel they have to put some notes and sounds together in order to create an integral piece, even if the performance of that may vary according to the occasion. But to leave the entire scoresheet blank, and moreover, to sit there at a piano, in front of an audience...

Here's a David Tudor performance of it. Don't know if it's the original premiere (I doubt it), but it's the same performer.