Thursday, February 12, 2009

CRISIS REPORT

One of the best death metal, hardcore, thrash and White Zombie style weirdness mash-ups that actually predated System of a Down and sounds on the verge of excellent horrorcore with a side dish of left field politics. Karyn Crisis (who looks like a female version of Shadows Falls' Brian Fair) looks like an avatar of Shiva with her four foot long dreadlocks. Uber-asteg!

Too bad they've split up.

Since there's no embedding on "Different Ways to Decay" (likely the best vid), enjoy it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F2FYBmSVhA

"Bridging the gap between Faith no More, Killing Joke and Slayer, New York art-metal troupe Crisis is fronted by charismatic and eccentric vocalist Karyn Crisis, whose schizophrenic vocal stylings (including everything from melodic singing to death-grunts to impulsive squeaks and squawks) simply defied description. Formed in the early 90's, Crisis was also a multi-cultural stew, throwing Pakistani guitarist Afzaal Nasiruddeen, Taiwanese bassist Gia Chuan Wang and American drummer Fred Waring into a musical melting pot of frightening proportions."



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