The most extreme music ever?
 

I think I've found a contender.

Now if you're easily disturbed I'd tell you not to read on... it's 3am and it's probably not a good idea I'm doing this exactly, but I'm sure someone may be interested...


DO NOT click if you think you're prone to being disturbed:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EXg2HGFLLIc

Stalaggh, I've been told, are composed of artists, black metal musicians and noise musicians. One member is an insane guy who killed his own mother at 16. One of the "musicians" was almost murdered during the recording process and it was all recorded.

The video itself is recorded with WWII mental patients screaming footage with someone's manipulated screaming above it. The rest I'll leave to you.

suiting video, it's really powerful. I like the band as well. Thank you.


This is extreme in a different way. It's a noise band that brought a forklift in for an indoor performance and tore a wall off of the venue. It's a slideshow, so you need to click the arrow thingie
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~gin/rock/japan/hanatarasi/hanatarashi2/hanatarashi2.html

FUCK YEAH HANATRASH! Eye is the craziest motherfucker in the world.

Do you know if they play parties and weddings?

Seriously, don't buy into this "using mental patients for the vocals and recording in abandoned monastries and factories where one band member nearly got killed by a mental patient" thing. It's just some made-up bullshit to create a tough image, possibly done by some kid living with his mum.

The "mental patient" thing was done by SPK in the late 70's, and it's been oft mentioned that one of their members in their peak early 80's period was a former patient himself (I think he's the one taking bites out of a rotting cow's head in the "Despair" video).

As for extremity? Hmm, one person's extreme hell music is another person's "meh". Oh course, there's also extreme tunefulness, quietness etc etc.

'Most extreme' doesn't really bother me as a category. I did quite enjoy the music mind. I'll probably invest in their album. Thanks, C. Rob.

I was just thinking the same thing about SPK.
Stalaggh left me cold - the whole 'grainy monochrome concentration camp footage' thing has been done to death, and I don't really see how it can relate to music in 2007.

I found SPK to be much more disturbing.

The guy who killed his mum is dead now. Killed in a car crash earlier this month.

Hang on there, are you two talking about SPK the band or SPK the terrorist group/ patients' collective? Or did the terrorist group make records as well? I don't know much about SPK the band, but I'm not sure they had any mental patients involved. It's possible they did, of course, but there are two SPKs. Checking wikipedia it transpires that SPK band worked in a mental home. Well, there you go then, that doesn't make anything clearer.

In fact, more than two - wiki 1

SPK 'patients' collective' & SPK band

Can anyone remember that electronica record that came out in the late 90's by some German musicians that worked with a group of mentally ill patients? I have it at home, but I don't remember what it's called. It's not a very good record.

Gee that's pretty creepy. I played my harmonica over the top to lighten the mood.

This one? I assume it's that one, because that one isn't very good.

Yes, that's the one. Listened to it once, and I don't wanna hear it again.

i really dig this. this video doesn't bother me at all, though. the holocaust fascinates me to no end & i get entertainment from pictures of birth defects. ANYWAY, thanks for posting. :)

Glice - I was referring to SPK the band, who of course took their name from the original terror group/collective. Their head honcho Graeme Revell did work in a psychiatric hospital, and another of the members (Neil Hill/Ne-H-Il??) was the guy who legend has it had been a mental patient.

The imagery is extreme but quite typical. It's being intense without really saying anything. A bit like a drunken stranger screaming at you from the other side of a busy road.

I just wonder what motivates them.

The whole thing really reminded me of an old SPK video too. This ground has been tread before, and quite a long time ago, but I still enjoyed it. It was better than Sleep Chamber, at least.

where's the hijokaidan?

and the sounds in that video were actually quite boring.

Ne/H/Il was a schitzophrenic who was with the band early on. He was the one responsible for the pseudo-german used in a lot of the early SPK stuff. He killed himself in the early 80's after his wife died.

extreamly tame really,

im so cool, this mad shit doesnt even touch me