Confronted with bugs, people often have very different, mostly
ambivalent feelings. Small, coloured and splendid ones deserve
our respect and we quite often give them shelter. Some people
believe that watching a lightning bug fly means luck for them.
The more hairy and bigger bugs are, the more nauseated people
react. So they want to get rid of them. They use chemicals, special
traps or vacuum cleaners.
They feel a little bit sorry for these creature when watching
them disappear in the vacuum-tube and especially when people hear
this noisy sound bugs are making on the long way through the tube
into the paper-bag inside the machine. But it’s easy to
forget about this action – after 10 seconds people don’t
care any more. Sometimes they surprise a bug trying hard to crawl
out of the washbasin. No remorse. Hot water flushes the creature
back to the sewer.
But
even in the night when people are sleeping, dreaming, celebrating
parties, watching TV, reading books or whatever – they will
hear it.
At the beginning it sounds strange – far away – really
strange. This scratching noise is getting louder and louder –
maybe the tube amplifies the noise. It becomes more inconvenient.
Difficult to describe…so we asked Georg (Cracked):
Bug are no small insect, easily crushed
and destroyed. Quite the contrary, Bug are a destroyer-beast.
A psychotic, destructive, manic killer-hunk of noise-rock. Think
of the best names in the noise-rock-alphabet, from A like Arab
On Radar to Z like Zeni Geva, Bug is one big-assed entry in that
lexicon. Heavy percussions, distorted guitars, vocals that growl,
howl and scream like any beast from the horror-dictionary, and
some electronics to boot. If you were born somewhere in the early
to mid Seventies, then you experienced the best noise-rock-years
during the most important part of your musical-puberty –
then you are going to like this a lot. If not, “klotho”
might set your record straight…
…we wanted to hear different information so we asked Rik
(Ashnote Magazine)
My
father came into the room when I first put this on and he said
that "klotho" was the best thing he heard coming from
my collection so far. Damn. This is heavy shit and my dad likes
it! He found Isis boring, but this CD by Bug had enough variation
and he liked the fact there are songs on it without too much vocals
in it. Actually he's right. This is pretty good. Sludgy noise
rock based on a metal layer. The thing that sets it apart from
the classic references like Isis or Keelhaul is that Bug is far
less polished. Their songs contain the same dark atmosphere as
aforementioned bands, but are way more brutal because the harsh
and hammering part exist without introducing too much fancy parts.
Now, I actually like the fancy parts from Isis, but the last thing
I want is to end up with a pile of records from bands that want
to sound like Isis. Where Isis can sound haunting, Bug sounds
more menacing and disturbing…
…and Mr. Christian (a noisy neighbour) tried to find something
comparable (a dangerous huge species from Japan and USA)
… on “klotho” bug celebrates an unbelievable,
genious, intense heavy/noise/rock/core somewhere between Zeni
Geva, Today is the Day , Unsane …
…Georg summarized… It shouldn’t be left unnoticed
that Bug have been around for quite some time, releasing a bunch
of great records with other Austrian noise-rock bands such as
Turn Out and Sensual Love, that they are from Innsbruck and that
they have worked hard and long for alternative music / lifestyle
/ thinking in the most conservative of all Austrian federal districts.
And finally, a few more words about paranoia: “A paranoid
is one who knows all the facts” (William Burroughs) and
“Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they
won’t get you.” (Unknown author).
The fact of
the matter is that bug consist of 4 guys:
| |
Dr.
A. Tint – 4 strings (he
owns only one pair of trousers and knows almost everything
about “Dallas”)
Mr.
Old – 2 sticks
(he has no home so nobody is visting him)
Ing.
Dolt – vocal cords
(he owns more than 5 trousers and is well known for his
excellent poems)
Mr.
Hooper – 6 string (he
is tall and wears funny cloths – we call him “buffalo-pete”) |
The
above mentioned quartet exists since 10 years.
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Interviews/ Artikel
Big
Kult / german
/ deutsch /
Noisy
Neighbours / german
/ deutsch /
Broken
Violence / german
/ deutsch /
