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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff
What's the difference between Crust and Powerviolence? I've never really heard any major differences.
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Oh, and just to expand on my previous, unhelpful post: while I'm really not up on crust punk, Mondo's post seems accurate to early crust (such as Discharge) while later crust (such as Extreme Noise Terror) seems to me like proto-grind hardcore bands with metal riffs -- grind being the next extreme step up from crust, but with death metal influences, with death metal bands being crust and hardcore influenced thrash bands... so who the **** knows what genre is what? -- whereas PV sounds like crust that attained grind extremeness without incorporating metal riffs and metal whatnot.
*fu
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Also, I've been digging some Crom, but couldn't think of any single video(s) to post that would encompass what the band was all about. You really have to hear an actual album to appreciate what sets them apart from their contemporaries since they weren't necessarily the top dogs of pure PV. They were just a good powerviolence band who made an album (and then another one six years later) that was powerviolence interspersed with countless, hilarious samples that made for a tongue-in-cheek, possibly satirical, kinda-sorta-masterpiece of jokey extreme music.
I haven't listened to their earlier, nineties comp appearances and the one split with Despise You, but
The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989 is a must for any PV fan or lover of non-serious extreme music. An antidote, if you will, to Man the Bastard's intellectual, hipster-friendly PV for people who don't wanna listen to more than one PV band (not to knock MItB, but the preceding statement is still true). Just... here... in all its idiot glory...
You're welcome.