I recall talking with mr. Itkonen who was in Kohina, and he was talking about bands like GORE ANGEL or such, which were Finnish noisecore, and influence for Kohina. I would guess those tapes are long ago disappeared in void of punk/metal tape trades.. Itkonen mentioned he dubbed over some better punk/hc in lack of tapes!
Quote from: post-morten on February 22, 2011, 10:42:11 PM
Admittedly I never heard any of the bands mentioned so far in the thread, but the term "Finnish noisecore" brings back hazy memories from the 80's... when there was a wave of loud, hard, noisy Finnish rock/punk bands such as Radiopuhelimet, Faff Bey, Psychoplasma, Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions From Mars, and perhaps even on a tangent, the greatest Finnish band ever, Mana Mana. Weren't they also lumped together as "noisecore" or something similar, or is my memory playing tricks again?
I would guess, these could, theoretically at least, be lumped into "noiserock", which is perhaps even more vague term than noisecore. But I have never heard bands like Mana Mana being labeled as "noisecore". Faff Bey being thrash metal, Radiopuhelimet being distorted energy fueled punk rock, Mana Mana being legends of melancholic emotional rock, sometimes almost stereotype to certain things in Finnish radio-metal.
I know Pentd was looking for the less punk/metal bankground stuff, but if talking of "real noise" in finland, I guess list of bands that existed, could be useful as reference:
bands with some sort of proper releases that circulated internationally:
Anal Barbara
ANH
Arse
Arseslaughter
Aunt Mary
Beip
Earslaughter
Futile Existence
Funeral Mongoloids
K.L.V. (early nc, later goth)
Kohina
Nihilist Commando
Noise Waste
Meat Means Murder
S.E.X.
Siviivimurha (some stuff, mostly chaotic hc)
Yesmeansyes
lesser known, but still relevant (? ahaha) at least in Finland?
NNNC, Vapaamelusaaste, Varikset, Total Denial, Gore Angel, Total Noise Pollution, Riivattu Uloste, Ruumiin Munat, Kalju Pillu, Phrenetic Noise, Rotten Bowel, Peaceful Threat, Bampi Polo, Homofobia, Tuho, Dicktator, Sore Anus/ Sore Arse, etc etc.. Mosts did releases, some even several.
Majority os the bands would be side projects of members known from other bands. NNNC from whatever mikkeli punx it was? Vapaamelusaaste with Silakka etc from whatever punk band he had in Mikkeli back then? Varikset with Nallekerho veikki. Ruumiin Munat and Kalju Pillu with semi-legendary kaapo (r.i.p.) as vocalist of Korruptio. Bampi Polo with guitarist of Katastrofialue. Homophobia with mr. Brown and some Naantali/Turku crust band members. Tuho with mr. Haare. Sore Anus or/and Sore Arse with drummer of Kirous and Kyklooppien Sukupuutto.
You could say something like Goat Vulva with mr. Holocausto of Beherit falls into this category. Member of Monkey Mush (swe) was finn, and lives now in Lahti since many years. Also members of Impaled Nazarene has their... was it Anus Cunt? Guess what kind of stuff? Some of the bands had still more side projects, like Yesmeansyes would play few Noise Of The Rose gigs, as tributes to Seven Minutes of Nause. Even being total cover-song/copycat, those live recordings are good. Unfortunately never really released.
Lets say 1992-1995 was probably the "golden years" of Finnish noisecore. In those time when finnish punk/indie on uprise, it was no miracle seeing punk shows with noisecore bands play, and perhaps this cross-over gigs resulted that even bands such as Tehosekoitin played few noisecore tracks in one comp CD, heh! Perhaps part of forgotten history...
One of the best qualities of noisecore is, that it is so meaningless, so stupid and so talentless - at least in theory - that nobody gives a fuck. There's always faster bands who simply play death metal or black metal. There are short explosive and aggressive tracks in hc, grind, etc. When you look for noisy stuff, the noisE is available there. Noisecore is like the deformed fetus that's hoped to be forgotten. Clumsy, pointless, preferably dead. Long live noisecore!
