Painkiller

[The Grimace]

No, not Priest.

Painkiler is John Zorn's demented saxophone murdering, Mick Harris of Napalm Death on grindbeats and screaming, Bill Laswell playing this weird, semi-structured, totally brilliant wall of bass sound. You've never heard anything like this before, unless you've heard it before, in which case you can disregard everything you just read, and go listen to your Priest records or whatever.

Just wanted to tell y'all.

 

[Thraxz]

Maybe they should be called Pain-inducer

 

[NAD]

That sounds like it could be pretty awesome. Any mp3s floating around?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

So wait wouldn't that generally just be Naked City reincarnated?

 

[The Grimace]

So wait wouldn't that generally just be Naked City reincarnated?

It's much more horrible and unpleasant. Well, not much more, but it's a 3-piece so there's a lot more noise-for-noise's-sake stuff. Actually I guess Painkiller was right after Naked City, which ended officially (unofficially) in '93 I think.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

He! Is! The Pain-killla!

This! Is! The Painkillla!

Wings! Of! Steel! Painkillla!

Dead! -ly! Wheels! Painkillla!

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

 

[The Grimace]

Now that you mention it, Zorn's sax playing does bear a striking resemblance to Halford's "ouch-my-booty" screeching...

 

[Episteme]

Naked City was actually decent even though I preferred Zorn's other works. Painkiller on the other hand is...pretty crap.

 

[The Grimace]

John Zorn is a living god. How is anything he does "crap"?

 

[noisefan]

Painkiller was basically a heavy grind band with no guitar or vocals (just bass, sax and drums). I saw them live about ten years ago and it was supernatural.

Naked City was an all-star band that played all kinds of music, often within the same song. Their Torture Garden record which features Yamataka Eye from the Boredoms on vocals is about as wild as they got and I highly recommended it to adventurous thrash fans.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It's much more horrible and unpleasant. Well, not much more, but it's a 3-piece so there's a lot more noise-for-noise's-sake stuff. Actually I guess Painkiller was right after Naked City, which ended officially (unofficially) in '93 I think.

Kickass.

 

[deliverance]

He! Is! The Pain-killla!

This! Is! The Painkillla!

Wings! Of! Steel! Painkillla!

Dead! -ly! Wheels! Painkillla!

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

hell yeah.