OUR FRIENDS AT Kalporz BRING OUR ATTENTION TO A NEW BAND
AUTHORED BY Nicola Guerra TRANSLATED BY Dominic Valvona
Continuing our successful collaboration with the leading Italian music publication Kalporz , the Monolith Cocktail shares and translates reviews, interviews and other bits from our respective sites each month. Keep an eye out for future ‘synergy’ between our two great houses as we exchange posts during 2024 and beyond. This month regular Kalporz Nicola Guerra introduces us to the noise of cacophony Berlin trio Cuntroaches, who released their debut album back in February.
Cuntroaches ‘S-T’
(Skin Graft)
The name would be enough to include them among the groups that make chaos a reason for living.
Then you listen to these 30 minutes at full volume while life goes on normally around you, and you’ve already fallen in love with it.
Because how can you not love those who commit terrorism without killing anyone? How can you not love those who, in a world of people who are set and all the same, decide to set up a refuge of noise to isolate themselves from it?
Still me and my clique of (music) junkies ask ourselves why we are increasingly attracted to this.
It’s not music. The melody is practically non-existent. Cacophony under the pitch black blanket of noise.
A German trio making their debut that is intimidating to watch.
No, it’s not the attraction towards something ever more extreme, it’s the ability to deal with discomfort by doing something.
Here, it is the action of these groups that makes everything more true.
And taking action is always better than living passively.
SCORE: 77/100
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