A big one, be careful!
Industrial’s hayday was from the late 80’s until the mid 90’s. Noteable artists like Trent Reznor and Ministry, with the help of several other underground acts at the time, got the genre off the ground and into the main stream. The tunes, for the most part, were actually quite good… The ridiculous flamboyancy that is normally associated with industrial artists, however, is another thing entirely.
Meet Rockford, IL’s Reverend Agony
Their crime?… umpteen counts of first degree gimmick whoring. Their plea? Guilty as fuck. (obviously)
Let me introduce the members… (in no particular order)
Androdgyny on guitar
Dementia on Vocals
Perversion provides backup Vocals
…and Filth is the drummer.
What kills me here, is that these guys actually sat down, and thought about this. I can’t possibly imagine the amount of kerosine that someone would need to huff in their lifetime to assign names like “Filth” and “Androdgyny” as their nom de METELLZ!!1!. By the looks of el puerco on the left, I’d venture to guess that he stopped huffing, and started drinking it a looong time ago.
Having only heard their myspace tracks, I cannot give a full report on the music. A few of Reverend Agony’s tunes are borderline-alright. However, I am obligated to throw the bullshit flag at their cover of Sexy Back.
At first, only their decision making capabilities were brought into question. From the sound of it, they attempted to bring a negligable amount of TEH RAWK to Justin Timberlake’s hit club track. I’m not sure where, but somewhere along the line they removed all listenability. Call me crazy, but if a song sucked to begin with, and is eventually covered by a pack of over-gimmicked dad haters, the results are never going to be sterling.