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About ten or so years ago, Caligula’s Horse were a plucky young prog metal band from Brisbane, sharing the stage with equally obscure names: Voyager, for example. Now, six albums down they’ve been around the world and back and ready to set loose their latest and greatest body of work to date: Charcoal Grace.
Extreme temperatures spawn extreme music – and Florida’s death metal OGs Obituary is another case in point.
Close to the Arctic circle? You get church-burning black metal. Down in the Bayou of Louisiana? Wild and crazy sludge metal emerges from swamps as if willed up by voodoo. If you lived in Florida near the legendary Morrisound Studios during the 80s, you would have seen the still-rotten-gore-birth of death metal. Fellow Dolphins fans (we assume) Morbid Angel, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, and Chuck Schuldiner’s (RIP) pioneering Death. Since 1984, the Tardy brothers (John on vocals, Donald on drums) were belting out death metal songs before the world at large knew what death metal properly was. Returing to Australia next January on the back of their eleventh record Dying of Everything, Hysteria probe a fit and happy John Tardy in his Florida home on the upcoming tour, being a teenage death metal pioneer, and whether he’s ever had to throttle Donald, as brothers do.
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To say Keith Morris is punk rock royalty is like pointing out Snoop Dogg is partial to the devil’s lettuce.
Lead singer in semi-demi-supergroup OFF! means he has been in three iconic punk and hardcore bands that crawled out of the sewers of LA: first as vocalist for Black Flag, then as rabble rouser deluxe for Circle Jerks. Known for his explosive performances as much as his long dreads, boilermaker’s cap and round Lennon glasses, there’s little of punk rock’s legacy he hasn’t left his grubby fingerprints on.
I did an interview with him at Hysteria Mag.
“The universe is change, life is what our thoughts make it.”
