The Smackdown

[Skummy]

Has anyone heard this band? They're a wrestling-themed band, with song titles like "Clockwork Orange House Of Fun", "Re-Awaiting Scott Hall", "I Just Got Smashed Through A Table With The 450 Splash" and "Gimmickmatch Overkill", and they're really sort of heavy erratic spazcore, a bit like The Locust, Ed Gein, An Albatross...that sort of thing.

I've tried downloading some of their stuff, but I've found it really hard to track down, because all I get is wrestling sites and nothing on the band.

Anyone heard of/know anything about them?

Edited December 4, 2005 by Skumfrog

[K]

Heavy Eratic Spazcore? The Fuck? What kind of music is it really?

Edit: http://www.the-smackdown.com/

[Guest Booker T & The MG's]

The 13th note in Glasgow is literally 30 seconds away from my mates flat I would have gone to that, I love that place.

[Skummy]

Sorry, Keith, I hate genres, but I've got used to using the word "Spazcore" because it's something of a movement over here at the moment.

Basically it's the idea of taking elements of punk, jazz and grindcore and/or death metal, and combining it all, usually with some electronica as well, and cramming it into as short a space of time as possible. An Albatross are generally recognised as the leading band in the genre, and their album is 11 tracks and 8 minutes long. It sounds like it should be shite, but it's incredible.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

"Spazcore" is an actual sub-sub-sub-genre? it sounds like something a band would make up just to mock the whole 'every band making up it's own genre' thing that's been going around the past few years.

[Skummy]

No, bizarrely enough, spazcore is considered a legitimate genre. I didn't believe it when I first heard it, either, but I've seen it in more and more places lately. Basically, from what I can gather, it's either what I said before, or just grindcore with fucked up time signatures.

[lafunky xxvii]

Having listened to the track 'Crippler Crossface' I can safely say that is not music.

[VerbalPuke]

Speaking of wrestling themed bands, there is a pretty good hardcore punk group called "Gordon Solie Motherfuckers". Their two albums are titled "Powerbomb Anthems Vol. 1" and "Chairshot Politics", although the song titles don't totally reflect a wrestling theme. They are fun if you like faster punk.

[sirdavinator]

Hey, it's pretty good. What are you talking aboot, this is some good shit.

[apsham]

I couldn't find any music from The Smackdown , can anyone upload something to the EWB account on GMail?

[RPS]

There is also a band from the Ontario region called The Dean Malenkos.

Their official website

Edited December 6, 2005 by PunkRockPete