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Suicide (Su)
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Suicide (In Memoriam) , Suicide (Disorder) , and more.
Suicide is an American rock music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega (vocals) and Martin Rev (synthesizers and drum machines). Much like Silver Apples, they are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.
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Never one to deviate far from the path, Suicide Commando remains consistent with every release. While new technology or synths may be incorporated, one can always tell its Suicide Commando from his signature sound. He just has this way of writing songs that is easily distinguishable among the masses of other bands in the terror EBM genre. Now ready to release his sixth album, Bind, Torture, Kill, Suicide Commando has delivered another phenomenal album that fans were expecting, but weren?t ready for. Bind, Torture, Kill has all of what is expected of Suicide Commando ? distorted vocals, heavy crunching beats, raspy melodies, and piercing high end.
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Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are nonetheless hugely influential: critic Wilson Neate writes that Suicide "would prove as influential as The Clash. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002, it's all so obvious: the synth pop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the '80s and '90s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album." [1]
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Formed in 1970, Suicide became renowned for their extreme performances which often ended in violence and chaos. By the time the band were special guests of The Clash on their 1978 British tour, they were being bottled off every night, Vega often sustaining serious injury. It would be a while before the world was ready to embrace Suicide’s strange hybrid of synthesiser-driven rock ’n’ roll. Now revered as trailblazers, they continue to tour and make music.
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Their first album, Suicide (1977), is often regarded as a classic: One critic writes: "'Dream Baby Dream', 'Che', 'Ghost Rider'—these eerie, sturdy, steam-punk anthems rank among the most visionary, melodic experiments the rock realm has yet produced." [3] However, the ten-minute "Frankie Teardrop" might be the album's highlight, telling the harrowing story of a poverty-stricken Vietnam vet pushed to the edge: critic Emerson Dameron writes that the song is "one of the most terrifying, riveting, absurd things I’ve ever heard."[4]
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Armed with a stack of new wax, R. Fink returns with another hour of Rock’n’Roll Suicide. Get hep to the sounds of the Tranzmitors (Deranged), the Pets (Douchemaster), the Krunchies (Certified PR), the Terminals (Dead Beat), the Intellectuals (Hate), the Armitage Shanks (Cock Energy), the Hibachi Stranglers (Florida’s Dying) and a couple more […]
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