Member Since: 4/10/2007
Band Website: killl.org
Band Members: Espen Hangård - guitar & vocals, Martin Horntveth - electronic drums, effects & vocals, Are Mokkelbost - synth, bass, sampler, effects & vocals, Erlend Mokkelbost - guitar, Kyrre Heldal Karlsen - lights.
Sounds Like:
«(...) The best noise act in Oslo, and possibly the
best live show I’ve ever seen, is called Kill. The
quartet haven’t released any records because the
act is a four-part side project, featuring members
of Jaga Jazzist, Single Unit, JR Ewing, and No
Place to Hide, all of them pedigreed at some
point in hardcore and trash metal type acts. Kill
speak openly of «musical violence» and assault-
ing stuff; well OK, I’m not much of a «terrified
by sound» type, but holy shit. The band’s mono-
chrome enamel tearing, a blend of electronic
noisemakers and fierce frustrated metal, puts
them somewhere between Devildriver or Krisiun
and Wolf Eyes + Hair Police, though I can’t stress
how much better they are all than all these guys.
There’s a deep-rooted anger, a public distrust
that feeds them, and with every blast of noise,
they trigger a rig of white spotlights to blind the
audience just to drive it home. No improvisation,
the band’s songs come off like textbook torture
sequences; maybe they are.» (Pitchfork Media
- Nick Sylvester)
«This was a window into the future in many ways. Blokeys from JR Ewing and Jaga Jazzist came together to soundtrack the apocalypse. It was a electronic/noisy/death metal mess and made me think of Terminator 2 had there not been a happy ending. It was like being twatted by homicidal robots. You might be interested to know that they weren't even playing through amps and the entire band was being fed through a computer. Sometimes they were thrashing away and their movements were totally seperate to the music. It was most odd.» (last.fm - Andy Taylor)
Type of Label: None