With
the name Murder Cult you would be easily fooled into thinking that this was a
hardcore band of the most metal variety.
They look, on paper, like someone
that should be playing with Ed Gein, Uphill Battle, CurlUpandDie and those
brash, in your face type of hardcore/metal bands that can be rather
intimidating.
Then
I remember some odd years ago (More than ten actually, wow) a young band
bursting onto the scene called Murder by Death, named after the Peter Sellers
movie and not because of their musical style at all. A friend of a friend was talking to me at a
show, I mentioned them and her quick reply was “I don’t like hardcore”.
Rather
than Backstabbers, Inc., Murder Cult has a sound that is drum machine based
with something else that could be wind chimes but I am not entirely certain and
it is closer to an older Polyvinyl band such as Aloha or Volcano, I’m Still
Excited!!. The percussion factor is amazing and there is
some clanking as well as general sounds like traffic, but somehow within it all
is also melody.
At
times you can hear a sort of medical sound, which is hard to explain with
words, and then it sounds like maybe a kids toy is being used for an
instrument, though there is also the overall sound of something like water
glasses or bowls ala Jay Peele.
Though
this music might be the farthest thing from hardcore music, it does have an
underlying theme to it though that could be just as brutal as anything or
anyone. Based on the title of “The
Bridge”, I can see someone jumping off of a bridge. The traffic stops to see, to help and
ultimately to rescue this person.
In a
fall that should have rightfully killed him, the protagonist of the song somehow
manages to survive, is taken to the hospital and is learning to live life once
again, one day at a time. It is in this
way that not only is there an actual bridge but the metaphorical bridge which
connects the life before to the life here on out. It doesn’t really get much more intense
than that.
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