The American way

Krieg - A process of dying (mp3)
Krieg - Venus in furs (mp3)
Krieg on MySpace
Krieg was a second wave old school BM cult group from USA. Formed in the late nineties they released their last album just a few months ago. Krieg's music is never too experimental in the sense of being utterly strange, but there's always something pure and authentic, it's easy to take it as it is. Krieg has a short conceptual mini-album "Patrick Bateman EP" . There are only two identical songs - just one repetitious blastbeat rhythm and almost unmelodical mass of distorted guitars - plus spoken text interludes taken from the movie "American Psycho".There's something specially american in Krieg. Not only that they have made this tribute to the most charming American antihero. It's that independent rock'n'roll feeling - doing your thing, enjoying it and not caring what others think about it. For example "A process of dying" - it's just great headbanging rock'n'roll tune with superb energy, no need for conceptualizing it with extra ideologies. This instrumental track is based on simple five-note melody. The rhythm is precise as a clockwork and fast as ... I don't know, hmm, some very fast car. Then the guitar solo starts. And on top of that another guitar solo. And another and another... Finally there are about five solos in the same time and it gets so intensive, that it all falls in a disoriented mess of distortion and feedback. And that Velvet Underground cover - I can't remember any other black metal band who has ever made serious interpretations of something else than just death- or black metal songs. It's an artificially derived thought, but when you take VU's "White light, white heat" with it's droning monotonous rhythm, repetitive patterns and ugly lo-fi sound it's not so far from the aesthetics of primitive black metal.
As an example of healthy attitude, here's what these guys tell to the crowd in the end of the concert: "May you all die in automobile accidents on the way home! Fuck you, we are Krieg!"