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Still, amid the mess, Smits unlocked a key ingredient of the LDOH sound. Future drummer Marc Palmen once referred to this era as “the worst crap even I have ever heard!” “The ‘music’ was made by two screaming voices that were deformed by a guitar pitch-shifter.” Imagine that at karaoke.įollowing its dueling-gurgle live debut, LDOH eventually expanded into a band, releasing a self-titled demo in 1992. “Last Days Of Humanity at this time consisted of only two singers (Erwin and Hans),” Smits remembered.
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“Last Days Of Humanity was born.”īut LDOH wasn’t quite … LDOH yet. “When Erwin organized a gig with Drudge, Agathocles, and some other bands Decemin Plock, he saw the opportunity to add our own noise project to the bill,” Smits said.
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They wouldn’t have to wait long for their chance. “ Autumn 1989, Erwin (de Wit) and me (Hans) often came together in Soos Plock,” LDOH co-founder Hans Smits told Braindead Zine in 2008, “that was still is a sort of youth center where you could hang out, drink a lot of beer, and see some cool bands.” Those bands? “ Blood, Agathocles, and Dreft.” Further inspired by Fear Of God, Napalm Death, and other early grinders, Smits and de Wit wanted to make their own racket. And to get LDOH, we need to start at the beginning of the last days. But in order to get the gag, and figure out why there are obsessives in the first place, you need to get LDOH. Some of those obsessives have got some real good jokes, too. They rejoin a scene that includes a more experimental, gooey form that glooped forth in LDOH’s absence, a form that found a way to continually iterate upon and redefine what I once considered a dead end, the mountaintop for metal’s escalation of extremity. Their 2006 swansong, the absolutely bonkers Putrefaction in Progress, described as “ Reign In Blood for goregrind,” ending up blasting the band to bits. As LDOH (d)evolved, they would end up pioneering a variant that I’ve lovingly described as “ultra ping turbo goregrind.” At the time, that mix of brown-note timbres, stupidly fast pinging drums, and straight-up noise sounded like the end of metal, the very edge of what this genre could produce. On its early recordings, the Dutch institution moistened a then-inchoate goregrind substyle. First, though, there’s this band named Last Days Of Humanity. Like all good jokes, it, ahem, requires a long setup? And, uh, I’m going to need your help with the punchline? We’ll get to that. Gather ‘round, I am going to tell you the best running joke in goregrind. I’ve got some good stuff brewing for the next couple months. This intro is an expanded and updated version of an intro I wanted to run last year but banished to personal blog purgatory instead. I am feeling under the weather once again. Since Austin will not record a first freeze until 2022, this winter will bring one of the latest first freezes ever recorded.Hey. With unusually warm weather expected to continue in week two of our forecast, we still do not have a first freeze in Camp Mabry’s forecast for the foreseeable future. John Nielsen-Gammon, State Climatologist. This December will also likely go down as the state of Texas’ warmest December on record, according to Bob Rose/LCRA and Dr. Austin’s day/night temperatures are running a 9° fever - a wide margin in the world of weather. Temperatures overall this month are averaging out to the warmest December in Austin history, with records dating back to 1897. A high of 83° would be Austin’s second-warmest Christmas on record. With more sunshine and an even warmer westerly wind direction blowing in behind a dryline on Christmas Day, temperatures spike into the lower-80s in Austin and near 90° in the western Hill Country. Forecast high temperatures Christmas Eve day
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Expect even warmer 80s in much of the Hill Country. Temperatures on Friday are forecast to climb to 78° in Austin - the 6th-warmest Christmas Eve day on record, out of 124 years of data. AUSTIN (KXAN) - Afternoon high temperatures Thursday in Austin were capped at 71° since morning clouds were slow to burn off, but earlier sun each day and warmer winds should cause temperatures to soar much higher on Christmas Eve and Day.