Pornoheft

This is manic! Some kind of insane German new wave wired up punk urgency with a screaming (almost operatic) vocalist yelling/yelping over the thrashing noise. It's all very raw and most of it played at breakneck speed. Kind of Pere Ubu or Klaus Nomi meets punkoid thrash metal/old school street punk noise - first time I played it it kind of drove me to - well never mind what it did, I was hooked by the third play and now I find myself receiving disturbing e.mails direct from Satan demanding we make them famous or at least fly over for their next barbecue. I have no idea what they're on about, I think it's in German - there's pink fluffy slippers on the front, they're from Frankfurt and I guess they sound a hell of a lot like those without being that obvious about it - actually HEY! John The Baker & The Malnourished! This should be on AT!!! Dead Kens, Pere Ubu, The Malnourished and it's all kind of frantic and ubber-jibberish and twitching and not for you nervous types - it makes no sense, it all makes perfect sense.
Sean, of Organ UK, about "Live at Vintage" in Organ Magazine 137 - www.organart.com -
Pornoheft
HQ: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Formed: October 2002



Frantic and angular and very stylistic and Germanic and uber-new wave punk crash and burn and and and another fine album from our favourite Germans. They're like some kind of Motorhead or Mudhoney for people who like positively charged weird/wired Kraut rock and unpredictable operatic punk and strangely obscure European new-wave Pere Ubu flavoured bands from 1981. Think Ramones in a healthy ruck with Einsturzende Neubauten and you'll be somewhere near getting there. Things seem relatively straight froward this rime around, relative is the key word though, last time around Pornoheft were extremely extreme and very left field - this time they seem to be relatively accessible – still weird and wired and rewarding and just as gloriously recommended and as worth you valuable time as last time around though.
Sean, of Organ UK, in Organ 198 - www.organart.com -
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