"It was a weird medium to use for art, actual real blood."

September 28, 2017 1:45 PM

Notorious (CW: lots of brutal skater wipeouts) and longrunning NYC noise rock outfit Unsane are back with a savage new record, Sterilize, currently streaming at Noisey. Classic Unsane sound, with hardcore shouting over grinding distorted bass, throbbing drums, and bluesy guitar leads.
posted by Existential Dread (5 comments total)

Can't believe these guys are still at it! "Vandal-X" from 1990 was a killer track.
posted by porn in the woods at 2:19 PM on September 28, 2017

I own two drawings that were made with blood. An illustrator used to take lunch at a little restaurant I owned, and he had cut his finger with an xacto knife, the blood pooled on two pieces of cut mat, that were the out cuts. He looked at them, and saw figures therein, and using india ink he created a woman and a man, in old western kind of time, McCabe and Mrs. Miller had come out and these folks were like from gold mining days. I saw them while serving him lunch, and he gave them to me. I still have them, many years later. They have a charm and hold a memory. Definitely not deaf metal stuff.
posted by Oyéah at 5:47 PM on September 28, 2017

It's very fitting somehow that they're playing with Cherubs 3 days after my 50th birthday. While I had no intention of seeing Black Flag again when multiple versions were touring a few years ago, I could see myself going to this, if it starts early enough.
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 7:21 PM on September 28, 2017

I love this band. I them at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco back in the the mid aughts and Jello Biafra was in the (small) audience. It's a mystery to me that they don't get more hype than they do, but on the plus side it's usually not hard to get a ticket to see them, even when they are touring behind a new album as they are now. The new album sounds pretty great so far!
posted by whir at 7:42 PM on September 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

I think they might be the band I've seen the most times. Shame it looks like they're only playing with Cherubs in NYC and not touring together.
posted by Guy Innagorillasuit at 6:09 PM on September 30, 2017