And although the members of Graf Orlock were kicked out film school, they chose their moniker after the character from the movie Nosferatu and they use excerpt of movie dialogues to begin each of their song, dialogues related to humorous violence, swearing, action and fights… some of them may have been from the ‘The Terminator’, as one of their tee-shirts for sale would let think, but I’ve read they have an obsession with ‘Die Hard’.
They were playing at Vacation Vinyl last night, and they encouraged right away the public to come closer and closer, so that I ended up being very close, the right ear almost stuck to one speaker, and happy to find some earplugs in my pocket.
But what matters is the rage and the fury they unleash, with Alan Hunter’s fast drumming, the chaotic and distorted sound coming from Sven Calhoun’s bass and Jason Schmidt’s guitar, that couldn’t even cover Karl Bournze’s slaughtered vocals. But why are they so angry? Actually, there are many reasons to be angry, but they strangely seemed very calm and posed between the songs as if they had therapeutically released all the anger through their songs.
But going back to the lyrics, I have read somewhere that they come from film dialogues! Really? Think about Robocop or The Terminator’s dialogues yelled over hardcore riffs, … a funny and absurd cinema-grind genre.