KINGSHIT REVIEWS
Daredevil Magazine (Germany) King Shit - Super King CDEP "Music to listen to before blowing a hole in your skull."...this was the first thing I read under King Shit on the label page and believe me this is exactly what King Shit sounds like. Imagine you would play Medal Of Honor and just using the big machinegun and your big brother would stand besides you drunk as shit talking all kind weird stuff while a big fucking bulldozer is rolling over your house...this is how King Shit sounds like. I think friends of Atari Teenage Riot and Alec Empire will dig this stuff...Electronic mayhem at its best...check them out!!!"Dead Angel Magazine (Austin TX) King Shit - Super King CDEP "They have one of the greatest names in history, they're heavy as hell, and you can't understand a damn thing they're saying -- what more do you want? The seven tracks here are mainly a festering quagmire of sickness, alternating low-end grind heaviness with crazed blast-beat madness and burying everything in piles of noise. Plus their "songs" are generally real short: "politikidal" is nothing but a short and caustic snippet of political commentary, followed by "sloppy seconds," less than a minute of spastic freakout mania featuring heavy guitar abuse and lots of yelling. The real heavy grind takes place on tracks like "westward (w)ho(re)" and "poor posturing," where the yelling is buried under fuzzed-out subsonic bass hell, pounding drums, and other forms of ugliness. There's another short burst of commentary ("politifuckyou"), followed by a lot of crazed thrashing about and more shouting on "compulsively lying to save face," all buried under grotesquely barbaric distort-o-bass thrusting (UNH! UNH! UNH!). The final track, "the king is dead," opens with peculiar squealing cyclotron noises worthy of recently-departed Voivod guitarist Piggy (RIP) that abruptly give way to what sounds like a man being raped and butchered with a chainsaw in a cement mixer while hostile natives pound on the shell with blunt objects. This is the sound of Godflesh and Dystopia after smoking too much crack and crystal meth and looking for people to hurt with a lead pipe. Your mother will not approve. Bonus points for the fact that the last song is mostly a lot of anguished screaming while people pound on things hard enough to break them. And, of course, massive bonus points for their name."Dead Angel Magazine (Austin TX) King Shit -"Cult of Oprahanity" CD single "I defy you not to listen to a band with the balls to call itself King Shit. Seriously, I dare you. Of course, you'll have to listen fast, since this may be the briefest single ever at seventeen seconds. (I'm guessing someone spent a lot of his or her teenage years playing Napalm Death's first album over and over until he or she forgot that the songs on SCUM are abnormally short.) Someone intones, "Family Channel, ABC, Leno, Oprah. No... Oprah." The rest of the song is a lot of low-end buzzsaw guitar and howling and chaos. I guess they really don't like Oprah, huh? One thing is for sure -- you can't accuse them of not getting to the point, or even overstaying their welcome....."Current Magazine (Ann Arbor MI) King Shit -"Cult of Oprahanity" CD single "At first glance, you'd likely look at King Shit and say to yourself, "oh -- it's another one of 'those bands.'" But you'd be wrong. Mostly.
Any number of metal bands make frequent use of guitar distortion -- many to the point of excess -- but King Shit is one of the few who seem to know exactly how far to take it. With their melodies distorted to the nth degree and their lumbering, Baluctherium beats, the band creates a sound very much like Godflesh in their slower sections, while the faster parts throb like Napalm Death. All this serves to create quite an effective mood, namely: "music to listen to before blowing a hole in your skull."
With that said about King Shit in general, my only complaint with Super King is that there are too many filler tracks on the disc, especially since it's so short. If they serve a genuine purpose, fine, but otherwise it's just self-indulgent. Their time would be better spent on more songs like "Poor Posturing," which features additional programming elements that make the song sound like something Skinny Puppy could have produced circa Last Rights.
All in all, King Shit has all the makings of a decent grind metal band with the music they've put out in Super King. And, hey, if you don't feel like listening to the whole EP, its companion CD (the "Cult of Oprahanity" single) is even shorter, with one 17-second song. That's economy."
KING WORLD now released
16 tracks of metal, noise rock, grind & doom
Cover art by the legendary MIKE DIANA
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