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Suck Like a Leech
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Released: Jan 1, 1993
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General Info

  • Genre: Other

    Location London and South East, UK

    Profile Views: 6322

    Last Login: 1/10/2012

    Member Since 9/9/2009

    Record Label Situation Two - Pathological - Virgin - Big Cat

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Kevin Martin is a London-based English musician, record producer, journalist and main head of God. Although the band so named has had a fairly stable multi-member lineup, it is just one of many outlets for this British noise technician’s twisted creativity. Working at a point where hardcore, experimental jazz and electronic music can be made to meet, Martin’s God mines a vein similar to the likes of Scorn, Naked City, Godflesh and some of Bill Laswell’s more abrasive undertakings. At one time or another, Martin has collaborated with those artists as well as Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3/Spectrum), Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) and avant-garde drummer Eddie Prevost in the fittingly named Experimental Audio Research. Martin also runs the Pathological label, which has released a dozen or so equally unsettling releases, and compiled the Ambient 4: Isolationism and Macro Dub Infection Volume One albums for Virgin. After debuting in ‘87 with a track on Mark E. Smith’s Disparate Cognoscenti compilation, God gave forth with Breach Birth, a screeching, fiercely distorted deconstruction of metal that remains the most “rock” thing Martin has ever released. Sailing quickly into more experimental waters, he recruited several likeminded sonic extremists — among them members or ex-members of Henry Cow, Skullflower, A.R.Kane, AMM, Head of David, Terminal Cheesecake, Slab!, B-Shops For the Poor and Godflesh — to form the cacophonous eleven-headed monster (with two bassists, two drummers and two saxophonists) that God has essentially been ever since. The live Loco, produced by Justin Broadrick, is full of clattering percussion, thunderous basses, hyper-distorted riffs and Martin’s elephant-stampede saxophone and roaring vocals. The approach on Possession is similar, but with almost symphonically bombastic production not unlike mid-period Swans; John Zorn guests on one track. Consumed is another turbulent and confrontational live outing. The Anatomy of Addiction carries on in suitably anarchic fashion, an increasing influx of ambient and dub further adding to the planned insanity. Human Greed is that album’s remix collection, containing radical reshapes by such perpetrators as Laswell, Shields, Broadrick and the Lumberjacks (aka Brooklyn rappers New Kingdom. With some members of God and Terminal Cheesecake, Martin in 1993 created Ice, the project engaged in a fusion of dub, jazz, funk and rock banner of punk ferocity and industrial work in the first album "Under the Skin". Bad Blood's second album released in 1998, features Blixa Bargeld and several rappers (El-P, Toastie Taylor, DJ Vadim and Anti-Pop Consortium), slaughters and hip-hop's structural scaffolding, leaving behind a skeleton that smolders like psychedelic music at its most transcendental. While in duo with Justin Broadrick they start to various projects between extreme sound industrial / dub / electronic and hip-hop under the name of Techno Animal, The Sidewinder, Curse of the Golden Vampire (with Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire) and now in his solo dubstep projects Pressure and The Bug. .. .. .. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

  • Members

    Kevin Martin: vocal, tenor saxophone, sampler - Shaun Rogan: guitar - Justin Broadrick: guitar - Russel Smith: guitar - Scott Kiehl: drums/percussion - Lou Ciccotelli: drums/percussion - John Edwards: double bass - Dave Cochrane: bass - Tim Hodgkinson: alto saxophone, bass clarinet - Steve Blake: alto/tenore/baritone saxophone - Paul Middleton: drums - Gary Jeff: bass. Guest musicians over the years: Eddie Prevost, John Zorn, Peter Kraut, Niko Wenner, Alex Buess, Gary Smith, Dietmar Diesner, Simon Picard, Tom Prentice.

  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    free jazz - noise - dub - industrial - other

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  • enrico

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--XCIsNtBc&feature=share

    10 months ago
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    Hey,i love you space.

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    Hi guys - good luck.

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    2 years ago
  • geigerpeace

    Is that The Kev. Martin there?!

    Love & Respect You Sonic Ruler of eARTH !

    2 years ago
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  • MIstI MAttoon

    Enjoying your music.

    2 years ago
  • geigerpeace

    I HAVE A DREAM;                                                                                     (loud cheers)

    A DREAM THAT ONE DAY,PEOPLE WILL FIND GOD IN STORES...(very loud cheers)
    A DREAM THAT ONE DAY A NEW GOD WILL COME OUT                (even louder cheers)
    THAT WILL EMBARRASS AND REDUCE MONSTERS TO MOLECULES (total madness)
    I HAVE A DREAM................................................................................. aMEN

    2 years ago
  • MIstI MAttoon

    Love the music

    2 years ago
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