The title gives it all away really. The “Hymns For The Living Dead” EP released on the Blood Red Sounds label ensures anyone expecting an out and out 4 track 19 minute assault on their eardrums won’t be disappointed.
The agenda is simple - GEISHA'S music is loud:rock/thrash, fighting for room with threatening, semi-drowned out shouty vocals. Well hard, like.
“This Ruined Art” has a duration of 4 minutes and during this time we experience an uncomfortable amount of brutal crossover industrial/chaotic/psychotic guitar. It just never lets up. Hardly ground breaking, it's truly only for the committed listener. The distortion pushes on relentlessly and the fuzz bass gets turned up to eleven and all nervous systems get a work out. Whoopee - I don't think.
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"Year of The One Armed Drummer", "How Far is Nowhere" and "Asyouwereleaving" are of the same breed, with metallic stranglehold grips tightened and the course set straight for raw, fuelled hardcore aggression.
Geisha are trained to entertain men with a particular need: that of the sweaty mosh pit. Take that setting out of the equation and "Hymns For The Living Dead" will be blasting out to a meagre congregation.
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