Showing posts with label Brutal Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brutal Truth. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 February 2010

A Message from Rich Hoak

 In my inbox this morning:

Hi all: please post, forward, tell yr friends:

A light hearted instructional video on the art of grind drumming has been released by Richard Hoak (Brutal Truth, Total Fucking Destruction) and can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKvs369yO5Q

This video was directed by noted surf n skate filmmaker Tyson Montrucchio, who has recently made music videos for Downspell, Lamb of God, God Forbid, 16, Brutal Truth, Cattle Decapitation and more.

special thanx go out to Trick Drums and Sickdrummer.com!!!

Loudly,

-r


http://www.myspace.com/brutalfuckingtruth
http://www.myspace.com/totalfuckingdestruction
http://www.myspace.com/peaceisthevictory
http://www.garmentdistrict.com/tfd
http://cdbaby.com/cd/tfdestruction
http://www.bonesbrigaderecords.com
http://www.ritualrecords.com/pc/index.html

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Brutal Fucking Truth Cover Art


The saviours of grind are back! BRUTAL TRUTH's new record, "Evolution Through Revolution" is due for release in April via RELAPSE. THEE CLAW suggests you should do yourself a favour and check this shit out.

Friday, 15 August 2008

More BFT Euro Tour Details

Don't fucking quote me on this okay.

So I just read that BRUTAL TRUTH will be playing at Nottingham Rock City on August 31st 2008 - this is in spite of the tour dates that were posted on their myspace saying that they'd be over in Rotterdam on that very night.

This is all very sketchy right now but one thing is for sure: If Sharpe/Lilker/Roberts/Hoak are gonna be in Nottingham then you can be sure that THEE FUCKING CLAW will be there too!

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Brutal Fucking Truth - End Of Summer Tour

Claw favourites BRUTAL TRUTH have announced even more European tour dates:


August 2008

Friday, 29 Bergen, NOR - Hole in the Sky
Saturday, 30 Magedeburg, GER – Blow Up
Sunday, 31 Rotterdam, NL - Waterfront

September 2008

Monday, 1 Bristol, UK – The Croft
Tuesday, 2 London, UK - Underworld
Wednesday, 3 Helsinki, FI - Nosturi
Thursday, 4 Meran, I - Jungle
Friday, 5 Pinarella di Cervia (Ra), I – Rock Planet
Saturday, 6 Roma, I - Palalockness
Sunday, 7 Cremona, I - CS Dordoni


Fuck yeah!

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Brutal Truth In Bratislava

Check this out:




That's a photo of grind legends BRUTAL FUCKING TRUTH at their recent gig over in Bratislava - look at the state of them, they were totalled! The guy pictured in the photo with them (on the right) is my brother of true metal RADO, he went along to check out BFT and reports back that they played a monster 2 hour set at that particular show, mainly because the crowd were having a ball and kept taking more beer to the stage for the band to drink. They finished their set by saying "We can't play anymore, we're too drunk!".



Maaaaaan, I wish I was at that show. Thee Claw plans to go and visit our good buddy Rado in his home town for some shows real soon - be ready for us dude!!



Check out more of Rado's Brutal Truth photos HERE.

Friday, 6 June 2008

Brutal Truth, Manchester Feb 2007



So there's another little adventure over.
On Monday Morning we flew out to Dublin and after a bit of wandering around we spent the afternoon in Eamon Doran's listening to Satyricon and Megadeth before we went across the Liffy for Total Fucking Destruction, Narcosis and Brutal Truth.

Total Fucking Desctruction were awesome, the highlight this first night was "Let the Children Name Themselves", Narcosis I had never seen before and I was blown away.
Totally OTT and sick as fuck, searing vocals and very talented musicians.
One to watch.
Brutal Truth were fucking great, they seemed to be having a great time up there and it was great to have a little windmill to the likes of "Walking Corpse".
Windmill?!? I've never fucking windmilled in my life before that, and hopefully never will again!

After the show it was hang around for a bit and then we went off to a dance club to rave all night, but that's another story for another time.

We flew back home on Tuesday and drove up to Manchester for the next date of the tour, arriving too late to see the extra group(s?) that were on before TFD.
TFD weren't as good as the night before for me, although the cover of The Exploited's "Sid Vicious Was Innocent" was an absolute belter!!
Narcosis were all over the fucking place (that's in a good way) again, and I'm amazed at how they can play and sing like that two nights in a row, never mind for a full tour!
Brutal Truth were, for my money, even better here tonight than in Dublin.
I dunno whether it was because they were able to smoke on stage here but they were intense and it was the most amazing pit I've seen at a show, ever, full stop.
Constant, all the way through.
I really wish I could have been to more shows on this tour but I could only give myself two days off that week.
Oh well, here's to Bergen Domkirke and Sunn O)))!!!

Brutal Truth, Dublin 2007



Currently, I'm sat at a terminal next to SJW in the departures lounge of Dublin Airport, having last night been to The Voodoo Lounge to see Narcosis, Total Fucking Destruction and Brutal Truth.
It was absolutely awesome.

TFD were great, Rich Hoak is now my hero.
He just pulls the best faces ever.
Halfway through they broke a string and Rich got up and read some poetry.
When he's playing the drums he looks like he's trying to wrap up a parcel of cooked spaghetti on a disintegrating motorbike on the motorway on drugs.

Leeds' Narcosis were awesome.
They have the most animated singer in the world; if he was in a band with Rich Hoak, the world would end.
Quite a lot of the set's vocals were delivered from all over the stage, in the pit, up by the bar, everywere!
Awesome modern grind.

Brutal truth are Brutal Truth, the were no real surprises in the setlist except a cover of Sister Fucker by EyeHateGod which was well sick.

Afterwards we ended up in some grotty pub, raving to some snide euromixes!
So now, we fly back to England, get something to eat, and then we are off to Manchester tonight to see them all again.

Brutal Truth could play any permutation of the set list Rich gave me, so I won't bother running through it.
They play Walking Corpse, don't worry!
Some sick merchandise as well.
You should try to get yourselves along to any remaining dates on this tour, if I could have got a week off, I'd go to all of them!

Friday, 8 February 2008

Brutal Truth, Sheffield


We travelled over to Sheffield to see grindcore legends Brutal Truth play a show at the Corporation club last night; Support came from local bands The Afternoon Gentlemen and Reth; both competent Yorkshire (correct me if I'm wrong) grinders; I don't mean this in any way a slight on either band, but it seems to me since the rather untimely demise of UK grinders Narcosis, every young British grindcore band I go and see sound like a pale Narcosis clone. Most enjoyable though.

Brutal truth are writing new stuff, some of which got an airing here, but it was the old stuff that everyone loves that went down best. Rich Hoak is an absolutely legendary drummer, it's worth going to see BT just to see the faces that the mild-mannered Total Fucking Destruction drummer/vocalist pulls whilst he is playing.
Walking Corpse, Displacement, Choice of a New Generation; all get the crowd going for a second or two until some knobhead at the front gets in a bad mood because people are bumping into him.
Dude, you're at the front of a gig by Brutal Truth, deal with it!

The band seem to be having a great time, Kev Sharp bounding all over the stage, barefoot as ever, belting out grind classic after grind classic.
They tagged Collateral Damage onto the end of Walking Corpse, but that didn't stop all kinds of idiots shouting for it after they finished every song. I assume these are the same people who go to see Napalm Death and shout for You Suffer all the way through.

Speaking of Narcosis, Brutal Truth finished with I Killed My Family, inviting Chris from said dead grinders up on stage to do voacals with them.
We stayed afterwards and went into the club bit that the venue was joined to; fucking hell so much Emo, so little petrol. Nice globes though. Rich Hoak came over for a bit in the club afterwards, stinking of green with a big shit eating grin on his face.
We got back home at 5am, all smiley and totally grinded out.

More pics:

Thursday, 3 January 2008

Brutal Truth


Brutal Truth Have announced 2008 European Tour Dates, hopefully we can catch them in either Sheffield or London, last year we saw them twice in Dublin and Manchester and it was amazing.

Full Euro tour dates:

February 6 Hasselt, Belgium Muziek-o-drom

February 7 London, United Kingdom Underworld

February 8 Sheffield, United Kingdom Corporation

February 9 Glasgow, Scotland Barfly

February 10 Rotterdam, Netherlands De Baroeg

February 11 Strasbourg, France Molodoi

February 12 Paris, France La Locomotive

February 13 Durango, Spain Plateruena

February 14 Corroios, Portugal Cine Teatro de Corroios

February 15 Madrid, Spain Sala Live

February 16 Barcelona, Spain Sala KGB

February 17 Plaisir, France La Clef Des Champs

Wednesday, 7 February 2007

Brutal Truth Photos

Feb 5th 2007 - Brutal Truth @ The Voodoo Lounge, Dublin:










That last one is of Party Patchie & everyone's favourite DJ Father Ted - who (as H pointed out) looks like Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath.
My favourite of these pics - and I may well change my mind about this soon - is the one of the awesome Rich Hoak on drums doing a cracking guern. His opening line in Manchester: "People often ask me, 'Are you *always* angry?'. And I reply 'Yes, why, aren't you?'".

Here is the top and bottom of the Dublin trip - on this day I think we were the luckiest men in Europe:

  • Spent Sunday night in a little place called Woolton village
  • Woke up 2 hours late for the airport on Monday morning
  • I woke up in Patchie's ma's bed too (I haven't got a CLUE how that happened)
  • Almost lost my passport in the airport pub after having a double vodka at 7am
  • Ate an egg & onion sandwich on arrival at Dublin International, for the novelty factor (it tasted pretty okay)
  • Got on the bevvies in Dublin at about half 11... and didn't stop drinking til 3am the next morning
  • Acted like imbeciles all day long (but never forgot our manners when it counted)
  • Got fed loads of food for free in several pubs
  • Walked about 5 miles to find the gig venue in sub zero temperatures wearing only tshirts because "we'll wear the merch, that will keep us warm"
  • Invented a band called Skowzerbyowt and told everyone about it
  • Asked a random girl in a Godflesh hoodie for a good club to go to after the gig and she asked us "Do you like slags?". HUHUH????
  • Ended up in the busiest Monday night club in Ireland until 3am drinking vodka & red bull and dropping hideous Guinness farts, clearing the dance floor several times as a result
  • Got woke up in the night by Party Patchie who was brandishing pool cues and shouting "NOZZER" at me
  • Had a goddamn ball