FACT sits down with noise pioneer (and Church of Satan leader) Boyd Rice to discuss the history of his groundbreaking work, how he views noise music, and his controversial political affiliations.
a friend introduced his music to me while back. truly crazy stuff. but the whole "satanist neo-nazi" image is definitely just to push buttons. look beyond that and you have some of the best noise/industrial out there. if you see him live though WEAR HEARING PROTECTION if you dont want serious damage to occur. not even joking.
I guess it was inevitable with the revival of industrial in general that Boyd would get attention again, too.
And, of course, the question-can/should you look beyond the fascism? Boyd always seemed like such an asshole, and there's plenty of other music out there.
At first I had a friend tell me about this guy. I started reading about how he messes with locked grooves, adds holes to the disc to create multiple axis. It sounded pretty cool and interesting, then I got to the Nazi/Satanist stuff. It's hard to tell if he's "joking" or if he's serious about it, but if he's serious in no way would I support a Nazi who condones rape on his songs (a "parody" perhaps?). Either way, I think I'll just keep my distance...