2008 Woodie Awards
Francis in Paradise, Anarchy in the Church
Anarchy club won't be spraying As on the Church
Kate Andrews
Issue date: 3/6/08 Section: Arts and Entertainment
With lyrics like, "She is the knife against their throats," and "I am the poison in the wine," it is obvious that Anarchy Club's new EP, A Single Drop of Red, is not a place you should turn to get over a recent breakup.
While undoubtedly a great soundtrack to help you vent over your latest romantic fiasco, the dark lyrics, heavy metal guitars and satanic vocals of Keith Smith might send you right over the edge.
So when Anarchy Club plays with The Under on March 7 at The Church on Kilmarnock St., let's hope they hide the sharp objects.
The band, founded in 2004 by members Smith and Adam von Buhler has been featured in popular video games Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band. They released their first album, The Way and Its Power, in 2005.
The band's name was chosen ironically, Smith said in an e-mail interview with The Beacon. "It's a play on words I used to use to describe the declining punk/hardcore scene of the past ten years or so."
Growing up in the glory days of the hardcore scene during the late '80s and early '90s, Smith was "a little punk kid with a skate board. I used to sneak into all the shows and hang out backstage with the bands."
So naturally, he felt upset "to see a once-great underground community slowly become just a watered down, homogenized 'Anarchy Club.'"
Though Smith and von Buhler classify their music as hard rock and electric rather than punk, the duo from Boston say they want to remain true to the punk ideology with their music.
The band doesn't really follow what might be considered the typical process of songwriting-especially when it comes to writing music to appeal to their fans.
"We write the kind of stuff we'd like to hear ourselves, and try not to worry about how the fans will feel about this or that," von Buhler said.
And instead of finding a bunch of bands listed as their influences on their MySpace page, they list legendary skateboarders Jay Adams and Tony Alva, the character Tyler Durden from Fight Club, muscle cars, Kung Fu movies, video games and horror movies.
While undoubtedly a great soundtrack to help you vent over your latest romantic fiasco, the dark lyrics, heavy metal guitars and satanic vocals of Keith Smith might send you right over the edge.
So when Anarchy Club plays with The Under on March 7 at The Church on Kilmarnock St., let's hope they hide the sharp objects.
The band, founded in 2004 by members Smith and Adam von Buhler has been featured in popular video games Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band. They released their first album, The Way and Its Power, in 2005.
The band's name was chosen ironically, Smith said in an e-mail interview with The Beacon. "It's a play on words I used to use to describe the declining punk/hardcore scene of the past ten years or so."
Growing up in the glory days of the hardcore scene during the late '80s and early '90s, Smith was "a little punk kid with a skate board. I used to sneak into all the shows and hang out backstage with the bands."
So naturally, he felt upset "to see a once-great underground community slowly become just a watered down, homogenized 'Anarchy Club.'"
Though Smith and von Buhler classify their music as hard rock and electric rather than punk, the duo from Boston say they want to remain true to the punk ideology with their music.
The band doesn't really follow what might be considered the typical process of songwriting-especially when it comes to writing music to appeal to their fans.
"We write the kind of stuff we'd like to hear ourselves, and try not to worry about how the fans will feel about this or that," von Buhler said.
And instead of finding a bunch of bands listed as their influences on their MySpace page, they list legendary skateboarders Jay Adams and Tony Alva, the character Tyler Durden from Fight Club, muscle cars, Kung Fu movies, video games and horror movies.
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