Korperschwache

about

Korperschwache began in 1995 in Austin as a side project of Autodidact. Where that band was all about drone and strange sounds, Korperschwache (the name is German for "organic decay," the cause of death noted on death certificates of those sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz) was strictly blown-out junk-noise hell built on the maxim that you can never be too loud or too obnoxious. The first four C-60 cassettes were all heavily influenced by the usual sonic criminals -- Whitehouse, Masonna, Merzbow, Contagious Orgasm, etc., etc. The last of the four is probably my favorite of the bunch, but they are all essentially skull-scraping blasts of power-mad violence and volume, and about as subtle as a sandpaper enema. In 1997 Korperschwache released one C60 and appeared on one side of a split cassette with Antibody, both released by Castrated Tapes. Shortly after recording MYWOMANMYWOMANMYSLAVE (the title being an obscure joke reference to BDSM by way of Marty Robbins), RKF was crippled by tinnitus and swore off high-volume noise death for the next three years. This release was the last of the purely junk-noise releases. By 2001 RKF felt safe enough (or desperate enough for noise -- either way it amounts to the same) to resume subjecting himself to violent noise death, but this time largely dispensed with the junk-noise elements in favor of the epic layering of overtaxed noise guitar tracks. Recorded in July, 2001 for a release that never happened, on TUMESCENT LOVE SONGS... RKF

top songs

albums

Evil Walks

Evil Crawls

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Blastwave X: Ten Years Of Crucial Blast

Compilation for a Cat

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Broken Blades Of Steel Scattered Across The Narrow Way

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Ritual of the Ouroboros

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The Healing Power Of Paranoia

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Night Country Fog

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Heresies: 2012

The Devil Speaks Through My Guitar

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Sacrifice Of The Ouroboros (I See Your Bleached White Skulls On A Long And Pointed Row Of Bloodstained Sticks)

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Blood Everywhere

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