A reanimated Dead Boys, with Cheetah Chrome on vocals - the record company decides the vocals need something else, so they use AI to "dust" it with some quintessence of Stiv Bators.
I remember Cleopatra from the '90s when packages would regularly arrive through the post, generally occasioning disappointment or disbelief. (Okay they did put out some good Krautrock - Manuel Gottsching stuff). But mostly they established a micro-market as a non-retirement home for twilight -career industrial and Goth acts . So this is a logical development. For the diehard fans who can't get enough, for whom death of the principals is not an obstruction or obstacle for appetite.
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Should be a genre called "Ick" that encompasses all the icky bands - Dead Boys, Alien Sex Fiend, Plasmatics, Dead Kennedys, The Tubes, G.G. Allin, etc.
Maybe starts off with Alice Cooper and Kiss. Then revives in the 90's with GWAR, Slipknot, et al.
That's a good one - for when I resume the Invented Genres series maybe.
Not generally considered in that company, but Eater famously or infamously hurled dead pig bits at the audience, or maybe it was just messed around on the stage.
There's whole genres that would fit - grindcore, all those bands and songs / albums with ridiculously verbose titles to do with dismemberment and surgery.
Quite a bit of industrial as well - Skinny Puppy although they are protesting vivisection, so the gruesomeness is highminded.
Actually almost the entirety of power electronics.
Perhaps the line you are pointing to is more comedy-horror and splatter-for-laffs.
There was Horrorcore rap: Gravediggaz, The Geto Boys at their most sociopathic....
Erm, there is already a recognised name for that genre, with a Wikipedia entry and everything: shock rock.
Re: Invented Genres, I remember some wag on the NME in the 80s coining 'date rape soul'. I think this was occasioned by Eugene Wilde's UK hit 'Gotta get you home tonight'.
Great genre-spot!
Includes the Butthole Surfers, too. Alternative Tentacles is to Ick what Creation is to shoegaze.
More recently: Death Grips.
Perhaps Buttholes, Big Black, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, are Avant-ick.
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