BLACK PUS - PRIMORDIAL PUS (LOAD 133)

ONE SIDE EFFECT OF IGNORING LIGHTNING BOLT WAS ALSO NOT REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO THEIR SIDE PROJECTS. BLACK PUS IS BRIAN "DRUMS" CHIPPENDALE DOING A KIND OF POST-DURACELL THING - DURACELL WAS THIS FRENCH DUDE WHO USED TRIGGERS AND PEDALS WHILST DRUMMING TO BE A COOL ONE MAN BAND. HE USED TO COVER LIGHTNING BOLT. I THINK BRIAN SAW THAT AND TOOK IT IN HIS OWN WEIRDO DISTORTO MAYHEM DIRECTION. IN MANY RESPECTS I HAVE NO IDEA OF THE PROVENANCE OF LOTS OF THESE SOUNDS. ARE THEY LOOPS? ARE THEY PRE-PROGRAMMED?

I SUPPOSE THIS IS NOT A MILLION MILES FROM LIGHTNING BOLT, ONLY THE CUTTING POWER OF A BLAZING BASS GUITAR IS REPLACED BY A PSYCHIC MIASMA OF A WHIRLWIND OF TRIGGERED EFFECTS AND CHANTED VOCALS. THIS ONE MAN DOES A BETTER TRIBAL PSYCH THAN AKRON/FAMILY AND GANG GANG DANCE MANAGED PUT TOGETHER. I PRESUME THAT THE DRUMMING IS MORE RESTRAINED IN ORDER TO ALLOW WHATEVER THEY TRIGGER TO BREATHE A LITTLE MORE IN THE SONG. BUT THIS ACTUALLY KIND OF HELPS. IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE "LIGHTNING BOLT GUY DRUMS TO LOOPS" AT ALL!

THE DRUMMING IS ACTUALLY MORE PRESENT AS DRUMMING - TIM HARRINGTON FROM LES SAVY FAV ONCE QUIPPED THAT BRIAN'S DRUMMING IS MORE LIKE A CONSTANT LOW FREQUENCY NOISE, SUCH IS ITS SPEED AND FRANTICNESS - SO MAYBE WHAT I AM LURCHING TOWARD HERE IS THAT BLACK PUS HAVE OUT-ROCKBANDED SEVERAL ROCK BANDS WHILST TAKING A NON ROCK APPROACH. I LIKE IT.