Band: PINK ROOM (Belgium) Who: Deafening turbo from Belgium
Pick: HAIL SATAN The InsaneSpaceMountainThunderDomeMIX by Micha Volders
Last March these wall-of-clamorous-noise maniacs released their
second LP (stream below), titled Putain Royale.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “The essential message of this new powerhouse
album is loud and clear: noise-challenging turbo Pink Room is here to stay! Their
tsunami energy is beyond any decibel regulation. Again, loudmouth Bart Cocquyt
leads the rip-roaring troops. As I said before, his vocal range is out-of-this-world.”
One of the albums’ boiling singles was HAIL SATAN. A badass motherrocker
now remixed under the banner: InsaneSpaceMountainThunderDomeMIX.
A filthy, fervid, and fanatical piece of fucktasy.
TUTV said: Manimal and Samara are a poetallica sensation. A new laser light at the end of
a mythical tunnel where anything can happen. Imagine Sylvia Plath fronting a theatrical and mind-challenging psychedelic noise band. Their debut album is a multi-faceted opus in sound and vision. Compelling poetry exploring life, death, birth, past, present, and future embedded
in a titanic thunder and lighting symphony going from perplexing metal to chill-out ambient. The final result is at times jaw-dropping, at times weirdly confusing, at times dumbfounding
but always flabbergasting and fascinating. When surreality becomes reality you know something is about to happen.
TUTV wrote: Gusto, high-spiritedness and anxiety are the keywords here.
This warm-blooded record is a heart-rending reflection of the group’s state of
2021 mind. A galvanizing collection of cohesive poignant emo songs influenced by
the disturbing way our troubled world is handling human issues, once-in-a-lifetime
dramas, and the personal turmoil of frontwoman Chavez. Her soul-stirring and
powerful (Aretha Franklin / young Tina Turner) voice, weeping guitars, and the
electrical intensity are at times overwhelming and heartbreaking. Impressive!
Released: 12 March 2021 – second LP TUTV wrote: “The essential message of this new powerhouse album is loud and clear:
noise-challenging turbo Pink Room is here to stay! Their tsunami energy is beyond any
decibel regulation. Again, loudmouth Bart Cocquyt leads the rip-roaring troops. As I said
before his vocal range is out-of-this-world. He easily could front a death metal band (Stay Black/Stay White) or a Nirvana reunion (Losing/Skin) or kick Ozzy Osbourne‘s ass (Hail Satan). Expect ear-shattering jackhammers, over-the-top frenzy, and an overall sonic lockdown paranoia.”
TUTV wrote: “The masters of drone rock are back, and they’re getting better over the years. Gigantic fuzz and buzz jackhammers but also some softer – yes, since they became fathers they let their heart & soul speak/play more – stuff. This stunning work will end up on many end-of-the-year lists.”
tutv wrote: “i’m damn sure this incredible punch-powered-punk-passion turbo was here before, about 40 years ago, inspiring bored kids like black flag , shellac, melvins, jello biafra, and other anarchist snotnoses, to leave home, steal guitars and drums in order to have some wild fun while scaring bad people with their deafening racket that’ll teach those old-fashioned adults watching fox.news all day long. so here they are back again, inspiring young social media junkies to steal guitars and drums instead of watching their phones all day long. home is where it all starts when you have no money to rent a smelly rehearsal room to rock your heads off. so you move into your own smelly basement and scream your poor lungs to pieces. listen up all you lost teenagers out there, play i became birds over and over again ’cause these hungry florida misfits can and will save your lives.”
Key track: sewn together from the membrane of the great sea cucumber
TUTV wrote: “A mix of the romantic crooner and the haunting crooner. Growing with every spin. Compelling orchestrations, classical arrangements, with Ellis showing his musical skills once more. Can’t remember when Cave made an average album. Did he, actually? Okay, Carnage once again on my headphones.”
TUTV wrote: “The rap and roll venom of Rage Against The Machine, the fuck-you-hypocrites grimness of Black Flag, the punky saxophone of X-Ray-Spex, the sharp poetic spit and sneer anarchy of Mark. E. Smith, the challenging spirit of an open-minded-plainspoken-asskicking-anti-establishement-and-other-scumbags force of doom and gloom. Sounds exactly like 2020/2021, like the end of the world as we know it, but also like an album that’s going
to be on my earphones for a long time.”
Last week crushing bulldozerPINK ROOM shocked
the world with their second LP called PUTAIN ROYALE.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “Rip-roaring lockdown paranoia. The essential
message of this new powerhouse album is loud and clear: noise-challenging turbo
Pink Room is here to stay! Their tsunami energy is beyond any decibel regulation.”
Attentive readers will immediately understand that this is one of the best
albums of 2021.
And here’s a fresh video clip. It’s a flaming one for my favorite track HAIL SATAN.
A merciless haymaker, a scrappy Molotov cocktail banging from start to finish like
a brutal sledgehammer. The mean Pink machine honors their best friend. Why?
The band’s favorite bar to get drunk is… hell!
Band: PINK ROOM (Belgium) Who: Three vociferous noiseniks
Album: PUTAIN ROYALE – 2nd LP Released: 12 March 2021
Turn Up The Volume says: The essential message of this new powerhouse album is
loud and clear: noise-challenging turbo Pink Room is here to stay! Their tsunami energy
is beyond any decibel regulation. Again, loudmouth Bart Cocquyt leads the rip-roaring troops. As I said before his vocal range is out-of-this-world. He easily could front a death metal band (Stay Black/Stay White) or a Nirvana reunion (Losing/Skin) or kick Ozzy Osbourne‘s ass (Hail Satan). Expect ear-shattering jackhammers, over-the-top frenzy, and an overall sonic lockdown paranoia.
Putain, putain, c’est vachement bien, nous sommes quand même tous des bohemiens.
What do you do when you get bored during these no-live-music times if you are a hungry-for-action-and-alcohol band? Well if you’re Belgian noiseniks PINK ROOM you buy a case of cheap champagne and one kilo of overdue oysters and you pretend you’re a rich pig like King-burger Elvis was.
But after a couple of hours, totally pissed and sick, you’re bored again and you decide to do something to share with other bored people, like us. So you write and record a fervid firecracker Nirvana forgot to write – because they were too busy to absorb first-class champagne and fresh oysters with the money they earned by smelling like teen spirits.
Now, back to the smelly garage of Pink Room. You call the cannonball you have just written LOSING (what else) and you make a video clip to promote your new steamy stunner. In that very clip, you show what a bored band does while being bored. Guess what? They drink bottles of cheap champagne and consume overdue oysters. Fun, right? You betcha!
Now you know what to drink and eat when you’re bored and you can do it all while
hopping around like a stoned kangaroo while LOSING is about to crush your speakers.
