Combat Wounded Veteran - I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos

The only release from the now widely respected grind band before their unnoticed at the time, split. I'm sure the majority of this blogs readers don't care too much for this chaotic nineteen songs in as many minutes, brutal and relentless approach to music but I guess something needs to be said in it's defense. What I find a lot of people don't realize about Combat Wounded Veteran and their medication needing brethren is the incredible amount of parody at work here. I find grind or powerviolence or whatever stupid name these bands fall under nowadays to be the all powerful parody for modern life. Combat Wounded Veteran saw all the chaos of the world, all the violence, the fear, the apathy, the greed and all that's wrong with the world and instead of trying to help the situation, they imitated it in musical form. Whilst the genre has been used to convey a much more obvious political message in the past, bands such as Napalm Death using John Peel championing to give across a brutal anti capitalist message for example. Combat Wounded Veteran's message was considerably more subtle. To the naked ear, it's just a load of noise. A completely nonsensical load of random violence that should only appeal to the overly angry. But you don't realize that Combat Wounded Veteran have managed to distill all those unpleasant occurrences in life that we do our best to shut out and they've crafted it in to the noise of our own guilt and fear. Take "Folded Space" as an example. Whilst lyrics are so easy to overlook when everything around them seems to be doing a great job of making you go deaf. The spoken word part that plays throughout that song really does seem like an all powerful display of everything we fear.

It's obvious that this music isn't for everyone. For every person that doesn't want to deal with a parody of everything negative around them, there are ten who won't want to listen because they can't be arsed with this sonic noise and would rather chill on a Sufjan album or whatever. But give the tracks below a try and see what I mean. Look up the lyrics as well, it might just be a realization you didn't expect.

Combat Wounded Veteran - My Spine! My Spine! My Spine!
Combat Wounded Veteran - Propaghanda Films Shot With A Sitcom Script
Combat Wounded Veteran - Folded Space-Lead Poisoning And Distortion

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