When you have a great hardcore night, it’s never one song that makes the evening. It’s the entirety: the constant music, the fellow ravers, the chemicals rushing through your body, the lights, the heat, everything, all colluding into one intense whole. The same’s true of London thrash band Bo Ningen: this Japanese quartet’s electro-punk-metal isn’t overwhelming at first – it can sound like a bad karaoke cover of Slipknot - but after wave upon wave of the stuff and its unwaveringly frenetic tempo, you enter a new state. Life becomes a brutish landscape of shrieks, distortion pedals and guitars wound up like power drills. And yet all feels, somehow, rather serene.
Interesting fact number 1: one of the quartet’s mum is Keiko Kobayashi - aka “Japan’s Joan Baez”. Interesting fact number 2: Mojo recently labelled Bo Ningen “quite probably the most exciting young band in London right now”.
Thanks for this!
great energy, love the way they look. Cool and da gangsta