As usual, I'm making a thread about a band I'm currently obsessed with. This time it's Rudimentary Peni. To me, they are a goth band in disguise as a hardcore punk band. They've made a nice blend of hardcore punk and a sliver of goth and deathrock. Rudi Peni's lyrics are based around and inspired by horror, gothic aesthetics, and alot of H.P. Lovecraft work (song names like "Hearse, "New England Tombstone Inscriptions", and "A Return to Victorian Values" says all). Singer Nick Blinko, along with writing gloomy and macabre lyrics, is an exelent artist who works with pen and ink to create ecentric and eerie drawings. Blinko was also institutionalized for having Schizoaffective Disorder and suffered delusions of being an entity called Pope Adrian XXXVII. The band wrote a concept album about these delusions. They're a band I'm getting to know and love. Favorite tracks thus far are "Media Person", "The Gardener", "Teenage Time Killer", and "Hearse".
Nick Blinko artwork:
http://www.deathrock.com/rudimentary...t/gallery.html