who was the hardest band ever???????

[Belzub]

There's quite a few black metal bands who split up because their members are in jail for murder or nastier things...

So I nominate Mayhem - Lookie here. They don't get enough sunlight in Norway, that's for sure.

Going with that, I'll add Burzum (the band of the Nazi guy who played bass for mayhem then stabbed Euronymous to death) and Emperor (who's first drummer was also a murderer, the guitarist was an arsonist and one of the bassists was an arsonist and armed robber).

 

[kakuma]

wu-tang wu tang wu tang

i'd like to see bono suffer a fatal flying guillotine

i really would...

 

[veracity]

Some of those scally Manchester bands might have been quite aggro - in a nasty manc kinda way.

The Mondays would be my nomination purely because of a story I heard recently which, unfortunately, I can't repeat.

 

[Psychonaut]

There's quite a few black metal bands who split up because their members are in jail for murder or nastier things...

So I nominate Mayhem - Lookie here. They don't get enough sunlight in Norway, that's for sure.

I was really into that as an impressionable middle-england teenager. To put it into some perspective; the closest comparable desecration/church-burning incident in england took place in royal tunbridge-wells. says it all really. Needless to say, his mother was very upset

 

[kakuma]

you poncy metalhead fuckers have ruined my thread

 

[Psychonaut]

I am trying to save your thread! My point is that vikernes, mayhem etc look very scary in a bleak & frosty nordic photo-shoot, but on a global scale they are spoilt mummies boys and would not last 5 mins in downtown compton.

Norway = Royal tunbridge wells.

 

[killer b]

aye, but i bet grishnak would eat GZA's brain if he did win.

 

[kakuma]

aye, but i bet grishnak would eat GZA's brain if he did win.

post of the year

 

[The Groke]

I think there seems to be some confusion between "hard" and "Anti-social, psychotic, violent cunt".

So Solid Crew, Grishnak, and "Sawn-off-shotgun-wielding-post-office-robbing-reggae-star" definately fall into the latter catagory

I would probably nominate Black Flag and RFTC as well.

 

[The Groke]

Oh and Danzig was always supposed to be tasty.....

But then there was that video doing the rounds of him getting knocked out by some dude from the Northside Kings........so I just don't know what to think now...

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Pound for Pound I'd go for

Seen him offer an entire audience out with just a baseball bat ( no takers ), and ram his guitar into a would be assailants face.

Nasty talented bastard , fucked on speed, with enough weight to back it up.
May be slightly past his prime now.

 

[chico enrico]

I wouldn't imagine the Cockney rejects would find many of the nominees on this thread to be much of a threat to their crown.

PS: and didn't one of The Housemartins take an axe to someone??

 

[top_biller]

you poncy metalhead fuckers have ruined my thread

Still loving that album cover after all these years.

Talking of album covers, the Geto Boys might be a wild card contender in a ruck, simply on a "who's most clinically insane" ticket. Bushwick Bill having featured on an album cover with his cheek blown apart having been just accidentally shot himself during a row with his girlfriend. And he's a dwarf. Extra points.

 

[ICB]

Shut up and Dance

The cover of "until the police come" featured PJ and Smiley half nekkid wielding their huge choppers. Not the sort of lads you want to mess with.

 

[kakuma]

sorry man

but after 2 pages black flag is th best contender i heard. and although they are blatantly hard, they arent gonna survive 9 wutang ninjas



pound for pound i'd go with onyx. but wu tang win

argument over

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

sorry man

but after 2 pages black flag is th best contender i heard. and although they are blatantly hard, they arent gonna survive 9 wutang ninjas



pound for pound i'd go with onyx. but wu tang win

argument over

If they can survive the initial flailing onslaught, them fat fucks are gonna wilt.That's when you do them, when they're wheezing curled up in a ball.

 

[kakuma]

can i get a suuuu....

 

[cogg]

Mensi from the Upstarts was/is pretty hard. I once saw him deck a large bonehead with a single headbutt.

 

[The Groke]

they arent gonna survive 9 wutang ninjas

Aren't there only eight of them now?

 

[trabuquera]

so the competition breaks down into:

- poodly (or Satanic) heavy metallers
- pycho / speed addled punks
- large groups of rappers (with or without guns) ...

hard to say who's the tuffest really ... but I think I might be even more reluctant to mix it with a larg(ish) band with a history of REAL violence ... anyone know of Western Saharan group Tinariwen? Altho' they play laidback-sounding desert blues they're all also veterals of the Sahrawi liberation front and have spent the last 30 odd years starving and occasionally fighting in the desert ... I think they'd probably turn out to be well 'ard... or wot about the Tigres del Norte and other norteno groups from Mexico, who sing glorifying ballads about drug mafias FAR harder than gangster rappers, but nobody notices 'cos it's in Spanish and it sounds all 'folkloric' with accordions 'n shit. I don't think I would like to find out what they're like in a ruck.

Don't much fancy taking on the Revolutionary Guard Chorus of N Korea either (if there is such a thing.)

 

[IntoStella]

the alabama 3 on the other hand

I heard the landlord of the Canterbury once took them all out with one punch.

 

[shandy]

Nails.

On a related note, I remember Hulk appearing on some uk daytime tv show years back (think it was Richard and Judy) and performing his new single.

He also talked movingly to the hosts about the B-side, which was called "Another Hulkomaniac in heaven" and had been written about and inspired by the death of Jamie Bulger, who was apparently a big Hulk fan. Powerful stuff.

 

[chico enrico]

actually, i think Sweden's Leather Nun have good grounds for taking this title. Having a member who is a (now imprisoned) hit-man for the Swedish Hells Angels is, i would expect, one good way to ensure your band doesn't get a poor monitor mix onstage and a decent rider afterwards.

 

[Belzub]

sorry man

but after 2 pages black flag is th best contender i heard. and although they are blatantly hard, they arent gonna survive 9 wutang ninjas

Yeah but that's just because Wu Tang outnumber them ya bloody wannabe homeboy

 

[\\-(*o*)-//]

It's got to be this lot, surely?

 

[boskysquelch]

King Kurt used to hurt...spshlly if the chickens weren't defrosted...and when the whole bags of flour first got thrown...the second or third lob was less painful.

 

[Belzub]

I reckon even Wu Tang would freak out if Genesis P Orridge did his 'blood enema' trick in front of them...

 

[Ryazan]

Megson? Scag head tosser.

 

[killer b]

I reckon even Wu Tang would freak out if Genesis P Orridge did his 'blood enema' trick in front of them...

don't think you could call gen hards though, as such. deranged perhaps, but s/he'd go down like a domino to a good hard punch.

 

[LDR]

I lived with a guy from Perth once and he used to tell me stories about Rolf Harris when he was young and apparently he could look after himself and was quite a hard man.

But as far as bands go, The Bee Gees were quite handy with their fists when they were going up in Oz.

It's often not the ones that look hard that are the hardest.