Artist description Ninja Death Squad is not your average punk band. In fact we're not really a punk band. In fact...um we aren't really even human. IN FACT: A strain of undead mutant flesh eating virus has infected our skin and we no longer have epidermi. While in this state of decay we are forced to play music that causes intestines to invert and spill their contents, sound that causes people to eat dead babies, and weave our own sick web of Queer-punk-death-grind-noise-audio violence that you have come to love so much.

Music Style punk/hardcore/grindcore/emo

Musical Influences drowningman, anal cunt, spazz, sonic youth....

Artist History Ninja Death Squad was born in the summer of '99, when Nate Meunier and Andy Bennett decided thatthe punk scene in Vermont needed a good kick in the ass. The two quickly wrote and recorded numerous songs. After the first summer of theirexistence, they had written and recorded over a hundred punk rock masterpieces. They have sincereleased a total of eight albums, one of which wasproffesionally recorded. As their frequency of gigs steadily increases, Ninja Death Squad can't wait to go from being wicked underground, to simplyreally underground.

Group Members Nate Meunier, drums, vocals-journalism major. likespunk and metal. enjoys screaming.Andy Bennett, guitars, vocals-english major, goesto school in canada. enjoys colt 45 malt liquor.

Instruments guitar and drums

Albums "self-titled", "punk rock opera", "it must have been made by a man...", "the best (worst?) of nds", "government funded sex changes for the masses", "the zombie album", "naughty...punish! (nds live at 242 main)", "robot vs. ninja vs. your mom", "appreciate our art" (forthcoming

Press Reviews (Burlington Free Press-Scene and Heard 11/16/00)I have a certain affinity for a band like Ninja Death Squad, a youthfully energetic punk act that recorded in Fairfield. Not so much for the punk, the energy or the youthfulness - although I try to be really loud and angry, and I play really fast... when I'm on a golf course. My affinity stems from the fact the band only has two members: a guitarist and a drummer. Your see, a friend and I have been writing songs and playing music together in that configuration for years now - bassists and philharmonic orchestras being hard to come by, it seems.Drummer Nate Meunier of Fairfield and guitarist Andy Bennett of St. Albans blast through 15 songs in less than 25 minutes and show you just how easily their decisions were made. Play loud, fast and ultra-fuzzes, add some comic book-inspired weirdness and some adolescent irreverence, and you, too, can create enough songs for an album. This one is titled "Robot vs. Ninja vs. Your Mom." The album's quaintness really lies in its bombastic song titles; the music is a decently constructed hodgepodge of punk-and-metal riffs and noise games, overthinking at any turn being antithetical to their cause. Good, tight musicianship underlies the often brutal sound filled with comic violence, misfit observations and bad language. It's one reason these guys can get away with the all the sophomoric lyrical behavior.A disclaimer in the liner notes denouncing homophobia fully exonerates the boys from any misinterpretations about "This Album Is Gay," "My Pink Sweater Is Gay" and the follow-up"Fuck You For Calling My Pink Sweater Gay (Only I Can Call It Gay)." Are disclaimers punk, though? Then, of course, there's "My Girlfriend Calls Me Gay," which kind of turns the tables against themselves in the punk self-mocking tradition. "We Don't Break For Homophobes" and the disclaimer within covers the band from those who might question its intentions. "JC Pennies Pants" is one of the band's long epics and isn't bad sounding; it's nicely slapped together, I suppose, except for the inane lyrics. Of course, there's the musical battle between "Robot(vs.)," "Ninja (vs.)," and "Your Mom" - the troika from which the album gets its name. Who wins? "Your Mom" is just a little too harsh for my sensibilities and pretty much makes the guys sound like idiots. I know that's what they want, being punks. Leave the moms out of it, fellas. "Walking On Brain Planet" sounds great; it's a longer, freer form instrumental and much mellower - there's also no overtly idiotic vocals to mess with things. The duo probably takes great pride in the fact that they can riff off each other in this sort of style. They should try more often - maybe when they're older and former punk rockers turned business students. But I don't know which is my favorite little ditty here: "You Wack Off To Disco Inferno" or "We Sold Out (By Recording This Album In A Real Studio)." The first is just so retro, but the second endears because of its punk ethos. A few times, Ninja Death Squad reeled me- with the tight, punk rhythms and the more thought-out pieces that showed the band's softer side, less stupid side. As far as lyrical material, I've heard those jokes before. Maybe I'd chuckle if I was 14. Maybe. -Steve Lemcke

Location st. albans, vermont - USA

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