Artist description God were phlegm in the eye of all that was traditional and all that was sweet. Corrosive and vulgar, powerful yet limber, and utterly, utterly heavy. The rock-solid brontosaurian bottom end provided by drummer Dr. Ed and bassist Mike Grime gave this band the face-slapping power it required; guitarist Carlos and his searing, crunching, wham-blam pyrotechnics rose above the thud to slice at the listener's ears with precision; while riding herd upon this unruly din was the morbid master of ceremonies, the sick clown of the stage, the one and only Party Frank, whose festering, black-comic bray and unsettling narratives about murdering his girlfriends rendered him something like a sociopathic cross between Foetus and Rodney Dangerfield.

Music Style Ultra-intense, thudding '80s NYC noise-rock with elements of punk and metal

Musical Influences Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Birthday Party, Swans, Led Zeppelin, PiL, Wiseblood

Similar Artists Jesus Lizard, Butthole Surfers, Wiseblood, Black Flag, Jane's Addiction, Swans

Artist History This is the word of God (the NY prevents confusion with many similarly named but hardly as deific musical combos). God existed in the years 1987 through 1988. God succeeded in their mission: to be as heavy and corrosive as possible. The brutes assembled for this task were vocal madman Party Frank, notorious for his 1984-85 Long Island humor-punk band Horror Planet (memorialized on their brilliant eponymous 1985 7" EP), sultry and mysterious axeman Carlos, and two former Concrete Witchdoctors, drummer Ed Rapacki and guitarist-turned-bassist Michael Grimes (another former Witchdoctor, Joe Average, was the band's initial bassist for a very short period). Mesmerizingly intense and savage gigs at CBGBs and Long Island danceclubs like Thrush and Heaven were like pokers in their audience's willing and subservient eyes, yet aside from one lone demo, "Time to be Sick," they never recorded their monstrous stomp; if they had, surely they'd have taken their rightful place among their elders such as Butthole Surfers and Jesus Lizard. God's breakup in summer 1988 was the fall of giants. Long may they fester. (Rapacki went on to play drums in Sea of Fur; Grimes played guitar in 99 Stellavista, recorded a CD in 1996 with Sisterboy, and currently plays in Zenen.)

Group Members Party Frank: vocals and toy sampler; Carlos: guitar; Michael Grimes: bass; Ed Rapacki: drums

Instruments Guitar, bass, drums, toy sampler

Press Reviews THE ISLAND EAR (1988): "Carlos dominates his guitar like he was whipping an unruly peasant."

Location Huntington, NY - USA

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