TARAS BUL'BA

Originally formed in 1996 as an instrumental project, Italian trio TARAS BUL’BA are a heads-down extreme rock trio whose furious bombardment shuffles somewhere between Big Black and Einsturzende Neubauten: Using the basic instrumentation of guitar, bass and drums, the group add found obscure film soundtracks samples to their driving beats
looping their rhythms back and forth to push out an even more sinister sonic accompaniment to such cracking celluloid statements as: “If I could get my hands on you, I’d break your dried flesh to pieces.” There is also a progressive element to T.B.’s work which directs it away from being just another straight rock haul and into the realms of contemporary classical or Naked City flecked jazzcore. Music for headbangers and even Black Metal worshippers, but possessed with an almost malignant intelligence.

Edwin Pouncy WIRE Lug 2005