SOUND

Free jazz, punk, noise: There is no appropriate stylistic terminology for the dark power and raw intensity of Caspar Brötzmann Massaker. No other German band has sounded out the potentials of electrically amplified guitar playing so ruthlessly and with such a love for noise like them—ruthless towards others and towards themselves. 30 years after their first performances, epochal albums Koksofen and Die Nacht der schwarzen Folklore have been re-released on Sunn O))) label Southern Lord. The concerts of Massaker are still so intoxicatingly loud and skilfully disquieting as on the first day.