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The Power of Test Press Tuesday.

By morgado | Published 05/03/2011

Ah, Lard. Lard, if you are unaware, is (was? they are one of those projects that always do the “we’re done, but we’re trying to do stuff still” thing) Jello Biafra and Al Jourgensen’s wacky industrial/hardcore mash up band. It pretty much sounds EXACTLY like what you’d think it would: Dead Kennedys songs done by an industrial band. What we have here is a test of their first release: The Power Of Lard, the title track of which not only sounds like Ministry covering Dead Kennedys, but has an intro I always found reminiscent of Faith No More.

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Its Jello… Its Lard… Its Both!

By Josh | Published 05/21/2010

The guy selling the SOA 7″ is also selling a test press of the Power of Lard ep by (duh!) LARD!

Lard was the first ‘industrial’ band that I ever heard and I’ll admit it, I liked it. I could be heard rockin out ‘Jesus Built My Hotrod’ in 91 and I even saw Ministry twice back in the day. What does this have to do with Lard? Well Lard was a project led by Jello Biafra and Al Jourgensen along with 2 other members of Ministry. They put out 2 LPs and 3 EPs and then called it a day. I’m not even sure if they ever toured.

This is a test press of the first Lard EP and I really hope that I win it.

I Will Refuse

By b. murphy | Published 02/20/2010

I grew up listening to a lot of different music. Perhaps it was my upbringing, perhaps it was my desire to hear something a little different.

I was big into Wax Trax for a while. I bought all sorts of albums from Ministry to Young Gods to Pigface to KMFDM. I bought anything that was even remotely similar, including My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Obviously, it wasn’t all good. But every now and then a nugget of excellence would slip through.

Pailhead was one of those nuggets. I had heard Minor Threat and Fugazi before, but had never even heard of Pailhead (pre internet days, folks). I begged and pleaded to get the Black Box set one year for Christmas. I was lucky and got one. This made me very happy. Hearing Pailhead and reading their story made me even happier. It was a welcome crossover to the hardcore world I so enjoyed.

After the Black Box, my interest in that style of music quickly waned. It just wasn’t fresh enough, and was much too mechanical sounding. I stopped listening to all of those bands all together while focusing on hardcore. I think I made the right choice.