#GISM

[necrohag]

👹Agony 憎悪 Remains👹

5x6” watercolor, made to fit into an antique frame. Available for a good home 🫡

#my art #zouo #punk art #crust punk #powerviolence #painting #watercolor #artists on tumblr #band art #sordo #gism #japanese punk #japanese art #yokai art

[punklifeisshit]

#d beat #crustpunk #hardcore punk #gism #crust punk #crasher crust #japanese punk #punk #d beat raw punk #disclose #discharge #noisecore

[backstagecurtain]

sakevi of G.I.S.M. (source)

#gism

[95nasty]

#diy #diy punk #leather outfit #leather work #leather #studs&spikes #tattooed girls #gism #motorhead #darkthrone #satan #bodysuit

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TERRORIZING TOKYO WITH ANARCHY, VIOLENCE, GROWLS, & MANIC RIFFAGE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-dump of vocalist Sakevi Yokoyama of G.I.S.M. playing a show at The Loft, Tokyo, c. 1992/1993? Pics of the late, great Randy Uchida and one (very blurry) shot of bassist Kiichi Takahashi are also featured. 📸: ❓

"These weren’t taken that long before Sakevi would be arrested for attempting to set a man on fire with a makeshift flamethrower on the Tokyo subway."

-- FORT BRAGG ZINE (UK/NYC-based webzine)

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2731715402107094301 & SPEEDFUCKER (via X, formerly Twitter).

#GIZUMU #Japanese hardcore punk #Metal punk #Heavy Metal #Tokyo Japan #Japanese hardcore #Kiichi Takahashi #Randy Uchida #Sakevi #Hardcore punk #GISM #Punks is Hippies #Tokyo punk #90s hardcore #Tokyo hardcore #90s punk #ギズム #Punk gigs #Anarchy Violence #Sakevi Yokoyama #Punk photography #1990s #Beast Arts #Tokyo #G.I.S.M. #Japanese punk #Japanese Metal #90s #GUERRILLA INCENDIARY SABOTAGE MUTINEER

[insearchofdeath]

G.I.S.M

#gism #g.i.s.m #hardcore punk #black metal

[plasticbubbleboy]

#GISM #punk #japcore

[yridenergyridenergy]

T-shirts worn by Kyo for the a knot 25th anniversary show in Kyoto (encore one is in the Twitter thread)

#京 #Kyo #Dir en grey #Kyoto #KBS Hall #Phalaris #tour23 Phalaris Vol II #PhalarisII #gism #g.i.s.m. #shinigami

[scumgristle]

Apparently there’s word going around that Sakevi from GISM has passed away, but I can’t find any confirmed reports. Extreme before extreme.

#gism #sakevi #Youtube

[rawvnoisevcruster]

Shirt by slit wrist distro

#g.i.s.m. #gism #punk #raw punk #mypostts

[bestfuckinmusic]

Poison Idea - We Must Burn - 1993

The most metal Poison Idea album ever! Playing is immaculate, some of the anger is gone, the riffs are still there - and there’s a flippin’ GISM cover :)

#poison idea #80s hardcore #hardcore punk #gism

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 781: G.I.S.M. Detestation

Back in the '90s, you were more likely to hear rumors and stories about Tokyo's G.I.S.M. than their actual music. It was difficult enough to find Japanese hardcore records in the States, and it was even more difficult when the band was barely active, never left Japan, and had developed a reputation for violent behavior towards bootleggers. It seemed like you either had to have been in Tokyo in the '80s to snag a copy of G.I.S.M.'s debut album or you had to have some solid connections in the pre-internet record collecting world.

But G.I.S.M. did manage to get a song on the 1984 International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation double album, along with artists like Dead Kennedys, Crass, Conflict, DRI, MDC, and Subhumans, and as a result became one of (if not the first) Japanese hardcore bands to get exposure outside of their home country. The myth began to snowball, and as more Japanese hardcore bands began to find an international following, the G.I.S.M. legend grew.

Most of the stories about G.I.S.M. involved their singer Sakevi Yokoyama. He supposedly fired a homemade flamethrower into an unsuspecting crowd at one of their shows. The flamethrower was also supposedly used on a morning commuter who was staring at Sakevi on a train. There was also the story of Sakevi trashing a clothing store that stocked bootleg G.I.S.M. shirts. Considering Japan's reputation in the West for law and order, tradition, and etiquette, this sort of behavior seemed even more shocking and rebellious. G.I.S.M.'s album art further reinforced the band's nihilistic and destructive behavior. Though obviously culling musical ideas and design aesthetics from the British anarcho / peace punk scene, there was also a heavy dose of heavy metal's gratuitous shock value. So in addition to the anti-war messaging and anarchist symbols on the cover, you also had song titles like "(Tere Their) Syphilitic Vaginas to Pieces" and a swastika in the collage art on the original album cover.

This was all enough to make G.I.S.M. a polarizing band, but we haven't even discussed the music yet. If you were expecting Japan's response to Discharge, you were going to be confused, if not outright disappointed. Sure, there's some of that d-beat speed and power, but the music owes as much to British heavy metal like Judas Priest as it does to British punk. Throw in some truly grimy production and some flirtations with experimental music and early industrial music and it's no wonder a lot of folks responded to the recent official reissues of G.I.S.M.'s first two albums with "wait... THIS is what everyone has been hyping all these years?"

That polarization is even more pronounced in the wake of Sakevi's death at the end of August. There are people praising G.I.S.M.'s pioneering sound and wild art aesthetic, but there are also people criticizing Sakevi's antisocial behavior, misogynist imagery, and references to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on a later G.I.S.M. album.

My two cents: you don't have to look too hard to find a lot of problematic things with punk and hardcore bands from forty years ago. The ideas espoused in Bad Brains' "Don't Blow Bubbles," Black Flag's "Slip It In," and Minor Threat's "Guilty of Being White" haven't exactly aged well. If anything, G.I.S.M.'s mish-mash of disparate sounds and symbols seems less like a coherent agenda and more like a schizophrenic response to a modern world teetering on the edge of self-destruction. It's ugly and confusing, and the line between what Sakevi is advocating versus admonishing is often blurry, but I don't think anyone has ever looked at Detestation as a road map to a better world. In the final decades of the 20th century, Japan had a reputation in the States as a kind of utopia. It was a clean and efficient culture with very little crime and plenty of prosperity. And then you had G.I.S.M., which countered that reputation by taking all the confusion, fear, angst, and paranoia of industrialized society and reflecting it back in this warped and feral eight-song album.

#gism #everyrecordiown

[katerfrei]

Updated-more leather and spikes

#crust punk #crust punx #punk #punk rock #crust #alternative #aus-rotten #gism #doom #paranoid

[backstagecurtain]

G.I.S.M. (source)

#gism

[95nasty]

Entertain me

#tattooed girls #tattoos #tattooed goth girls #alt girl #gism #darkthrone #skull tattoo

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A MEETING OF HARDCORE MINDS -- OSAKA & TOKYO PUNK BRANCHES.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Japanese hardcore punk bands G.I.S.M. and GHOUL (from Osaka prefecture), c. 1983-'84, coverage from an unnamed punk zine in the Japanese language.

Rest in Noise, GHOUL vocalist Masami, Randy, Hiroshima, & Sakevi -- more legends lost.

Source: www.picuki.com/tag/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1sakevi.

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