#Sakevi Yokoyama

[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

[under-a-felonious-moon]

#g.i.s.m. #sakevi yokoyama #my scan

[gotankgo]

«OPPRESSIVE LIBERATION SPIRIT Volume 1: Full color book of Sakevi Yokoyama art. Notorious singer and visionary of G.I.S.M. band.»

#sakevi yokoyama #r.i.p. #g.i.s.m. #OPPRESSIVE LIBERATION SPIRIT Volume 1

[the-new-hip-priest]

Looks like the news about Sakevi has been confirmed :( Kind of struggling to reconcile the amount of people we've lost in the last ten days.

#gism #sakevi yokoyama

[blacjaq1]

#g.i.s.m. #endless blockades for the pussyfooter #rip #Sakevi Yokoyama #Youtube

[scumgristle]

RIP Sakevi Yokoyama

when i was more active in music, GISM was definitely one of my road maps.

a lot (and i mean A LOT) of bands took the surface noise of GISM (the metal riffs, the guttural vocals, the collage art, the violence) and ran with that as their primary influence source. but what i got out of them (and Sakevi in particular) was how to build your own universe through the song titles, lyrics, art, and performance of the material, making it your own. Misfits did that. Von did that. Plasmatics did that. Nuclear Death did that. Eyehategod did that. Foetus did that. Naked City did that. Integrity did that. Big Black did that. Lydia Lunch does that. Rorschach did that. Kickback did that.... and so on (babbling babbling). it makes what your doing feel more handmade... more intense... more pure and direct... more your own.

RIP

#g.i.s.m. #sakevi #Youtube

[burningluminarynacho]

RIP Sakevi Yokoyama

[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

[dustedmagazine]

Vulvanic—ブラックエンジェルの色合い / 秘密の夜の殺人者 (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

ブラックエンジェルの色合い / 秘密の夜の殺人者 by VULVANIC

Peruvian freaks Vulvanic play a variety of black metal that traces a number of trajectories back into underground heavy music’s eccentric and interrelated pasts. You can hear the dirty, disorderly thrash of Venom’s early records — “Sons of Satan” and “Bloodlust” seem especially relevant — in all their frothing, leather-clad heat. Just as significant is the vibratory bizarrerie of GISM; Vulvanic seems to have found the vocal stylings of Sakevi Yokoyama particularly influential, as well as the lunatic sensibility that GISM expressed in its various acronymic iterations (“Gothic Incest Sex Machine,” “God In the Schizoid Mind,” “Gore Impromptu Suicide Mine” or “Grubby Incest Stripper Mastitis”— a personal favorite of this reviewer). Somehow, Vulvanic manages to be sleazier, queasier and more generally batshit crazy than either of those legendary bands. The results are…not for everyone.

Likely it’s more accurate to predict that very, very few listeners will find this collection from the Lima-based band enjoyable. The croaking and groaning of singer Hórrdio frequently devolve into (hopefully?) simulated retching, pitched merciless high in the mix. The musicianship of the entities identified as Tz, Egore (nice one, dude) and Tenebrion is inspired — but by what, one can only wonder. A self-destructive dosage of amphetamines? A nihilistic indifference to local statutes regarding noise pollution? Flat-out aggressivity? Whatever the nature of the baneful energies the band has tapped into, they have issued in some memorably perverse sounds. Check out the climactic sheets of inarticulate shredding in the last third of “Evening of the Past” or the demented, wind-up-and-release action of “Who’s the Skin Taker.” Well-adjusted minds do not create those sorts of noises. 

Which perhaps prompts the question: What sorts of minds respond positively to this music? This reviewer takes no firm position, but notes that anyone who has found recent records by Antediluvian or Siege Column stimulating will likely encounter some necessary medicine in Vulvanic’s songs. The tape is relentless, 40 minutes of sonic depravity that culminate in “Hidden,” the longest and most composed song Vulvanic has made. There’s still a fair amount of groaning and galvanic shredding, but they are arranged into semi-coherent forms. In the final minute, the band cycles in and out of a more-or-less rhythmic stomp and completely unhinged noise. It’s an impressive performance, channeling Vulvanic’s drug-fueled madness toward a maniacal crescendo. As if it could end any other way. 

Jonathan Shaw

#vulvanic #ブラックエンジェルの色合い / 秘密の夜の殺人者 #sentient ruin laboratories #jonathan shaw #albumreview #dusted magazine #metal #black metal #peru #venom #GISM

[musicpromoapp]

G.I.S.M.’s Sakevi Yokoyama, Japanese Hardcore Punk Vocalist, Has Died

An intimidating and mysterious frontman who once shot a flamethrower into a crowd, he was the voice and visual designer behind a cult favorite of extreme and hardcore music fans internationally

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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

LIVE GIZUMU HARDCORE IN THE '80s -- "THESE DAYS WILL NEVER COME AGAIN."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Tokyo-based metal punk band G.I.S.M. performing live to all the punters, c. mid 1980s, and more than likely somewhere in their home base of Tokyo. In memoriam -- Sakevi Yokoyama (196?-2023).

EXTRA INFO: Original scans by @under_pain_of_flesh, from the photobook "Oppressive Liberation SPIRIT Vol. 1," compiled and/or collected by Sakevi Yokoyama, published by Beast Arts International, c. 2020.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3151185594586892320.

#GISM #G.I.S.M. #GIZUMU #80s hardcore #Sakevi #Sakevi Yokoyama #Tokyo punk #Tokyo hardcore #Punk metal #Punk gigs #Punk Style #ギズム #Japanese punk #Japanese hardcore #80s hardcore punk #Punk photography #Japanese Metal #Metal punk #Tokyo #Punks is Hippies #Japanese hardcore punk #Hardcore punk #Photography #Heavy Metal #1980s #Anarchy Violence #Tokyo Japan #80s #80s punk #CRASS

[rhythm86radio]

G.I.S.M.’s Sakevi Yokoyama, Japanese Hardcore Punk Vocalist, Has Died

An intimidating and mysterious frontman who once shot a flamethrower into a crowd, he was the voice and visual designer behind a cult favorite of extreme and hardcore music fans internationally

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[gotankgo]

#Sakevi Yokoyama #r.i.p. #g.i.s.m.

[skol1]

#ギズム #Sakevi Yokoyama

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"KILL, I'LL KILL THEM PERFECTLY. I SLAUGHTER SINGING THE MADLY ANTHEM."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on some shots of Tokyo hardcore punk/heavy metal band G.I.S.M. performing live, with all of these shots being completely new to me. Never seen any of these before up until a few days ago. 📸: ? (did Gin Satoh take some of these, I wonder?).

"Hogs instruct you to go to hell."

"Look at the child's body covered with bullet marks."

"They detest the departed spirits in third world nuclear armed hogs laugh raping your wife I've sold my soul to the devils."

"Their gonorrheal cocks strangling the bedridden aged to death, shooting the excreted aged to death."

"Fire birds make an air raid and burst into fire."

"Bloodily bomb descends to you."

"The erotimaniacs give the dinner and make us butter a joke."

"Kill, I'll kill them perfectly."

"The dismembered bodies disperse and become full in the cities."

"The dirty heads pass water is deflated penis is onto our heads."

"The faceless lady dangling as if she were marionette they surely send you the demagogue, the militaristic, the bombing and the death in actions."

"The worst madmen complete the machines ruin mother earth."

"I slaughter singing the madly anthem."

-- G.I.S.M., c. 1983-'84 -- all lyrics by G.I.S.M.

Sources: Last FM, other random sites, and I did find some choice shots here: https://www.picuki.com/tag/RandyUchida.

#GISM #G.I.S.M. #Japanese hardcore #Japanese hardcore punk #Japanese Metal #Hardcore punk #80s punk #Metal punk #Tokyo hardcore #Anarchy Violence #Punks is Hippies #GIZUMU #Gin Satoh #Sakevi Yokoyama #Welcome to 1984 #Randy Uchida #Japanese punk #ギズム #Tokyo punk #Punk photography #1983 #1984 #Punk metal #Heavy Metal #1980s #Sakevi #Extreme Music #Punk gigs #80s hardcore #80s Metal