One-man disbeat/crust band from Brazil. Sweden might have
Anti-Cimex and Japan might have
Disclose, but Brazil has Besthöven, the one-man drunken army. And that?s
saying a lot because
Crust Punk usually isn?t the kind of
music that spawns lasting
bands, least of all one that plays and records non-stop for 20 years. Of course, listening to Fofão speak about Besthöven makes it clear that the reason his project still keeps going is because there is no band at all. Meaning, he does everything by himself. And selfish as that may sound, if there is no band there are no egos, no late or skipped rehearsals and no creative differences whatsoever.
Even with such a massive amount of records,
… Read more Besthöven never gets boring. They don?t just play a lazy D-beat version of their early years, and least of all of
Discharge themselves. Besthöven also never fell victim to the kind of revision of Crust sound that fuses itself with Black Metal. Not that there?s anything wrong with that, as Fofão puts it ? he is definitely one of the live and let live type ? but it?s just not his thing. His thing is 80s dirty rotten crust from Sweden and Japan with the inevitable dash of Brazilian
punk-rock that makes Besthöven an ever-captivating listen. Especially because there aren?t really a lot of
bands still around that ever lived under a
dictatorship, something that still haunts Fofão and his
music to this day. That is also something noticeable in his
way of life. Asking him if he feels more leaned towards
anarchism or nihilism, he answers without beating around the bush that, ?I just wanna live and do what I believe without any
god! Without any animal meat or blood in my hands! Without any bullshit prejudice.? That?s something pretty easy to gather from Besthöven?s
music and the trail of destruction it leaves behind, listening to Fofão?s screams about the end of the fucking world,
nuclear nightmares or absolute nothingness over the wall of devilish distortion of his
guitar while marching to the unstoppable relentless pounding of the drums.
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