MP3 Music Hates You - Send More Paramedics

Super-aggro stoner metal combined with Black Flag-era punk songwriting.

8 MP3 Songs
METAL: Doom/Stoner Metal, ROCK: Punk



Details:
Music Hates You is the angriest band in Athens, Georgia. In a town known for esoteric pop bands and quirky, sometimes precious, singer/songwriters, Music Hates You is the dissenting vote- the sound of disenchantment. We are not students. We are not artistes and what we do is not entertainment. A Music Hates You fan is not simply a consumer. We are not your monkey and you are not our meal ticket.

This is not art. It is something more elemental.

Music Hates You is a thunderous live band, a cacophonous tumult of sound and flying bodies. At our best shows, the line is so blurred between us and our audience that it is impossible to know where We begin and They end. Excellent. Perfect. Music Hates You is a community, yes, but also something more intentional. Our audience comes to us with their accumulated anger, grief, disappointment, and sadness and we bring them noise and boundless love.
Everything we do is to protect this relationship. This is Our Mission.

This is, therefore, not New Punk, nor is it Mall Punk or Nu Metal. Once, while searching for a name for what we do, we pondered the grime under our fingernails, our battered boots, the sorry state of our jeans, our empty pockets, and the stink of our lives. âDirt metal,â someone said. Dirt metal it is, then.

Our live show is our reputation, and we mean for this album to be an extension of that- a hurricane of sweat, blood, spit, whiskey and shattered equipment.

âSend More Paramedicsâ is a document of the last year of our lives. It is an angry, desperate album for angry, desperate times. Recorded over the course of seven months, for us it is no longer music. âSend More Paramdicsâ is the sound of jobs lost, electricity turned off (then on, then back off again), speaker cabinets burning, drumheads splitting, strings breaking, tendonitis, tinitus, fistfights, depression, drunkenness, debt, disappointment and lost opportunities. We are restless men and unmanageable. Simply muscling this across the finish line and into your hands is a kind of victory.

This is our revenge for the year 2005. MHY goes on and 2005 is dead.

Send More Paramedics.

What the Press Say about Music Hates You:

When youâre staring down a band like Athensâ Music Hates You, itâs like coming face-to-face with a grizzly. You know youâre going to get batted around, but if you can escape at all, youâll call yourself fortunate. -Andy Stokes, Metrospirit Magazine, Augusta, GA

For the uninitiated, let me just say this: Music Hates You is brutal. These guys are seriously one of the heaviest bands to ever call our town home.
-Gordon Lamb, Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA

Right now, thereâs a band in Athens called Music Hates You that I think is fucking great, but theyâre a vicious metal band that doesnât subscribe to the art-student vibe.
-Hugo Burnham, Gang of Four

Harder than hard Athens band Music Hates You has found that this format is the best possible avenue for their music. âYouâre more likely to get punched in the face [live than] when youâre in the studio,â notes drummer Patrick, âI think itâs important to make the distinction between that being a bad thing and being something that we expect. A live show is a free-for-all. Itâs not like we draw a line between audience and performer where itâs like âYou stand there and watch us and weâll stand here and play.â A lot of times this [approach] takes the form of a giant, swirling mosh pit or people jumping off the speakers. Itâs important that itâs a participatory experience.â
-Southeastern Performer Magazine, Atlanta, GA

Vocalist and guitarist Noah of local metal band Music Hates You has no explanation for the rage that drives him. âSome people are on fire,â he says. âThere is no ârealâ reason, just convenient targets. I spare none.â He is so devoted to current project Music Hates You, Ray denies involvement in any other band. âThis is the alpha and omega of everything I have worked toward.â Describing the heated grindcore he and fellow members Zaxx(guitar), Frst (bass) and Patrick (drums) spew out, he says: âItâs dirt metal, straight from the red mud of Georgiaâs junkyards.â
-Deirdre Sugiuchi, Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA