The Locust
The Locust is a musical group from San Diego, California, United States known for their unique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, complexity, and new wave weirdness.
Style
Originally a powerviolence band with a strong tendency towards synth-based passages, they have more recently stripped down much of their past sound, but retained the heavy distortion, synthesizers, screamed vocals, and intense stage presence. About the band's aesthetic, singer/bassist Justin Pearson has said, "I wanted to change the way people perceive music, or maybe just destroy it in general." The Locust's music is complex, dynamic and fast-paced, often featuring abrupt and inconsistent time-signature changes. These erratic elements are, according to guitarist Bobby Bray, "a reflection of perhaps how our brains have to function in order to be able to do anything in the Western societies we live in."
History
The Locust was formed in 1994 by Justin Pearson, Bobby Bray, Dylan Scharf, Dave Warshaw, and Dave Astor. After a number of personnel changes, they arrived at the current four-piece lineup in 2001. Their music was featured in John Waters's film Cecil B. Demented. The group has solicited remixes from Bastard Noise, Christoph de Babalon, Kid606, and I Am Spoonbender. The Locust performed at ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror festival on May 4, 2013, at Alexandra Palace in London.
Locust (comics)
The Locust was a one-time supervillain foe of the X-Men.
Publication history
The Locust made his debut in X-Men #24 in September 1966, and was created by Roy Thomas and Werner Roth.
The character subsequently appears in The Uncanny X-Men #72 (October 1971), The Incredible Hulk #194 (December 1975), X-Factor #52 (March 1990), and The Order #4 (July 2002).
The Locust received an entry in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #6 (2006).
Fictional character biography
The Locust's alter ego is Doctor August Hopper, once a top name in entomology, whose "crackpot theories" cost him his job. He relocated to Ryan Chemicals, where he developed a Magno-Ray which causes insects to grow to enormous sizes and allows him to control their actions. He sends an army of raging locusts, grasshoppers, wasps, and beetles to overthrow the world, but is eventually thwarted by the X-Men and surrenders to the authorities.
Locust attacked his daughter's fiancee, but was stopped by the Hulk.
The Locust (EP)
The Locust is the third release by The Locust. It was released on Gold Standard Laboratories in March 1997.
The Locust is The Locust's first recording that relies heavily on keyboards and synthesizers, combined with their powerviolence style, influenced mainly by Crossed Out. This is the sound for which The Locust has since become known.
In 2004, the EP was remastered and re-issued on 3" CD and 7" vinyl, and included two bonus tracks.
Track listing
Side A
Side B
Personnel
References
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs released: 2012
- The Peel Sessions released: 2010
- New Erections released: 2007
- Plague Soundscapes released: 2003
- The Locust / Arab on Radar released: 2000
- The Locust released: 1998
- Man Is the Bastard / The Locust released: 1995
Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs
Released 2012- How to Become a Virgin
- Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?
- Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur
- Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get Out of My Bed
- The Half Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office
- Perils of Believing in Round Squares
- Flash’s Theme
- Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe
- Turning Your Merchandise Into a Ripped Wall of Mini-Abs
- Bring Your 6.5 Italian Carbine
- Alas, Here Come the Hypochondriacs to Wait With You in the Lobby
- Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia
- Flight of the Wounded Locust
- Get Off the Cross, the Wood Is Needed
- Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case
- This Is Radio Surgery
- Spitting in the Faces of Fools as a Source of Nutrition
- Sever the Toes
- Well I’ll Be a Monkey’s Uncle
- Moth-Eaten Deer Head
- Brand New Set of Teeth
- How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector
- Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth
- Dog Without a Collar (Run Over Red Rover)
- Normal Run of the Muck (Compensation for Conversation)
- Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees
- Straight From the Horse’s Mouth
- An Extra Piece of Dead Meat
- Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys
- Backbones of Jack Asses
- Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality
- Skin Graft at Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour
- High-Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family
- Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An interlude to a Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony… Yea Whatever)
- Kill Roger Hedgecock
- Hairspray Suppository
- Cattle Mutilation
- Prepare to Qualify
- Pain Reliever
- Off by a Long Shot
- Head Hits Concrete
- Ass Gravity
- Keep Off the Tracks
- #99
The Peel Sessions
Released 2010- How to Become a Virgin
- The Half Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office
- Kill Roger Hedgecock
- Straight From the Horse’s Mouth
- Moth Eaten Deer Head
- Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Disease, Get Out of My Bed
- Cattle Mutilation
- Perils of Believing in Round Squares
- Twenty Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur
- Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees
- Skin Graft at Seventy Five Miles Per Hour
- Get Off the Cross, the Wood Is Needed
- Who Wants a Dose of the Clap
- Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand Me Down Display Case
- Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe
- Twenty Three Full Time Cowboys
New Erections
Released 2007- AOTKPTA
- We Have Reached an Official Verdict: Nobody Gives a Shit
- The Unwilling…Led by the Unqualified…Doing the Unnecessary…For the Ungrateful
- One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation
- Full Frontal Obscurity
- Scavenger, Invader
- Hot Tubs Full of Brand New Fuel
- God Wants Us All to Work in Factories
- Book of Bot
- Slum Service (Served on the Sly)
- Tower of Mammal
Plague Soundscapes
Released 2003- Recyclable Body Fluids in Human Form
- Identity Exchange Program Rectum Return Policy
- Solar Panel Asses
- Live From the Russian Compound
- Earwax Halo Manufactured for the Champion in All of Us
- Wet Dream War Machine
- Listen, the Mighty Ear Is Here
- Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?
- Teenage Mustache
- How to Become a Virgin
- Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better
- Late for a Double Date With a Pile of Atoms in the Water Closet
- File Under ‘Soft Core Seizures’
- Practiced Hatred
- Psst! Is That a Halfie in Your Pants?
- The Half‐Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office
- Pulling the Christmas Pig by the Wrong Pair of Ears
- Can We Get Another Nail in the Coffin of Culture Theft?
- Your Mantel Disguised as a Psychic Sasquatch
- Twenty‐Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur
- Captain Gaydar It’s Time to Wind Your Clock Again
- Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Get Out of My Bed
- Pickup Truck Full of Forty Minutes
The Locust
Released 1998- Moth‐Eaten Deer Head
- Brand New Set of Teeth
- How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector
- Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth
- Dog Without a Collar (Run Over Red Rover)
- The Perils of Believing in Round Squares
- Normal Run of the Muck (Compensation for Conversation)
- Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees
- Straight From the Horses Mouth
- An Extra Piece of Dead Meat
- Twenty‐Three Full‐Time Cowboys
- Backbones of Jack Asses
- Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality
- Skin Graft at Seventy‐Five Miles Per Hour
- High‐Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family
Man Is the Bastard / The Locust
Released 1995- Ass Gravity
- Futile Agreement
- Sever the Toe
- Emaciation Fuckers
- Red
- Inbred America
- Helios
- Personal History
- Keep Off the Tracks
- Margin for Disintegration
- War
- Prayer From Another Land
- Robotic Anenomi
- Cave Water Rings
- A Periscope’s Demise by Torpedo
- Rocket Brain Failure
- Ward of Knives
- Lunatic Hunting People
- Pluto’s Winter
- Jupiter’s Autumn
- Katlehong Journal (An Update)
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Pulling The Christmas Pig By The Wrong Pair Of Ear
by: The Locust[Q:] If the aunt had balls she would be?
[A:] Uh, the uncle.
[Q:] And in more trouble than?
[A:] A pregnant nun.
So get a hole to hide in
or somehide to cover the hole
Pig's Christmas parcel arrived
basically full of crap
and others lil' treats.
Awe, that little pig.