Jig-Ai
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Jig-Ai are a goregrind
band from the Czech Republic
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Jig-Ai play a rather heavy style of goregrind, mixing old school goregrind genre with various other styles, such as death metal
. The most notable characteristic of the band's music is the frequent use of both blast beat
and D-beat
drum patterns, heavily pitch-shifted squeals and death growls, and down-tuned guitars and bass. They frequently use ero guro, a style of hentai
in which females are featured being mutilated and dismembered, in both their lyrics and imagery. The band's name actually refers to Jigai
, a form of ritual suicide performed by women in Japan.
Goregrind
-History:Despite the early impact of albums such as Repulsion's Horrified and Impetigo's Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, the origins of the genre really lie with the British band Carcass, who began their career in the late 1980s...
band from the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
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Jig-Ai play a rather heavy style of goregrind, mixing old school goregrind genre with various other styles, such as death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
. The most notable characteristic of the band's music is the frequent use of both blast beat
Blast beat
A blast beat is a drum beat often associated with extreme metal and grindcore, although its usage predates the genres, and is utilised by many different styles of metal...
and D-beat
D-beat
D-beat is a style of hardcore punk developed in the early 1980s by imitators of Discharge, for whom the genre is named. Discharge may have themselves inherited the beat from Motörhead. The first such group was The Varukers.The vocal content of D-beat tends towards shouted slogans...
drum patterns, heavily pitch-shifted squeals and death growls, and down-tuned guitars and bass. They frequently use ero guro, a style of hentai
Hentai
is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...
in which females are featured being mutilated and dismembered, in both their lyrics and imagery. The band's name actually refers to Jigai
Jigai
The word means "suicide" in Japanese. The usual modern word for suicide is . Related words include , and . Jigai refers to suicide by both females and males....
, a form of ritual suicide performed by women in Japan.
Discography
- Promo 2006 (Demo, 2006)
- Jig-Ai (CD, 2006)
- Katana Orgy (CD, 2008)
- Jig-Ai/Ass To MouthAss to mouthAss to mouth is a colloquial term used in pornographic movies. It refers to the withdrawal of a man's penis from the receptive partner's anus followed by the immediate insertion of the penis into the receptive partner's or another partner's mouth....
(Split, 2011)