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Following the demise of Savage Republic, guitarist Bruce Licher formed Scenic, which creates similar moody (and occasionally doomy) guitar-dominated instrumentals with strong Middle-Eastern influences. Unlike Savage Republic, nevertheless, Scenic — a trio which also contains Brock Wirtz on drums and Wayne Brenner, previously of Shiva Burlesque, on bass — takes …

Numbers of considerable repute inside the LA post-punk community from the 1980s, Savage Republic grafted tribal percussion, industrial drones, and raga-like acoustic guitar lines together to art an idiosyncratically moody audio with flashes of both desolation and eloquent grandeur. With the capacity of both severe dissonance and shimmering textures, Savage …