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Abrasive, intense, and antagonistic, Britain’s Throbbing Gristle pioneered commercial music; exploring loss of life, mutilation, fascism, and degradation amid a thunderous cacophony of mechanised sound, tape loops, extremist anti-melodies, and bludgeoning is better than, the group’s ethnic terrorism — the “wreckers of civilization,” one tabloid known as them — elevated …

After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial rock and roll outfit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohort Peter Christopherson, plus Alternate TV’s Alex Fergusson, formed Psychic Television in 1981 as a way of continuing their confrontational, shock-oriented method of music and their multimedia live performances. Psychic Television draw a lot …