¡Tchkung!

Example Album: Dogs And Gears

Location: USA

Years Active: 1993-1998

Style: Post-industrial, world music, general percussion, metal percussion

    ¡Tchkung! were a post-industrial and performance art collective from Seattle. A huge part of grassroots and anarchist movements at the time, they performed large concerts with multiple vocals and several different forms of instrumentation and percussion. A huge part of the themes in their music deal with environmentalism and capitalism, so scrap metal percussion like oil drums and metal sheets were frequently used to bring out their sound and explore these ideas. I found the Dogs And Gears LP to feature metal percussion the most, though it's balanced pretty finely well elements of world music and other kinds of percussion.

    Looking at the rest of their discography, their album Incite also features some excellent metal percussion moments. ¡Tchkung! were well known for their live shows, which sometimes ended in police raids. On occasion they would perform street parades where audience members were encouraged to participate.

    They disbanded in in 1998, and some of their members went on to form the political marching band Infernal Noise Brigade.