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...REALLY QUITE IRONIC that some of the hardest, most uncompromising music in the current rock scene should also be one of the most conservative. Like its fellow hardcore bands--Black Flag and Minor Threat--Husker Du, on its new EP, Metal Circus, adopts a stance which firmly opposes the revolutionary ideals of the punk movement. This stance--which is basically, think for yourself, without paying attention to all the unrealistic talk of violent and anarchic revolutions--might seem a strange message from a band whose music appears so angry and nihilistic. The band's commitment and sincerity, however...
...Husker Du, and its fellow hardcore bands, however, have attempted to break away from the inflammatory, anarchic message inherent in much of today's punk and new wave music. In a sense, Husker Du's statement. "You want to change the world by breaking rules and laws/People don't do things like that/in the real world at all" can be interpreted as a condemnation of the message of other recent bands...
Nevertheless, while Husker Du might oppose the punk ethos, they use a very similar musical style. With Bob Mould's blazing, distorted guitar, and his hoarse, throaty voice angrily trying to shout its way through the dense wall of sound, this sounds like a souped-up har her hybrid of punk and heavy metal. Thus, just as the punk movement revamped the rock of the 60s and early 70s while taking their inspiration from the spare, fast style form 50s rock'n roll. Husker Du in turn revamp the punk format deriving their inspiration from some of the heavy metal...
ALTHOUGH THIS VIOLENT, angry music doesn't seem to "fit in" with Husker Du's message, the band not only recognizes this, but also deliberately highlights this contradiction on Metal Circus. Thus, it is no mistake that the lines "I don't rape and I don't pillage other people's lives" appear on the same album alongside the line "I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead." Instead of attempting to hide this dichotomy. Du deliberately exposes it as something which both the band and its listeners must face...
...even close to being the most humongous man on the team. Several of the Nebraska linemen resemble telephone booths with 19-in. TV sets on top. At 6 ft. 3 in., 270 Ibs., straw-haired and bottle-jawed, Steinkuhler is the tobacco-spitting image of "Herby Husker," Nebraska's mascot in bib overalls. Pro-football scouts are afraid to say how good he is, because he may be the best offensive lineman they have ever seen. "In Steinkuhler, Fryar and Rozier," says Dallas Cowboy personnel man Gil Brandt, "Nebraska might have three players drafted in the first ten." That...