About this artist
Founded by Johan Van Roy in 1986, Suicide Commando remained a cassette-based project until the early '90s when Van Roy began infrequently to issue cold, often minimalist, Industrial Dance tracks on vinyl and CD. Suicide Commando has always moved fluidly between traditional EBM -- with lush, Numan-esque analog synthlines and crisp percussion -- and the harsher elements of bilious, European Techno/Noise. Dissonant vocals (an entrenched Industrial cliché) are actually quite effective and nasty in Suicide Commando's work; words drag across your eardrums like rusty razors etching out bleak, impressionistic poetry about bodily horrors and existential angst.