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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Band / ??!! / History War Vs. War

Posted by on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:02 PM

So, you’re a new Danish band and you need to name your project. Supposedly, you—Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Sexdrome’s Loke Rahbek—know how to use a search engine and maybe you know a bit about music history dating back to the ’70s. And yet you still call your act War, even though an American band by that name had loads of hits and sold millions of records worldwide (granted, before you were born, but, hey, internet!). You called your new band War. Guys, WTF?!

Okay, so you have a new track posted on Pitchfork, a track from your 7” on the über-hip Sacred Bones label (who also have an artist on its roster called Gary War—oy). And the song, “Brodermordet,” is a hazed-out, quasi-witch-house thing that sounds polar opposite to the American War. This ain’t no “Lowrider” or “Cisco Kid,” Søren. Actually, it’s not bad, and I’ll be keeping tabs on this War’s further developments. But… don’t be surprised if representatives from the American band War—despite them suffering their own inter-band legal headaches—contact your stoopit Danish asses and threaten you with ill lawyer-y shit. Serves you right, though. War… (Now, if you’d chosen Love, I’d really be angry.)

 

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Fnarf 1
They should be forced to change their name to The Danish War, like The English Beat.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on February 2, 2012 at 3:38 PM
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How can the Swedish clown-metal band call themselves Ghost?!?! The real Ghost is still active! (Although i think they're actually the 2nd Ghost, which means Swedish Ghost is Ghost #3!)

Anyway, I guess nobody really cares...
Posted by The Three Emeralds on February 2, 2012 at 3:47 PM
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@2 Oh, man, that boiled my blood when I saw that. Plus, the word ghost in band names is so played out now anyway.
Posted by Dave Segal on February 2, 2012 at 4:33 PM

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