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[[File:Angelspit_photo_16.jpg|frame| On the left, DestroyX. On the right, ZooG.]]
'''''<big>Krank! It! Up!</big>'''''
One of Australia's most well-known industrial bands, Angelspit is a unique industrial act that have been destroying sound and music alike for years. The group began in the early 2000's, when Karl Learmont and Amelia Tan met on an online zine forum. Together, they worked on Amelia's zine distro, Vox Populis, eventually turning it into the largest zine distro in the Southern Hemisphere. From there, they started making their own zines, and finally started making music. The band's name comes from the [[Sonic Youth]] song 'Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit'- both are fans of the band. Having created the stage names 'ZooG' and 'DestroyX' for themselves, Angelspit began to draw attention through their unconventional style of music, their 'we don't give a fuck what you think' attitude, and their awesome mode of dress. They released their first EP, ''Nurse Grenade'' in 2004, and continued on, releasing their first album, ''Krankhaus'', in 2006. Having closed the distro to focus on their music, they then released a music video for their song 'Vena Cava' that pretty much defined their schtick.
Their music is glitchy, distorted and nothing like conventional music whatsoever, and it's a huge part of why they are so unique. Their lyrics, however, range from endorsing cannibalism, murder, torture and all that wonderful stuff to railing against stereotypes, traditions, modern society and the like. Their music videos, in contrast, generally have nothing to do with the songs but will give you nightmares (and always have amazing outfits in them). In another contrast, the band themselves are incredibly lovely people both online and IRL. In 2011, they added three new members: Valerie Gentile (formerly of The Cruxshadows and Black Tape For a Blue Girl) on guitar, Matt James (replacing Chris Kling, the original drummer) on drums, and The Liar as their video manipulator. It's still the same old music, though.
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* ''Nurse Grenade'' (2004, EP)
* ''Krankhaus'' (2006)
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* ''Hello My Name Is'' (2011)
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* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Most songs have both ZooG and DestroyX singing, or DestroyX alone. There aren't that many songs where ZooG is the primary singer ("Sleep Now", "Juicy", "Violence", "Sunrise" and "As It Is In Heaven"), but they're brilliant just the same.
** "Toxic Girl", "Glitchbomb" and "Like It? Lick It!" are the only songs that have Valerie and Chris singing. OK, screaming.
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Their name came from a [[Sonic Youth]] song ("Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit").
** ZooG's response to someone telling them to "go do something productive in life.. instead of dressing up like [a] neon tarantula".
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*** Could you give me a link to that?
** Sure thing. [http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=730648053&v=wall&story_fbid=158901030792045 Here you go!]
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The video for "Vena Cava" is explained in their secret site, which concerns a secret society known as... Krankhaus. The site is shown in the video, and pictures from the video are shown on the site.
* [[Anti-Love Song]]: "Meat" and "Devilicious" could count as this.
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* [[Badass Boast]]: "You will know us by our trail of static!"
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The band asked the fans what they wanted to see in a future video, and how intense. The answer was a mix of horror and porn, very intense. The result was "[[Squick|Toxic Girl]]".
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: They were voted worst new artist and best new artist simultaneously in Ritual Magazine's 2007 Reader Poll.
* [[Brick Joke]]: The line "Falls from grace with a wallet full of HATE" from "Jugular" doesn't really make much sense until a few lines later, with "Revolt! Here’s your change, have a nice day".
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: "Lust Worthy" and "Fuck Fashion".
** ZooG really loves the word fuck.
* [[Concept Album]]: ''Krankhaus''. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20100824222406/http://www.angelspit.net/krankhaus/x/spin_a_dice.htm the secret page] for explanation of both the album and the video for "Vena Cava".
** ''Hello My Name Is'' explores the [[You Keep Using That Word|occult]] of the Corporation and how it slowly kills you.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: They once threatened to take up country and western if their fans didn't vote for them in a contest.
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** The video for "Toxic Girl". The previous videos ("Vena Cava", "Fuck the Revolution" and "Sleep Now") were, on the whole, mind-screwy but not actually horrific. "Toxic Girl" was pretty much a horror movie with added sex.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Despite the appearance and lyrical content, Angelspit have a strong reputation as absolutely lovely people.
* [[Delinquent Hair]]: ZooG's trademark mohawk.
* [[Double Entendre]]: The vocal hook for "Devilicious" is "Your body in my mouth, devilicious." While [[Word of God]] says that "Devilicious" is about cannibalism, the [[Double Entendre]] is still there.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The cover for ''Hello My Name Is'' is supposed to look like the words an insane employee would scrawl over the walls before killing themself.
* [[Dream Team]]: Worked with [[Emilie Autumn]] on her song "Liar" to make a rather special remix...
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* [[Gross Up Close-Up]]: "Toxic Girl".
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: DestroyX and Valerie.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: Their modular synth, which they call [
* [[Idiosyncratic Album Theming]]: Every CD has at least one song that mentions or is about cannibalism. Every CD (excepting ''Black Kingdom, Red Kingdom'' (and now ''Hello My Name Is'') has DestroyX on the cover and every CD has the colour black somewhere in the art.
** The DestroyX pattern has now been broken with ''Hello My Name Is'', which instead features ZooG.
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** See [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] above.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: The dress DestroyX wears in the "Sleep Now" video, to start.
** Her dress from the ''Blood Death Ivory'' cover.
** Her outfit from the ''Krankhaus'' artwork.
** Her 'geisha doll' outfit from the "Fuck the Revolution" video and ''Hideous and Perfect'' artwork.
** Basically, let's just say DestroyX, period. Not that ZooG doesn't look awesome, too.
* [[Instrumentals]]: "Black Wine", "On Earth", "Flesh Stitched Onto A Frame", "Hell Was Made Flesh", "Not Born, Hatched", "Massive", ''Deadly''
* [[Intercourse with You]]: Whether intended or not, see [[Double Entendre]].
** There's also the chorus of "Juicy", which goes in the later part of the song, "I'm feeling... lips/I'm feeling... cherry/I'm feeling... ripe/I'm feeling... (lickin', suckin', fuckin')/I'm feeling... juicy."
** And "Meat".
** "Defibrillator" has 'Lets go to la la la la la la and get naked/buy me a diamond pony and get uncensored'.
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* [[Lyrics Video Mismatch]]
* [[Mad Doctor]]: "Vena Cava" has been [[Word of God|explained]] as being about someone being operated on, alive and fully conscious, by an insane doctor with a medical fetish.
** A lot of their visuals seem to have been inspired by this as well. It's justified for the album art of Krankhaus; see [[Concept Album]].
** "Nurse Grenade".
* [[Madness Mantra]]: "I love my cubicle, my little beige cubicle. I love my cubicle, my little padded cubicle. I love my cubicle, my little prison cubicle. Escalate and execute your brutal demise."
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: ZooG.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: The fanbase was very curious as to why the band decided to tour with Blood On The Dance Floor, a crunk band (they wanted to do an all-ages gig, but due to the R-rated nature of their music, the only way was to tour with another band headlining. Well, that and BOTDF asked them (they're fans of Angelspit).)
** Yes, because BOTDF's [[Intercourse with You|songs]] are [[Sarcasm Mode|so family-friendly.]]
*** [[I Did What I Had to Do|They got to do all-ages concerts. Not many people are complaining.]] Besides, sex is one thing, cannibalism, murder and all-around gore is another.
* [[One of Us]]: Both members of the band have shown interest in sci-fi shows. For example, DestroyX is a [[Star Trek|Trekkie]].
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "This time, you're 100% FUCKED!"
** "I needed motivation. You sent a postcard that said, 'Punk rock'. Well, fuck you too."
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Very, very averted in "Toxic Girl".
* [[Protest Song]]: Possibly "Scars and Stripes"
** Also "Making Money" and "Ditch The Rest", to a lesser extent.
* [[Punctuated!
** Also, the page quote (and catch phrase).
** "Crash made! Built to fade! Fuck! The! Revolution! The money's real, but the blood is fake! Fuck! The! Revolution!"
** "Wolf", which has DestroyX and ZooG screaming 'Destroy! Destroy, fuck! Destroy, fuck me! Destroy, fuck me up!'
** "Don't get mad! Get even!"
** "You! Will! Obey me! You! Will! Become me! We! Will! Control you! Time for your medicine, baby!"
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