Tank full of Oil: ANTIchildLEAGUE

ANTIchildLEAGUE

ANTIchildLEAGUE is the brainchild of Gaya Donadio, also boss of the Hagshadow label/distribution and formerly promoter under the Hinoeuma the Malediction monicker. Born in Italy, Gaya moved to England in the 80s and started to be active in the punk movement organising concerts and playing. Basically, she's still doing that and even if the industrial power electronic sound of ACL wouldn't suggest that, she's still following the d.i.y. philosophy and somehow she's still punk at heart as she's struggling to living by following her own path and not by someone else's rules. Born almost two decades ago but releasing the first CD album only eigth years ago, the project has just a new album out, titled "Holy Ghost". This album is the last part of a trilogy ("The Father" and "The Son" were the first two) and as you may suppose, its theme is focusing on the disasters caused by the catholic education/morale. The rules imposed by a family which is not fed with love but only with rules and guilt can create monsters and Gaya is picturing that crude reality. Starting from the disturbing cover of a rotten dick painted by Jukka Siikala. "Holy Ghost" contains thirteen tracks in balance from industrial to power electronic, as I already pointed out earlier, where Gaya blends digital and analogic noises adding to the mix filtered vocals. So, how it sounds? If on "I Hate You" and "Ice Heart" we have metal clanging noises with raging distorted vocal cries and distorted synth waves, on "Weak Seed" the atmosphere is always tense and we have an upbeat rhythm with background noises coming and go. Listening to the tracks I imagine Gaya balancing the intensity of her sound as well as she tries to deal with her rage. I'd like to point out that even if we have titles like "Penis Dead", "Dick Funeral" or "Guilty Women", don't think that ACL is sounding like the old classic Whitehouse. Here we have a different approach: if in Whitehouse sex and violence was showed to provoke, here the main theme is sex and violence perpetrated by people dealing with religion. Think that here in Italy, lately, we have priests accused of pedophilia more than rainy days in a year: this is the real horror! ACL is bringing you her vision of all this and it isn't meant to be nice...