Tank full of Oil: Love 666

Love 666

Love 666 Lead singer Dave Unger met drummer Angel in Washington D.C., after dropping out of Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University where he studied music of avant-garde composer La Monte Young. Together they formed Love 666 and produced a number of singles and full-lengths for AmRep, including 1995 “American Revolution” and 1996 “Please Kill Yourself So I Can Rock”.

Love 666 broke up in 1996 and Dave Unger moved to New York, where he started performing under the name Rock. He also started a new label called Feedback, along with former Love 666 member Joe Johnson.
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There's nothing exactly wrong with the slew of bands that take the fuzzed-out mayhem of the MC5 out of context...until you hear one like this DC trio apply it to its original revolutionary function. Get a load of Love 666's post-White Panther manifestos — a boundless array of screeds that are pro-drug, pro-violence and anti-just about everything else — and you may find yourself on the frontlines of the class war the band seems so intent on fomenting.

Guitarist Joe Johnson's emphatic string-wrestling imbues the band's self-titled debut with the sort of metallized Sun Ra spaciness that characterized Kick Out the Jams, a texture underscored by Dave Unger's distorted sine-wave keyboards. It's an extremely oppressive combination, but then again, you wouldn't expect breezy beer-commercial backing when a foam-flecked maniac is egging you on with words of wisdom like "fuck the man and fuck his plan...if you want to thank him for all that he's done/Blow his fucking head off with your right to own a gun." This really ain't no party, no disco, no foolin' around.
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“The most important underground band in America” (Alternative Press)