[MellySingsDoom]

Dio are the rich man's Queensryche, surely?

I'm massively biased on this one - I'm a big fan of Whitehouse and the
relative bands. I like the power, timbre, density and velocity of their sound; I enjoy a lot of their lyrics (some of them very funny to my ears), and William Bennett, if nothing else, has been an inspiration one way or another to a many great musicians and artists. To me, liking Whitehouse is something that is immediately visceral and adrenalising - an emotive response rather than an intellectual one.

As for the controversy surrounding Whitehouse, well I always take Bennett's interviews etc with a pinch of salt...he certainly knows how to sell an album, that's for sure. The thing about Whitehouse being fascists is TOTAL bullshit - I can't emphasise this enough. Are they misogynists? I don't think so, at the end of the day, although I can see why people do have a problem with them on this point.

Whitehouse for the hipster-point win? Jeez, when I first found out about them, they were "underground" to the point of invisibility, and even then I got a fair amount of shit for liking a bunch of allegedly racist, woman-hating paedophiles. Oy vey.

Anyway, I can't imagine many people on this board being into them, to be honest, which is fine. Still, I'm interested to hear what others do think of them (if indeed they do).

By the way, I'm listening to the Ting Tings album as I write this. Surely that's the real horror, a 37 year old man listening to pop music for 14 year olds...