Ramleh

Named after a pivotal battle of the Crusades, the Croydon, England-based noise group Ramleh was an on-again/off-again project led by guitarist Gary Mundy, most often in collaboration with singer Philip Best (who also worked with the pioneering electronic group Whitehouse) and drummer Stuart Dennison. Like Whitehouse and Best's early group Iphar, Ramleh was originally a part of the "power electronics" offshoot of industrial music, a deliberately provocative and brutal form of the genre designed to shock and offend, both sonically and in its packaging. The group's first cassette...