Dead Neanderthals is a Dutch

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band that also incorporates

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and grindcore. They have released several albums, many of which were based on improvisation.

History

Dead Neanderthals is composed of two members, Otto Kokke on

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and synthesizer and René Aquarius on drums. After first collaborating online, they began improvising live, and have released several albums. ''

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'' described their 2012 album ''Jazzhammer/Stormannsgalskap'' as a mighty "pounding headache of rampaging blastbeats, distorted foghorn drones and radioactive seagull squalls." Their fourth album, ''Polaris,'' was in contrast completely acoustic.

Style

According to ''The Quietus,'' "Whether forcing the twitching viscera of free jazz through a grindcore blender, slicing the eyeball of European improvisation with a metal blade, or eviscerating the whole lot in a maelstrom of noise, the sax-drums duo of Otto Kokke and Rene Aquarius pay little heed to the boundaries of genre.

Members

;Current * Otto Kokke – saxophone * René Aquarius – drums

Discography

Albums

References

External links

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