Destruction Unit demands attention when it plays, and it achieves that aim through sheer, uncompromised volume.Įarlier in the day, Spin published a glowing feature on the band, with writer Colin Joyce calling its music "a bid for nothing else but your attention from five guys who work hard enough to deserve it," and the same day, Ben Ratliff of the New York Times wrote lovingly that the band's "billowing five-guitar pileups proved that excess can be better, even in punk." This kind of national press is typical for the band, which has been written up in Pitchfork, Vice, and Rolling Stone. The volume is punishing, rattling rib cages, and the intense wall of sound couples with the heat to create a kind of sensory-deprivation chamber. The night concludes with hometown boys Destruction Unit taking the stage and launching into a blisteringly fast screed as guitar amps cycle feedback. Inside the suffocatingly hot shed, Total Abuse and Breathing Problem, on tour from Texas, and Deterge and Rectal Hygienics, on tour from Illinois, create ungodly, caustic noise.
The scene is half art party, half concert, billed by Aurelius' Society of Musical Esotericism as "the heaviest gig of the summer." DJ Maniac Cop - an ironic name, given the rumors of law enforcement just outside the courtyard - spins Janet Jackson 45s at 33 1/3 speed to create ghostly, languid sounds and blends ambient noise and soundscapes into Debbie Deb's 1987 freestyle classic "Look Out Weekend" as an assortment of young people pass joints and linger near a massive half-pipe. "Park in the dirt lot or alley," Aurelius reminds everyone, repeating the command scrawled on a handwritten note posted at the entrance off the alleyway, where two black-clad punks charge eight bucks to get in. It seems there's a cop somewhere outside the gathering, and the neighbors have taken to reporting cars on the street. Wearing a billowing button-down and white jeans, Aurelius has close-cropped blond hair and boyish, fresh-faced features, but he moves through the crowd with an authoritative demeanor. High walls block the venue from Van Buren Street, keeping in most of the throbbing sounds emanating from a small side shed, but it's still loud, entirely too loud for a sleepy Tuesday night in August at a makeshift performance space in downtown Phoenix. Some of them could be long-range missiles lofted higher away from earth to reenter the atmosphere at speeds no interceptor missile could hope to match.Destruction Unit guitarist Jes "J.S." Aurelius has a frantic look as he makes his way through the small clusters of punks gathered at Apartment 512 Gallery. North Korea could launch hundreds of missiles from mobile launchers hidden across the country at any given moment. What North Korea demonstrated on Sunday was a salvo fire, which intends to overwhelm missile defenses with a volume of missiles. Jeff Davis said that the launch posed a "grave threat to our national security," but that the US was "capable of defending against a North Korean ballistic missile attack."īut experts have repeatedly told Business Insider that even the greatest missile defenses don't offer complete protection from North Korea's ballistic missiles, and as North Korea refuses to play by the West's rules, missile defense becomes increasingly irrelevant.
The missiles sputtered out, landing in the waters close to Japan's coast without doing any damage, and the US and South Korea quickly responded by agreeing to deploy one of the world's best missile defense systems, the Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense.Īfter a February 12 missile test, which demonstrated its own scarily improved capabilities, Pentagon spokesman Capt.
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