New York, NY · hardcore · noise-punk · hardcore punk · noise rock

Show Me The Body

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New York hardcore built around a banjo run through a wall of distortion — genuinely unlike anything else, and heavier than it has any right to be.

Show Me The Body formed in New York in 2012, built around Julian Cashwan Pratt, who sings and plays an amplified, heavily distorted banjo, alongside bassist Harlan Steed and drummer Noah Cohen-Corbett. The banjo functions less as a folk instrument than as a source of grinding, metallic texture, placing the band somewhere between hardcore punk, noise rock and industrial.

Their debut album Body War appeared in 2016, followed by Dog Whistle and Trouble the Water. The group also operates the Corpus collective, releasing mixtapes that draw in rappers, noise artists and hardcore bands from their orbit, and they have long been associated with all-ages, community-run shows in New York.

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