© 1999—2022
© 1999—2022
Human Inferno
Medication
LP (E185)
Belgium £16.50 (including postage)
Europe £18.50 (including postage)
Rest of world £23 (including postage)
Limited edition of 200 copies
Human Inferno, aka David Gurrick
Date of birth: 7 September 1969
(Oslo, Norway)
Married with two children (three-and-
a-half and seven-and-a-half)
Gurrick is heavily involved in school politics and the local community,
in particular with regards to drugs
and immigration. He is into the Italian band Tampax; their album Let It Shit is being played a lot.
The children like Norwegian punk, Kjøtt and Betong Hysteria. And Kraftwerk,
of course; all children do.
—
Review
Welcome return from erstwhile Oslo
punk David Gurrik, a.k.a. Human Inferno, with a killer slab of advanced caveman electronics for Entr’acte. Gurrik was last
spotted as Human Inferno on his outré label, Sonmoi, in a class split with Lasse Marhaug, and Medication marks his
most substantial output in many years.
Away from his involvement in “school politics” and the “local community”,
it’s probably fair to say that music is
a controlled vent for his life less normal, whether singing deadpan about visiting the psychiatrist with his wife over blunted pulses, growls and tempered white noise in Medication #1, or clashing cryptic
lyrics with throbbing noise techno fundamentals worthy of the weirdest ‘floors in Medication #3. But it’s clear
that middle age and kids haven’t blunted his punkish roots, they may be a bit
more obfuscated and wisened, but there’s still a brutish intent to these tracks, albeit patiently refined with an amorphous, viscous effect at best in the B-side-spanning It’s About Time to Go,
which comes across like he's making
the best of a monotonous, stygian trudge to the shops for muesli and juice for
the weans.
Boomkat
