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As a young lad I started a band, Nervous Gender had a similar instrumental set-up to the Screamers, and their sound was actually also fairly close to them stylistically. Though seemingly around from the early days of the L.A. punk scene, their recorded discography from all indications includes only two releases from the early eighties: a split-LP with a Throbbing Gristle-like outfit called Beelzebub Youth from 1981 entitled Music From Hell on the Bay Area-based Subterranean Records (the same label that released recordings by Flipper and others), and a live compilation album on the same label (which I have not heard) that also featured Flipper and some other groups. Unlike the Screamers, Nervous Gender subverted the “punk rock” musical character quite a bit with verse and chorus structures actually employing an expressionistic atonality (as opposed to the standard punk rock usage of more tonal chord relationships). The “annoying” character of this simplistic, repetitive rock song atonality is quite often comparable to the late-sixties synthesizer and drums unit, the Silver Apples. With just synthesizers and drums (or a drum machine from the period that’s actually sampled from a kit?), Nervous Gender were also evoking a modernist sound in line with the redefinition (and sparse deconstruction) of the rock band unit occurring in no wave. The synthesizer chromatics present in the music of the Screamers (chromaticism being something that can be interpreted as “scary” in the aforementioned horror movie sense, and thus clearly modernistic) make an appearance in “Monsters,” their rewrite of the Cher hit from the early-seventies, “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves.” Although their vocals have less of an “inhuman” character than those of the Screamers, the song lyrics seem to have an even more modernist, deconstructed poetic sense about them (something that clearly places them within the artistically advanced range of no wave, and with similar implied aesthetic interests):


Now as a old man I do KALI'S THUGS
Edward and Karene Stapleton began weaving industrial soundscapes four years ago. Edward's background is Industrial noise which has been integrated into the music and lyrics written by Karene. Rather than using synthesizers, all of the non-vocal noise has been created by using sounds from childrens toys and pulling it through a series of sound altering equipment.BASED IN LOS ANGELES The name Kali derives from the Sanskrit root word Kal meaning time. Nothing escapes from time. Her Tibetan Buddhism counterpart is named Kala, a male figure. Of the Hindu goddesses, Goddess Kali Ma is the most misunderstood. The Encyclopedia Britannica is very mistaken in this quote, "Major Hindu goddess whose iconography, cult, and mythology commonly associate her with death, sexuality, violence, and, paradoxically in some of her later historical appearances, motherly love."