Alessandro Cartolari

Extrema Ratio: A Dangerous Method

by Mark Corroto
May 19, 2021

In 1989, John Zorn, in the liner notes of Spy Vs Spy (Elektra), a cover album of Ornette Coleman compositions, thanked (among many) the bands Napalm Death, Blind Idiot God, and The Accused, before finishing with “Fucking hardcore rules. Smash racism." Zorn's music comes slamming back to mind with A Dangerous Method from Extrema Ratio, because the timing is right for improvised music to return to hardcore. “Naked Convulsions" opens the disc with a sample of the writer William Burroughs ...