Scorpion Violente

Scorpion Violente’s The Rapist is a deliberately abrasive slab of minimal synth sleaze: cheap drum machines, monotone vocals and lurid basslines grinding through repetition until the line between satire, menace and dark humour becomes productively unstable.

Scorpion Violente embodies every fantasy that the Parisian music scene has when it comes to our beautiful sleepy city of Metz: violence, murder, death, unusual sex, warm beers and rain. While the disco duo certainly carry those clichés with a serious dose of creepy humor, its music goes way beyond that scope. The beats can be soft and brutal all at the same time, played over hypnotic and trance-induced melodies, with beyond-the-grave vocals to add another salty flavor. A massive RIYL Ptôse, Su…