Once dubbed a Kaiju video-game nightmare, Godswounds are a strange, electronic-rock band that create strange, electronic-rock music.
Godswounds do their best to cover the sound-canvas in thick, bilious, rainbow viscera, both jarring and alluring enough to dash up the focus of even the most Ritalin addled of millenials.
Ahead of their support of Regurgitator at their Brisbane and Sydney shows, Godswounds discuss the five video-game constructs they wish could be applied to real life.
1. Power Ups: rampant and incredulous
From the absurd floating hearts in 'Zelda' to the mislaid gutter chicken in 'Final Fight', what I would give to be able have my sternum crushed by a strategically-flung barrel only to heal it with a can of soda I found on a subway train that falls well short of the public transport health and safety standards.
Can you imagine it? Modern medicine driven into obscurity as I cure my Deep Vein Thrombosis with a dubious looking mushroom I collected after I spilled a potion that created a temporary door to a nocturnal mirror of the world I currently inhabit… or something.
2. The Soft-Car Accident
What is the deal, 'Mario Kart'? Are the cars made of adipose tissue? Has the very physics of your world been warped by that horrible noise Yoshi makes? To be able to violently nudge a bus to the curb without so much as a dent to your Camry stationwagon. To hit a telegraph pole and to do no more than comically spin 360 degrees before puttering back onto the morning commute. It is the deprivation of such beautiful additions to our lives that makes us know that there is no god in this world.
3. The Warp Zone
Let’s fuck transport off all together, let’s just find a pipe that skips us past the rigmarole of our lives and gets us straight to the good parts. You peel back the lino from the kitchen floor of your Petersham sharehouse to find a strange pit. When you jump into it, you emerge at the front of the cue at Din Tai Fung, a table already open to you; a sea of appalled non-warp-zone plebes behind you.
4. IDCLIP
Yes, yes. As much fun as God Mode and HavingAllTheGunsAllTheTime was in 'Doom', nothing can beat the strange sensation of passing through a brick wall without an iota of friction. Getting on an accidental express train can be easily rectified when you can slip through the closed doors and skim onto Platform 2 at Arncliffe Station.
Does a disgruntled ex wait for you in the foyer of your work building? No matter, you can pass through the urinal wall like molten butter and in a moment you’re out on the street, free from accountability and cellular stability all in the one trip.
5. The Multi Lifer
The greatest power of all: the ability to cheat Darwinian law. Can you imagine how many more stupid decisions you’d make if you knew you had extra lives? Would you ever wait for a little green person at a crossing again? Imagine all the wonderful drunken arguments you could start without fear of long-term ramifications such as getting stabbed and then not getting up again after getting stabbed. Sometimes, if you’re bored, you might just drive into the ocean for kicks.
Don’t worry, you’ve still got three continues up your sleeve.
Godswounds support Regurgitator
Thu 27 Aug - The Zoo (Brisbane)Fri 28 Aug - The Zoo (Brisbane)
Sat 29 Aug - Manning Bar (Sydney)
Remaining Regurgitator Dates
Thu 3 Sep - Northcote Social Club (Melbourne)Fri 4 Sep - The Prince (Melbourne)
Sat 5 Sep - The Gov (Adelaide)
