Iron Brotherhood

Noise musician from Scotland. Basically Jess Hopkins is Iron Brotherhood. He provides the lyrics, rhythms and the vocals, although various other musicians are involved in his demos and in the backing tapes for his live 'displays'. Musically he aims for a sparse black and white sound, to form a basic framework for his lyrics. These, like the written work which he also produces, concentrate largely on fetishism, violence, insanity, death, degradation and the DHSS. Disjointed, hysterical and very, very strange. (The Cut, 1987)