Founded in 1994 by the Masson brothers, Pneumatic Head Compressor, one of the oldest metal-electronic-industrial-noisy band in Belgium is still there to bring the chaos on stage..
« Their Music is somewhere between Meshuggah and Godflesh »
With destructured, heavy, tortured music and a confusion of original tones, strange noises, shouts and atypical singings, P.H.C. surprises by the originality and diversity of its repertoire.
As a matter of fact, PHC’s intense compositions are the result of a long maturation process (the group finds it funny to call it a putrefaction process).
Let’s we forget, the fraternal duo has been involved in Magasin 4 for a long time. As one of the last fortresses of alternative music in Brussels, it is fair to say they had a lot on their plate; one might even wonder when these DIY aficionados —who record, mix and create their artwork by themselves—have found the time to share the stage with bands such as Godflesh, Zu, Pound, OvO, Hint, La Muerte, Mr Marcaille, Zeni Geva, Punish Yourself, Le Singe Blanc and many more….
Throughout the PHC’s Music we find the dense, uncompromising, unstructured and pounding music Pneumatic Head Compressor cherish: oppressive, tortuous grooves, raging lyrics and… well… ape-like vocalizations put into a shaker with industrial, metal, hardcore, doom, electronic and experimental sounds. A harsh man/machine duel that sums them up pretty well.
The brothers’ desire to make the listener jump into dark, murky waters and to keep him breathless until the end of the listening experience is remarkable.

Après un White Sun/Black Noise Tour surprise, tout en noir et blanc, puis une pause  le temps de quelques projets parallèles (dont une énorme tournée du Bal Des Enragés pour Klodia et vx), les furieux de Punish Yourself  sont de retour, en couleur, avec tout leur attirail de peintures fluo, de lights post-apocalyptiques et d'ultra-violence cyberpunk. De retour, mais dans une nouvelle incarnation : leur nouvel album« Spin The pig », enregistré en trio après le départ de la guitariste Miss Z, est un hommage brutal aux racines hardcore-indus du groupe, probablement le plus violent de leur discographie pourtant déjà intense. Machines martelées à toutes vitesse, guitares hurlante, voix distordues, l'ambiance n'est plus au dancefloor mais au champ de bataille ; avec un nouveau batteur (et le passage de Xav à la guitare, après presque vingt ans derrière les fûts), la meute revient plus remontée que jamais pour un Pig Data Tour qui devrait vous laisser en ruines..