Description
The Armfarts.
A legendary hardcore band from the early eighties, made up of members from Echo Park: Pomo on drums, Little Venice Kimbo on guitar, and Draf on bass, with the singer Razz from Fuging in Bavaria. They recorded only one demo tape, “Abandoned Vessel of Wasted Psyche,” featuring 35 ultra-hard, fast songs that quickly landed them a following of legendary status. After their firebomb success and nutty Volvo tour of California, New York, and DC, they disappeared from this earth, sparking many conspiracies of a Department of Agriculture intervention. Tapes were hard to find, but one bootleg copy reached a pirate radio station in Algeria, where it soon became a huge success in the underground scene, with some of their songs even making it to the national charts. The band never knew, and the Algerian fanbase speculated that they were an alien species that had unleashed their sounds on Earth’s people and then returned to where they came from. Some efforts were made to contact the band, but no trace could be found, so the alien theory still stands in Algeria, even prompting a few documentaries in the search for the elusive Armfarts. It is not known where any of the real members are today, or indeed if they are still alive. Some rumors persist that after the alleged Department of Agriculture intervention, some of the members relocated to Kathmandu, with some even claiming the whole band became Tibetan Buddhist monastics. Allegedly, a photo of two monks, supposedly resembling Razz and Pomo, is still circulating.
The Armfarts recently popped up on r/creepypasta (Reddit). Someone posted an allegedly real Backrooms video in which one of their songs, Nothnormporn, can be faintly heard in the background. It seems their short-lived but impactful legend lives on, and it’s a shame that nobody can find anyone connected to the band anymore, or indeed find anything out about the members. All we have are the accounts of those who had the great fortune to experience them live, and now they are gone, leaving us only copies of copies of a copy of the few remaining original tapes. But maybe it is better like that, and the legend continues.
(This shirt design is the artwork lifted from the original tape.)