Massacre

Massacre is an experimental rock trio formed in New York in 1980 by guitarist Fred Frith and bassist Bill Laswell. The group mixes free improvisation with the drive of rock and punk, and its first album was Killing Time (1981). The first lineup, with Fred Maher on drums in 1980 and 1981, recorded Killing Time for the French label Celluloid. When Frith and Laswell revived the group in 1998, the drummer was Charles Hayward. This trio released the live albums Meltdown (2001), Lonely Heart (2007), recorded in Paris and Denmark in 2003, and Love Me Tender (2013) on Tzadik.