Viet Cong: “We get hate mail at every single show”

Viet Cong are an industrial post-punk band from the really cold bit of Canada. They write songs called things like Pointless Existence that go, “If we’re lucky we’ll get old and die.” Their debut album ends with an 11-minute jam simply called Death. These facts may lead you to make certain assumptions about Viet Cong as people: namely that an afternoon down the pub in their company will be gloomier than Morrissey on a coach tour of mass-market abattoirs.