Silicon Valley is an HBO’s startup-centric comedy show, created by Mike Judge, the same genius behind Bevis and Butt-head, King of the Hill, and Office Space. The show centers around five guys who founded a startup company in, you guessed it, Silicon Valley.
This past Sunday, the show aired it’s third episode of season five, and within the episode, the music of British grindcore band Napalm Death hilariously appeared multiple times.
In the episode titled “Chief Operating Officer,” coder Gilfoyle (played by Freaks and Geeks alumni Martin Starr) has set up a sound alert to play Napalm Death’s “You Suffer.” The 1-second note booms over the office whenever Bitcoin drops below the price at which it becomes economical to mine.“I need to know when it breaks that threshold so I can remotely toggle my rig at home,” Gilfoyle tells a shaken Richard Hendricks. During the half-hour episode, Napalm’s track played several times becoming a hilarious long-running gag keeping everyone on their toes.
“You Suffer” is off Napalm Death‘s 1987 debut album Scum and is one of the shortest songs in the history of music at 1.316 seconds long.
Below is the clip where “You Suffer” first pops up to grace audience ears and annoy Richard.
The grindcore group is not the only group of its kind to appear in HBO comedy series. Magrudergrind made an uncredited cameo on a 2012 episode of Veep. They performed as an extreme metal band that was so metal; they didn’t even have a name.
Relive the moment below, and if you haven’t binged watch Veep, I suggest making a night of it.
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