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Deadguy
Deadguy is an American metalcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 1997. Deadguy is considered to have played an important role in the development of the mathcore genre. Their debut studio album ''Fixation on a Co-Worker'' is cited as a classic within the genre by some. In 2006, Decibel (magazine), Decibel magazine included the album in its "Hall of Fame" list. Deadguy has been cited as an influence by such bands as the Dillinger Escape Plan and Jeromes Dream. History Formed in 1994, Deadguy was influenced by a variety of bands, including Black Flag (band), Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Unsane (band), Unsane, Today Is the Day, Misfits (band), Misfits, Voivod (band), Voivod, and Slayer. The band took their name from a line in the John Candy movie, ''Only the Lonely (film), Only the Lonely''. The group issued two 7-inch single, 7-inch extended plays that year alone: ''Work Ethic'' and ''White Meat''. Although not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fixation On A Co-Worker
''Fixation on a Co-Worker'' is the debut studio album by the United States of America, American metalcore band Deadguy, released on November 20, 1995 through Victory Records. The album is now considered to have played an important role in the development of the metalcore fusion genre and was included in Decibel (magazine), ''Decibel Magazine'''s "Hall of Fame" list in 2006. ''Terrorizer (magazine), Terrorizer'' listed the album as one of the "100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties". It is the last recording by the group to feature vocalist Tim Singer and guitarist Keith Huckins. Release The album was originally released on compact disc, LP record, vinyl, and compact cassette, cassette formats. The LP edition was pressed on grey and black vinyl. 300 LP copies were packaged in special covers, this edition is known as the "Death To False Metal" pressing. In 2013, Victory Records repressed the album on LP record, vinyl format, 1048 copies total pressed: 100 clear, 409 pink, 377 red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathcore
Mathcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk and metalcore influenced by post-hardcore, extreme metal and math rock that developed during the 1990s. Bands in the genre emphasize complex and fluctuant rhythms through the use of irregular time signatures, polymeters, syncopations and tempo changes. Early mathcore lyrics were addressed from a realistic worldview and with a Pessimism, pessimistic, wikt:defiant, defiant, Resentment, resentful or Sarcasm, sarcastic point of view. In the 1990s, the hardcore punk scene started to embrace extreme metal openly. It also started to become highly ideologically driven, with most of the popular bands being part of subcultures. Bands such as Converge (band), Converge, Botch (band), Botch, Coalesce (band), Coalesce and The Dillinger Escape Plan helped to establish the genre. Characteristics Music According to Metal Hammer, "mathcore [is] the sound of Heavy metal music, metal being twisted into startling new shapes." The genre emphasizes complex an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss It Goodbye
Kiss it Goodbye was an American hardcore punk band from Seattle that formed in 1996 and broke-up in 1998. History After leaving the New Jersey band Deadguy in 1996, vocalist Tim Singer and guitarist Keith Huckins moved on to form Kiss it Goodbye with bassist Thom Rusnack and drummer Andrew Gormley. Huckins, Rusnack and Gormley were already familiar musically as they had all previously performed together in the New Jersey band Rorschach. A demo tape titled ''Be Afraid'' was quickly recorded and heavily circulated around the New York City area which responded with high praise. The demo is the only recording made by the group to feature guitarist Eric Cooper. The band recorded their 1997 debut LP '' She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not'' for Revelation Records. Produced by Billy Anderson, the album had the same familiar sound that fans of Deadguy and Rorschach had come to know along with Singer's melodramatic screams and ramblings. The tracks "Preacher" and "Target Practice" which we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American metalcore band. The band was formed in 1997 in Morris Plains, New Jersey by guitarist Ben Weinman, bassist Adam Doll, vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, and drummer Chris Pennie. The band's use of Consonance and dissonance, dissonance, odd time signatures, polyrhythms and unconventional drum patterns became a staple of their sound, although later albums incorporated more melody, and influences from a range of genres. The band's lineup shifted numerous times throughout its existence; by the time the group dissolved, Weinman was the only remaining founding member. The final lineup also included longtime members Liam Wilson on bass, Greg Puciato as lead vocalist, and Billy Rymer on drums, alongside then-newcomer Kevin Antreassian on rhythm guitar. The Dillinger Escape Plan achieved critical success, releasing six studio albums during its existence, the first being ''Calculating Infinity'' (1999), which has been noted by critics as a landmark release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today Is The Day
Today Is the Day is an American noise rock and Avant-garde metal, experimental metal band that originally formed in Nashville, Tennessee. The band's diverse sound combines influences from areas such as noise music, avant-garde metal, grindcore, post-hardcore, and alternative rock among other genres. Most of the band's recordings make extensive use of Dissonance and consonance, dissonance and Sampling (music), sampling, as well as unusual production techniques and Psychedelic music, psychedelic overtones. Lyrical themes include depression (mood), depression, warfare, violence, altered states of consciousness, and mental disorders. History Formation and early years with AmRep (1992–1996) The band was founded by guitarist Steve Austin and drum kit, drummer Brad Elrod, who previously played together in Alien in the Land of Our Birth. The duo would move to Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1990s and would form Today Is the Day in March 1992 after meeting bass guitar, bassist Mike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rorschach (band)
Rorschach is an American hardcore punk band from New Jersey that existed from 1989 to 1993 and again from 2009 to 2012. Their typical blend of hardcore with dissonant metal elements provided an inspiration to many later metalcore and post-hardcore bands. The first release by the band, ''Remain Sedate'', shows the band's sound at a stage when they played fast, heavy hardcore with a metal slant and raspy hardcore vocals. At this time they also drew heavy comparisons to Die Kreuzen for their bizarre chord progressions and Charles Maggio's unearthly howl."Powerviolence: The Dysfunctional Family of Bllleeeeaaauuurrrgghhh!!". ''Terrorizer'' no. 172. July 2008. pp. 36–37. However, as the band progressed, they developed a slower, more sinister, sludge sound that was influenced by New York band Swans. Additionally, the vocals developed into high-pitched, tortured screaming rather than shouting, due in part to voice problems Maggio was experiencing at the time. This change in sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metalcore
Metalcore is a broadly defined fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, originating in the 1990s United States and becoming popular in the 2000s. Metalcore typically has aggressive verses and melodic choruses, combined with Breakdown (music), breakdowns – which are slow, intense passages conducive to moshing. Other defining traits are low-tuned, percussive guitar riffs, double bass drumming, and polished production. Vocalists typically switch between roaring or Screaming (music), screaming and clean, melodic, emotional singing. Lyrics are often personal, introspective and emotive. In the late 1980s to early 1990s, pioneering bands were founded such as Integrity (band), Integrity, Earth Crisis and Converge (band), Converge, whose hardcore punk-leaning style is sometimes referred to as metallic hardcore. These bands took influence from a range of styles and genres such as hardcore punk, thrash metal and death metal. During the decade, the genre diversifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeromes Dream
Jeromes Dream is a screamo band formed in West Haven, Connecticut and currently based in San Francisco, California, originally active from 1997 to 2001, and again from 2018 onwards. History Jeromes Dream formed on September 13, 1997 after a short jam session that was held in the basement of guitarist Nick Antonopoulos in his mother's house with bassist Jeff Smith and drummer Erik Ratensperger. According to Ratensperger, their first recorded material was intended to be used for a demo release; however, it caught the attention of Rice Control Records, resulting in the intended demo material being released as a split album with Amalgamation. Most of the band's music was released as splits with other artists, including other notable screamo acts such as Usurp Synapse. Their most well known split release would be their split with Orchid, a 10" record shaped in a 3/4ths view of a skull, which is sought after by both collectors and fans alike, and considered a definitive work of the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relapse Records
Relapse Records is an American independent record label based in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The label features many grindcore, death metal, metalcore and sludge metal artists. History The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado. The first two releases on the label were 7-inch singles by the bands Velcro Overdose and Face of Decline, Apparition 7" came next R003closely followed by three death metal bands that would become among the biggest on the label, Deceased, Suffocation, and Incantation. After this, Jacobson became acquainted with William Yurkiewicz Jr, who became his partner in the record label. Yurkiewicz had founded his own record label, which was soon to release albums from the bands General Surgery, Disrupt, Destroy, Misery, and Yurkiewicz's own grindcore band Exit-13. The two joined forces to create Relapse Records, aiming to release high-quality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackout Records
Blackout! Records is an independent record label which specializes in hardcore punk. It was formed in 1988 by Bill Wilson and Jim Gibson. In 1989, the label released its album, a New York hardcore compilation album entitled '' Where the Wild Things Are''. The album included tracks from Sheer Terror, Killing Time, and others. After this first release, Gibson amicably parted company to start his own record label, Noiseville Records. Blackout! continued to release more local hardcore, with EPs from Uppercut and Outburst, and a live single from Sheer Terror. This was followed by a mini album from Crawlpappy and the U.S. edition of the Sheer Terror album ''Just Can't Hate Enough''. Although the label released a pressing of a greatest hits from UK Oi! band The Business, a reissue of Rest In Pieces debut album, and EPs from The Icemen, American Standard, and Outcrowd, there was a lull in activity during the beginning of the 1990s as the local hardcore scene became more prone to v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voivod (band)
Voivod is a Canadian Heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Jonquière (now part of Saguenay, Quebec, Saguenay) Quebec. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Denis Bélanger, Denis "Snake" Bélanger, guitarist Denis D'Amour, Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, drummer Michel Langevin, Michel "Away" Langevin and bassist Jean-Yves Thériault, Jean-Yves "Blacky" Thériault. The band has had numerous members changes throughout its -year career, with Langevin as the only consistent member. Their current line-up includes Langevin, Bélanger, Daniel Mongrain, Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain (guitar) and Dominic "Rocky" Laroche (bass). Voivod's musical style has changed several times since its inception. Starting out as a speed metal band, they have added a mix of progressive metal, progressive and thrash metal to create their own unique metal style, and have been credited as progenitors of the "technical thrash metal" sound along with Coroner (band), Coroner, Watchtower (band), Watchtower, Dark Ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
