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Wil Francis
William Roy "wiL" Francis (a.k.a. William Control) (born January 8, 1982) is an American musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the horror punk band Aiden. Career Francis joined the original lineup of Aiden in 2003 as their bassist and replaced Steve Clemens as lead vocalist later that year. He became the creative force behind Aiden and, for the 2015 final album and tours, was the only member of the original lineup still in the band. During Aiden's hiatus from 2012 to 2015, Francis' primary musical output was William Control, and he has returned to this project full-time. He has also released four albums ('' Hate Culture'', '' Noir'', '' Silentium Amoris'', and '' The Neuromancer'') under the name William Control, featuring a synthesizer driven darkwave, synth-pop style, as well as two live albums ('' Live in London Town'' and ''Babylon'', two acoustic albums (''Skeleton Strings'' and '' Skeleton Strings 2''), an EP (''Novus Ordo Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent, Washington
Kent is a city in King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. It is part of the Seattle metropolitan area, Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the 4th most populous municipality in greater Seattle and the List of municipalities in Washington, 6th most populous in Washington state. The city is connected to Seattle, Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue and Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma via Washington State Route 167, State Route 167 and Interstate 5 in Washington, Interstate 5, Sounder commuter rail, and commuter buses. Incorporated in 1890, Kent is the second-oldest incorporated city in the county, after the county seat of Seattle. It is generally divided into three areas: West Hill (mixed residential and commercial along Interstate 5), Valley (primarily industrial and commercial with some medium-density residential; significant parkland along Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic music, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New wave music, new wave movement of the late 1970s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex Cult
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Perpetrators of the crime are called sex traffickers or pimps—people who manipulate victims to engage in various forms of commercial sex with paying customers. Sex traffickers use force, fraud, and coercion as they recruit, transport, and provide their victims as prostitutes. Sometimes victims are brought into a situation of dependency on their trafficker(s), financially or emotionally. Every aspect of sex trafficking is considered a crime, from acquisition to transportation and exploitation of victims. This includes any sexual exploitation of adults or minors, including child sex tourism (CST) and domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST). It has been called a form of modern slavery because of the way victims are forced into sexual acts non-consensually, in a form of sexual slavery. In 2012, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reported 20.9 million people were subjected to forced labor, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent ( statutory rape). The term ''rape'' is sometimes casually used interchangeably with the term ''sexual assault''. The rate of reporting, prosecuting and convicting for rape varies between jurisdictions. Internationally, the incidence of rapes recorded by the police during 2008 ranged, per 100,000 people, from 0.2 in Azerbaijan to 92.9 in Botswana with 6.3 in Lithuania as the median. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson is an American rock photographer known for her work with bands such as Reel Big Fish, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine and Smashing Pumpkins. In 2014, "Decades: Warped Since 1995-Through The Lens of Lisa Johnson Rock Photographer" was displayed on the entire Warped Tour. The mobile gallery was a retrospective of Lisa Johnson's two decades documenting the tour. She has also earned the title of Official Warped Tour Photographer. The Warped Tour Johnson began documenting the Vans Warped Tour The Warped Tour is a touring rock music festival that toured the United States and Canada each summer from 1995 until 2019, and returned in 2025 for its 30th anniversary. By 2015, Warped was the largest traveling music festival in the United S ... through photographs in 1995, the tour's inaugural year. Through her ongoing efforts and consistency of quality, she was eventually awarded the title of "Official Warped Tour Photographer." In 2014, "Decades: Warped Since 1995 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrang!
''Kerrang!'' is a British music webzine and quarterly magazine that primarily covers rock, punk and heavy metal music. Since 2017, the magazine has been published by Wasted Talent Ltd (the same company that owns electronic music publication '' Mixmag''). The magazine was named onomatopoeically after the sound of a "guitar being struck with force". ''Kerrang!'' was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off "Heavy Metal Special" from the now-defunct '' Sounds'' newspaper. Due to the popularity of the issue, the magazine became a monthly publication, before transitioning into a weekly in 1987. Initially devoted to the new wave of British heavy metal and the rise of hard rock acts, ''Kerrang!'' musical emphasis has changed several times, focusing on grunge, nu metal, post-hardcore, emo and other alternative rock and metal genres over the course of its forty-year publication history. In 2001, it became the best-selling British music weekly, overtaking '' NME''. After p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FVK (band)
Fearless Vampire Killers (FVK) are a five-piece English theatrical alternative rock band formed in Beccles in 2008. Their line-up consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Laurence Beveridge, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kier Kemp, bassist Drew Woolnough, lead guitarist Cyrus Barrone (Shane Sumner) and drummer Luke Illingworth (Pilnahn). The name of the band originated from the 1967 Roman Polanski comedy horror film ''The Fearless Vampire Killers''. Their debut studio album Militia of the Lost was set for release on 7 May 2012 through Goremount Records, but the physical release was pushed back to 14 May 2012. The digital release went ahead as planned. A deluxe version of the CD, containing more exclusive artwork, was released at the same time. In 2014, they were an opening act for Black Veil Brides' tour. They released a mini-album, ''Bruises'' in 2015. The band announced their breakup on July 4, 2016, in a Facebook post, due to Kier Kemp's decision to leave. The band briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red (EP)
''Revelations: The Red EP'' is the third in a series of four EPs that make up ''Revelations'', the fifth studio album by William Control. The other three EPs are '' The Pale'', '' The Black'' and ''The White'', after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was released by Control Records on July 14, 2017 and peaked at 179 on the '' ''Billboard'' 200'' chart, at number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums Top Dance Albums (formerly Top Electronic Albums and Top Dance/Electronic Albums) is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine which ranks the top-selling dance music albums in the United States based on sales compiled by Nielsen ... chart, and at number one on the Heatseekerschart. videofor ''Let Her Go'' was released on September 6, 2017. The EP was recorded at Control's Hell's Half Acre studio and was produced and engineered by Kenneth Fletcher, and engineered and mixed by Axel Otero of the band Lay Your Ghost. It was mastered by John Troxe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black (EP)
''Revelations: The Black EP'' is the third EP by American group William Control. It is the second in a series of four EPs that make up the fifth studio album, ''Revelations'', the other three being ''The Pale'', '' The Red'' and ''The White'', after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was released by Control Records on February 17, 2017, and peaked at number six on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart and number one on the Heatseekers chart. The first single was ''Analog Flesh In A Digital World'', released on February 10, 2017. It was accompanied by a musivideoshot and directed by Jacob Johnston in Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ... in January 2017. Johnston also directed the Knife Play' video, released on April 1. ''All I Need''was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pale (EP)
''Revelations: The Pale EP'' is the first in a series of four EPs that make up ''Revelations'', the fifth studio album by William Control. The other three are '' The Black'', '' The Red'' and ''The White'', after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was released by Control Records on October 14, 2016 and peaked at number one on both the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart and the Heatseekers chart. videofor ''The Monster'' was shot by Terry Matlin in New York City in July 2016 and released on September 4.''Confess''was filmed by Kenneth Fletcher in an Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ... cemetery during the band's September 2016 UK Synths and Sinners Tour and released on October 26.''When The Love Is Pain''followed on November 12, and it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remix (William Control Album)
A remix, also sometimes called reorchestration or rework, is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, poem, or photograph can be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new. Most commonly, remixes are a subset of audio mixing in music and song recordings. Songs may be remixed for a variety of reasons: * to adapt or revise a song for radio or nightclub play * to create a stereo or surround sound version of a song where none was previously available * to improve the fidelity of an older song for which the original master has been lost or degraded * to alter a song to suit a specific music genre or radio format * to use some of the original song's materials in a new context, allowing the original song to reach a different audience * to alter a song for artistic purposes * to provide additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive than an album and more "non-committal". An extended play (EP) originally referred to a specific type of 45 revolutions per minute, rpm phonograph record other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and 33 rpm LP record, long play (LP), but , also applies to mid-length Compact disc, CDs and Music download, downloads. EPs are considered "less expensive and less time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album, and have long been popular with punk and indie bands. In K-pop and J-pop, they are usually referred to as Mini-LP, mini-albums. Background History EPs were released in various sizes in different eras. The earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were Vertic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
