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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Thrash metal
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Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its fast tempo and overall aggression. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, the lyrics often deal with social issues and reproach for The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the fast drum beats and attitude of hardcore with the double bass drumming, heavy and complex guitar style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. Thrash metal was an inspiration for subsequent extreme genres such as death metal, Four American bands—Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer—are credited with pioneering and popularizing the genre. The Clash of the Titans tour, which featured Megadeth, Slayer, thrash metal has seen a resurgence in recent times, with many of the older bands returning to their roots with their new releases. A new generation of metal bands emerged in the early 2000s. Thrash metal generally features fast tempos, low-register, complex riffs, high-register guitar solos. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the drum beats of hardcore punk with the style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. The rhythm guitar parts are played with distortion and often palm muted to create a tighter. Vocally, thrash metal can employ anything from singing to shouted vocals. The guitar riffs often use chromatic scales and emphasize the tritone and diminished intervals, for example, the intro riff of Metallicas Master of Puppets is a chromatic descent, followed by a chromatic ascent based on the tritone. Speed, pacing and time-changes also define thrash metal, thrash tends to have an accelerating feel which may be due in large part to its aggressive drumming style. For example, drummers often use two drums, or a double-bass pedal, in order to create a relentless, driving beat. Cymbal stops/chokes are often used to transition from one riff to another or to precede an acceleration in tempo, to keep up with the other instruments, many bassists use a plectrum. However, some prominent thrash metal bassists have used their fingers, such as Frank Bello, Greg Christian, Steve DiGiorgio, Robert Trujillo, several bassists use a distorted bass tone, an approach popularized by Burton and Motörheads Lemmy. Lyrical themes in thrash metal include warfare, corruption, injustice, murder, suicide, isolation, alienation, addiction, in addition, politics, particularly pessimism and dissatisfaction towards politics, are common themes among thrash metal bands
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Industrial metal
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Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM. Industrial metal developed in the late 1980s, as industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, in the early years of the 21st century, groups from the black metal scene began to incorporate elements of industrial music. Industrial metal did well in the early 1990s, particularly in North America, the industrial metal movement began to fade in the latter half of the 1990s. Though electric guitars had used by industrial artists since the early days of the genre. British post-punk band Killing Joke pioneered the crossing over between styles, and was an influence on industrial metal bands such as Ministry, Godflesh. Another pioneer industrial rock group, Big Black, also impacted some later groups, by the late 1980s industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, with Godfleshs self-titled EP and Ministrys The Land of Rape and Honey at the forefront. Godflesh was founded by former Napalm Death guitarist Justin Broadrick, though not a top-seller, Godflesh nonetheless became an influential act, their name mentioned by Korn, Metallica, Danzig, Faith No More, and Fear Factory. Ministry emerged from the scene surrounding Wax Trax, Records, a Chicago label dedicated to industrial music. Ministrys initial foray into guitar rock happened during a session of The Land of Rape and Honey on Southern Studios. The bands frontman, the Cuban-born Al Jourgensen, explained this transition, after the release of Land, he recruited guitarist Mike Scaccia from Texas thrashers Rigor Mortis. On one occasion, Jourgensen told the press that Sepultura was his favorite band and he also expressed the desire to produce a Metallica album. German band KMFDM was another seminal industrial metal group, although not a metal fan, KMFDM leader Sascha Konietzkos infatuation with ripping off metal licks stemmed from his experiments with E-mus Emax sampler in late 1986. He told Guitar World that, A Swiss trio, The Young Gods, brushed with the style on their second album, the rivethead subculture also developed at this time, along with the so-called coldwave subgenre, which encompassed Chemlab,16 Volt, and Acumen Nation. Some electro-industrial groups adopted industrial metal techniques in this period, including Skinny Puppy, british band Pitchshifter, formed in 1989 by brothers Jon and Mark Clayden, also started as an industrial metal band. The band later included elements of drum and bass, frontman JS mentions Industrial metals popularity led a number of successful thrash metal groups, including Megadeth, Sepultura, and Anthrax, to request remixes by industrial artists. Some musicians emerging from the metal scene, such as Fear Factory, Nailbomb. Fear Factory, from Los Angeles, were influenced by the Earache roster. The German band Oomph. after their debut album Sperm started to play Industrial metal combined with elements of death metal, Sepultura singer Max Cavaleras Nailbomb, a collaboration with Alex Newport, also practiced a combination of extreme metal and industrial production techniques
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Crossover thrash
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Crossover thrash is musical fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk. The genre lies on a continuum between heavy metal and punk rock, other genres on the same continuum, such as metalcore and grindcore, may overlap with crossover thrash. The genre is often confused with thrashcore, which is essentially a faster hardcore punk rather than a more punk-oriented form of metal, throughout the early and mid 1980s, the term thrash was often used as a synonym for hardcore punk. The term thrashcore to distinguish acts of the genre from others was not coined until at least 1993, many crossover bands, such as D. R. I. began as influential thrashcore bands. Thrashcore is occasionally used by the press to refer to thrash metal-inflected metalcore. Crossover thrash evolved when performers in metal began borrowing elements of hardcore punks music, especially early on, crossover thrash had a strong affinity with skate punk, but gradually became more and more the province of metal audiences. The scene gestated at a Berkeley club called Ruthies, in 1984, the term metalcore was originally used to refer to these crossover groups. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York hardcore, which began in 1984, and included groups such as Cro-Mags, Murphys Law, Agnostic Front. In 1984 New Jersey crossover group, Hogans Heroes, was formed and played alongside thrash metal groups like Destruction, Death Angel, Forbidden, in the October 1984 issue of Maximum Rocknroll, famed Metallica LP cover artist Brian Pushead Schroeder wrote You aint heard this. Blisters with speedcore franticness, mean with whining licks as it kicks into a maniac pace, well organized melodies that cry out in terrorizing metallic thrash. While some bands are trying to be metal, English Dogs are just the dawning of speedcore, referring to the EP To the Ends of the Earth. Other prominent crossover thrash groups include Crumbsuckers, Nuclear Assault, SSD, Discharge, Cryptic Slaughter, Stormtroopers of Death and this Aint the Summer of Love, Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Swans (band)
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Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. Since 1990, all Swans records have been released through Giras own label, Michael Gira has repeatedly stated he took the moniker Swans as it described the sound he wanted best. Giras summation of the name follows along the lines of, Swans are majestic, jon Tessler also played percussion and tape loops. Hanels only recordings with the group are on the compilation Body to Body, Job to Job, Kane stated that Sue was the most fearsome guitarist wed ever heard in New York. Hanel did not stay long in the group, and by the time of their recording debut she had replaced by Bob Pezzola. This lineup of the group also featured saxophonist Daniel Galli-Duani, who had played with Kane as the avant-garde duo Transmission. The debut EP, Swans, released on Labor, is different from anything they would do later. The plodding tempos and distorted, detuned guitar work is reminiscent of such post-punk outfits as Joy Division, Kane compares Swans to blues icon Chester Burnett, a. k. a. Some similarities worth noting—the music of early Swans was often based on a single riff, some of Burnetts songs—especially the songs penned by Burnett himself—have a similar structure and quality. Their early music was typified by slow and grinding guitar noise, critics have described Swans early recordings as aggressive beyond words. Their first full-length release, Filth, featured driving, choppy rhythms, Filth was the first album to feature guitarist Norman Westberg, who would play a vital role in much of Swans music and would feature on every subsequent studio album apart from Love of Life. Cop and the originally untitled Young God EP were both released in 1984 and re-released together on CD in 1992, Young God has been known by several names, usually by one of its two A-sides, such as I Crawled or, notoriously, as Raping a Slave. This release is often confused with their self-titled debut, the music continues in the same vein as Filth, and is again vaguely reminiscent of heavy metal music played in extreme slow motion. Swans were, in this era, Gira on vocals, Westberg on guitar, Harry Crosby on bass guitar, Giras vocals had changed slightly, becoming slowly more melodic, although the snarl still remained. Some of the songs on the EP, particularly Young God and I Crawled, have a vocal melody, if rudimentary. Young God is considered by many to be the best of their releases for this reason. Justin Broadrick shared this impression of the group, One of the trademarks of Swans early period was playing at painfully loud volumes during concerts and this lent a reputation to the name Swans which was one of the contributing factors in Giras retirement of the band in 1997. Since Swans re-formation, Gira has made a point of maintaining the intensity of their live show and he has also sometimes turned off the air conditioning before Swans performed and compared the experience to a Native American sweat lodge
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Danzig (band)
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Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey, United States. The band is the outlet for singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig, preceded by the horror punk bands the Misfits. They play in a bluesy doom-driven heavy metal influenced by the early sound of Black Sabbath. On July 14,1986, Samhain performed at The Ritz in New York in what was to be their final show, in attendance was Rick Rubin, who was scouting for potential bands to sign to his record label, Def Jam Recordings. Rubin at first wished only to sign Danzig, with the intent of making him the vocalist for a rock supergroup that Rubin envisioned. However, Danzig refused to sign to Rubins label without Samhains bassist Eerie Von, in 1987, he added John Christ on guitar and Chuck Biscuits on drums. To reflect the change in direction and avoid having to start anew after future lineup changes, Glenn, on Rubins advice, changed the name of Samhain to his surname. The first release from the band, minus Eerie Von, was the song You And Me from the Less Than Zero soundtrack and credited as Glenn Danzig & The Power, in 1988, the band released its first album on Def American. In 1990, Danzig released its album, Danzig II. By 1992, Rubins involvement with the band had waned, Danzig himself took credit for co-producing the third album, Danzig III, How the Gods Kill. In the following year, the released the Thrall, Demonsweatlive EP. The live version of Mother, a song from the first album, a new version of the Mother music video was created using live footage, and the video became a hit on MTV as well. On October 4,1994, Danzig 4 was released, the album sold well, but did not contain a hit on par with the Mother single. The albums second single, Cantspeak, was also a staple in MTVs rotation, Cantspeak is the bands only single other than Mother to chart on Billboard. Amid accusations of unpaid royalties and broken promises, Danzigs relationship with Rubin deteriorated, around this time, the bands lineup began to dissolve as well. First, Chuck Biscuits left the band in the summer of 1994 due to royalty disagreements, according to a special issue of Kerrang. Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl turned down an approach by the band, Biscuits was replaced by Joey Castillo, who made his first public appearance as a member of Danzig at an in-store signing the day of the fourth albums release. Coincidentally, Castillo would later replace Grohl in Queens of the Stone Age, John Christ and Eerie Von resigned on July 5,1995
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The Dirtbombs
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The Dirtbombs were formed by Mick Collins as a side project and started recording songs by 1995. In the nearly two decades since its conception, The Dirtbombs has been home to many Detroit rock musicians, both in the studio and on the road. As of September 2008 the bands lineup consists of Collins on guitar, Ko Melina on a distorted “fuzz” baritone guitar and Ben Blackwell, for a brief time in 2002, the band featured back-up singers Deanne Iovan and future bass player Ko, in addition to five musicians. Originally conceived as a “singles band”, the Dirtbombs were to record only 7” records each in a different style. The bands first single, High Octane Salvation, was released in 1996, the band released two singles in 1997, and also appeared on the Ghettoblaster Volume 1 compilation. They released another two singles in 1998, the full-length 1998 debut Horndog Fest is a mix of heavy garage punk and pop-inclined rock n roll. The songs I Cant Stop Thinking About It, Grannys Little Chicken, I Cant Stop Thinking About It was used in a Buick commercial in 2007 and was later covered acoustically by the Romantics. In 2000, the band released 2 singles, as well as a single with The White Stripes. They also appeared on the X-Mas Surprise Package Volume 3 compilation, opening for the White Stripes brought the band increased publicity as well. In 2005, MSNBC. com listed Ultraglide on their list of the top albums of the past 20 years, ode to a Black Man was taken from the LP for a 2001 single. A five-song EP, Chariots of the Gods. was also released that year, two new singles were issued in 2002. That same year, the Dirtbombs appeared on four compilations, as well as on Troy Gregorys solo album, the band also toured extensively during this time, playing in Europe and Australia, in addition to the U. S. and Canada. In 2003 the band released their third LP, Dangerous Magical Noise, the album featured a re-recorded version of their contribution to the Sympathetic Sounds compilation, Im Through With White Girls written and sung by Jim Diamond. The single Motor City Baby was featured on Little Stevens Underground Garage as the Coolest Song in the World. The band, with Jim Diamond and Tom Potter on bass, was featured on a Dutch television documentary about the Detroit rock scene that also profiled the White Stripes and the Paybacks. Mick took the filmmakers on a tour of the Detroit music scene, the documentary concluded with the three of them bowling. In 2004 the band headlined the Rock City Fest in Detroit, split singles were also issued, one backed with a Gories song, one with Justin Robertson, and one with ADULT. In 2005 the band released If You Don’t Already Have a Look a 2-disc collection of their singles and rarities, a new split with the Love Supremes was issued, and the band also appeared on a Gun Club tribute record that year
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Fear Factory
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Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band that was formed in 1989. During the bands career, they have released nine albums and have evolved through a succession of styles, including nu metal, death metal, groove metal. Fear Factory was enormously influential on the metal scene in the mid-to-late 1990s. In April 2009, a new lineup was announced, Cazares returned as lead and rhythm guitarist, and Gene Hoglan as drummer. Bell and Stroud reprised their roles, and the band completed a seventh studio album titled Mechanize. Former members Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera—both of whom were playing in Arkaea—disputed the legitimacy of the new lineup, since then, Fear Factory has released two more albums, The Industrialist and Genexus. Over the years, Fear Factory has seen changes in its members, Bell being the only consistent member since 1989. The band has performed at three Ozzfests and the inaugural Gigantour. Their singles have charted on the US Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums on the Billboard Top 40,100, and 200, Fear Factory was formed in 1989 under the name Ulceration, which the band agreed would just be a cool name. The bands origins can be traced to a formed by guitarist Dino Cazares—formerly of The Douche Lords—and drummer Raymond Herrera in Los Angeles. Their first line-up was completed with the addition of bassist Dave Gibney, Bell, who was allegedly recruited by an impressed Cazares, who overheard him singing New Years Day by U2. Cazares played bass on the first three Fear Factory albums Concrete, Soul of a New Machine and Demanufacture, on which Cazares changed many of the riffs during the recording and it took Cazares two weeks to get the appropriate guitar tone. Cazares created, wrote and recorded all the music on the album, Christian joined the band two weeks before they were scheduled to go on tour to promote the album. He stated that had contributed musical changes to a couple of songs on the album, in his own words, this has not been a significant contribution. According to Brian Russ of The BNR Metal Pages, the demos are remarkable for integrating these influences into the death metal sound. Bells pioneering fusion of death growls and clean vocals in the same song. The use of grunts and throat singing combined with clean vocals later defined the nu metal, many vocalists in todays metal scene use two or more methods of singing and vocalizing lyrics. The band contributed two songs to the L. A, the band played its first show on October 31,1990
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Godflesh
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Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham. They were formed in 1988 by Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green, Godfleshs innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal. Broadrick and Green reformed Godflesh in 2010, in 1982, Green founded Fall of Because with Paul Neville. Broadrick, who had been playing guitar as a member of Napalm Death, joined the group in mid-1985 as drummer and he left the band in 1987. Broadrick then spent a couple of years as a member of Head of David, in 1988, he contacted Green about reforming Fall of Because. Justin decided to take over on guitars and they chose to use a machine to help out. They also decided to change their name to Godflesh, a brief flirtation with major label Columbia Records in 1994 for Selfless and the Merciless EP saw the duo take on a more high-end production approach. In 1996 Godflesh released Songs of Love and Hate, which featured the drumming of Bryan Mantia. The next album, Us and Them, released in 1999, saw the group experimenting with an electronic, drum. In 2001 Godflesh released the double album retrospective In All Languages, Green left Godflesh in late 2001. The band announced that Green would be replaced by former Killing Joke, in the interim, however, Broadricks thirteen-year relationship with his girlfriend dissolved, and Broadrick suffered a nervous breakdown shortly before departing for a tour of the United States. Broadrick recalls the breakdown as a real Brian Wilson moment and said that he felt paralyzed by the stress, which had been building for several months, and I literally couldnt get out of bed. I was numb and couldnt move, so when the car came to me up to take me to the airport, I ran. The canceled tour caused even more problems for Broadrick, bus companies had been hired, the groups High on Fire and Halo had been booked to support. And everyone who lost money came after Broadrick and he stated, I was getting death threats from the bus company in L. A. I lost close to $35,000, which I did not have at all, I was broke and had to sell my house and pay off all my debt on credit cards. I pretty much did nothing for four months besides drink heavily, on a poster promoting Jesus first EP Heart Ache, the caption read as follows Godflesh is dead, long live Jesu. Broadrick issued a statement about the end of Godflesh, On April 10th 2002 and this was something I had painfully been pondering since GC Greens departure from the band in Oct 2001
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Jesu (band)
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Jesu is a British experimental band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of his band Godflesh. It is named after the last song on Hymns, the album of Godfleshs initial run. Jesus sound is layered and textured, incorporating a diverse mix of influences. Broadrick himself has stated that. its very loosely speaking pop/rock/metal/electronica, im intentionally writing what I consider to be coherent pop songs. Jesus first release, the Heart Ache EP, was released in 2004 and featured Broadrick performing all of the instruments and vocals alone. It was followed four months later by the full-length Jesu LP, a spring 2005 tour of Europe, in support of the album, featured Roderic Mounir of Knut filling in for Ted Parsons on drums. Commenting on the influences of the band, Broadrick said, I really wanted to take that rhythm and weld it to the Godflesh sensibilities of abstract, surreal. With their third release, 2006s four song Silver EP, Jesu took a more melodic and layered approach, the majority of this release features Broadrick and Dalton, with Parsons joining them for the title track. Broadrick and Dalton recorded the Sun Down / Sun Rise EP without Parsons for an April 23 release and this EP had already seen release in Japan where it had been packaged as a bonus CD for the Conqueror album. Jesu returned as an act with the release of a split 12 album with Eluvium. October 2007 saw the release of Pale Sketches, a collection of previously unreleased Jesu songs, performed entirely by Broadrick, the album was released on Broadricks own label, Avalanche. That same month, a four song EP titled Lifeline, once again featuring Broadrick as the member, was released by Hydra Head in the United States. The band made their United States live debut in March 2007 as an act for Isis. Neither Parsons nor Dalton were able to participate in the tour and were replaced by Danny Walker and long-time Broadrick collaborator Dave Cochrane. During this tour, Jesu also made their South by Southwest debut as part of a Hydra Head Records showcase, in late 2007, the band embarked on headlining tours of the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe and the United States. During this tour, Phil Petrocelli of Seattle band, Black Noise Cannon, Jesu released their second split release, this time with Japanese post-rock band, Envy, exclusively in Japan through Daymare Records on July 11,2008. On August 12,2008, a third split 12, this time with Battle of Mice, was engineered by Joel Hamilton, the album had originally been announced in 2006 but was delayed while awaiting cover art. On September 9,2008, Hydra Head released Why Are We Not Perfect, Daymare released the album, in Japan, with an additional third remix not available on the American release
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Killing Joke
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Killing Joke are an English rock band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. The original line-up included Jaz Coleman, Paul Ferguson, Geordie Walker and their first album, Killing Joke, was released in 1980. After the release of Revelations in 1982, bassist Youth was replaced by Paul Raven, the band achieved mainstream success in 1985 with both the album Night Time and the single Love Like Blood. Killing Joke have influenced later bands and artists, such as Metallica, Nine Inch Nails. Coleman and Geordie have been the only constant members of the band, Paul Ferguson was the drummer in the band of Mataya Clifford when he met Jaz Coleman in Notting Hill, London. In October 1978, after Coleman was briefly the keyboard player in that band, he and they placed an advertisement in Melody Maker which attracted guitarist Geordie Walker and bassist Martin Youth Glover. Coleman said their manifesto at the time was to define the exquisite beauty of the age in terms of style, sound. Coleman gave an explanation concerning their name, The killing joke is like when people watch something like Monty Python on the television and laugh and its like a soldier in the first world war. Hes in the trench, he knows his life is gone, and then suddenly he realises that some cunt back in Westminsters got him sussed - What am I doing this for. I dont want to kill anyone, Im just being controlled, the band played a debut gig on 4 August 1979 at Cheltenham Witcombe Lodge supporting The Ruts and The Selecter. G. Records with a distribution through Polydor from 1980, the songs on Killing Jokes early singles were primitive, sparsely produced punk rock, sometimes mixed with electronic sounds and, on the first EP, dub features. Turn to Red came to the attention of legendary DJ John Peel, an NME concert review said that their sound is a bit like early Banshees without the thrilling, amoral imagination. The songs on the Wardance/Pssyche single were described as dance music by the press. The band had changed their sound into something denser, more aggressive and their debut album, Killing Joke, was released in September, the band had considered calling it Tomorrows World. The press started to criticize them for the lack of new material appearing on the B-sides of singles, the group preferred to carry on working into the studio and released Whats THIS For. just nine months after Killing Joke, in June 1981. They hired sound engineer Nick Launay, who had recorded with PiL. They toured extensively throughout the UK during this time, and both fans of post-punk and heavy metal took interest in Killing Joke via singles such as Follow the Leaders, Killing Joke also became notorious largely due to the controversies that arose from their imagery. The images that appeared on their records and stage set were often bizarre and potentially shocking, critics noted the bands black humour and the use of musical and visual shock tactics to create a reaction
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Ministry (band)
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Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer and only original member Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a new wave outfit, Ministry changed its style to become one of the pioneers of industrial metal in the mid-1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with their studio album Psalm 69, The Way to Succeed. After 27 years of performing, Jourgensen decided to end the band in 2008, however, in August 2011, a reunion was announced, when Ministry confirmed they would play one of their first shows in four years at the Wacken Open Air festival in August 2012. Ministry released a new album, Relapse, on March 23,2012, Al Jourgensen began Ministry in Chicago, Illinois in 1981. His first band prior to Ministry was Special Affect with Groovie Mann, drummer Harry Rushakoff, after that was the short-lived Silly Charmichaels, with Ben Krug, Tom Krug and Tom Wall. Ministrys original sound was new wave synthpop that was more melodic. Ministry released four 12 singles on Wax Trax and their first LP With Sympathy, was issued on Arista Records in 1983 and hit the upper 90s in the Billboard 200. The LP was well received by college radio fans initially and became common in new wave album collections at the time. The music in With Sympathy and the singles Arista issued in association with it were a type of synthpop. Songs from the LP were played live as an act for The Police during the Synchronicity Tours North American leg. Jourgensen has subsequently expressed extreme dislike for Ministrys With Sympathy-era output and he has provided different explanations for this, saying in one interview that after signing the record contract, all artistic control of Ministry was handed over to other writers and producers. He was not trying to come off as British, the Stones used a southern accent and no one crawled up their ass for it. Some of Jourgensens preferred recordings from the With Sympathy era were collected into the CD Early Trax, by the mid-1980s, Jourgensen parted ways with George and signed to Sire Records. Jourgensen performed mostly solo for Ministrys next LP, Twitch, which sold well, the music was danceable electronic music, but was not pop music, and the sound was harsher and more aggressive than what Ministry had recorded before. According to Jourgensen, Twitch was stuff that I was doing before With Sympathy came out, some of that stuff was already four or five years old, but the record company didnt want to use it, so. Much of the new sound was created with the use of digital sampling, after Twitch, Jourgensen made the most significant change in Ministrys history when he resumed playing electric guitar. With the addition of The Blackouts drummer William Rieflin, Ministry recorded The Land of Rape, the album continued their success in the underground music scene
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Murder, Inc. (band)
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Murder, Inc. Martin Atkins joined Killing Joke as their drummer and later their manager in 1990. The band recorded the 1990 album Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions after which they parted ways with singer Jaz Coleman. Keeping the line-up of Killing Joke together, Atkins formed Murder, Inc. recruiting Chris Connelly to replace Coleman, the band released their debut EP, Corpuscle, which featured tracks remixed by J. G. Thirlwell, in 1991 followed by their eponymous album in 1992. The album was recorded by Steve Albini who had worked with Atkins on the Pigface album Gub. The band played five live dates before disbanding later in 1992, in 1998 Connelly, Atkins, and Walker reconvened and formed another industrial supergroup with Jah Wobble called The Damage Manual. Martin Atkins – drums John Bechdel – keyboards Chris Connelly – vocals Paul Ferguson – drums Paul Raven – bass Geordie Walker – guitar Corpuscle Murder, locate Subvert Terminate – The Complete Murder, Inc. Murder, Inc. at Allmusic Murder, Inc. discography at Chris Connellys website
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Winds of Plague
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Winds of Plague is an American deathcore band from Upland, California, formed in 2002. They are best known as one of the deathcore bands to incorporate symphonic elements into their music. The bands name is derived from a section of lyrics in the Unearth song Endless, Winds of Plague was founded in 2002 in Upland, California. During the time of the inception, its name was originally Bleak December. However, they changed their name in April 2005, to Winds of Plague, being named after a lyric from the Unearth song and they released their demo A Cold Day In Hell in late 2005 independently. Several of the songs would subsequently be re-recorded for the following album, decimate the Weak, the bands first album for Century Media Records, was released in 2008. The album included several re-recorded tracks from A Cold Day In Hell, the Great Stone War was released on August 11,2009. The album features two singles, Approach the Podium and Chest and Horns, though no videos were ever shot for any songs on the album. On October 14,2009, keyboardist Kristen Randall stated that she would be leaving the band, the band approached musician Lisa Marx to fill in on keyboard for their Australian/New Zealand tour. Afterwards the band found Alana Potocnik who has since been inducted as Winds of Plagues keyboardist, against the World was released in 2011 to widespread critical acclaim. Refined in the Fire and California have been released as singles, the band also appeared on the soundtrack for the game Homefront performing a cover of the Buffalo Springfield song For What Its Worth. A cover of Zombie by The Cranberries was included in an extended play for California. Winds of Plagues fourth studio album, Resistance, was recorded in early to mid-2013, the album is slated for release on October 29,2013. The band has toured with Despised Icon, Parkway Drive, Impending Doom, Danzig, Dimmu Borgir, Veil of Maya, With Dead Hands Rising and they were featured on The Atticus Metal Tour with Emmure, All Shall Perish, Abacabb, Terror, and The Ghost Inside. In the summer of 2009 was in the Summer Slaughter tour with Necrophagist, Suffocation, Darkest Hour, after the Summer Slaughter tour, they joined Hatebreed, Chimaira, Dying Fetus, and Toxic Holocaust on the Decimation of the Nation tour. On January 20,2010, it was announced that Winds of Plague would be playing on the Jägermeister Stage at the 2010 Rockstar Mayhem Festival in July and August. During April 2010, Winds of Plague toured with Despised Icon, The Warriors, Parkway Drive, during February 2011, Winds of Plague toured in the US with After the Burial and headliners As I Lay Dying. They played several songs from their upcoming new album
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Tommy Victor
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Tommy Victor is the lead singer and guitarist for the heavy metal band Prong that he founded in New York City in 1986. In the late 1980s Victor worked as an engineer at the trendy venue. After the release of Rude Awakening in 1996, Prong disbanded and Victor moved to Los Angeles and he took a break from Prong during which Victor worked alongside rock musicians including Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor and Glenn Danzig. Since 2012s Carved Into Stone, Prong have been active again, releasing albums. 2013 saw the release their Official Bootleg -- Unleashed In The West-album which featured re-recordings of 17 classic Prong tracks. The next studio album Ruining Lives was released in 2014 and 2015 sees the release their first ever covers album entitled Songs From The Black Hole. Victor is also working with Glenn Danzig on his upcoming Danzig album. He is also part of the rock, heavy metal. Victor has toured and recorded with Ministry, and Danzig and he has also provided guest vocals for the Soulfly album Omen. He contributed to the Argyle Park album Misguided, and wrote the riff for the song Doomsayer. He has a daughter named Victoria, Tommy Victor has been endorsed by Schecter Guitar Research ever since reuniting with Prong, using both an S-1 and C-1 in early live performances. He would later on start using their Devil guitar, which would be the basis for his signature model. In 2013, his first signature model would be released, based on the newly introduced Banshee series, but with a body and neck, ebony fretboard, EMG pickups. Before using Schecter, Tommy relied on several guitars, most famously a Charvel Surfcaster, other guitars he used around that era were a Charvel LSX, Charvel Predator, and Gibson SG Custom. Around the release of Rude Awakening, and before Prongs breakup, he was endorsed by Fernandes Guitars, using both a Vertigo and Deuce WS model
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Filter (band)
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Filter is an American industrial rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. The band was formed after Patrick desired to start his own band after leaving Nine Inch Nails as their touring guitarist. Their debut album, Short Bus, was released in 1995, after the album, the band would go through the first of many line-up changes, leaving Patrick as the only consistent member across all music releases. After Liesegangs departure in 1997, Patrick recorded a follow up album with the Short Bus touring band members, the resulting effort, Title of Record, also went platinum, off the success of the song Take a Picture, in 1999. The band went into hiatus while Patrick went to rehab, and then formed a new band, Army of Anyone, a seventh studio album, Crazy Eyes, recorded with Patrick and another entirely new lineup, was released on April 8,2016. Dubbing themselves Filter, they signed to Reprise Records in 1994 and recorded their first album, Short Bus, the album was commercially successful, and included the hit single Hey Man Nice Shot. This song was controversial, as it was seen as capitalizing on the public suicide of Budd Dwyer. Kurt Cobains suicide was widely rumored to have inspired the song, the first single Hey Man Nice Shot was also included in the soundtrack for the movie Tales from the Crypt, Demon Knight in 1995 before Short Bus was released. In need of a band to tour the album, Patrick and Liesegang recruited Geno Lenardo on guitar, Frank Cavanagh on bass. They would all later be featured in the video for the second single. In 1996, Filter recorded and filmed the video for the song Jurassitol, for The Crow, City of Angels soundtrack. They also released the home video Phenomenology in 1996, which showcased some of the live performances and music videos, as well as an interview with Patrick. Liesegang left in 1997 shortly after recording the Filter/Crystal Method collaboration Trip Like I Do for the Spawn movie soundtrack, in 1998, for The X-Files film soundtrack, Patrick decided to keep the Filter name and recorded a cover of Harry Nilssons One. The song Take a Picture is about a dispute on an aircraft, the song Captain Bligh was written by Patrick after leaving Nine Inch Nails and was about Trent Reznors notoriously anti-social habits. Miss Blue is said to have been about Smashing Pumpkins bassist Darcy Wretzky and she can be heard on the songs Cancer, and Take a Picture. 2002 saw the release of The Amalgamut, featuring the singles Where Do We Go from Here, the Only Way was also featured in the first wave of Hummer2 commercials that year and in the 2003 movie Tomb Raider, The Cradle of Life. Alan Bailey was recruited for live guitar when they set off to tour the album, however and he has since tattooed his date of sobriety, September 28,2002, on his forearm. Richard Patrick was part of the supergroup The Damning Well, which has released one track on the Underworld movie soundtrack in 2003
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Monte Pittman
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Monte Pittman is an American musician, songwriter and studio musician, based out of Los Angeles, known largely as Madonnas long-time guitarist and for playing with Prong. He has also appeared in the documentary Who The F**K Is Arthur Fogel, Pittman started playing guitar as a teenager when he finally got my first guitar when I was 13. His guitar teacher was Robert Browning and he also took music theory and piano lessons from Delores Rhoads at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood. Pittmans early musical influences came from bands and artists such as Kiss, Metallica, Slayer, Steve Vai, Jimmy Page, Pantera, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Pittmans first band was called Insanity. Eventually Pittman and the singer from Insanity, Chris Sheehan, started the 4-piece Myra Mains which was more successful. Headquartered in Longview, TX, Myra Mains Had fans from Dallas to Shreveport, Pittman moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and worked at a guitar store as a salesman. He eventually quit to start teaching guitar lessons, Pittmans third student was British film director Guy Ritchie, who had just received a guitar as a gift from his girlfriend, Madonna. Ritchie later returned the favor, buying Madonna her own guitar—and she began to take lessons from Pittman as well. A month after Pittman started giving lessons to Madonna, he was invited to join her on stage at the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her album Music. The pair played together on an acoustic version of the hit song Dont Tell Me. Subsequently, Pittman was invited to join the band for Madonnas Drowned World Tour and he has played in every incarnation of Madonnas live band since then. Pittman shares writing credits with Madonna on the tracks Easy Ride from American Life, 2007s Hey You charity single, additionally, Pittman has contributed performances to Madonnas studio recordings, appearing on 2005s Confessions on a Dance Floor and 2008s Hard Candy. Paul Oakenfold who opened for Madonna in several US shows, invited Pittman on stage to jam together in the last N. American shows of the tour, Pittman is currently touring with Madonnas Rebel Heart tour. Pittman was introduced to Prongs Tommy Victor by White Zombie drummer Ivan de Prume and he played guitar on their 2002 tour that spawned the live album 100% Live. Pittman handled guitar and bass duties for the 2003 album Scorpio Rising, on Prongs 2007 release Power of the Damager, Pittman wrote 5 of the 13 songs and provided backing vocals alongside bass duties. He is also credited as a producer for both Power of the Damager and the remixed version Power of the Damn Mixxxer which was released on May 2009. Previous to Adam Lamberts audition on American Idol, Pittman, Lambert, Tommy Victor from Prong, for the tour of Adam Lamberts debut album, Lambert hired Pittman as his guitarist and musical director. Lambert and the appeared on several TV shows as well as at the Gridlock New Years Eve 2010 festival
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Tony Campos
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Antonio Tony Campos is a Mexican American musician. He is the current bass guitarist for the metal band Fear Factory. He is a bass guitarist for metal bands Static-X, Ministry, Prong, Soulfly. Campos was part of the original Static-X lineup, playing bass guitar, along with Wayne Static he was one of the legal owners of the Static-X name. In 2001 Campos broke his collarbone in an accident leaving him unable to play in the ongoing Extreme Steel Tour. Campos continued to sing backing vocals on the tour, and Marty OBrien took over guitar duties. In 2002 Campos became part of Mexican-American metal group Asesino and his stage name, Maldito X, is Spanish for Damned X. In the same year he played the guitar with the Colombian band Agony during the Rock al Parque. Campos has played guitar for Ministry in three stints following the death of Paul Raven. From 2011-2012 he was a member of metal band Possessed. He also played with Possessed in 2013 at The Oakland Metro and he also joined Soulfly in 2011 as their bass player. In May 2015, Campos announced his departure from Soulfly, Campos has cited Blasko, Cliff Burton, Dan Lilker, Jeff Hanneman, and Kerry King as influences. Zon Legacy 5-string with EMG MM5CS pickups Neal Moser Custom Shop Scimitar 4-string with EMG-P pickup, tuned BbFBbEb Fernandes Tremor 5-strings with EMG-40DC pickups, SWR SM-900 head, SWR Goliath Senior 6x10 cab. Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1 preamp, Dunlop 105Q Bass Wah, Line 6 Bass POD Fernandes five-string signature Tremor bass guitars with EMG-40HZ, Campos tunes to ADGCF when playing in Asesino. In Static-X, he played with several tunings, CFBbEbG and BbFBbEbAb during Shadow Zone and forward
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Alexei Rodriguez
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Alexei Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican drummer, once known for his time in Canadian heavy metal band 3 Inches of Blood and the metalcore band Walls of Jericho. He was the drummer for the New York-based band, Prong, in 1999, he recorded on the full-length, Are These Our Lives. with Seattle hardcore outfit, Trial, under the assumed name, Jesus L. Pecador. From 1994-2002 he played for North Carolina-based anarcho-punk/hardcore band, Catharsis, with whom he completed 2 full-length albums, Samsara and Passion, in 2002 he also contributed lead and backing vocals to Finnish hardcore/punk band, Endstand on two tracks from their split EP with Kafka. He was recruited into 3 Inches of Blood in 2005 after the departure of their 2nd drummer and he recorded one album with 3 Inches of Blood, Fire up the Blades, before being fired from the band for assaulting Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler in November 2007. He also appears on the new Trial Reunion/Retrospective double DVD out now, featuring footage from the 3 sold-out reunion shows the band played in 2005 in Seattle, London and Budapest. A full-length record from Wait In Vain released in July 2008 features Rodriguez on all tracks, playing alongside fellow Trial alum. He played drums anonymously on the disc, Mirror of Retribution by Taiwanese melodic black metal band, Chthonic. The new line-up promptly did two American tours with Soulfly and another with Fear Factory, and is working on a new album to follow up 2007s Power of the Damager. Simultaneously, pre-production is underway an as-yet-unnamed new project with Paul Perry
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Beg to Differ
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Beg to Differ is Prongs second album and first released under the CBS label. It can best be described as thrash metal before groove metal, the album includes one live track recorded at CBGBs, New York City, in 1989. Brian Pushead Schroeder did the design and cover artwork for the album, part of the song, Lost and Found, was used for commercial breaks of MTVs Headbangers Ball in the early 1990s. For Dear Life –3,26 Steady Decline –4,13 Beg to Differ –4,15 Lost and Found –4,05 Your Fear –4,51 Take It in Hand –3,43 Intermenstrual, D. S. B
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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Headbangers Ball
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The show began on MTV on Saturday, April 18,1987, playing heavy metal and hard rock music videos late at night, from both well-known and more obscure artists. The show offered a stark contrast to Top 40 music videos shown during the day, however, with the mainstream rise of alternative rock, grunge and rap music in the 1990s, the relevance of Headbangers Ball came into question, and the show was ultimately canceled in 1995. Over eight years later, as new genres of metal were gaining a commercial foothold and fan interest became unavoidable. It has remained in varying degrees on the website, but is no longer shown on television. Many of the videos aired on the first incarnation of the series would find a home on the similarly themed Metal Mayhem on sister channel MTV Classic. The Ball, as it is called, replaced Heavy Metal Mania. In doing so, MTV expanded the format and added more live interviews with bands. At its premiere it was hosted briefly by Kevin Seal, then by VJ Adam Curry, before settling on Riki Rachtman. Johns Headbangers Ball Rock charts were also featured in the pages of Rock publications Kerrang. Headbangers Ball was one of the most popular shows ever to air on MTV, on the air for nearly 8 years. For some time in 1988 and 89, the show was increased to 3 hours, one hour added, plus Hard 60, a daily version of the ball that aired for an hour every weekday afternoon. Its influence was widespread with the rise of heavy metal in the 1980s. Other notable TV programs have emulated Headbangers Ball, such as Fuse TVs Uranium, indeed, the popularity and effectiveness of Uranium in the early 2000s may be cited as a strong influence to the revival of The Ball in 2003. Bands would visit the set for interviews, and in some instances, memorable road trip episodes include Alice in Chains trip to Action Water Park, skydiving with Megadeth, Oktoberfest in Munich with Danzig, and Van Halens adventure at Cabo Wabo. Road trips were also the focus of John Brents Headbangers Ball radio program, there is a planned rebirth of the original Headbangers Ball roadshow possibly next year on 106.1 Rock Radio with John Brent on the production staff rather than as host. The show remained on the air until January 1995, when MTV abruptly canceled the show without any warning to viewers, host Riki Rachtman. The European version, hosted by Vanessa Warwick, was on the air until 1997, but limited to an hour, some regular-citizen critics of MTV even cite the cancellation of Headbangers Ball as one of the key decisions which caused the network to jump the shark. The demise of The Ball also came in at #4 on VH1s 40 Least Metal Moments in 2005, after nearly a decade of the show being off the air, MTV2 started up the series again on Saturday, May 10,2003 at 11 p. m
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Cleansing (album)
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Cleansing is the fourth album by the American heavy metal band Prong. It was produced by Terry Date, whereas all of Prongs previous albums had been produced by Mark Dodson and it includes ex-Killing Joke members Paul Raven on bass guitar and John Bechdel on keyboards/programming. Cleansing was Prongs only moderate commercial success and it was reissued in 2008 as a digipack version. The music video to Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck was featured on an episode of Beavis, the professional wrestler Justin Credible used the track as his entrance theme in Extreme Championship Wrestling and when performing in the independent promotions. To promote the album, Prong embarked on the Cleansing Tour which included opening acts Clutch and they also toured with Sepultura and Pantera as an opener for their Chaos A. D. and Far Beyond Driven tours. Vision Thing by The Sisters of Mercy was an influence Cleansing, tommy Victor said that the band had tired of their earlier thrash metal sound, and he wanted the band to go in a new direction that incorporated dance metal. All tracks by Prong Another Worldly Device –3,23 Whose Fist Is This Anyway, billboard Jason Roche of The Village Voice included Cleansing on his list of Top 20 New York Hardcore and Metals Albums, saying that it proved to be as catchy as it was heavy
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Rude Awakening (Prong album)
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Rude Awakening is Prongs fifth album. Rude Awakening is an enhanced CD and it was also released as a special limited edition on 12 red vinyl. The album was reissued in 2008 as a version, featuring four remixes of the Rude Awakening single. All tracks written by Prong except Controller by Prong and Scott Albert and Slicing by Prong, jenni Glenn of CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album is heavier and angrier than Cleansing, blending thrash metal and industrial music to maintain their status of metal favorites
