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Brutal Assault
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Brutal Assault is an open-air extreme metal festival that takes place in the 18th-century army fortress Josefov, located in Jaroměř, Czech Republic. It is held each August early in the month from Wednesday until Saturday, the festival started in 1996, originally focused on grindcore. For many years, it was an event with mainly Czech. It changed location several times and grew into an event by 2006. After moving to Josefov, attendances grew further to 15,000 in 2012, the festival motto is, Against violence and intolerance. Brutal Assault takes place in Josefov, a fortress built between 1780 and 1787 by Emperor Joseph II on the left bank of the Elbe and Mettau rivers near Jaroměř. The two main stages are built against the fortress walls, stealing from the tents and bodies of drunk visitors is common at Brutal Assault. Guests are advised to keep their valuables in safe places, the festival area at Brutal Assault in Josefov is near a hill, which can be difficult to navigate. Nicknamed the hill of death, it becomes muddy and slippery after rain, the hill can be walked around, however, and the site is fully accessible to the handicapped. The nineteenth annual festival was held from Wednesday 6 August to Saturday 9 August 2014 and it was headlined by Slayer, Amon Amarth, Satyricon, Venom, Bring Me the Horizon, Children of Bodom, Devin Townsend and Down. Three bands were announced but eventually had to be cancelled, Strife, Arsonists Get All the Girls and Gorguts
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Washington (state)
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It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State or the State of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles, and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the states highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States. Washington is a leading lumber producer and its rugged surface is rich in stands of Douglas fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, white pine, spruce, larch, and cedar. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft and missiles, shipbuilding and other equipment, lumber, food processing, metals and metal products, chemicals. Washington has over 1,000 dams, including the Grand Coulee Dam, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, the Washington Territory was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The area was part of a region called the Columbia District after the Columbia River. The area was renamed Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia, Washington is the only U. S. state named after a president. To distinguish it from the U. S. capital, which is named for George Washington, Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State, or, in more formal contexts. Washingtonians and other residents of the Pacific Northwest refer to the state simply as Washington, calling the nations capital Washington, D. C. or, often, Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Washington is bordered by Oregon to the south, with the Columbia River forming the western part, to the west of Washington lies the Pacific Ocean. The high mountains of the Cascade Range run north-south, bisecting the state, from the Cascade Mountains westward, Western Washington has a mostly marine west coast climate, with mild temperatures and wet winters, autumns and springs, and relatively dry summers. The Cascade Range contains several volcanoes, which reach altitudes significantly higher than the rest of the mountains, from the north to the south, these major volcanoes are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in the state, is 50 miles south of the city of Seattle and it is also covered with more glacial ice than any other peak in the contiguous 48 states. Western Washington also is home of the Olympic Mountains, far west on the Olympic Peninsula and these deep forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest, are among the only temperate rainforests in the continental United States. Eastern Washington – the part of the state east of the Cascades – has a dry climate. It includes large areas of steppe and a few truly arid deserts lying in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Farther east, the climate becomes less arid, with annual rainfall increasing as one goes east to 21.2 inches in Pullman, the Okanogan Highlands and the rugged Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains cover much of the northeastern quadrant of the state
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Drone metal
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Drone metal, is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music. Drone metal is associated with post-metal or experimental metal. Typically, the guitar is performed with a large amount of reverb or audio feedback while vocals. Songs often lack beat or rhythm in the sense and are typically very long. The experience of a drone metal performance has been compared to listening to an Indian raga in the middle of an earthquake by novelist John Wray in The New York Times. Wray also states, Its hard to imagine any music being heavier or, for that matter, a pioneer band of drone metal called Sunn O))) has indicated a kinship with sound sculpture. Jan Tumlir indicates a sustained infra-sound rumble of sub-bass–-so-called brown noise, stephen OMalley from Sunn O))) collaborated on an installation with artist Banks Violette, who has likened drone metal to the work of Donald Judd. Tumlir locates a precedent in Robert Rauschenberg, Violette points out, however, that drone metal is as much a physiological phenomenon as an acoustic one, with an attendant physicality. OMalley has also mentioned an appreciation for Cormac McCarthy and Richard Serra, rhys Chathams Essentialist included projections by Robert Longo. Jim Jarmuschs 2009 film The Limits of Control features music by a number of metal groups. Jarmusch said, I love these kind of visual landscapes they make, because when I write Im listening to things that inspire me in the direction of whatever world Im imagining. Boris and Sunn O))) and Earth were really instrumental in me just finding a place in my head, drone metal was first established by Earth, a group from Seattle, formed in 1990, which has been described as minimalist post-grunge. Earth took inspiration from the metal of Melvins and the minimalist music of La Monte Young, among other sources. Stephen OMalleys group Burning Witch, formed five years later, also in Seattle, continued in this tradition, incorporating unusual vocals, the group initially recorded for the prominent powerviolence label Slap-a-Ham. OMalleys subsequent group, Sunn O))), initially formed as a tribute to Earth, is most responsible for the prominence of the drone metal style. Godflesh is also an influence on many groups. Boris, from Tokyo, also developed a style of metal, parallel with the Seattle groups, as did Corrupted. Noise musicians, such as Kevin Drumm and Oren Ambarchi, have worked in the style
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Avant-garde metal
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Avant-garde metal is influenced by progressive rock and extreme metal, particularly death metal, and is closely related to progressive metal. Some local scenes include Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and Seattle in the United States, Oslo in Norway, and Tokyo in Japan. Avant-garde metal is interchangeable with experimental metal and avant-metal, and may refer to a separate genre of atmospheric metal or post-metal. Avant-garde metal also uses sounds, breaks conventions, and often includes new elements. The lyrics and visual presentation of the genre are eclectic as well, the Canadian group Voivod also influenced future bands in the genre, pioneering technique such as robotic vocal effects, unusual time signatures, and fractured, dissonant, unorthodox guitar sounds. Progressive rock has also cited as an influence. Another early example is the 1976 Led Zeppelin album Presence, pioneers of avant-garde metal include Celtic Frost, Boris, Earth, Helmet, Mayhem, maudlin of the Well, Neurosis, Sunn O))), Mr. Bungle, and Voivod. Wagner states that with the support of and other specialty labels, metals new avant-garde had arrived, according to The New York Times, some regional scenes that developed in the mid-1990s included the cities of Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Oslo. List of avant-garde metal artists Wagner, Jeff, avantgarde-Metal. com – website for avant-garde metal
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Boris (band)
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Boris is a Japanese experimental band formed in 1992 in Tokyo and currently composed of Atsuo, Takeshi and Wata. The band is named after a song of the name on the Melvins 1991 album Bullhead. Their debut album Absolutego was released in 1996 on their own record label Fangs Anal Satan, Boris was originally a four-piece band, with Nagata on drums. Nagata departed in 1996 leaving Atsuo to take over drumming duties, in Japan, Boris release most of their music on the indie label Inoxia Records. Many of Boris vinyl releases feature similar artwork for the label of the record. This is a parody of the original Roger Dean artwork that Virgin Records used for many of their releases, 2005s Pink was met with considerable critical praise and a strong response from music fans when reissued in the US on Southern Lord Records. Blender magazine and SPIN magazine both named it one of 2006s best albums, the album also topped the metal section of Canadian magazine Exclaim s 2006 Readers Poll, and was in the top 10 of Pitchfork Medias Top 50 Records of 2006. Boris is a band that focuses a lot of their time on touring, in an interview, Atsuo said, That we tour so much and release so many albums, I think it is representative of what we’re about. Direct communication is something we’ve lost in this day and age, it’s a shame – interviews are over phone. I think its important to see face to face – thats why its so important to go on tour. Its something very basic to humans that we’ve lost lately, Boris opened for Nine Inch Nails on part of the fall 2008 segment of the Lights in the Sky tour. They also appeared on the metal soundtrack to Jim Jarmuschs film The Limits of Control. Each time they play something its obviously different, every time, Boris and Astbury released a four-song EP in September 2010 on Southern Lord and Daymare Records that contains four tracks entitled Teeth and Claws, We are Witches, Rain, Magickal Child. In 2011, Boris released three albums, New Album, their first major release with a producer on AVEX/Tearbridge label, Heavy Rocks a sequel to the album with the same name. The latter two albums were released on the label Sargent House, having some kind of preconceived message or theme is very boring to me, noted Atsuo, the bands drummer. Just say what you want to say, Boris are widely considered to predominantly play in the metal genre, although the band deny their place in it while still accepting being labeled as so. While eclectic in style, Boriss music has been labeled as noise rock, drone, doom metal, psychedelic rock, dream pop, shoegaze, drone metal, ambient and J-pop. The bands influences are also eclectic, with Sleep, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Venom, Earth, and the Melvins being a few of them
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Earth (American band)
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Earth is an American musical group based in Olympia, Washington, formed in 1989 and led by the guitarist Dylan Carlson. Earths music is all instrumental, and can be divided into two distinct stages. Their early work is characterized by distortion, droning, minimalism, the bands later output reduces the distortion while incorporating elements of country, jazz rock, and folk. Earth is recognized as a pioneer of drone metal, with the bands Earth 2 being regarded as a milestone of the genre, Dylan Carlson founded the band in 1989 along with Slim Moon and Greg Babior, taking the title Earth from Black Sabbaths original name. Carlson has remained the core of the bands line-up throughout its changes, cobain sang lead vocals in the song Divine and Bright, from a demo included on the re-release of the live album Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars. Carlson attributed the break primarily to his addiction, At one point. Then suddenly it wasnt and something else was there, and that was something destructive, heroin is part of your life - you dont function without it. Its not like, I need to get it to write, its at a more fundamental level to your existence, like. Earth reappeared around 2000 with a different sound. Its music was still based, slow-paced, and lengthy. Remarking on the change, Carlson was quick to point to the continuity with Earths previous sound. Originally I had thought it would be something different and if it had been I probably wouldnt have stuck with the name. I thought about doing something different at first, but no matter what I do theres always going to be elements that are the same, like the slow tempos. So for whatever reason, I cant help myself - it was still Earth
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Gravetemple
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Gravetemple is the name given to the line-up of Attila Csihar, Stephen OMalley and Oren Ambarchi. The trio formed in the summer of 2006 to perform a series of shows in Israel. In Summer 2008 the trio reformed together with Australian drummer Matt Skitz Sanders for a short European tour and this band is not to be confused with the Burial Chamber Trio which consists of a similar line-up but with Greg Anderson instead of Stephen OMalley. Gravetemple released The Holy Down in 2007 through Southern Lord Records, the Holy Down - limited to 3000 copies Ambient/Ruin Le Vampire de Paris Limited to 350 copies Grave Temple live footage pt.1 Grave Temple live footage pt.2
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Jesse Sykes
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Jesse Sykes is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her band Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, which was formed in 1999 with Phil Wandscher. Sykes was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and grew up in Pound Ridge, an obsession with Lynyrd Skynyrd drove her to purchase her first guitar at age 12. She has a BFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design, Sykes moved to Seattle in 1990 after a brief stint in New York City. I was open to anything new, and on a whim just came out here, I didnt expect to stay so long. Sykes also told the Seattle P. I that among her more memorable experiences in the 90s was meeting maverick songwriter Townes Van Zandt after a Seattle show, instantly, I felt like I knew him. There was something very, very powerful about him, she said, I think hes one of those guys who was kind of like a shaman. I think he made everyone who met him feel that love and he was there to receive and to give. When he hugged me, it felt like a river was going right through my heart and that feeling never really went away. In 1990 Sykes moved to Seattle, Washington, and began playing in bands, Sykes was formerly in the band Hominy with then husband, Jim Sykes, who played guitar. The band released an album in 1998 on the Ivy label. In 1998, she met Phil Wandscher, who was known for both co-founding and for being fired from alt-country band Whiskeytown. They formed the band Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, members of The Sweet Hereafter included Anne Marie Ruljancich on viola, Bill Herzog on bass, Kevin Warner on drums and Eric Eagle on drums. In 1999 Sykes met producer Tucker Martine who recorded and produced the first three albums of The Sweet Hereafter, 2011s Marble Son was produced by Sykes and Wandscher along with engineer Mell Dettmer. There was additional recording and production on both Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul and Marble Son by Martin Feveyear, the same year the band signed with Paris-based label Fargo. The Seattle Times said, Rolling Stone magazine called Sykes brooding, emotionally-raw album quiet marvels of lamentation, according to the Miami New Times, At this time the band spent the majority of time on the road, mostly in Europe where The Sweet Hereafter received its earliest accolades. The band played the Roskilde musical festival in Denmark in 2004, in 2005, Conor Oberst, a fan of the band, invited them to tour with his band Bright Eyes. Sadly, Mark Linkous died from a gun shot wound in 2010. The song, Birds Of Passerine on Marble Son was written by Sykes for Mark Linkous after his death, in 2008 the band toured with Earth and Black Mountain
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Merzbow
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Masami Akita, better known by his stage name Merzbow, is a Japanese noise musician. He is best known for his style of harsh, confrontational noise exemplified on his 1996 release, Pulse Demon, since 1980, he has released over 400 recordings. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters artwork Merzbau, the name was chosen to reflect Akitas dada influence and junk art aesthetic. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, as well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly music, modern art. His more renowned works were on the topics of BDSM and Japanese bondage, other art forms Akita has been interested in include painting, photography, filmmaking, and Butoh dance. In 2000, Extreme Records released the 50 CD box set known as the Merzbox, Akitas work has been the subject of several remix albums and at least one tribute album. This, among other achievements, has helped Merzbow to be regarded by some as the most important artist in noise, Masami Akita was born in Tokyo, Japan on December 19,1956. He listened to music, progressive rock, and later free jazz in his youth. In high school he became the drummer of various school bands. He later attended Tamagawa University to study art, at which he majored in painting. While at university, he interested in the ideas of dada and surrealism. At Tamagawa, he learned of Kurt Schwitters Merz, or art made from rubbish, including Schwitters Merzbau, Merzbow began as the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, who met Akita in high school. Akita started releasing noise recordings on cassettes through his own label, Lowest Music & Arts. The earliest recording he made was Metal Acoustic Music, various other early releases included Remblandt Assemblage and Solonoise 1. The Collection series consisted of ten cassettes, the first five were recorded in a studio for an independent label called Ylem, so, Akita released them himself, and recorded five more at home. Akitas earliest music was made with tape loops and creatively recorded percussion, I threw all my past music career in the garbage. There was no longer any need for concepts like career and skill, I stopped playing music and went in search of an alternative
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Nurse with Wound
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Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill, the band has performed in many genres such as avant-garde, experimental, industrial, noise, dark ambient, and drone. Their early recordings, all quickly, were heavily influenced by free improvisation and krautrock and were generally considered industrial music. By 1981, only Stapleton was left from the original trio, there are now over 40 full length NWW titles. Musique concrète may be the most prominent touchstone due to Stapletons frequent and this aesthetic is fully represented in the artwork on the album covers, virtually all of which are created by Stapleton, mostly under the pseudonym Babs Santini. App and most regularly David Tibet of Current 93, for some time, NWW was a core duo of Stapleton and Colin Potter, the latter having first worked with NWW on 1992s Thunder Perfect Mind when it was recorded at Potters ICR studio. Potter has appeared on almost every NWW release since, in 2009, a CD titled Ød Lot was released which contained solo recordings by Stapleton, Potter, Waldron and Andrew Liles. John Fothergill helped found the band when it started, after parting company he went on to spend many years at the BBC childrens unit accounting for programs such as Raven / In the Night Garden. In 2005, Nurse with Wound returned to performance after a 21-year absence. Stapleton, Potter, Waldron, Rogerson and Andrew Liles played three concerts at the Narrenturm in Vienna, where they performed improvisations on the album Salt Marie Celeste and these concerts were not billed as NWW appearances. The first official NWW appearances since 1984 were at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in June 2006, in December of the same year, the group played at the All Tomorrows Parties festival organized by Thurston Moore. Stapleton continues to indicate that his long-promised hip-hop album featuring 5 or 6 female rap artists is forthcoming, a collaborative work with krautrock legend Faust was released on CD in 2007 as Disconnected with a vinyl edition carrying additional mixes following in 2008. Nurse recently joined Faust for the encores during the concert at St. John in Hackney, a NWW album entitled Huffin Rag Blues, primarily a collaboration with British sound artist Andrew Liles, was issued in 2008 with a companion mini-LP entitled The Bacteria Magnet. A remix of Sunn O)))s ØØ Void entitled The Iron Soul of Nothing was given a release with an expanded reissue of the out-of-print studio album The Man with the Woman Face following. An album of new material entitled The Surveillance Lounge was then released as a CD with a limited triple CD called The Memory Surface, a CD of new material entitled Space Music will be released on 17 November 2009. The Vinyl album and CD have been released through Dirter, the follow-up to last years Rupture sees Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers exploring the inner reaches of the psyche. The thematic work, Parade was released on the interdisciplinary arts group/record label Red Wharf, the third collaboration, ExcitoToxicity was released July 2014, and the fourth, Mutation released March 2015 all through Red Wharf and distributed by Cargo. All records released on United Dairies, except where indicated. A. Y. L. A. H, antirecords The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion, L. A. Y. L. A. H
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Thorr's Hammer
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The band is named after Thors Hammer, for the Mythological object see Mjolnir. For the Icelandic rock band, see Thors Hammer Thorrs Hammer was an American/Norwegian death/doom band, Thorrs Hammer was formed in Ballard, Washington by Greg Anderson and Stephen OMalley during winter 1994-1995. Soon after, Runhild Gammelsæter, then a 17-year-old Norwegian exchange student, the band reached its final form when Jamie Sykes and James Hale joined. The band was only for six weeks during which it played two gigs and recorded a demo and an EP entitled Dommedagsnatt. In 1997 the song Troll, from their EP Dommedagsnatt, was release in The Awakening - Females in Extreme Music, the band disbanded after Gammelsæters return to Oslo, Norway. Burning Witch was formed from the ashes of Thorrs Hammer and Gammelsæter has currently teamed up with James Plotkin to form Khlyst, Thorrs Hammer reunited in 2009 to play at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, England and again in 2010 for The Roadburn Festival in Tilburg. In an interview with Rock-A-Rolla magazine, Runhild Gammelsæter said the band might make some new music in the future
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Mayhem (band)
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Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo. They were one of the founders of the Norwegian black metal scene, Mayhem disbanded after Aarseths murder, shortly before the release of their debut album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, regarded as a classic of the black metal genre. Surviving former members Jan Axel Blomberg, Jørn Stubberud and Sven Erik Kristiansen reformed two years later with Rune Eriksen replacing Aarseth, attila Csihar and Morten Iversen have since replaced Kristiansen and Eriksen, respectively. Their post-Aarseth material is characterized by increased experimentation, the 2007 album, Ordo Ad Chao, received the Spellemann award for best metal album. Mayhem was founded in 1984 by guitarist Øystein Aarseth, bassist Jørn Stubberud and drummer Kjetil Manheim, the band members were mainly influenced by groups such as Venom, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Bathory and Celtic Frost. The lineup began playing songs by Black Sabbath, Venom, Motörhead. Norheim played vocals only for a concert, which place in April 1986 in Ski. He later formed hardcore punk band Within Range and Oi. /street punk band Cockroach Clan, whereas, with Kristiansen, Mayhem recorded its first EP, Deathcrush, in 1987, and released it through Euronymous newly formed label Posercorpse Music. The initial 1,000 copy release of Deathcrush quickly sold out and it was later reissued in 1993 by the newly renamed Deathlike Silence Productions as a joint venture with Euronymous Oslo specialist record shop Helvete. Manheim and Maniac left the band in 1988, after two brief replacements, Manheim and Maniacs positions were filled by Swedish vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin and local drummer Jan Axel Blomberg. With Dead, the concerts became notorious. For concerts, Dead went to lengths to achieve the image. From the beginning of his career, he was known to wear corpse paint, according to Necrobutcher, t wasnt anything to do with the way Kiss and Alice Cooper used makeup. Dead actually wanted to look like a corpse and he didnt do it to look cool. Hellhammer claimed that Dead was the first black musician to use corpse paint. To complete his corpse-like image, Dead would bury his stage clothes, while performing Dead would often cut himself with hunting knives and broken glass. Additionally, the band often had pig or sheep heads impaled on stakes, stian Johannsen, who briefly took position as vocalist after Deads suicide, made this statement about him, He didnt see himself as human, he saw himself as a creature from another world. He said he had visions that his blood has frozen in his veins
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Xasthur
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Xasthur /zæstər/ is the acoustic, formerly black metal project of American musician Scott Conner, formed in 1995. In 2010, Conner announced the end of Xasthur, however, he revived the name in 2015 for his acoustic project. The name Xasthur is a combination of Hastur and Xenaoth, Conner explained that he found the former name in a Necronomicon paperback and believed that it referred to a demoness who kills people in their sleep. The latter name referred to a deity he read about in a book on the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería. Xasthur was created in December 1995 in Alhambra, California, after Conner had played several local death metal groups in Southern California. Initially, the band rehearsing and recording in a home studio with an unstable lineup. A 10-track tape of early rehearsals was circulated on the trade scene. While the original of that tape was destroyed, some appeared on re-releases of later albums. For a self-released split album with Orosius, Conner was joined on drums and vocals by friend Mike Pardi from the band Draconis, who used the stage name Ritual. Subsequently, Xasthur became Conners solo project, although Khaija Blood Moon Ausar later appeared as a musician on the song A Curse for the Lifeless. Hunter performed on Defective Epitaph and All Reflections Drained, and Marissa Nadler sang on Portal of Sorrow, the bands first album, Nocturnal Poisoning, was released by the Blood Fire Death label in 2002. Southern Lord Records re-released a remastered version in 2005. On March 26,2010, Conner announced that he was wholesaling Xasthurs eighth studio album and he also stated that this would be the last album under the Xasthur moniker, as he was dissolving the Xasthur musical project. Conner cited a lack of motivation, among other aspects, for ending Xasthur, Conner remarked that another, non-metal musical project was in the works, later revealed to be called Nocturnal Poisoning, named after his 2002 album. Nocturnal Poisoning released three albums between 2012 and 2014, Other Worlds of the Mind, A Misleading Reality and Doomgrass. On September 30,2010, Conner released the first and only video to date under the Xasthur name. Conner was featured in One Man Metal, a 2012 Noisey documentary alongside Jef Whitehead of Leviathan, on March 5,2015, Conner announced on the official Nocturnal Poisoning Facebook page that the band were reverting to the name Xasthur. In reclaiming the name, he said, For five years, Nocturnal Poisoning was locked out and denied every opportunity or open door that Xasthur used to have, or wouldve had
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Stephen O'Malley
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OMalley is a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, KTL, and Khanate. Within these groups and alone, he has collaborated with a variety of artists including Greg Anderson, Merzbow, Eyvind Kang, Alan Moore, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, F. M. OMalley has directed and produced album cover art and design since the early 1990s for groups including Earth, Burzum, Emperor, Melvins and he has also worked as a rock/metal music journalist & published a black metal fanzine called Descent in the nineties. He was involved with creation of both the Southern Lord label and the metal label The Ajna Offensive. In 2011 he began curating and art directing the Ideologic Organ record label, although he is originally from Seattle, OMalleys Web site indicates that he lives in Paris, France
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Doom metal
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Doom metal is an extreme style of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much thicker or heavier sound than other metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the work of Black Sabbath. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands from England, the electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit are the most common instruments used to play doom metal, although keyboards are sometimes used. Guitarists and bassists often downtune their instruments to very low notes and this produces a very thick or heavy guitar tone, which is one of the defining characteristics of the genre. Along with the heavy metal compositional technique of guitars and bass playing the same riff in unison. Another defining characteristic is the consistent focus on slow tempos, so-called epic doom vocalists often take it a step further, singing in an operatic style. Doom metal bands influenced by extreme metal genres often use growled or screamed vocals, as is the case of death/doom, black/doom. Lyrics in doom metal play a key role, often, they are gloomy and pessimistic, include themes such as, suffering, depression, fear, grief, dread, death and anger. While some bands write lyrics in introspective and personal ways, others convey their themes using symbolism – which may be inspired by literature, some doom metal bands use religious themes in their music. Trouble, one of the pioneers, were among the first to incorporate Christian imagery. Others have incorporated occult and pagan imagery, for many bands, the use of religious themes is for aesthetic and symbolic purposes only. Examples include lyrics/imagery about the Last Judgment to invoke dread, or the use of crucifixes, furthermore, some doom metal bands write lyrics about drugs or drug addiction. This is most common among stoner doom bands, who often describe hallucinogenic or psychedelic experiences, Doom metal is rooted in the music of early Black Sabbath. Aside from Pentagram and Black Sabbath, other groups from the 70s would heavily influence the genres development, blue Cheer is often hailed as one of the first stoner metal bands. Through the use of amplifiers and guitar feedback, their debut Vincebus Eruptum created a template for other artists to follow. Early doom metal was influenced by Japans Flower Travellin Band, particularly their albums Kirikyogen. Other notable groups include Sir Lord Baltimore, Buffalo, Bang, Necromandus, Lucifers Friend, Jacula, Iron Claw, during the early-mid-1980s, bands from England and the United States contributed much to the formation of doom metal as a distinct genre
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Black metal
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Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw recording, unconventional song structures. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms, during the 1980s, several thrash and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This so-called first wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer, a second wave arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Satyricon and Gorgoroth. The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre, norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles independently. Some prominent Swedish bands spawned during this wave, such as Marduk, Nifelheim. Initially a synonym for Satanic metal, black metal is often met with hostility from mainstream culture, due to the actions, many artists express extreme anti-Christian and misanthropic views, advocating various forms of Satanism or ethnic paganism. In the 1990s, members of the scene were responsible for a spate of church burnings, there is also a small neo-Nazi movement within black metal, although it has been shunned by many prominent artists. Generally, black metal strives to remain underground, inaccessible to the mainstream, although contemporary black metal typically refers to the Norwegian style with shrieking vocals and raw production, the term has also been applied to bands with widely differing sounds. Norwegian-inspired black metal guitarists usually favor high-pitched or trebly guitar tones, the guitar is usually played with fast, un-muted tremolo picking. Guitarists often use dissonance—along with specific scales, intervals and chord progressions—to create a sense of dread, the tritone, or flat-fifth, is often used. Guitar solos and low guitar tunings are rare in black metal, the bass guitar is seldom used to play stand-alone melodies. It is not uncommon for the bass to be muted against the guitar, some newer black metal bands began raising their production quality and introducing additional instruments such as synthesizers and even orchestras. The drumming is usually fast and relies on double-bass and blast beats to maintain tempos that can sometimes approach 300 beats per minute and these fast tempos require great skill and physical stamina, typified by black metal drummers Frost and Hellhammer. Even still, authenticity is still prioritized over technique and this professionalism has to go, insists well-respected drummer and metal historian Fenriz of Darkthrone. I want to de-learn playing drums, I want to play primitive and simple, I dont want to play like a drum solo all the time, Black metal songs often stray from conventional song structure and often lack clear verse-chorus sections. Instead, many black metal songs contain lengthy and repetitive instrumental sections, the Greek style—established by Rotting Christ, Necromantia and Varathron—has more traditional heavy metal and death metal traits than Norwegian black metal. Traditional black metal bands tend to favor raspy, high-pitched vocals which include such as shrieking, screaming, and snarling
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Dark ambient
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Dark ambient is a genre of post-industrial music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones, some of which were heavily inspired by elements of ambient music. The term was coined in the early 1990s by Roger Karmanik to describe the music of Raison dêtre and is associated with the Cold Meat Industry record label. Dark ambient has its roots in the 1970s, with the introduction of newer, smaller, early genre elements can be found on Throbbing Gristles 1978 album D. o. A, The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle. These artists make use of principles such as noise and shock tactics. Many of these artists are eclectic in their output, with much of it falling outside of ambient industrial, dark ambient has vibrated also into contemporary classical music. The example can be some solo works of composer Vladimír Hirsch, for example, entire works may be based on radio telescope recordings, the babbling of newborn babies, or sounds recorded through contact microphones on telegraph wires. Generally the music tends to evoke a feeling of solitude, melancholy, confinement, however, while the theme in the music tends to be dark in nature, some artists create more organic soundscapes. Examples of such productions are those of Oöphoi, Alio Die, Mathias Grassow, Tau Ceti, List of dark ambient artists List of electronic music genres
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Noise rock
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Noise rock is a diverse style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Some groups are tied to song structures, such as Sonic Youth, while the music had been around for some time, the term noise rock was coined in the 1980s to describe an offshoot of punk groups with an increasingly abrasive approach. An archetypal album is the Velvet Undergrounds White Light/White Heat, treblezines Joe Gross credits the cult classic with being the first noise rock album, accordingly, perhaps it’s an obvious starting point, but it’s also the starting point. Sonic Youths Thurston Moore explained, Noise has taken the place of punk rock, people who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the folk scene have replaced it. Starting in the 1990s, noise punk developed mostly as a form of party music, with the band Lightning Bolt serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in Providence, Rhode Island
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Sunn
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Sunn amplifiers was a brand of musical instrument amplifiers. Sunn was based in Tualatin, Oregon, in early 1963, the Kingsmen, a band based in Portland, Oregon, became known for their hit version of the song Louie, Louie. After its hit single, the band embarked on a 50-state national tour. Because the band was used to playing small hops and school dances, bassist Norm Sundholm discovered that his bass amp was not nearly powerful enough to play larger concert halls. Sundholm enlisted the help of his brother Conrad to help solve his problem, by 1964, the Sundholm brothers had designed a high-powered concert bass amplifier. By 1965, the demand for Sundholms amplifiers had increased to the point where the garage could no longer be used as the manufacturing facility. Thus, the Sunn Musical Equipment Company was founded, gross National Productions was the East Coast promo band for Sunn in 1971. The band Sunn O))) was named after the company, Sunn was ultimately acquired by Fender, which discontinued production in 2002. Sunn Support - official home page Conrad Sundholm Interview - NAMM Oral History Library
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Amplifier
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An amplifier, electronic amplifier or amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal. An amplifier functions by taking power from a supply and controlling the output to match the input signal shape. In this sense, an amplifier modulates the output of the power supply based upon the properties of the input signal, an amplifier is effectively the opposite of an attenuator, while an amplifier provides gain, an attenuator provides loss. An amplifier can either be a piece of equipment or an electrical circuit contained within another device. Amplification is fundamental to modern electronics, and amplifiers are used in almost all electronic equipment. Amplifiers can be categorized in different ways, another is which quantity, voltage or current is being amplified, amplifiers can be divided into voltage amplifiers, current amplifiers, transconductance amplifiers, and transresistance amplifiers. A further distinction is whether the output is a linear or nonlinear representation of the input, amplifiers can also be categorized by their physical placement in the signal chain. The first practical device that could amplify was the triode vacuum tube, invented in 1906 by Lee De Forest. Vacuum tubes were used in almost all amplifiers until the 1960s–1970s when the transistor, invented in 1947, today most amplifiers use transistors, but vacuum tubes continue to be used in some applications. Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters. After the turn of the century it was found that negative resistance mercury lamps could amplify, the first practical electronic device that could amplify was the Audion vacuum tube, invented in 1906 by Lee De Forest, which led to the first amplifiers around 1912. The terms amplifier and amplification were first used for this new capability around 1915 when triodes became widespread, the amplifying vacuum tube revolutionized electrical technology, creating the new field of electronics, the technology of active electrical devices. It made possible long distance lines, public address systems, radio broadcasting, talking motion pictures, practical audio recording, radar, television. For 50 years virtually all electronic devices used vacuum tubes. Early tube amplifiers often had positive feedback, which could increase gain but also make the amplifier unstable, much of the mathematical theory of amplifiers was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories during the 1920s to 1940s. Other advances in the theory of amplification were made by Harry Nyquist, the vacuum tube was the only amplifying device for 40 years, and dominated electronics until 1947, when the first transistor, the BJT, was invented. Today most amplifiers use transistors, but vacuum tubes are used in some high power applications such as radio transmitters. All amplifiers have gain, a factor that relates the magnitude of some property of the output signal to a property of the input signal
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Dropped A tuning
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Dropped A tuning is an alternate tuning for a 7 string guitar where the lowest string is tuned down from the standard B by one whole step to A as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. Also, for a 6 string guitar, dropped A tuning is achieved by tuning all strings down a 4th with the lowest string tuned 1 additional step down as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-F#3-B3 and this is a drop 1 tuning in the key of B. As a result, it uses the same fingering as drop D tuning, an alternate dropped A tuning utilizes a guitar tuned to E Standard with the 6th string dropped to a low A, resulting in AADGBE with the 6th and 5th strings an octave apart. Another variation of this tuning is AEADGB, which imitates a 7 on a six-string, excluding the high E, another dropped A tuning is AGCFAD. 208 Talks of Angels Amaranthe Amon Amarth A. N. I. M. A. L, - from Poder Latino to Combativo albums. Bloodbath Blotted Science Carnifex Chelsea Grin Chunk, no, Captain Chunk Coheed and Cambria Conquering Dystopia Crowbar C. J
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Robe
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A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. Unlike garments described as capes or cloaks, robes usually have sleeves, the English word robe derives from Middle English robe, borrowed from Old French robe, itself taken from the Frankish word *rouba, and is related to the word rob. A gown worn as part of the attire of a judge or barrister, a wide variety of long, flowing religious dress including pulpit robes and the robes worn by various types of monks. A gown worn as part of the dress of a peer or royalty. Any of several womens fashions of French origin, as robe à langlaise, a gown worn in fantasy literature and role-playing games by wizards and other magical characters. A bathrobe worn mostly after bathing or swimming, any long flowing garment, for example, a cassock is sometimes called a robe, although a cassock is close-fitting
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Rise Above Records
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Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian. It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered and it was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S. O. B. But by 1991 had changed to cater to doom and sludge metal, Rise Above releases were getting US distribution from the mid-90s to 2004 by The Music Cartel. As of 2005, they are currently getting distribution by Candlelight Records, JVC Victor were their Japanese distributors until 2007 when Leaf Hound Records began distributing the Japanese versions of Rise Above releases. In 2005, Rise Above announced a 7 & split series for their bands, so far there have been seven releases in this matter. In 2006, Rise Above announced a sub-branch called Rise Above Relics, catering rare, there have been three releases on this sub-label. O. B. Sunn O))) Taint Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine Unearthly Trance Witchcraft RISE001 - Napalm Death Live -7 EP RISE002 - S. O. B. Thrash Night -7 EP RISE003 - Long Cold Stare - Tired Eyes LP RISE004 - S. O. B. 1 CD CDRISE14 - Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics. /Electric Wizard 2xCD CDRISE21 - Cathedral - In Memoriam CD CDRISE22 - Goatsnake - Goatsnake Vol. CD RISECD59 - Debris Inc, CD RISECD/LP60 - Grand Magus - Wolfs Return CD/LP RISECD61 -. Reissued in 2011 with three bonus tracks, RISECD77 - Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues. Reissued in early 2011 with three bonus tracks, RISECD78 - Orange Goblin - The Big Black RISECD79 - Orange Goblin - Coup De Grace. Reissued in 2011 with three bonus tracks, rAR7001 - Luv Machine - Witches Wand 7 RARCD/LP001 - Luv Machine - Turns You On
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Hydra Head Records
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Hydra Head Records is an independent record label that specializes in extreme metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993. It has another imprint, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specializes in experimental, Hydra Head was founded in 1993 as a distribution company while Turner was still in high school. In 1995, he moved to Boston to attend art school, in late 1995, he was handed a demo by local band Vent. That seven-inch single would be the first record released on Hydra Head, the label grew to accommodate local bands such as Roswell, Corrin, Piebald, and Converge, and after Turner graduated from college in 1999, it became a full-time endeavor. In 2011, Hydra Head relocated to Los Angeles, California, from its home in Boston. Some of the bands signed to the label include Cave In, Xasthur, Kayo Dot, Boris and its discography includes Botch, Khanate, and Harkonen, who were all signed to Hydra Head prior to their respective disbandings. The label would continue to stay operational, maintaining its back catalogue to pay off its rather sizeable debts, the labels final release of new material was Worship is the Cleansing of the Imagination, a split album between JK Flesh & Prurient. The Gersch Old Man Gloom Scissorfight 5ive Tusk Hydra Head Records discography Southern Lord Records Official site Interview with Aaron Turner
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Unusual types of gramophone records
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The overwhelming majority of records manufactured have been of certain sizes, playback speeds, and appearance. However, since the adoption of the gramophone record, a wide variety of records have also been produced that do not fall into these categories. The most common sizes for gramophone records are 12-inch, 10-inch. Early American shellac records were all 7-inch until 1901, when 10-inch records were introduced, 12-inch records joined them in 1903. By 1910, other sizes were retired and nearly all discs were either 10-inch or 12-inch, in Europe, early 10-inch and 12-inch shellac records were produced in the first three decades of the twentieth century. 7-inch childrens records were sold before World War II but nearly all were made of brittle shellac, in the late 1940s, small plastic records, including some small picture discs, replaced them. Ten-inch childrens records were made as well, but the 7-inch size was more compatible with small hands, the 7-inch size was also used for flexi discs which were popular in Japan where they were known as sound-sheets and were often in traditional round format. In other areas, flexi discs were usually square and often included in a magazine, numerous unusual diameters have been produced since the early 1900s ranging from 2 to 19.7 inches. Oddly shaped discs were also produced, the most common rotational speeds for gramophone records are 33 1⁄3 revolutions per minute,45 RPM, and 78 RPM. Throughout the history of the industry, however, numerous unusual turn-speeds ranging from 3 to 130 RPM have been utilized for a variety of purposes. In the early 1920s, the World Record Company in the U. K. introduced longer-playing records with speeds measured in inches per second rather than revolutions per minute and this is known as the CLV format, as opposed to the usual CAV format. Of course, only special World records could be used, the World system was a commercial failure. The principle, first proposed in a fundamental U. S, compact discs and DVDs use the CLV format to make efficient use of their surface areas. Both machines recorded at a pitch, but the Grey Audograph could only record at one linear speed allowing 15 minutes per side of a 7-inch disc. The CGS or Memovox, on the hand, had a High Fidelity speed as well as a Speech speed. In the 1970s, Atlantic Records started producing a series of albums later designated on a known as Syntonic Research. Each album consisted of two tracks, usually at least half an hour long per side, of sounds recorded of various locations. There were a few dozen made and these were mostly used for soundscape or relaxation purposes
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White1
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White1 is the third album by Sunn O))). It was the most significant departure from their style to date. The lyrics to The Gates of Ballard come from Håvard Hedde, another metal version of Håvard Hedde had been recorded in 1995 by Storm. In Q magazines August issue, they named White1 as the 18th loudest album of all time, just above AC/DCs Back in Black, julian Cope – vocals Runhild Gammelsæter – vocals Rex Ritter – keyboards Joe Preston – guitars, bass guitar, programming, electronics White2 WHITEbox
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Black One
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Black One is the fifth album by Sunn O))). It is a combination of experimental and traditional Sunn O))), utilizing many guest musicians, including black metal musicians Malefic and Wrest from Xasthur and Leviathan. The band supposedly also went so far as to lock the claustrophobic Malefic in a casket to record the vocals on Báthory Erzsébet. 2,000 copies included a disc titled Solstitium Fulminate, containing a mix of live performances recorded at Roskilde Festival in 2005. Orthodox Caveman, previously known as Caveman Salad, is based on material from the White tour. Báthory Erzsébet was recorded as a tribute to Quorthon and, according to an interview with Terrorizer magazine, is built around a really slowed down riff from A Fine Day to Die. The album is not a continuation of the White1 and White2 style, as the band has repeatedly stated, the title is written as the word one, not the digit
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The New York Times Magazine
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The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors, the magazine is also noted for its photography, especially relating to fashion and style. Its first issue was published on September 6,1896, in the early decades it was a section of the broadsheet paper and not an insert as it is today. In its early years, The New York Times Magazine began a tradition of publishing the writing of well-known contributors, du Bois and Albert Einstein to numerous sitting and future U. S. Presidents. Editor Lester Markel, an intense and autocratic journalist who oversaw the Sunday Times from the 1920s through the 1950s, during his tenure, writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams contributed pieces to the magazine. When, in 1970, The New York Times introduced its first Op-Ed page, in 1979, the magazine began publishing Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Safires On Language, a column discussing issues of English grammar, use and etymology. Safires column steadily gained popularity and by 1990 was generating more mail than anything else in the magazine, the year 1999 saw the debut of The Ethicist, an advice column written by humorist Randy Cohen that quickly became a highly contentious part of the magazine. In 2011, Ariel Kaminer replaced Cohen as the author of the column, Klosterman left in early 2015 to be replaced by a trio of authors -- Kenji Yoshino, Amy Bloom, and Jack Shafer—who use a conversational format. Consumed, Rob Walkers regular column on culture, debuted in 2004. com, The New Republic magazines website, Greg Veis. In December 2010, Lindgren hired Joel Lovell, formerly editor at GQ magazine. In January 2012, humorist John Hodgman, who hosts his comedy court show podcast Judge John Hodgman, began writing a regular column Judge John Hodgman Rules for the The One-Page Magazine, in 2004, The New York Times Magazine began publishing an entire supplement devoted to style. Titled T, the supplement is edited by Deborah Needleman and appears 14 times a year, in 2009, it launched a Qatari Edition as a standalone magazine. In 2006, the magazine introduced two other supplements, PLAY, a magazine published every other month, and KEY. The Funny Pages was made up of three parts, the Strip, the Sunday Serial, and True-Life Tales, on July 8,2007, the magazine stopped printing True-Life Tales. 92% of 1824 voters answered No, the Funny Pages is no longer published in the magazine. Of the serial novels, At Risk, Limitations, The Overlook, Gentlemen of the Road, and The Lemur have since been published in book form with added material
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Wonka Vision
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Wonka Vision Magazine was an American music magazine. It was founded in 1997 by Justin Luczejko, and ceased publication in 2010, while Luczejko was in high school he started Wonka Vision Magazine with two friends, a 20-page zine that they copied at an OfficeMax. The name comes from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, in 2001 Wonka Vision also became a record label. The magazine featured interviews, album reviews, and pop culture articles
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Q (magazine)
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Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Q was first published by the EMAP media group in October 1986, setting apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled The modern guide to music, originally it was to be called Cue, but the name was changed so that it wouldnt be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Qs 200th edition, is that a title would be more prominent on newsstands. In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer titles, including Q. The magazine has a review section, featuring, new releases, reissues, music compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio. It uses a system from one to five stars, indeed. While its content is non-free they host an archive of all of their magazine covers, much of the magazine is devoted to interviews with popular musical artists. It is well known for compiling lists and it has created many, ranging from The 100 Greatest albums to the 100 Greatest 100 Greatest Lists. Every other month, Q — and its magazine, Mojo — have a special edition. These have been about musical times, genres, or a very important/influential musician, often, promotional gifts are given away, such as cover-mounted CDs or books. The January 2006 issue included a copy of The Greatest Rock. Every issue of Q has a different message on the spine, readers then try to work out what the message has to do with the contents of the mag. This practice — known as the spine line — has since become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including Qs sister publication, Empire, on 4 March 2007, Q named Elvis Presley the greatest singer of all time. The magazine has a relationship with the Glastonbury Festival, producing both a free daily newspaper on site during the festival and a review magazine available at the end of the festival. In late 2008 Q revamped its image, with an amount of text. This Rolling Stone-isation has led to criticism from much of the traditional Q readership, in 2006, Q published a readers survey, the 100 Greatest Songs Ever, won by Oasis Live Forever. Q has a history of associating with charitable organisations, and in 2006 the British anti-poverty charity War on Want was named its official charity, in the April 2007 issue, Q published an article containing the 100 Greatest Singers, won by Elvis Presley
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AC/DC
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AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. A hard rock/blues rock band, they have also considered a heavy metal band, although they have always dubbed their music simply rock. AC/DC underwent several changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975, Malcolm. Membership subsequently stabilised until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977 for the album Powerage, within months of recording the album Highway to Hell, lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group considered disbanding, but buoyed by support from Scotts parents, decided to continue, ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was auditioned and selected to replace Scott. Later that year, the released the new album, Back in Black. The album launched them to new heights of success and became their all-time best-seller, the bands next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was their first album to reach number one in the United States. Drummer Phil Rudd was fired in 1983 and replaced by ex-A II Z drummer Simon Wright, the band experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s with the release of The Razors Edge. Phil Rudd returned in 1994 after Chris Slade, who was with the band from 1989 to 1994, was asked to leave in favour of him, Stiff Upper Lip, released in 2000, was well received by critics. The bands line-up remained the same until 2014 with Malcolm Youngs retirement, in 2016, Johnson was advised to stop touring on account of worsening hearing loss and Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose stepped in as the bands vocalist for the remainder of that years dates. Long-term bass player Cliff Williams subsequently indicated that he would retire from the band on the completion of their current world tour, Back in Black has sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the second-highest-selling album by any artist – and the highest-selling album by any band. The album has sold 22 million units in the US alone, AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and were named the seventh Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time by MTV. In 2004, AC/DC ranked No.72 on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Producer Rick Rubin, who wrote an essay on the band for the Rolling Stone list, referred to AC/DC as the greatest rock, in 2010, AC/DC were ranked number 23 in the VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland, George was the first to learn to play the guitar. He became a member of The Easybeats, one of Australias most successful bands of the 1960s, in 1966, they became the first local rock act to have an international hit, with the song Friday on My Mind. Malcolm followed in Georges footsteps by playing with a Newcastle, New South Wales and their oldest brother Alex Young chose to remain in Britain to pursue musical interests. Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the name after their sister, Margaret Young
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Back in Black
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Back in Black is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. Produced by Robert John Mutt Lange, the album was released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions, by the late 1970s, AC/DC began to achieve significant popularity outside their native Australia, with high-energy live performances and a string of successful albums. In 1979, they paired with producer Lange and recorded their international breakthrough, shortly before the recording of their follow-up, lead vocalist Bon Scott died after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group continued with ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson, Back in Black was recorded over seven weeks in the Bahamas in spring 1980. The area was hit by storms at the time, making the sessions difficult at times. Johnson penned the lyrics and melodies, while guitarists Angus. Its musical content consists of hard rock-styled numbers, Lange demanded perfection in the bands recordings, particularly on Johnsons vocals. Following its completion, the group mixed Back in Black at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the albums all-black cover was designed as a sign of mourning for Scott. Their sixth international release, Back in Black was an unprecedented success and its enormous sales figures have made it the second-highest-selling album in history. The band supported the album with a world tour, cementing them among the most popular music acts of the early 1980s. Back in Black received positive reception at the time of its release. Since its initial release, the album has been reissued and remastered multiple times, by 1979, AC/DC were poised to receive a significant level of success with their sixth studio album, Highway to Hell. AC/DC, formed in 1973, first broke into international markets in 1977 with their fourth record and they were notable for their high-energy live performances, in which lead guitarist Angus Young would don a schoolboy outfit, and for singer Bon Scotts distinctive raspy voice. As the new decade approached, the set off for the UK. They planned to begin recording a follow-up shortly after its completion, on 19 February 1980, Scott went on a drinking binge in a London pub that caused him to lose consciousness, so a friend let him rest in the back of his Renault 5 overnight. The next morning, Scott was found unresponsive and rushed to Kings College Hospital where medical personnel pronounced him dead on arrival, Scott was cremated and his ashes were interred by his family at Fremantle Cemetery in Fremantle, Western Australia. The loss devastated the band, who considered breaking up, however, friends and family persuaded them to carry on. After Bon Scotts funeral, the band began auditions for a replacement frontman
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Jimi Hendrix
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James Marshall Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music, born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hey Joe, Purple Haze, and The Wind Cries Mary. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues and he favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a pedal in mainstream rock. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented, Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as a sound source. Hendrix was the recipient of several awards during his lifetime. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, Jimi Hendrix was of African American descent. Both his mother Lucille and father Al were African Americans and his paternal grandmother, Zenora Nora Rose Moore, was African American and one-quarter Cherokee. On June 10,1919, Hendrix and Moore had a son they named James Allen Ross Hendrix, in 1941, Al met Lucille Jeter at a dance in Seattle, they married on March 31,1942. Al, who had been drafted by the U. S. Army to serve in World War II, Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27,1942, in Seattle, he was the first of Lucilles five children. In 1946, Johnnys parents changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix, in honor of Al and he spent two months locked up without trial, and while in the stockade received a telegram announcing his sons birth. During Als three-year absence, Lucille struggled to raise their son, when Al was away, Hendrix was mostly cared for by family members and friends, especially Lucilles sister Delores Hall and her friend Dorothy Harding. Al received a discharge from the U. S. Army on September 1,1945. After returning from service, Al reunited with Lucille, but his inability to find steady work left the family impoverished and they both struggled with alcohol, and often fought when intoxicated. The violence sometimes drove Hendrix to withdraw and hide in a closet in their home and his relationship with his brother Leon was close but precarious, with Leon in and out of foster care, they lived with an almost constant threat of fraternal separation. In addition to Leon, Hendrix had three siblings, Joseph, born in 1949, Kathy in 1950, and Pamela,1951, all of whom Al and Lucille gave up to foster care
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Are You Experienced
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Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, the LP was a critical and commercial success. The album features Jimi Hendrixs innovative approach to songwriting and electric guitar playing which soon established a new direction in psychedelic, by mid-1966, Hendrix was struggling to earn a living playing the R&B circuit as a backing guitarist. Chandler brought Hendrix to London and began recruiting members for a designed to showcase the guitarists talents. In late October, after having been rejected by Decca Records, the Experience signed with Track, are You Experienced and its preceding singles were recorded over a five-month period from late October 1966 through early April 1967. The album was completed in sixteen recording sessions at three London locations, including De Lane Lea Studios, CBS, and Olympic, released in the UK on May 12,1967, Are You Experienced spent 33 weeks on the charts, peaking at number two. The album was issued in the US on August 23 by Reprise Records, the album also spent 70 weeks on the US Billboard R&B chart, where it peaked at #10. In 2005, Rolling Stone ranked Are You Experienced fifteenth on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. They placed four songs from the album on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Hey Joe, and The Wind Cries Mary. That same year, the record was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress in recognition of its significance to be added to the National Recording Registry. Writer and archivist Rueben Jackson of the Smithsonian Institution wrote, its still a recording because it is of the rock, R&B. It altered the syntax of the music, in a way I compare to James Joyces Ulysses. By May 1966, Jimi Hendrix was struggling to earn a living playing the R&B circuit as a back-up guitarist. During a performance at one of New York Citys most popular nightspots, the Cheetah Club, he was noticed by Linda Keith, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Soon afterward, Hendrix relocated to the citys Greenwich Village and began a residency at the Cafe Wha. fronting his own band, Jimmy James, Keith recommended Hendrix to Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and producer Seymour Stein. They failed to see Hendrixs musical potential, and rejected him and she then referred him to Chas Chandler, who was leaving the Animals and interested in managing and producing artists. Chandler liked the Billy Roberts song Hey Joe, and was convinced he could create a hit single with the right artist, immediately following Hendrixs arrival in London, Chandler began recruiting members for a band designed to showcase the guitarists talents, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix met the guitarist Noel Redding at an audition for the New Animals, Chandler asked Redding if he wanted to play bass guitar in Hendrixs band, Redding agreed
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