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Chaos Is My Name
''Chaos is My Name'' is the debut album by the drone doom band Khlyst. Stephen Kasner did the artwork for the album.James Plotkin Current Actions @ plotkinworks.com


Track listing

# "I" – 2:44 # "II" – 7:50 # "III" – 1:45 # "IV" – 2:00 # "V" – 3:53 # "VI" – 7:13 # "VII" – 6:16 # "VIII" – 4:53


Personnel

* Runhild Gammelsæter - voice * - guitar, laptop *

Khlyst (band)
Khlyst is an American drone doom band, formed in 2006. In Russian, the word means "switch", "whip", or "scourge". Biography Khlyst is a drone doom project that features guitarist James Plotkin ( Khanate, Phantomsmasher, OLD), vocalist Runhild Gammelsæter (Thorr's Hammer), and drummer Tim Wyskida ( Khanate, Blind Idiot God). Line-up * Runhild Gammelsæter - vocals, text *James Plotkin - Electric guitar, laptop * Tim Wyskida - drums, gong Discography *'' Chaos Is My Name'' (CD, Hydra Head Records, 2006) *''Chaos Live'' (DVD, Hydra Head Records, 2008) Limited to 500 copies, worldwide. Recorded November 2, 2006 in New York City. External linksOfficial siteKhlyst
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Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' (Berg Publishers, 2007), , p. 31. Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar from England, American bands Pentagram, Saint Vitus, the Obsessed, Trouble, and Cirith Ungol, and Swedish band Candlemass defined doom metal as a distinct genre. Characteristics Instrumentation The electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum kit are the most common instruments used to play doom metal (although keyboards are sometimes used), but its structures are rooted in the same scales as in blues. Guit ...
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Hydra Head Records
Hydra Head Records was an independent record label that specializes in extreme metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. It had another imprint, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialized in experimental and noise music. Turner announced he was winding the label down in 2012. In 2020, the label removed its catalog from Spotify and returned its album rights back to several artists. History 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 former home in Boston, Massachusetts. Some ...
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James Plotkin
James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer known for his role in bands such as Khanate (band), Khanate and OLD (band), OLD but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has played guitar for Phantomsmasher and Scorn (band), Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja (band), Nadja, Sunn O))), Isis (band), ISIS, Pelican (band), Pelican and Earth (American band), Earth. He works in the genres of grindcore, industrial metal, noise music, drone metal, dark ambient, digital hardcore and post-metal. Discography Solo work *James Plotkin - A Strange, Perplexing - 1996 *James Plotkin - The Joy Of Disease - 1996 *James Plotkin / Pole (musician), Pole - Split Series #8 (withdrawn version) - 2000 *James Plotkin / Pimmon - Split Series #8 - 2000 *James Plotkin - Kurtlanmak/Damascus - 2006 *James Plotkin - Indirmek - 2007 Collaborative releases *James Plotkin & K.K. Null, Kazuyuki K Null - Aurora - 1994 *Jimmy Plotkin & Alan Dubin (2X self-titled 7" ...
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Stephen Kasner
Stephen Kasner (April 3, 1970 – December 25, 2019) was an American Multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary artist from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Primarily a painter and illustrator but also a musician, photographer, graphic artist, occultist and Magician (illusion), magician; Kasner was mainly known through his cover artwork designs for bands such as Rotting Christ, Decrepit (band), Decrepit, Sunn O))), Integrity (band), Integrity, Marduk (band), Marduk, & Pulling Teeth (band), Pulling Teeth among many others. His paintings have been exhibited all over the world and are noted for their wikt:sinister, sinister (sometimes satanism, satanic) themes and otherworldly aesthetic; influencing a new wave of artists in the dark arts. His artwork, drawings and photographs usually reflect visions of a pre/post-apocalyptic industrial landscape and the struggle for survival contained in dreams of enlightenment. Besides working in paint, photography, and drawings Stephen Kasner also create ...
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Runhild Gammelsæter
Runhild Gammelsæter is a Norwegian musician notable for being the vocalist for the American bands Thorr's Hammer and Khlyst. She works as a professional biologist and holds a Ph.D. in cell physiology. Biography Runhild Gammelsæter was a 17-year-old foreign exchange student from Norway when she joined Thorr's Hammer along with Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson. After six weeks, which was the time it took to release '' Sannhet i Blodet'' and record '' Dommedagsnatt'', the band split up due to Runhild returning to Oslo, Norway. ''Dommedagsnatt'' was released soon afterwards in 1996 via Southern Lord Records. The four other members of Thorr's Hammer went on to form the band Burning Witch. In 2006, she helped form the band Khlyst along with James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida. The album '' Chaos is My Name'' was released the same year, which also featured two painted portraits by Runhild herself. On June 28, 2008, her debut solo album, ''Amplicon'', was released through Utech Re ...
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Tim Wyskida
Tim Wyskida (born November 13, 1971) is an American drummer, most recognized for his work in the bands Khanate and Blind Idiot God. Biography Tim Wyskida began playing drums at the age of twelve, learning jazz technique and composition. In 2000, he joined the band Khanate, a drone metal project formed by Stephen O'Malley and James Plotkin. At the same time, he joined guitarist Andy Hawkins and bassist Gabriel Katz in the band Blind Idiot God, filling the position left by drummer Ted Epstein five years prior. After releasing three albums Khanate disbanded in 2006, with its members pursuing separate musical endeavors. In 2009, ''Clean Hands Go Foul'' was issued by Hydra Head Hydra Head Records was an independent record label that specializes in extreme metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. It had another imprint, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialized in experiment ... and comprised unreleased recordings. Blind Idiot God relea ...
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The Khlysts or Khlysty ( rus, Хлысты, p=xlɨˈstɨ, "whips") were an underground Spiritual Christian sect, which split from the Russian Orthodox Church and existed from the 1600s until the late 20th century. The New Israel sect that descended from the Khlysts still exists today in Uruguay. Name The members of the sect referred to themselves by various names, including "God's People" (''liudi bozh'i''), "followers of Christ's faith" (''Khristovovery''), or simply "Christs" (''Khristy''). The appellation "Khlysty" is a derogatory term applied by critics of the sect. The origin of the term is disputed. It is probably a corruption of the group's aforementioned self-designation of ''Khristy'', but may also allude to the sect's practice of ritual self-flagellation; the Russian word ''khlyst'' means a "whip" or "thin rod". It is also possible that the word is related to the Greek word ''Khiliaste'' (meaning "chiliast" or "millennialist"), or ''klyster'' ("one that purges"). Or ...
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