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Embryonics
''Embryonics'' is a double-CD compilation of tracks by the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. It was released in 2005 in Australia by Chatterbox Records and worldwide by Relapse Records. The album features 28 tracks recorded by the band between 1990 and 1998 including eight songs from the album ''Jar of Kingdom'', eight from '' Lunasphere'' and five from ''Spiritech'' along with a cover of "Eve of the War" from '' Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds'' that was the title track from EP '' Eve of the War'' that is now deleted. The live version of "Chinese Whispers" is also from that EP; the other live tracks were recorded in 1995 at the studios of Triple J for an episode of ''Three Hours of Power'' and are exclusive to this release. "Paisley Bieurr" and "Imagination Flower" are early demo tracks. Track listing (all songs written by Alchemist except #1, CD 2 by Jeff Wayne) CD 1 CD 2 Credits Band members * Adam Agius − vocals, guitar, key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alchemist (band)
Alchemist was an Australian progressive metal band from Canberra whose style combined death metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, Eastern, Aboriginal and electronic influences. The band formed in 1987 and released six studio albums, an EP and a compilation album. Work began on a new EP in 2010 but the band went on an indefinite hiatus and then split up. They are the only group to appear at every Metal for the Brain festival, an event they ran and organised from 1996. Alchemist also played at the Big Day Out and toured Europe several times. History 1987−1992 Alchemist was formed in 1987 by Adam Agius ( lead vocals/guitar) as a death metal act. The band released a demo the same year entitled "Eternal Wedlock". The band's style was raw and undeveloped, and began to evolve with the addition of new drummer Rodney Holder in 1989. The following year, the line-up of Agius, Holder, Andrew Meredith (guitar) and James Preece ( bass) recorded a second demo. The demo showed the beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunasphere
''Lunasphere'' is the second full-length album by the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist, and the first of their albums to be released by Shock Records through its metal subsidiary Thrust, in 1995. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic described ''Lunasphere'' as "Like a doorway into another dimension, the Aussie group's wildly experimental songs often stand on the knife edge between control and chaos, between reason and insanity, and are capable of melding wickedly crushing heavy metal riffing with surprisingly gentle moments of quiet introspection". All of this album's tracks later appeared on the ''Embryonics'' compilation, except the instrumental fragment "Luminous". A live version of "Yoni Kunda" was used on the " Eve of the War" EP. An alternate live version of both this track and "Closed Chapter" were also included on ''Embryonics''. "Luminous" and "Garden of Eroticism" were used in the soundtrack to a 2010 episode of the TV show ''Bondi Rescue''. Track listing All trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jar Of Kingdom
''Jar of Kingdom'' is the debut album by Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. The band recorded the album after receiving a record contract in the mail from Austrian label Lethal Records and was released by that company in October 1993. During the recording of the first track "Abstraction", vocalist Adam Agius damaged his voice, thus resulting in the raw vocal sound on the rest of the album. The name "Jar of Kingdom" was inspired by a comment by television personality and entertainer Graham Kennedy during a comedy skit, in which he described a vial of pig semen as a "jar of kingdom". ''Jar of Kingdom'' featured early experiments with synthesisers, acoustic guitars and samples: "Whale" includes the sample of a humpback whale song. All tracks from this album except "Wandering and Wondering" and "Whale" later appeared on the '' Embryonics'' compilation. The album was dedicated to the memory of John Munns and David Carter. Track listing All tracks by Alchemist Credits B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Of The War
''Eve of the War'' is a six-track extended play from the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. The EP was released by Shock Records through its subsidiary label Thrust in November 1998. The title track, "Eve of the War" is a cover version of the opening piece from the British 1978 album, '' Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds''. The EP has two live songs: "Yoni Kunda" first released on ''Lunasphere'' (May 1995), and "Chinese Whispers" from ''Spiritech'' (June 1997). The other tracks are a remix of "Yoni Kunda", and two re-mastered tracks from ''Jar of Kingdom'' (October 1993). A music video of the title track was provided. The EP is now deleted, "Eve of the War" and the live version of "Chinese Whispers" were later included on their compilation album, ''Embryonics'' (November 2005).Alchemist Discography ''Eve of the War''Alchemist official site Accessed 6 June 2007 Track listing Personnel ;Alchemist * Adam Agius – vocals, guitar, k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Agius
Adam Agius (born 21 September 1971) is the vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive metal band Alchemist. He formed Alchemist in 1987 while still in high school and is the group's only remaining original member. He also was the financial provider, director of show day and promoter for Metal for the Brain. His main band Alchemist went on an indefinite hiatus and as a result has started up a new successor project The Levitation Hex. The Levitation Hex also includes Mark Palfreyman and Scott Young of Alarum and Ben Hocking of Aeon of Horus. A tentative album is due for May 2012 with a tour later on to promote the album. He has a side project Pilots of Baalbek. Vocal style and musical influences Vocal style Agius' vocal style is one of the most prominent aspects of Alchemist's music. His voice ranges from a standard death growl-like approach to extraordinary high-pitched screams and shrieks he refers to as "banshee screams", best exemplified by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiritech
''Spiritech'' is the third full-length studio album by the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. It was released in 1997 by Australian label Thrust and distributed by Shock Records. A promotional music video for the song "Road to Ubar" was released. "Spiritechnology" samples Ronald Reagan speaking on extraterrestrial life and its possible effect on religion, while "Chinese Whispers" has become popular at live shows. The album has received very positive reviews, with Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic suggesting it is "possibly the greatest space metal album since Voivod's landmark '' Nothingface'', adding that Alchemist "meshed eath metalseamlessly with progressive rock, psychedelia, Middle Eastern nuances, and even native Australian aboriginal music". The album's lyrics tend to explore the relationship between human technology and its impact on nature, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The first five tracks from ''Spiritech'' later appeared on the '' Embryon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austral Alien
''Austral Alien'' is the fifth full-length studio album by the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist. It was recorded and mixed in only ten days. It was released in 2003 by Chatterbox Records in Australia and worldwide by Relapse Records. ''Austral Alien'' is semi-conceptual with a lyrical focus inspired by the Australian environment and the impact of man on the ecology. Promotional music videos for the songs "First Contact", "Solarburn" and "Alpha Capella Nova Vega" were released, with the video for "Solarburn" expressing the album's concept, using imagery from the 2003 Canberra bushfires. The cover art is influenced by Surrealism. ''Austral Alien'' featured more keyboards and a mellowing of their previous death metal guitar sound, with even shorter songs than ''Organasm''. Allmusic suggested that "''Austral Alien'' is for Alchemist what, say, ''Permanent Waves'' was to Rush (see the increased use of synthesizers A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripsis
''Tripsis'' is the sixth and final full-length studio album by the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist. Recorded in 2007, Adam Agius stated that the songwriting focused on a consistently heavy approach. A promotional music video for the song "Wrapped in Guilt" was planned. A music video for "Tongues and Knives" premiered on 8 October 2008. When asked on the meaning of the album, Agius remarked: Track listing # "Wrapped in Guilt" − 4:34 # "Tongues and Knives" − 5:15 # "Nothing in No Time" − 5:50 # "Anticipation of a High" − 4:34 # "Grasp the Air" − 4:36 # "CommunicHate" − 4:26 # "Substance for Shadow" − 4:50 # "God Shaped Hole" − 5:05 # "Degenerative Breeding" − 3:47 Credits * Adam Agius − vocals, guitar, keyboards * Roy Torkington − guitar, artwork, layout and design * John Bray − bass guitar * Rodney Holder − drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singing
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised. It may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual as part of music education or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Keyboard
An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic derivative of keyboard instruments. Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations. In technical terms, an electronic keyboard is a synthesizer with a low-wattage power amplifier and small loudspeakers. Electronic keyboards are capable of recreating a wide range of instrument sounds (piano, Hammond organ, pipe organ, violin, etc.) and synthesizer tones with less complex sound synthesis. Electronic keyboards are usually designed for home users, beginners and other non-professional users. They typically have unweighted keys. The least expensive models do not have velocity-sensitive keys, but mid- to high-priced models do. Home keyboards typically have little, if any, digital sound editing capacity. The user typically selects from a range of preset "voices" or sounds, which include imitations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic guitar exist). It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers. The sound is sometimes shaped or electronically altered to achieve different timbres or tonal qualities on the amplifier settings or the knobs on the guitar from that of an acoustic guitar. Often, this is done through the use of effects such as reverb, distortion and "overdrive"; the latter is considered to be a key element of electric blues guitar music and jazz and rock guitar playing. Invented in 1932, the electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitar players, who wanted to play single-note guitar solos in large big band ensembles. Early proponents of the electric guitar on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Wayne
Jeffry Wayne (born 1 July 1943) is an American-British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978, he released ''Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds'', his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel ''The War of the Worlds''. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, including a Gordon's Gin commercial which was covered by the Human League. Wayne also composed numerous television themes, including '' Good Morning Britain'' (TV-am), ITV's ''The Big Match'' and '' World of Sport'', BBC's ''Sixty Minutes'', and for 24 years, the UK's first news radio station, LBC. Wayne wrote feature film and documentary film scores and was musical director for various artists. Wayne published a book called ''The Book of Tennis'' and created, produced and scored eight thirty-minute episodes of ''The Book of Tennis Chronicles'' that was distributed by Fox Sports in approximately twenty countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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