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Todd Smith (musician)
Todd Smith is an American vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist who most notably fronts the band Dog Fashion Disco. He is currently involved with the bands Polkadot Cadaver, Knives Out!, Beyond Paranoid, and his solo project El-Creepo!. Background Smith was the lead singer and songwriter for the multi-genre metal band Dog Fashion Disco from 1996 until 2007, and continued in this role when the band reformed in 2011 until the present day. Smith contributed vocal and guitar work to the 2005 album The Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys by the Ohio-based band The Alter Boys. On February 18, 2007, Smith started a musical project called Polkadot Cadaver, announced shortly after the break-up of Dog Fashion Disco. Another project, Knives Out! was started in 2008, and each band contains Jasan Stepp (of Dog Fashion Disco). Three albums have been released with Polkadot Cadaver and two albums have been released with Knives Out! Solo career Smith has also released three solo album under the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockville, Maryland
Rockville is a city that serves as the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, and is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The 2020 census tabulated Rockville's population at 67,117, making it the fifth-largest community in Montgomery County. Rockville, along with neighboring Gaithersburg and Bethesda, is at the core of the Interstate 270 Technology Corridor which is home to numerous software and biotechnology companies as well as several federal government institutions. The city, one of the major retail hubs in Montgomery County, also has several upscale regional shopping centers. History Early history Situated in the Piedmont region and crossed by three creeks ( Rock Creek, Cabin John Creek, and Watts Branch), Rockville provided an excellent refuge for semi-nomadic Native Americans as early as 8000 BC. By the first millennium BC, a few of these groups had settled down into year-round agricultural communities that exploited the native flora, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques; minor keys or atonality; abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes; and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may include slasher film-style violence,Moynihan, Michael, and Dirik Søderlind (1998). Lords of Chaos (2nd ed.). Feral House. , p. 27 political conflict, religion, nature, philosophy, true crime and science fiction. Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid-1980s. Bands such as Venom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Kreator were important influences on the genre's creation. Possessed, Death, Necrophagia, Obituary, Autopsy, and Morbid Angel are often considered pioneers of the genre. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex Offender (album)
''Sex Offender'' is the second album by Polkadot Cadaver released via Rotten Records on May 10, 2011. It charted at 17th place on the Billboard Heatseekers chart on May 28, 2011, and stayed there for one week. The album is also notable as the only Polkadot Cadaver album with bassist David Cullen as a full member and the last album with original ''DFD'' drummer John Ensminger. Track listing Personnel *Todd Smith – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards *Jasan Stepp – Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Cello *David Cullen - Bass, Keyboards, Guitar *John Ensminger – Drums Additional personnel *Matt Rippetoe – Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ... *Drew Lamonde – Engineered *Steve Wright – Mixing, Mastering *Patrick Lamond – Cover art *James Wright – P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purgatory Dance Party
''Purgatory Dance Party'' is the debut album by Polkadot Cadaver released via internet pre-sales on November 17, 2007, with a street date of November 27, 2007. The cover art is a reference to the John Travolta film ''Saturday Night Fever''. Dog Fashion Disco had earlier covered the theme tune to another Travolta film, '' Grease''. A re-recorded version of the album was released on the Razor To Wrist label in June 2020 Track listing All songs written by Polkadot Cadaver. The song "Sole Survivor" is in fact only 4:30 long; the track then contains 5 minutes of silence, and from 9:30 onwards it consists of a looped voice saying the word "Satan". Personnel *Todd Smith – Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Producer *Jasan Stepp – Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed drums, Cello, Bass, Producer *John Ensminger – Drums Additional personnel *Matt Rippetoe – Saxophone (track 9) *Drew Lamonde – Producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Nothings (album)
''Sweet Nothings'' is the seventh studio album by Dog Fashion Disco, released in 2014. Their first album in eight years, it was written and recorded after the band reunited in 2013, following an almost seven-year hiatus. It is the first album with Tim Swanson of Ideamen on keyboard. However, he played with the band on the 2006 tour in support for their previous album, ''Adultery''. Todd Smith said about the new album: "It was a love letter to our fans who missed us and grew up listening to DFD".Interview with Todd Smith by Grande-Rock.com retrieved on August 24, 2014. Background The reformation of the band was announced at the 2013 reunion in Baltimore, where Todd announced that the band was to reunite and put out a new album the following year. The band officially reunited on October ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beating A Dead Horse To Death
Beat, beats or beating may refer to: Common uses * Patrol, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area ** Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols ** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men * Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact * Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact * Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain * Strike (attack) A strike is a directed physical attack with either a part of the human body or with an inanimate object (such as a weapon) intended to cause blunt trauma or penetrating trauma upon an opponent. There are many different varieties of strikes. ..., repeatedly and violently striking a person or object * Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition People * Beat (name), a German male given name * Jackie Beat, drag persona of Kent Fuher (born 1963) * Aone Beats (born 1984) Nigerian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adultery (Dog Fashion Disco Album)
''Adultery'' is a concept album by Dog Fashion Disco, their sixth album, released in 2006, and last album to be released by the band before their dissolution in 2007. The album loosely follows the story of a private detective. Musical style '' Blabbermouth'' said in a review of the album that Dog Fashion Disco "is genre-less and proud of it" and that it continued to showcase the band's distinctive "blend of strangely accessible hard rock, metal, punk, jazz ndska". Track listing Background After the band's deal with Artemis ended, drummer Mike "Ollie" Oliver left the band. This left Smith and Stepp to write most of the album on their own without a drummer. By chance, they asked former member John Ensminger to show up to drum for them; Ensminger then became the drummer on the album, completing the lineup. The music on the ''Adultery'' is still credited to every member of the band, as each member had their own input, specifically Matt Rippetoe, whose name is listed on the alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Is Alive Tonight
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Of The Dead EP
''Day of the Dead'' is an EP by Dog Fashion Disco released in June 2004. It is named after the first track. This EP has been long out of print and copies have sold as high as $300 on eBay. Most copies are autographed as the band gave a signed copy to every fan who donated at least $3 to get their tour bus repaired. Day of the Dead has recently been re-released on iTunes and was released in the '' Beating a Dead Horse to Death... Again'' compilation. Track listing Credits *Todd Smith Todd Smith may refer to: People *Todd Smith (musician), American singer, songwriter and guitarist * Todd Smith (politician), Canadian politician *Todd Smith (singer), American vocalist and member of Selah *Todd Smith (wrestler), American wrestler * ... - Vocals *Jasan Stepp - Guitar *Jeff Siegel - Keyboards *Brian "Wendy" White - Bass *Mike "Ollie" Oliver - Drums *Matt Rippetoe - Saxophone & Flute References Dog Fashion Disco albums 2004 EPs {{2000s-metal-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committed To A Bright Future
''Committed to a Bright Future'' is the fifth studio album by American metal band Dog Fashion Disco, released in 2003. Music videos were made for the songs "The Acid Memoirs"," Grease" and "Love Song for a Witch". Track listing European release The European release of ''Committed'' contained the bonus track "China White". It is a re-recorded version of a song that originally appeared on ''Erotic Massage'', but with a different outro. This version also contains "Grease" as track fifteen, instead of in the hidden time. All songs written by Dog Fashion Disco except "Grease", written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. *The song "Déjà Vu" is a version of song "En La Noche" from Experiments In Alchemy, but with alternate lyrics. *The track "Acid Memoirs" heavily references Timothy Leary, mentioning him by name and including the lyrics "'' Tuning in and dropping out''" *"Pogo the Clown" (which originally appeared on '' Experiments in Alchemy'') is about the infamous serial ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutilated Genitals EP
Mutilated Genitals is a promotional EP by Dog Fashion Disco released in 2001. It has since been deleted and is quite rare, but not as rare as ''Erotic Massage''. The title comes from a quote from the song "Valley Girl Ventriloquist", "Don't fall asleep or we'll mutilate your genitals". Track listing *The versions of tracks 4 and 5 are re-recordings; they would appear on the 2002 reissue of ''Anarchists of Good Taste Anarchists of Good Taste is the fourth studio album and major label debut by Dog Fashion Disco. The album is often mistakenly referred to as the band's debut album and "Mushroom Cult", a collaboration with System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, ...''. References Dog Fashion Disco albums 2001 EPs {{2000s-metal-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchists Of Good Taste
Anarchists of Good Taste is the fourth studio album and major label debut by Dog Fashion Disco. The album is often mistakenly referred to as the band's debut album and "Mushroom Cult", a collaboration with System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, has been often misattributed to SOAD. The title for the album comes from a line in the song "Cartoon Autopsy". The album was rerecorded and released on December 7, 2018.Senyo, Ro"Interview With Dog Fashion Disco"aEmpire Extreme Baltimore, December 2, 2018. Posted on December 10, 2018 Track listing 2002 reissue The album was reissued in 2002 in the U.S. with bonus tracks and a music video. The two bonus tracks are from the '' Mutilated Genitals EP''. Track 12 appears as bonus tracks on the European release. Track Information *"Leper Friend", "9 To 5 At The Morgue", and "A Corpse is a Corpse" are re-recorded songs. All three appear on their third album, ''The Embryo's In Bloom''. *"A Corpse is a Corpse" originally appeared on their debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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