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Amebix
Amebix were an English punk rock band from Tavistock, Devon. A pioneer of the crust punk genre, Amebix's merger of anarcho-punk and post-punk with elements of heavy metal music, heavy metal, particularly early extreme metal, inspired musicians who would go on to define the genres of grindcore, black metal, death-doom and metalcore. Formed in 1978 as the Band with No Name, the band's two consistent members were brothers Rob Miller (musician), Rob "the Baron" Miller (vocals, bass) and Chris "Stig" Miller (guitar). The band's earliest releases were post-punk, before beginning to adopt elements of heavy metal music on their debut album ''No Sanctuary (album), No Sanctuary'' (1983). This album was one of the earliest examples of the crust punk genre, a style which the band would codify with its follow up ''Arise! (Amebix album), Arise!'' (1985). Shortly after the release of their third album ''Monolith (Amebix album), Monolith'' (1987), the group disbanded. The band reunited in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Miller (musician)
Rob Miller, also known by the stage name the Baron Rockin Von Aphid or simply the Baron or Aphid, is an English musician and swordsmith. Beginning his musical career in 1978, he is primarily known as the lead vocalist and bass player of pioneering crust punk band Amebix. He also plays in the international supergroup Tau Cross (band), Tau Cross. Early life Miller grew up near Tavistock in Devon with his older brother Chris. His father was a gunsmith, descended from Scottish mercenaries who fought for royals in Sweden and Norway. He spent his childhood playing with submachine guns and flintlocks. Career Amebix: 1978–1987 When Miller was involuntarily discharged from his role as an Air Training Corps sergeant in 1978, due to being intoxicated while on duty when stationed in the Netherlands. The same year, Chris Miller returned to Devon from Jersey, wanting to form a band. This led to the formation of ''the Band with No Name'', with Rob Miller on vocals, Chris Miller on guitar, Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crust Punk
Crust punk (also known as stenchcore or simply crust) is a fusion genre of anarcho-punk and extreme metal that originated in the early to mid-1980s in England. Originally, the genre was primarily mid-tempo, making use of metal riffs in a stripped-down anarcho-punk context, however many later bands pushed the genre to be more grandiose, faster or more melodic. Often songs are political, discussing environmentalism, anarchism, anti-capitalism, feminism and animal rights. The genre originated in the early to mid-1980s with Amebix and Antisect, bands active in the anarcho-punk scene who began to incorporate the influence of heavy metal bands such as Hellhammer, Motörhead and Trouble. The influence of these bands led to the genre's first wave with Hellbastard, Deviated Instinct and Concrete Sox. By the late 1980s, the genre had begun to merge with hardcore punk, typified by Electro Hippies, Extreme Noise Terror and Doom. During the 1990s, this sound was continued by Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic Mass
''Sonic Mass'' is the fourth and final studio album by British crust punk band Amebix, released on 23 September 2011 through the band's own label, Amebix Records. It was also their first full-length album since 1987's ''Monolith''. An animated music video was made for the track "Knights of the Black Sun"; it was released on 3 June 2011. Track listing Personnel ;Amebix * The Baron Rockin von Aphid (Rob Miller) — vocals, bass * Stig Da Pig (Chris Miller) — guitars * Roy Mayorga — drums, keyboards ;Miscellaneous staff * Joe Willes — assistant engineer * Toby Hanson — second engineer * Roy Mayorga — engineering, mixing, production * Ted Jensen Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' '' Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''. Early life ... — mastering * Fin McAteer — design, art direction, photography * Andy L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monolith (Amebix Album)
''Monolith'' is the third studio album by the British crust punk band Amebix, released in 1987 by Heavy Metal Records. Shortly after its release, Amebix disbanded, and ''Monolith'' would be their final studio album until they reunited in 2008 and released '' Sonic Mass'' in 2011. The album was re-released in 2008 as a sliding-scale download by Moshpit Tragedy Records. The album was remastered and re-released again in 2016 on Easy Action Records. Track listing Critical reception While significantly less positive than its predecessor '' Arise!'', ''Monolith'' was generally appreciated by Punknews. It was mainly metal-oriented, with aspects of anarcho-punk Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is an ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, ha .... The review stated that no particular song was worthy of note, but tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arise! (Amebix Album)
''Arise!'' is the second studio album by British crust punk band Amebix, released on 14 September 1985 through Alternative Tentacles. It was reissued on CD and vinyl in 2000 with two bonus tracks recorded in 1987. The album was remastered a second time in 2014. Background "The Moor" is based upon "Requiem" by György Ligeti, famously used in the Lunar monolith sequence in '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. "Largactyl" is a misspelled version of the proprietary name the antipsychotic medication chlorpromazine. It was written in response to (and somewhat in honour of) previous drummer Martin Baker being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and being involuntarily institutionalised by his parents. Lyrics from "The Darkest Hour" are taken from And When I Die by Laura Nyro. Track listing Critical reception Reviews of the album, and its re-masterings, were positive across reviews. AllMusic praised its successful merging of genres, combined with "tribal rhythms and apocalyptic aesth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Sanctuary (album)
''No Sanctuary'' is the first studio album by the British crust punk band Amebix, released in November 1983 through Spiderleg Records. It entered the Independent Albums Chart at No. 12 on 26 November 1983. The album was re-released as part of the compilation ''No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings'' in 2008 on Alternative Tentacles. The album artwork is a photograph by Dmitri Baltermants (titled "Grief") that depicts a 1942 Nazi massacre of Jews in the Crimean city of Kerch Kerch, also known as Keriç or Kerich, is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea. It has a population of Founded 2,600 years ago as the Colonies in antiquity#Greek colonies, ancient Greek colony Pantik .... Track listing Personnel * The Baron Rockin von Aphid (Rob Miller) — bass, vocals * Stig Da Pig (Chris Miller) — guitar * Virus (Neil Worthington) — drums * Norman — keyboard References {{DEFAULTSORT:No Sanctuary (album) 1983 debut album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Mayorga
Roy Mayorga (born April 6, 1970) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of heavy metal bands Soulfly, Hellyeah and Stone Sour and is currently the drummer for the industrial metal band Ministry. Early life Mayorga was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, on April 6, 1970, to Cuban and Ecuadorian parents. At four years old, his family moved to Florida. While growing up, his parents would often play Motown music and rhythm and blues, which were his earliest exposures to music. He eventually became a fan of Kiss through his older brother, which led him to become interested in rock music. He began playing drums at six years old. His parents soon divorced, leading to him moving to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he became involved in the local punk rock scene. Career Mayorga formed his first band in 1985 in Allentown, called Youthquake. When Youthquake's bassist departed from the group, the remaining members formed Word Made Flesh, which Mayorga's brother ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiderleg Records
Spiderleg Records was an independent record label founded by United Kingdom, UK anarcho-punk band Flux of Pink Indians in 1981 in music, 1981. The band set up the label after releasing their first EP on the Crass Records label, which taught them the skills necessary to run such a project and provided them with the seed cash. In turn, the band not only used the label to release their own material, but gave opportunities to like-minded Punk rock, punk bands to put out records, including Subhumans (UK band), The Subhumans, who in a similar fashion set up the Bluurg label. Others that released records on Spiderleg included The System, Amebix and Antisect. The first record to be put out was a re-recording of older material made when the band were known as The Epileptics (they changed the name to EPI-X following complaints from the British Epilepsy Association and eventually emerged as Flux of Pink Indians having reverted to The Epileptics and then The Licks). This was an EP entitled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tau Cross (band)
Tau Cross is a rock band founded by Rob Miller of England's Amebix. Controversy Tau Cross' third album, ''Messengers of Deception'', was originally scheduled for release on 9 August 2019 via Relapse Records. In July 2019, however, Relapse chose to sever its relationship with the band and cancel the album's release due to Miller's inclusion of Gerard Menuhin, a Holocaust denier, in his thanks list, submitted to the label in the late stages of production. Shortly thereafter the other four members of the band issued a joint statement expressing their lack of previous knowledge about, and desire not to be associated with, Menuhin's work and Miller's interest in it. Within a week Miller had "released" guitarist Andy Lefton and drummer Michel Langevin and made an ambivalent public statement about the status of the remaining members, expressing his resolve to continue the band alone if necessary. Miller eventually self-released the album in December 2020, after resurfacing with a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label established in 1979 by Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra and guitarist East Bay Ray in San Francisco, California, with the intention to release the Dead Kennedys' self-produced single " California Über Alles". After realizing the potential for an independent label, they released records for other bands as well. They would go on to release albums by artists such as Dead Kennedys, NoMeansNo, D.O.A., Alice Donut, Lard, the Dicks, Butthole Surfers, 7 Seconds, Neurosis, Wesley Willis, Half Japanese, Blowfly, Subhumans (Canada), the Crucifucks, Victims Family, Pansy Division, Zolar X, Culture Shock, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Itchy-O, ArnoCorps, the Darts, Tsunami Bomb, and many more. In the mid-1980s Jello Biafra became the sole owner of Alternative Tentacles. History The origins of Alternative Tentacles trace back to June 1979. The name Alternative Tentacles was used as the label name on Dead Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation. Punk rock lyrics often explore anti-establishment and Anti-authoritarianism, anti-authoritarian themes. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record label, independent labels. The term "punk rock" was previously used by American Music criticism, rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands. Certain late 1960s and early 1970s Detroit acts, such as MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, and other bands from elsewhere created out-of-the-mainstream music that became highly influential on what was to come. Glam rock in the UK and the New York Dolls from New York ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
