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Embryonics
''Embryonics'' is a double-CD Compilation album, compilation of tracks by the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist (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 Extended play, 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 membe ... [...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 rock, psychedelic, Eastern music, Eastern, Aboriginal music, Aboriginal and electronic music, 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 (vocals, lead vocals/electric guitar, 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 Meredi ... [...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 tracks ... [...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, percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percuss ... [...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 ''Embryonics ... [...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. In 1999, ''Jar of Kingdom'' was remastered and re-re ... [...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 1998/1999. 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 Usage in media The song "Eve of the war" instrumentals were used in an EE advert in the UK ... [...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 synthesiser or synth) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Guitar
The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer neck (music), neck and scale length (string instruments), scale length. The electric bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are also built. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has replaced the double bass in popular music due to its lighter weight, smaller size, most models' inclusion of Fret, frets for easier Intonation_(music), intonation, and electromagnetic pickups for amplification. Another reason the bass guitar replaced the double bass is because the double bass is "acoustically imperfect" like the viola. For a double bass to be acoustically perfect, its body size would have to be twice as that of a cello rendering it unplayable, so the double bass is made smaller to make it playable. The elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Wayne
Jeffry Wayne (born July 1, 1943) is an American 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'', and the BBC's '' Sixty Minutes''. 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 countries, and was broadcast in the US on the Tennis Channel b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Keyboard
An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations. In technical terms, an electronic keyboard is a rompler-based synthesizer with a low-wattage power amplifier and small loudspeakers. Electronic keyboards offer a diverse selection of instrument sounds (piano, organ, violin, etc.) along with synthesizer tones. Designed primarily for beginners and home users, they generally feature unweighted keys. While budget models lack velocity sensitivity, mid-range options and above often include it. These keyboards have limited sound editing options, focusing on preset sounds. Casio and Yamaha Corporation, Yamaha are major manufacturers in this market, known for popularizing the concept since the 1980s. Terminology An electronic keyboard may also be called a digital keyboard, or home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into Electrical signal, 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 via amplifier settings or knobs on the guitar. Often, this is done through the use of Effects unit, effects such as reverb, Distortion (music), distortion and "overdrive"; the latter is considered to be a key element of electric blues guitar music and jazz, rock music, rock and Heavy metal music, heavy metal guitar playing. Designs also exist combining attributes of electric and acoustic guitars: the Semi-acoustic guitar, semi-acoustic and Acoustic-electric guitar, acoustic-electric guitars. Inven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pod People (band)
Pod People are a doom metal band from Canberra, Australia that formed in 1991. The band has recorded six releases, playing a blend of stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics on themes of cannabis in their earlier works, to topics thematically based around The Divine Comedy. The band released one EP and several demo tapes with the original line up. The founding members later left the band during 1993–1996, which drastically altered the make up and sound of the band. The Swingin Beef and Soil EPs saw the band develop a much heavier approach blending doom and death metal influences with the more stoner rock approach of the original group. In 2000 the band signed to High Beam Records and produced Doom Saloon which featured artwork and themes based on the Inferno chapter of Dante Aligiheri's The Divine Comedy on a fold out upside down cross released in 2001. The album was picked up for international release by Rise Above Records and was the only Australian act on the label until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
