Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian

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and journalist. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including

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, Otto von Schirach, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for the Blood of Heroes project. Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with

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, and they have released three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the

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in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with

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. They released '' Cuts'' in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up ''Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper'' (2015), they were joined by

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. Balázs started an electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album "Sound of Hell" was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of

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, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and

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), and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and

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). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name. From 2013, he worked as a journalist at Hungarian news site

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. After the resignation of the majority of the staff in July 2020, he moved to Telex.

Discography

;With

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and

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*2019 – ''Ceremonial Healing'' (RareNoise) ;With

Marco Eneidi Marco Eneidi (November 1, 1956 – May 24, 2016) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was primarily associated with free jazz. Early life Eneidi was born in Portland, Oregon. His father worked for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

*2012 – ''A Hint Traumatized'' (Karl Schmidt Verlag) ;With

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*2017 – ''Demon Core'' (Ohm Resistance) *2019 – ''Demoncore 1'' (Brain Ticket Death) ;With Jason Köhnen *2017 – ''Darkness Comes in Two's'' (Svart Lava) ;With

*2010 – ''Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna, 2010/05/18'' (Dry Lungs) *2011 – ''Ducks: Live in NYC'' (Ohm Resistance) *2012 – ''Katowice'' (Instant Classic) *2016 – ''Live at FAC251'' (Cold Spring) ;With Merzbow and Keiji Haino *2016 – '' An Untroublesome Defencelessness'' (RareNoise) *2019 – ''Become the Discovered, Not the Discoverer'' (RareNoise) ;With Merzbow and

*2013 – '' Cuts'' (RareNoise) *2015 – ''Live in Tabačka 13/04/12'' (Tabačka) ;With Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, and

*2015 – ''Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper'' (RareNoise) ;With Metallic Taste of Blood *2012 – ''Metallic Taste of Blood'' (RareNoise) ;With Obake *2011 – ''Obake'' (RareNoise) *2014 – ''Mutations'' (RareNoise) ;With

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and Joe Morris *2013 – ''One'' (RareNoise) ;With

Lee Ranaldo Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" li ...

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, Marc Urselli *2019 – ''Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balazs Pandi'' (Trost) *2021 – ''Churning of the Ocean'' (Trost) ;With Slobber Pup *2013 – ''Black Aces'' (RareNoise) *2015 – ''Pole Axe'' (RareNoise) ;With

Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the field of creative music. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''Ten Freedom Summers'', released on ...

, and Joe Morris *2014 – '' Red Hill'' (RareNoise) ;With Rope Cosmetology *2009 – ''Diffusion de la rue de la Double Identité'' (Karl Schmidt Verlag) *2009 – ''Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought)'' (Karl Schmidt Verlag) *2009 – ''Discoteca Festival'' (Karl Schmidt Verlag) *2011 — ''The Honey Fox in Hare's Longing'' (Karl Schmidt Verlag) *2012 — ''Disunion Strips'' (Karl Schmidt Verlag) ;With

, Jamie Saft, and

*2016 – '' Strength & Power'' (RareNoise) ;With Mikołaj Trzaska and Rafal Mazur *2014 – ''Tar & Feathers'' (Gusstaff) ;With Jon Wesseltoft *2018 – ''Infinite Vice'' (The Tapeworm) *2019 – ''Terreng'' (Moving Furniture) ;With Wormskull *2011 – ''Sound of Hell'' ( Ad Noiseam) ;Other appearances

References

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