Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Band - Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Genre - Cybergrind / Experimental
Country - Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Web - http://www.myspace.com/agoraphobicnb

Band Members :
Scott Hull - Guitars / Machines
Richard Johnson - Vocals
J. Randall - Vocals / Electronics
Kat - Vocals

Out of sheer frustration over the lack of drummers in the local Massachusetts area, Scott Hull and friends formed AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED (ANb) with the help of a drum machine in 1994. Many artists, such as GODFLESH and MINISTRY had utilized drum machines effectively in the slower-paced industrial realm, but relatively few bands have ever attempted the 100,000 bpm “hailstorm of drums” approach to programming that head honcho Scott Hull not only attempted, but achieved! An AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED recording is like passing through a hailstorm of runaway steamhammers with only a puny cocktail umbrella for protection. Like flatulence in a wind tunnel, the listener must simply submit to being decimated.

In 1998, after releasing a number of split EP’s and seven inch LPs with respected scene veterans, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED unleashed their Relapse Records debut, Honkey Reduction. Featuring 26 tracks of unbelievably manic grindcore, Honkey Reduction sizzled flesh and tenderized minds. Instantly, grindcore fans the world over were chewing the fat! Mac-daddy Hull made guitar strings swarm like pissed off hornets while his torrential drum programming — sounding as if it were conceived by a quantum physics professor — rained down on the listener like AK-47 rounds guttin’ a pumpkin. Militantly hateful vocal angst kicked those who were down. The response to the album was immense as fans and critics marveled at the unrelenting extremity that da’ NOSEBLEED kicked down. AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED had taken the power to the people!

In late 1999, AGORAPHOBIC unleashed PCP Torpedo (Hydra Head), a scathing barrage of derangement nicely done up as a six-inch slab o’ wax. Then, with Relapse proposing the idea of a split release, The Poacher Diaries surfaced, seeing ANb align themselves with Boston’s CONVERGE, delivering a split CD of massive proportions. Strong-arm man Hull’s dexterous guitar warfare fused with decimating drum programming and voracious vocal vortexes. The CD met to a huge response, introducing both band’s fans to new and interesting sounds. A split 7” with fellow Relapse labelmates BENUMB surfaced later that year, and quickly became a sold-out collector’s item.

As writing commenced for the next AGORAPHOBIC recording, the ANb sound took a massive step forwards and additional members were deemed necessary. The band doubled in size, adding grindcore alums Richard Johnson (ENEMY SOIL) and Carl Schultz (PROSTHETIC CUNT / ::COCOON::). ANb stepped up their efforts both musically and conceptually in an attempt to make music that would be thought-provoking on an obtuse scale.

In 2002, after an almost 3 1/2 year wait — the proposed album title having made the rounds in press circles many times over - ANb unveiled their long-awaited second full-length, Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope. An overwhelming, concentrated outpouring of perceptual stimuli, Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope referenced the glory days of early nineties grindcore while disregarding the genre’s current ideals, becoming one of the most talked-about grindcore records in recent history. The album saw review in Rolling Stone (“Dude: get the hell out of here”) and band were featured in numerous high-profile media outlets such as Alternative Press, Kerrang!, CMJ and dozens more. Perhaps Frozen Corpse’s best description came from ANb vocalist J. Randall who surmised, “Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope is like ripping through back catalog Earache blastbeat shit armed with a submachine gun at 400 rounds per minute.” Intricate, obtuse artwork by Aaron Turner (ISIS) further added to the surrealistic AGORAPHOBIC vision. A surprise live appearance - the first in the band’s history - at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival caught everyone off guard and set forth rumors of future ANb “guerrilla” live appearances.

While the fires left burning in Frozen Corpse’s wake were still smoldering, the band issued a split 7” release with fellow Relapse labelmates HALO, providing music fans with the ultimate battle of the extremes. Immediately following, AGORAPHOBIC set to work on a concept so bizarre, no one would believe it. With a focused mindset, and a plethora of mind-confounding ideas, the band wrote and recorded Altered States of America — a 100 song 3” CD — in the fall of 2002. Released on April Fools Day, 2003, Altered States of America delivered the most ambitious ANb yet and delivered completely inhuman music with a consummate disregard for it’s listener. Round after round, clip after clip, ANb unloaded an arsenal of stupefying guitar work, experimental noise and drum machine-gun blast beats while swarming vocalists hatefully taunted the listener into the crossfire. Noted UK tome Kerrang called the mini-CD “Disorientating, hallucinatory and utterly deranged” and “a truly fantastic work of musical extremity”. Later that year, Altered States… was released as a 10” LP on colored vinyl.

2005: AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED’s Bestial Machinery (ANb Discography Vol. 1) is a new terminal vision representing a vast work of utterly uncompromised will. Inhuman, relentless and complete, the gear-grinding, blast beat to bloodshed 2xCD set features all of ANb’s recorded material prior to their Relapse Records debut, Honkey Reduction. Eviscerated remains, long of out of print material and previously unreleased tracks work as raw materials for this colossal
project of human subjugation where the listener is but a set of ears to lacerate and another body to burn.

To hold fans over in the interim, the band will issue a split release with old friends APARTMENT 213 as well as a collaboration with ISIS covering the MELVINS classic “BORIS”, for the “We Reach: The Music of the Melvins” tribute CD, set for an August, 2005 release via Fractured Transmitter Records.

The newest addition to their discography is the album Agorapocalypse. In stores April 14th.

ALBUMS :

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP Torpedo (1999)
Tracklist:
1. Thanks Giving Day
2. The Man From Famine
3. Crash Course To Maximum Nowhere
4. PCP Torpedo
5. Information Super Lost Highway
6. Thinning The Herd
7. Clorox Bong (Identity Picnic)
8. Latin Thrift Cave
9. Doubled Over
10. Strong Stench Of Balance

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Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope / 2002
Tracklist:
1.Engineering A Pill Frenzy
2.Bitch's Handbag Full of Money
3.Unwashed Cock
4.Kill Theme for American Apeshit
5.Built to Grind
6.Crap Cannon
7.Razorblades Under the Dashboard
8.Repercussions In the Life of An Oppurtunistic, Pseudo-Intellectual Jackass
9.Doctored Results
10.Ceremonial Gas Mask
11.Hang the Pope (Nuclear Assault Cover)
12.Bovine Caligula
13.Machine Gun
14.Protection from Enemies
15.Dead Battery
16.Manual Trauma
17.Time Vs. Necessity
18.Blind Hatred Finds A Tit
19.Grandmother with AIDS
20.5 Band Genetic Equalizer 2
21.Hungry Homeless Handjob
22.Chalking the Temporal God Module
23.Narcissistic Stimulant
24.North American Corpse Desecration
25.Cryogenic Husk
26.Shit Slit
27.Sword Swallower
28.Ceramic Godproduct
29.Ambulance Burning
30.5 Band Genetic Equalizer
31.Drinking Games
32.Bullshit Gets Up and Walks Around
33.The Fatter You Fall Behind
34.Double Negative
35.Organ Donor
36.Someone's Daughter
37.Contaminated Drug Supplu
38.Fuckmaker

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Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse [2009]
Tracklist:
1.Agorapocalypse Now
2.Timelord One (Loneliness of the Long Distance Drug Runner)
3.Dick to Mouth Resuscitation
4.Moral Distortion
5.Hung from the Rising Sun
6.National Stem Cell and Clone
7.Question of Integrity
8.Timelord Two (Paradoxical Reaction)
9.Trauma Queen
10.White On White Crime
11.Druggernaut Jug Fuck
12.Ex-Cop
13.Flamingo Snuff

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All shall pherish

All Shall Perish

Artis – All Shall Perish
Genre – Technical Deathcore / Experimental
Country - Oakland, California, USA
Website :
- http://www.myspace.com/allshallperish
- www.allshallperish.com

MEMBERS:
Hernan Hermida
Chris Storey
Ben Orum
Mike Tiner
Matt Kuykendall

All Shall Perish is a deathcore quintet from Oakland, California formed in 2002, which combines various genres, including death metal, technicalgrind, metalcore, and sludge metal. returns with their most diverse offering yet! Never one to record the same album twice, ALL SHALL PERISH has made yet another giant leap forward for themselves and the death and grind genres. Awaken the Dreamers cements the band‘s status as leaders in their field after 2006's milestone release, The Price of Existence, permanently secured the groups place in metal history. In a scene that is fast becoming stale ALL SHALL PERISH is here to resuscitate and breathe new life into a genre full of fly by night successes.

Death metal and technical grind have an interesting way of co-existing. While each genre shares characteristics with the other it would seem that many bands would rather stay narrow in scope and keep the two as oil and water. Formed with the intent of not being labeled with the restricting monikers of "death metal", "hardcore" or "metalcore,"ALL SHALL PERISH blasted onto the bay area scene in 2002 playing every kind of show imaginable. After recording a self titled 3 song demo, the Japanese label Amputated Vein Records released their first full length album Hate.Malice.Revenge (2003). After a ton of underground D.I.Y. touring, the band signed a world wide deal with Nuclear Blast records in December of 2004. Nuclear Blast rereleased Hate.Malice.Revenge in early ‘05 and ALL SHALL PERISH spent the rest of 2005 touring and writing their second record. Successful tours with the likes of SIX FEET UNDER, AS I LAY DYING, BLEEDING THROUGH, BRUJERIA, DYING FETUS and DIECAST all helped expose the band to a new and diverse audience.

Ever since then, ALL SHALL PERISH have been re-defining the death and grind genres with vibrant ideas and unrelenting delivery. Giving us brutal music that possesses a natural need to experiment and push the boundaries of the extreme underground. While Hate.Malice.Revenge. quickly gave the band a name throughout the underground, it was their second offering, The Price Of Existence, that turned the death metal and underground hordes on their collective ear. The release earned them the reputation of being one of the best young extreme acts from the United States in this new millennium. Tours with such genre leaders as AGNOSTIC FRONT, HATE ETERNAL, RED CHORD, DESPISED ICON, SUICIDE SILENCE, ARSIS and THE FACELESS would follow. Soon the band set their sites on writing a new record and just one question was on everyone's mind; could they possibly top The Price of Existence?

Jump to present day and the answer is obviously a resounding, YES THEY CAN! Awaken the Dreamers was produced and mixed once again by Zach Ohren (DECREPIT BIRTH, ODIOUS MORTEM, LIGHT THIS CITY), capturing the unbridled energy of their live shows more effectively than ever. There's even a face melting guitar solo from guitar hero Rusty Cooley on the track “From So Far Away.” Vocalist Hernan Hermida proves once again why he was choosen as the bands vocalist, showcasing his earth shattering range and giving the performance of his career. Lead guitarist Chris Strorey seems to have single handedly brought melodic and shred guitar to the genre, much as James Murphy (DEATH, OBITUARY) did for traditional death metal in the early 90's. Ben Orum shows why he is one of metals most talented riff writers today, going from super technical riffing to the most gut wrenching groove imaginable. Powerhouse drummer Matt Kuykendall is no slouch either and will soon be ranked among extreme metal's elite players.

INFLUENCES:
Dying Fetus, Blood Has Been Shed, Deicide, Dissection, Skinless, Hatebreed, Internal Bleeding, Suffocation... and thousands more

SOUNDS LIKE:
dying fetus, at the gates, bleeding through, internal bleeding, skinless, deicide, malevolent creation, hatebreed, suffocation, between the buried and me it dies today, the black dahlia murder, suffokate, blood has been shed, through the eyes of the dead, Job For A Cowboy, Irate, Suicide Silence, Animosity, The Red Chord, Origin, Lamb of God.

In short, ALL SHALL PERISH has proven with Awaken the Dreamers that they are no trend, and can only most accurately be described as trend setters.

ALL SHALL PERISH To Film 'Never… Again' Video

15 Nov 2008 By Beniko
Oakland metallers ALL SHALL PERISH will film a video for the song "Never… Again" in downtown Los Angeles this Tuesday (Novemebr 11) with director Gary Smithson (EXODUS, PRONG, GOATWHORE, etc.). The track comes off the band's third full-length album, "Awaken the Dreamers", which sold just under 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 126. The follow-up to "The Price of Existence" was recorded once again at Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland with producer Zack Ohren.

Drummer Matt Kuykendall previously stated about the new album: "We have never been a band to write the same record twice and we have never enjoyed records that are one single and 11 worse versions of the same song. This record is the most diverse thing we have done to date. Every song is different and brings something new to the overall experience of the CD. When you look back to all the classic records of our time, they are full of all kinds of different songs. 'Vulgar Display of Power' just wouldn't be the same without 'This Love' and 'Hollow'. Our record is a breath of fresh air in a scene that is turning stale."

Upon completing the video shoot, ALL SHALL PERISH will immediately start a tour with JOB FOR A COWBOY, HATE ETERNAL, ANIMOSITY and ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY.

ALBUM

All Shall Perish - Price Of Existence

Track List :
1.Eradication
3.Day of Justice, The
4.There Is No Business to Be Done on a Dead Planet
5.Better Living Through Catastrophe
6.Prisoner of War
7.Greyson
8.We Hold These Truths...
9.True Beast, The
10.Promises
11.Last Relapse, The

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All Shall Perish - Hate, Malice, Revenge

Track List :
1.Deconstruction
2.Laid to Rest
3.Our Own Grave
4.Spreading Disease, The
5.Sever the Memory
6.For Far Too Long
7.Never Ending War
8.Herding the Brainwashed

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All Shall Perish -Awaken The Dreamers
Tracklist:
1. When Life Meant More...
2. Black Gold Reign
3. Never...Again
4. The Ones We Left Behind
5. Awaken The Dreamers
6. Memories Of A Glass Sanctuary
7. Stabbing To Purge Dissimulation
8. Gagged, Bound, Shelved And Forgotten
9. Until The End
10. From So Far Away
11. Misery's Introduction
12. Songs For The Damned

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