Agoraphobic Nosebleed
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed is a grindcore
band formed in 1994 in Springfield, Massachusetts
, United States
. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull (guitars, drum programming), also a guitarist in Pig Destroyer
. The current line-up also includes vocalists Jay Randall, Kathrine Katz of Salome, and Richard Johnson of Enemy Soil and Drugs of Faith, who also plays bass guitar. Agoraphobic Nosebleed are one of the most well-known drum-machine grindcore bands, and have influenced many drum-machine grindcore bands.
features 100 songs (including one hidden) in just under 22 minutes, with many songs of 5 seconds or less, and the longest song only 1:45.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed played their first live set at the 2003 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
. As their appearance was unscheduled, Pig Destroyer
cut their set short so they could play two songs and an intro.
In 2006, Hydra Head Records
reissued Agoraphobic Nosebleed's 6" PCP Torpedo
as a double disc set entitled PCP Torpedo/ANbRX. The first disc consisted of the 10-song, 6-minute original EP. The second disc is over an hour's worth of remixes of songs from PCP Torpedo by breakcore
and noise music
artists such as Xanopticon
, James Plotkin
, Merzbow
, and Justin Broadrick
.
In 2009, the band released the album Agorapocalypse
on Relapse, available as a CD, LP, and longbox
CD. The split 7" with Crom was released a month later on Regurgitated Semen Records. In 2010, the band released a split 7" with The Endless Blockade for Relapse Records and a split 5" with A.N.S. for Tankcrimes Records. A split CD/LP with Despise You was released on Relapse in 2011.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed have many releases forthcoming, including a split 7" with Agents Of Satan for Relapse, a 7" with Lack of Interest for Deep Six Records and a split 12" with Thrones
for Hydrahead. Randall is currently working on Drum Machine Gun 2 as well as doing a collaborative 7" with Wadge and a collaborative 12" with Black Mayonnaise.
Former members
Other releases (splits, EPs, remix CDs)
Upcoming releases
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
band formed in 1994 in Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull (guitars, drum programming), also a guitarist in Pig Destroyer
Pig Destroyer
-Biography:The band formed in 1997 with vocalist J. R. Hayes , guitarist Scott Hull , and drummer John Evans. Evans was later replaced by Brian Harvey...
. The current line-up also includes vocalists Jay Randall, Kathrine Katz of Salome, and Richard Johnson of Enemy Soil and Drugs of Faith, who also plays bass guitar. Agoraphobic Nosebleed are one of the most well-known drum-machine grindcore bands, and have influenced many drum-machine grindcore bands.
Biography
The band is known for the brevity of its songs. Their album Altered States of AmericaAltered States of America
Altered States of America is a 100-song 3" mini CD released by the grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. The album's songs cover a variety of topics, with many referring to violence and drug use. There also several noise-based and experimental songs...
features 100 songs (including one hidden) in just under 22 minutes, with many songs of 5 seconds or less, and the longest song only 1:45.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed played their first live set at the 2003 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is an annual festival held in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a weekend-long concert of heavy metal and hardcore bands along with a merchandising and promotional area for record labels and other vendors...
. As their appearance was unscheduled, Pig Destroyer
Pig Destroyer
-Biography:The band formed in 1997 with vocalist J. R. Hayes , guitarist Scott Hull , and drummer John Evans. Evans was later replaced by Brian Harvey...
cut their set short so they could play two songs and an intro.
In 2006, Hydra Head Records
Hydra Head Records
Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993...
reissued Agoraphobic Nosebleed's 6" PCP Torpedo
PCP Torpedo
PCP Torpedo is a 6" vinyl released by the band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. It was pressed on assorted colours, including black, black/red mix, red, and orange/red mix.In 2006 it was re-released by Hydra Head Records in a double CD set...
as a double disc set entitled PCP Torpedo/ANbRX. The first disc consisted of the 10-song, 6-minute original EP. The second disc is over an hour's worth of remixes of songs from PCP Torpedo by breakcore
Breakcore
Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...
and noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
artists such as Xanopticon
Xanopticon
Ryan Friedrich , better known by his moniker Xanopticon, is an electronic musician. One of breakcore's most prominent producers, he has toured internationally and released music with several electronic labels including Hymen Records, Mirex, Cock Rock Disco, Entity and Tigerbeat6...
, James Plotkin
James Plotkin
James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer, famous for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD, but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has performed guitar duties for bands Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja, Sunn...
, Merzbow
Merzbow
is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...
, and Justin Broadrick
Justin Broadrick
Justin Karl Michael Broadrick is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.-Biography:Broadrick was born in the council estates of inner...
.
In 2009, the band released the album Agorapocalypse
Agorapocalypse
Agorapocalypse is the fourth full-length studio album by American grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed . It was released through Relapse Records on April 14, 2009 in the United States, and April 20 internationally...
on Relapse, available as a CD, LP, and longbox
Longbox
A longbox is a form of exterior paperboard packaging for musical compact discs in widespread use in the 1980s and early 1990s in North America.- Background :...
CD. The split 7" with Crom was released a month later on Regurgitated Semen Records. In 2010, the band released a split 7" with The Endless Blockade for Relapse Records and a split 5" with A.N.S. for Tankcrimes Records. A split CD/LP with Despise You was released on Relapse in 2011.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed have many releases forthcoming, including a split 7" with Agents Of Satan for Relapse, a 7" with Lack of Interest for Deep Six Records and a split 12" with Thrones
Thrones (band)
Thrones is the solo project of bassist Joe Preston.-Biography:Thrones began in 1994 with an untitled cassette on the Punk in My Vitamins? label. He soon released the "Reddleman" single. In 1996, Thrones signed to Communion Records to issue the full-length album Alraune...
for Hydrahead. Randall is currently working on Drum Machine Gun 2 as well as doing a collaborative 7" with Wadge and a collaborative 12" with Black Mayonnaise.
Personnel
Current members- Scott Hull (Pig DestroyerPig Destroyer-Biography:The band formed in 1997 with vocalist J. R. Hayes , guitarist Scott Hull , and drummer John Evans. Evans was later replaced by Brian Harvey...
, ex-Anal CuntAnal CuntAnal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...
, ex-Japanese Torture Comedy Hour) – guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, drum programmingDrum machineA drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music... - Jay Randall (ex-IsisIsis (band)Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...
, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour) – vocals, electronics - Richard Johnson (Enemy Soil, Drugs of Faith, Jesus of Nazareth) – vocals, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Katherine Katz (ex-Salome) – vocals
Former members
- Carl Schultz – vocals
- J. R. Hayes – vocals
Discography
Studio albums- Honky ReductionHonky ReductionHonky Reduction is the first full length album by the band Agoraphobic Nosebleed.-Track listing:# Black Ink on Black Paper # Polished Turd # Filthy Murder Shack # The Withering of Skin # Empowerment...
(1998) - Frozen Corpse Stuffed with DopeFrozen Corpse Stuffed with DopeFrozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope is the second full length album released by the band Agoraphobic Nosebleed.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Scott Hull – guitar, programming, backing vocals*Richard Johnson – bass guitar, backing vocals*Carl Schultz – vocals...
(2002) - Altered States of AmericaAltered States of AmericaAltered States of America is a 100-song 3" mini CD released by the grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. The album's songs cover a variety of topics, with many referring to violence and drug use. There also several noise-based and experimental songs...
(2003) - AgorapocalypseAgorapocalypseAgorapocalypse is the fourth full-length studio album by American grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed . It was released through Relapse Records on April 14, 2009 in the United States, and April 20 internationally...
(2009)
Other releases (splits, EPs, remix CDs)
- 30 Song Demo cassette (1995)
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed 7" (1996) (Bovine Records)
- Split with Cattlepress LP (1997)
- Split with Enemy Soil 7" (1997)
- Split with Laceration 7" (1997)
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed 7" (1997) (Clean Plate Records)
- PCP TorpedoPCP TorpedoPCP Torpedo is a 6" vinyl released by the band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. It was pressed on assorted colours, including black, black/red mix, red, and orange/red mix.In 2006 it was re-released by Hydra Head Records in a double CD set...
6" (1998) - Split with Gob 7" (1998)
- The Glue that Binds Us 7" (2006)
- The Poacher DiariesThe Poacher DiariesThe Poacher Diaries is a split album released by the bands Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Converge in 1999. It was remastered by Scott Hull in 2006 and re-released by Relapse Records.- Track listing :Agoraphobic Nosebleed# "Mantis" – 1:26...
split with ConvergeConverge (band)Converge is an American band from Salem, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the elements of the metalcore genre.-Description:...
CD/LP (1999) - Split with Benümb 7" (2001)
- Split with Halo 7" (2002)
- Bestial Machinery (Discography Volume 1)Bestial Machinery (Discography Volume 1)Bestial Machinery is a double-CD anthology by the American grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. The double CD contains all of the material the group recorded prior to their Relapse Records full length album Honky Reduction, much of which was only released on vinyl 7" EPs or compilations.Although...
2xCD (2005) - PCP Torpedo/ANbRXPCP Torpedo/ANbRXPCP Torpedo/ANbRX is a 2 CD set that contains the re-release of the long out of print PCP Torpedo 6". The second disc contains "remixes" of various songs from PCP Torpedo...
2xCD (2006) - Split with Kill The Client 7" (2007)
- A Clockwork Sodom 7" (2007)
- Domestic Powerviolence split with Apartment 213 CD/LP (2007)
- Split with Total Fucking Destruction 7" (2007)
- Altered States of AmericaAltered States of AmericaAltered States of America is a 100-song 3" mini CD released by the grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. The album's songs cover a variety of topics, with many referring to violence and drug use. There also several noise-based and experimental songs...
/ANbRX II 2xCD (2008) - Split with Insect Warfare 5"/mini-CD (2008)
- Split with Crom 7" (2009)
- Split with Endless Blockade 7" (2009)
- Split with A.N.S. 5" (2010)
- And On And On... split with Despise You CD/LP (2011)
Upcoming releases
- Split with Agents of Satan 7"
- Split with Lack of Interest 7"
- Split with Thrones 12"
- Split collaboration with Wadge