Christian Olde Wolbers
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Christian Olde Wolbers (born 5 August 1972, Antwerp, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

), is the guitarist of the metal
Metal
A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...

 band Arkaea
Arkaea
Arkaea is an industrial metal supergroup formed in 2008 featuring members from Threat Signal and Fear Factory.-Formation:The band was formed by Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera who had recorded a demo for a new band. They sent the demo to Threat Signal vocalist Jon Howard and Arkaea was...

. He is the former bassist and guitarist of the industrial metal
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...

, and is now in Beowülf
Beowülf
This article is about the American heavy metal band. For the epic poem, see Beowulf; for other uses see Beowulf .Beowülf is a crossover thrash metal band formed Venice Beach, California in 1981 by Michael Alvarado, Dale Henderson, Mike Jensen and Paul Yamada...

.

Biography

Olde Wolbers was born in Belgium (though he has Dutch citizenship
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

), and moved to the US in 1993. He was asked to join Fear Factory in December 1993 as a bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 player. He recorded five albums with them. The group disbanded in 2002 and when it reformed in 2003, Olde Wolbers had switched to guitar, replacing Dino Cazares
Dino Cazares
Dino Cazares, born in El Centro, California, is a Mexican-American musician and the guitarist for Los Angeles-based industrial metal group Fear Factory. He also plays in the metal bands Divine Heresy and Asesino.-Biography:...

. In 2009, Olde Wolbers and drummer Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera is the drummer for industrial metal band Arkaea. He is a former member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory and Mexican death metal band Brujeria.-Biography:Herrera has been an avid gamer all his life...

 parted ways with Fear Factory when vocalist Burton C. Bell
Burton C. Bell
Burton Christopher Bell is an American musician. Bell is best known as the frontman of the metal band Fear Factory where he is the only consistent member. His singing style mixes clean vocals with death growls.-Fear Factory:...

 chose to reform Fear Factory with Dino Cazares, bassist Byron Stroud
Byron Stroud
Byron Stroud is the bassist for metal bands Fear Factory, City of Fire and Zimmers Hole and the defunct band Strapping Young Lad.-Biography:...

, and drummer Gene Hoglan
Gene Hoglan
Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II is an American drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms...

.

Olde Wolbers is currently working on musical project Arkaea
Arkaea
Arkaea is an industrial metal supergroup formed in 2008 featuring members from Threat Signal and Fear Factory.-Formation:The band was formed by Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera who had recorded a demo for a new band. They sent the demo to Threat Signal vocalist Jon Howard and Arkaea was...

 with fellow ex- Fear Factory drummer Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera is the drummer for industrial metal band Arkaea. He is a former member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory and Mexican death metal band Brujeria.-Biography:Herrera has been an avid gamer all his life...

  along with Jon Howard and Pat Kavanagh of the band Threat Signal
Threat Signal
Threat Signal is a Canadian Melodic death metal band hailing from the city of Hamilton. However, different members of the band hail from other parts of the Ontario province...

. On 14 July 2009, Arkaea's debut album, Years in the Darkness was released.

Olde Wolbers is now in Beowülf
Beowülf
This article is about the American heavy metal band. For the epic poem, see Beowulf; for other uses see Beowulf .Beowülf is a crossover thrash metal band formed Venice Beach, California in 1981 by Michael Alvarado, Dale Henderson, Mike Jensen and Paul Yamada...

, where he co-produced their 2011 album Jesus Freak.

Contributions

He contributed upright bass to Devin Townsend
Devin Townsend
Devin Garret Townsend is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist....

's second album Infinity
Infinity (Devin Townsend album)
Infinity is the third solo album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The album was released in October 1998 on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records.-Background:...

in 1998. In 2006, he helped produce and mix Mnemic
Mnemic
Mnemic is a Danish metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal, with additional elements of thrash metal and groove metal, to form a style the band themselves have...

's third album, Passenger
Passenger (Mnemic album)
-Credits:* Guillaume Bideau - vocals* Mircea Gabriel Eftemie - guitar, keyboards* Rune Stigart - guitar* Tomas Koefoed - bass* Brian Rasmussen - drums- References :...

, and also produced Bleed the Sky
Bleed the Sky (band)
Bleed the Sky is an American groove metal band formed in Orange County, California in 2003. The band is currently signed to Nuclear Blast.-Formation and Paradigm in Entropy :...

's Murder the Dance
Murder the Dance
Murder the Dance is the second studio album by American metal band Bleed the Sky. The album was released on June 10, 2008 in the United States, through Nuclear Blast Records, and was released on June 13 in Europe, through Massacre Records...

and Threat Signal
Threat Signal
Threat Signal is a Canadian Melodic death metal band hailing from the city of Hamilton. However, different members of the band hail from other parts of the Ontario province...

's debut album, Under Reprisal
Under Reprisal
Under Reprisal is the debut album of the Canadian melodic death metal band Threat Signal. It was produced by Christian Olde Wolbers of Fear Factory and co-produced by Threat Signal....

. In 2008 he produced End of the Rope
End of the Rope
End of the Rope is a metal band originating in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. The band's music separates itself from other bands in its genre with its unique vocals, catchy guitar riffs and bass-driven lines.-The Beginning, Shades of Loss:...

's new album, "Til It Bleeds" and in 2009, Wolbers produced Years in the Darkness
Years in the Darkness
Years in the Darkness is the first album for industrial metal band Arkaea. It was released on July 14, 2009. A music video for the track "Locust" was made...

 for Arkaea
Arkaea
Arkaea is an industrial metal supergroup formed in 2008 featuring members from Threat Signal and Fear Factory.-Formation:The band was formed by Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera who had recorded a demo for a new band. They sent the demo to Threat Signal vocalist Jon Howard and Arkaea was...

. He filled in as live guitarist for Korn
Korn
Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...

 for the first three shows of their European tour. He appears as a guest guitar player on the EP This World by breakbeat production group The Autobots. He produced the vocals for God Forbid
God Forbid
God Forbid is an American heavy metal band formed in 1996 in East Brunswick, New Jersey.-Biography:Building up a following in the late 1990s by touring with bands such as GWAR, Nile, Cradle of Filth and Candiria, God Forbid's first full album Reject the Sickness was released by 9 Volt Records in 1999...

's Earthsblood
Earthsblood
Earthsblood is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band God Forbid. It was released on February 16 in Europe and February 24 in North America through Century Media Records. The album was produced by Eric Rachel with Christian Olde Wolbers handling all vocal tracking. The mixing was...

, co-wrote and played bass on Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

's album Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss. He helped Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...

 with their rock outfit and wrote songs for their Stoned Raiders
Stoned Raiders
Stoned Raiders is the sixth studio album by rap group Cypress Hill. It was recorded and released in 2001.-Album information:This album is best-known for two of its songs - Trouble and Lowrider. The song Kronologik also summarizes Cypress Hill's career from their debut in 1991 until the album was...

and Skull & Bones
Skull & Bones (album)
*Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "A bipolar breakdown…proving hip-hop is more like T2…capable of morphing into anyone they wanna be."*CMJ - "Proves rather convincingly that Cypress Hill still packs a mighty punch."...

 albums. He also played on 2 songs on Soulfly
Soulfly
Soulfly is a heavy metal band formed in 1997 based in Phoenix, Arizona. The original lyrical content revolved around spirituality and religious themes, with later albums encompassing other themes including war, violence, aggression, hatred and anger. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max...

's debut in 1998.

Equipment

Olde Wolbers has a number of custom guitars made by Jackson
Jackson Guitars
__FORCETOC__Jackson is a renowned brand of electric guitar that bears the name of its founder, Grover Jackson.-Early years:Grover Jackson obtained ownership in Charvel's Guitar Repair of Glendora, California in the 1970s with a promise to bolster Charvel's business...

, including seven-string guitar
Seven-string guitar
A seven-string guitar is a guitar with seven strings instead of the usual six. Some types of seven-string guitars are specific to certain cultures . The standard 7-string guitar tuning is BEADGbe...

s, his first two sevenstring guitars were built by Jackson's master builder Mike Shannon in 2003.
Besides his production Signature 7 and 6 string models (colors: Black, Desert Camo, Red, Silverburst, Jackson built at least 12 Custom shop 7 string guitars for Christian, most of which he received, that includes:
Soloist:
Natural finish - Mahogany (used in the "Bite The Hand That Bleeds" video);
Black - (used in the "Cyberwaste" video);
Red (now with a sticker next to the bridge);
Silverburst with Floyd Rose bridge (used in the "Archetype" video);
Silverburst with Floyd Rose bridge and blue led inlays;

King V:
Black
Black with a floyd Rose;

Kelly:
Burst with a Floyd Rose;

The guitars that Christian did not get:
Soloist Black with black hardware;
Soloist Desert Camo - Christian got it with a broken headstock and it was later repaired sold on eBay;
Soloist Silverburst with a TOM bridge;
Red King V;

he also had 2 seven-string guitars made by ESP
ESP Guitars
, located in North Hollywood, California, is an American-based, Japanese-owned manufacturer of electric guitars and basses.- History :In 1975, Hisatake Shibuya opened a shop called Electric Sound Products in Tokyo. It provided custom replacement parts for guitars. In 1976, ESP gained a reputation...

 That belonged to Stephen Carpenter and one custom made by Hufschmid Guitars. He uses Randall
Randall Amplifiers
Randall Amplifiers is a manufacturer of guitar amplifiers, a subsidiary of U.S. Music Corporation. Its products are/were used by artists such as Chuck Schuldiner, Dimebag Darrell, Metallica, King's X, Nirvana and Anthrax...

 amplifiers, including a V2 Guitar Amp Head and an XL Series RS125XL 260W, 2x12. Randall released an Olde Wolbers signature amp, the V2 Archetype.

In his bassist days, he used a Japanese Ibanez Soundgear SR-885 bass, and his photo with it was printed in Ibanez catalogues.

With Fear Factory

  • Demanufacture
    Demanufacture
    Demanufacture is the second studio album by the Los Angeles industrial metal band Fear Factory. This is the band's first album with their classic line-up adding new bassist Christian Olde Wolbers. Many regard it as the band's best album and a heavy metal classic...

    (1995) (Live Bassist)
  • Obsolete
    Obsolete (album)
    Obsolete is the third studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory, released on July 28, 1998. Conceptually, it is a sequel to 1995's Demanufacture...

    (1998) (Bassist)
  • Digimortal (2001) (Bassist)
  • Archetype (2004) (Guitarist/Bassist)
  • Transgression
    Transgression (album)
    -Credits:*Burton C. Bell – vocals, engineer, assistant, supervisor*Christian Olde Wolbers – guitar, bass, arranger*Raymond Herrera – drums, arranger, engineer*Byron Stroud - bass*Reggie Boyd – assistant*Tom Jermann – visual design...

    (2005) (Guitarist/Bassist)

Guest Appearances

  • Devin Townsend
    Devin Townsend
    Devin Garret Townsend is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist....

     - Infinity
    Infinity (Devin Townsend album)
    Infinity is the third solo album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The album was released in October 1998 on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records.-Background:...

    (1998) (Upright Bass)
  • Roadrunner United
    Roadrunner United
    Roadrunner United was a project organized by the heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It culminated in an album released worldwide on October 11, 2005, entitled The All-Star Sessions...

     - The All Star Sessions (2005) (Bass on The Dagger, Independent (Voice of the Voiceless), The Rich Man and Army of the Sun)
  • Threat Signal
    Threat Signal
    Threat Signal is a Canadian Melodic death metal band hailing from the city of Hamilton. However, different members of the band hail from other parts of the Ontario province...

     - Under Reprisal
    Under Reprisal
    Under Reprisal is the debut album of the Canadian melodic death metal band Threat Signal. It was produced by Christian Olde Wolbers of Fear Factory and co-produced by Threat Signal....

    (2006) (Additional keyboards and vocals)
  • on the "Bones" version from the Skull & Bones
    Skull & Bones (album)
    *Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "A bipolar breakdown…proving hip-hop is more like T2…capable of morphing into anyone they wanna be."*CMJ - "Proves rather convincingly that Cypress Hill still packs a mighty punch."...

     album by Cypress Hill
    Cypress Hill
    Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...

    .

Production Credits

  • Threat Signal
    Threat Signal
    Threat Signal is a Canadian Melodic death metal band hailing from the city of Hamilton. However, different members of the band hail from other parts of the Ontario province...

     - Under Reprisal
    Under Reprisal
    Under Reprisal is the debut album of the Canadian melodic death metal band Threat Signal. It was produced by Christian Olde Wolbers of Fear Factory and co-produced by Threat Signal....

    (2006)
  • Bleed the Sky
    Bleed the Sky (band)
    Bleed the Sky is an American groove metal band formed in Orange County, California in 2003. The band is currently signed to Nuclear Blast.-Formation and Paradigm in Entropy :...

     - Murder the Dance
    Murder the Dance
    Murder the Dance is the second studio album by American metal band Bleed the Sky. The album was released on June 10, 2008 in the United States, through Nuclear Blast Records, and was released on June 13 in Europe, through Massacre Records...

    (2007)
  • Mnemic
    Mnemic
    Mnemic is a Danish metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal, with additional elements of thrash metal and groove metal, to form a style the band themselves have...

     - Passenger
    Passenger (Mnemic album)
    -Credits:* Guillaume Bideau - vocals* Mircea Gabriel Eftemie - guitar, keyboards* Rune Stigart - guitar* Tomas Koefoed - bass* Brian Rasmussen - drums- References :...

    (2007)
  • End of the Rope
    End of the Rope
    End of the Rope is a metal band originating in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. The band's music separates itself from other bands in its genre with its unique vocals, catchy guitar riffs and bass-driven lines.-The Beginning, Shades of Loss:...

     - Till it Bleeds (2008)
  • Arkaea
    Arkaea
    Arkaea is an industrial metal supergroup formed in 2008 featuring members from Threat Signal and Fear Factory.-Formation:The band was formed by Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera who had recorded a demo for a new band. They sent the demo to Threat Signal vocalist Jon Howard and Arkaea was...

     - Years in the Darkness
    Years in the Darkness
    Years in the Darkness is the first album for industrial metal band Arkaea. It was released on July 14, 2009. A music video for the track "Locust" was made...

    (2009)
  • God Forbid
    God Forbid
    God Forbid is an American heavy metal band formed in 1996 in East Brunswick, New Jersey.-Biography:Building up a following in the late 1990s by touring with bands such as GWAR, Nile, Cradle of Filth and Candiria, God Forbid's first full album Reject the Sickness was released by 9 Volt Records in 1999...

     - Earthsblood
    Earthsblood
    Earthsblood is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band God Forbid. It was released on February 16 in Europe and February 24 in North America through Century Media Records. The album was produced by Eric Rachel with Christian Olde Wolbers handling all vocal tracking. The mixing was...

    (2009)
  • Our Last Enemy
    Our Last Enemy
    The band was formed in 2006 by Oliver Fogwell, Jeff Ritchie, and Matt Heywood. The band would go through 2 guitarists and a keyboardist from 2007 - 2009 before being joined by Bizz and Craig Byrnes on Guitars and Keyboards/Effects respectively in 2010...

     - Fallen Empires (2010)
  • Beowülf
    Beowülf
    This article is about the American heavy metal band. For the epic poem, see Beowulf; for other uses see Beowulf .Beowülf is a crossover thrash metal band formed Venice Beach, California in 1981 by Michael Alvarado, Dale Henderson, Mike Jensen and Paul Yamada...

     - Jesus Freak (2011)
  • Sunflower Dead - (2011)

Sport

As a teenager Olde Wolbers was a goalkeeper
Goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, a goalkeeper is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by intercepting shots at goal...

 at the youth academy of Belgian professional football club Germinal Ekeren, and was the team's reserve goalkeeper for several games in the Belgian Second Division
Belgian Second Division
The Belgian Second Division is the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system after the Belgian Pro League. It was created by the Belgian Football Association in 1905. Between 2008 and 2010 it was named EXQI League after a television channel owned by the league main sponsor,...

. He was suspended for having long hair and tattoos at the age of 17 due to the conservativeness of the club, and chose instead to concentrate on his music career. Since moving to the United States, Olde Wolbers has played regularly for the Los Angeles-based amateur team Hollywood United
Hollywood United F.C.
Hollywood United is an American amateur soccer team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1988, the team plays in Region IV of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.-Origins:Hollywood United...

, and currently plays for Angel City FC in the semi-professional Los Angeles Premier League.

Olde Wolbers is also the founder and owner of Aviata Sports, an international sportswear company which specializes in manufacturing goalkeeper gloves. Aviata gloves are worn in Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

 by Josh Saunders
Josh Saunders
Josh Saunders is an American-born Puerto Rican footballer who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.-College:...

 of Los Angeles Galaxy
Los Angeles Galaxy
The Los Angeles Galaxy are an American professional soccer team, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, and the league's second...

, the Belgian Jupiler Pro League, La Liga
La Liga
The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...

, Eredivisie
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

 in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, the Barclays Premier League, and many more leagues all over the world.

External links

  • Christian Olde Wolbers at MySpace
    MySpace
    Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

  • Christian Olde Wolbers guitar rig including Guitar World scan.
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