Hybrid (metal band)
Encyclopedia
Hybrid is an extreme metal
band formed in 2004 by musicians from other Madrid
acts.
, a 6 song MCD of avant-garde, eclectic math metal, which was released the following year by Deadwrong Records.
The band has been playing live with Tool and Deftones
at the Festimad
Sur'06, as well as with Napalm Death
, Cephalic Carnage
, Textures
, Misery Index
Moho, Machetazo
and Looking For An Answer between others.
In the beginning of 2007 Hybrid entered Sadman Studio to record their first full-length album: The 8th Plague
, mastered by Alan Douches (Mastodon
, The Dillinger Escape Plan
) with artwork by Seldon Hunt (Isis
, Neurosis
). The 8th Plague
was released by English label Eyesofsound
in August 2008.
Recently the band has been writing new material and is planning a new release. A live version of one of the songs to be released was added to YouTube
on March 28, 2011.
and mathcore
in which they merge a big bunch of influences and nuances from diverse styles such as brutal death metal, mathcore
, grindcore
, black metal
, doom
, crust
and also free jazz
and Latin music. They normally use odd time signatures, dissonances
, polyrhythm
s, staccato
riffing, blast beat
s, cuts, changes and contrasts that increase the unpredictableness of their music.
Their composing method is based on the improvisation
and the creative freedom.
The band is also known for using different vocal range
s.
themes from an apocalyptic, misanthropic and nihilistic
point of view. The lyrics are written using metaphor
s and including references to The Bible, mythology
, religion
, mysticism
, occultism, and psychology
.
Extreme metal
Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...
band formed in 2004 by musicians from other Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
acts.
Biography
Hybrid was born in march 2004 when Chus Maestro (One Last Word, Supra and formerly in Another Kind Of Death) recruited members from Human Mincer and Wormed to set up an extreme music project that would break down the walls of mainstream music. With Kike and Unai García, they began to write songs they later recorded in June 2005 as the band’s debut EP: Beyond Undeniable EntropyBeyond Undeniable Entropy
Beyond Undeniable Entropy is the debut EP by Spanish extreme metal band Hybrid, originally released in 2006 by Deadwrong Records; a six song EP of avant-garde, eclectic and mathematical metal full of creative changes and surprises ready to keep the audience aware all time since the first listening...
, a 6 song MCD of avant-garde, eclectic math metal, which was released the following year by Deadwrong Records.
The band has been playing live with Tool and Deftones
Deftones
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...
at the Festimad
Festimad
Festimad is an alternative rock festival and cultural event held yearly in Madrid, Spain since 1994, usually in the last week of May. Festimad includes several parallel cultural festivals such as Performa, Graffiti, Universimad o Cinemad, although its central event continues to be the music...
Sur'06, as well as with Napalm Death
Napalm Death
Napalm Death are a death metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's ...
, Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...
, Textures
Textures (band)
Textures is a metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2001. Textures' lineup revolves around founding members Jochem Jacobs, Stef Broks, Bart Hennephof, and bassist Remko Tielemans who joined in 2007...
, Misery Index
Misery Index (band)
Misery Index is an American deathgrind band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by Jason Netherton on vocals and bass guitar, Mike Harrison on vocals and guitar, and Kevin Talley on drums. From 2006-2010, its line-up consisted of Netherton on vocals and bass guitar, Sparky Voyles...
Moho, Machetazo
Machetazo
Machetazo is a grindcore/goregrind band from La Coruña, Spain formed in 1994. They are one of the few surviving bands in the Spanish underground extreme music scene of the nineties.-History:...
and Looking For An Answer between others.
In the beginning of 2007 Hybrid entered Sadman Studio to record their first full-length album: The 8th Plague
The 8th Plague (album)
The 8th Plague is the debut full-length album of the Spanish extreme metal act Hybrid which features eight songs linked by an apocalyptic conceptual thread that represents human self destruction told through the stages of an insect’s metamorphosis.The album was recorded between June and July 2007...
, mastered by Alan Douches (Mastodon
Mastodon (band)
Mastodon is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999. The band is composed of bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor...
, The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The group originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie. The band's current line-up consists of guitarist Ben Weinman,...
) with artwork by Seldon Hunt (Isis
Isis (band)
Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...
, Neurosis
Neurosis (band)
Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
). The 8th Plague
The 8th Plague (album)
The 8th Plague is the debut full-length album of the Spanish extreme metal act Hybrid which features eight songs linked by an apocalyptic conceptual thread that represents human self destruction told through the stages of an insect’s metamorphosis.The album was recorded between June and July 2007...
was released by English label Eyesofsound
Eyesofsound
Eyesofsound is an independent London based label founded in 2006 by Ryan Berry. With a focus on the innovative, the label has put out records from bands including Behold…The Arctopus, Bossk, Devil Sold His Soul, Yakuza, Manatees, Humanfly, Palehorse and more...
in August 2008.
Recently the band has been writing new material and is planning a new release. A live version of one of the songs to be released was added to YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
on March 28, 2011.
Musical style
Hybrid’s music starts from an technical death metalTechnical death metal
Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...
and mathcore
Mathcore
Mathcore is a rhythmically complex and dissonant fusion style of hardcore punk and Metal. It has its roots in bands such as Converge, Botch, and The Dillinger Escape Plan. The term mathcore is suggested by analogy with math rock. Both math rock and mathcore make use of unusual time signatures...
in which they merge a big bunch of influences and nuances from diverse styles such as brutal death metal, mathcore
Mathcore
Mathcore is a rhythmically complex and dissonant fusion style of hardcore punk and Metal. It has its roots in bands such as Converge, Botch, and The Dillinger Escape Plan. The term mathcore is suggested by analogy with math rock. Both math rock and mathcore make use of unusual time signatures...
, grindcore
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....
, black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
, doom
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
, crust
Crust punk
Crust punk is a form of music influenced by anarcho-punk, hardcore punk and extreme metal. The style, which evolved in the mid-1980s in England, often has songs with dark and pessimistic lyrics that linger on political and social ills...
and also free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
and Latin music. They normally use odd time signatures, dissonances
Consonance and dissonance
In music, a consonance is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance , which is considered to be unstable...
, polyrhythm
Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms.Polyrhythm in general is a nonspecific term for the simultaneous occurrence of two or more conflicting rhythms, of which cross-rhythm is a specific and definable subset.—Novotney Polyrhythms can be distinguished from...
s, staccato
Staccato
Staccato is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation it signifies a note of shortened duration and separated from the note that may follow by silence...
riffing, blast beat
Blast beat
A blast beat is a drum beat often associated with extreme metal and grindcore, although its usage predates the genres, and is utilised by many different styles of metal...
s, cuts, changes and contrasts that increase the unpredictableness of their music.
Their composing method is based on the improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
and the creative freedom.
The band is also known for using different vocal range
Vocal range
Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate. Although the study of vocal range has little practical application in terms of speech, it is a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech and language pathology, particularly in relation to the study...
s.
Lyrical content
Hybrid lyrics cover philosophical, sociological and spiritualSpirituality
Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...
themes from an apocalyptic, misanthropic and nihilistic
Nihilism
Nihilism is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value...
point of view. The lyrics are written using metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
s and including references to The Bible, mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
, religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
, mysticism
Mysticism
Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...
, occultism, and psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
.
Past members
- Unai García - lead vocals (2004–2006)
- Albano Fortes - lead vocals (2007–2008)
- Rafa Fernández - lead vocals (2008–2010)
- J. Oliver - guitar, vocals (2004–2008)
- Miguel - guitar, vocals (2004–2008)
- Kike - bass (2004–2008)
- Iago Fuentes - bass (2008–2009)
- Alfonso Vicente - bass (2009–2011)
Compilations
- Antichristmass Fest 2005 - (Mondongo Caníbale, 2005)
- Xtreemities Vol. 6 - (Xtreem Music, 2006)
- Madtaste Vol. 3 - (Sur Music, 2006)
- 22 Dósis de Psicoactivación - (Rompiendo Records, 2007)
- Fear Candy Vol. 58 - (Terrorizer, 2008)
- Spain Kills. Vol 8 - (Xtreem Music, 2007)
- Various Sampler 2008 - (Eyesofsound, 2008)