Acid King

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Acid King
General information
Genre (s) Stoner Doom
founding 1993
Website acidking.com
Current occupation
Lori S. (since 1993)
Joey Osbourne (since 1993)
Mark Lamb (since 2006)
former members
Rafael "Rafa" Martinez
Electric bass
 Guy Pinhas
Electric bass
 Brian Hill
Electric bass
 Dan Southwick
Electric bass
 Peter Lucas
additional singing
 Dale Crover

Acid King is a stoner doom band from San Francisco . It was founded in 1993 by Lori S. (singer and guitarist), Joey Osbourne (drummer) and Peter Lucas (bassist). Since then the band has recorded four studio albums and three EPs (with a changing line-up on bass) .

history

The name of the band is derived from the book Say You Love Satan by David St. Clair . Its protagonist Ricky Kasso, who committed a satanic murder in Northport, New York in 1984, is nicknamed The Acid King . According to Lori S. the name of the band was already fixed before she formed a band with Peter Lucas and a few months later with Joey Osbourne. Acid King first played a few concerts with bands like The Melvins , The Obsessed and Hawkwind before releasing their first EP in 1994. With a changing line-up on bass, two more EPs and three albums were recorded by 2006. After a nine-year break, the band released their fourth studio album, Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere , in spring 2015 .

The band Acid King is mentioned in two books published in 2003, one in The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal and the other in the book A to Z of Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal . In the documentary Such Hawks Such Hounds - Scenes from the American Hardrock Underground , completed in 2009, she is one of the bands portrayed.

style

The group's music is assigned to the Stoner Doom . Influenced by traditional Doom Metal and Psychedelic Rock , Acid King's music is characterized by slow, deeply played and heavily distorted guitar riffs , which are accompanied by the singer's distinctive, “hypnotic” voice.

In an interview with The Obelisk, Lori S. calls the album Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere “more grown-up” than the earlier releases. However, she also pointed out that Acid King hardly changed and more nuances of the sound were varied. She draws parallels to other popular groups, whose style has changed only slightly over the decades. Lori S. calls the album, in comparison to the earlier Acid King releases, a more atmospheric album that is less concerned with heaviness and volume.

Members

Current members

Former members

  • Dale Crover - additional vocals on the EP "Acid King"
  • Peter Lucas - E-Bass (1993–1996) - contributing to «Acid King» and the album «Zoroaster»
  • Dan Southwick - electric bass (1996-1998) - featured on "Down with the Crown"
  • Brian Hill - electric bass (1998–1999) - contributing to "Busse Woods"
  • Guy Pinhas - E-Bass (1999-2005) - contributing to «Free ...» and «III»
  • Rafa Martinez - electric bass (2005-2006)

Discography

Studio recordings

year title Label Remarks
1994 Acid King Sympathy for the Record Industry EP, re-released on The Early Years
1995 Zoroaster Sympathy for the Record Industry Album, re-released on The Early Years
1997 Down with the Crown Man's Ruin Records EP, re-released as a split with Altamont
1999 Busses Woods Man's Ruin Records
Small Stone Records 		Album, re-released in 2004 with bonus tracks (Small Stone)
re-released in 2007 as vinyl record (creation)
2001 Free ... Man's Ruin Records EP released as a split with The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight
2005 Acid King III Small Stone Records Album, re-released on record in 2006 (creation)
2006 The Early Years Leaf Hound Records Compilation with remasters from Acid King and Zoroaster
2015 Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere Svart Records album

Compilation Contributions

  • "Not Fragile" ( BTO cover) on In the Groove (1999 The Music Cartel )
  • "Motorhead" ( Hawkwind Cover) on Daze of The Underground (2003 Godreah Records)
  • "The Stake" ( Steve Miller Band Cover) on Sucking the 70's - Back in the Saddle Again (2006 Small Stone Records)

"Not Fragile" and "Motorhead" were re-released on "Busse Woods"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heather Phares - Biography of Acid King on allmusic.com , accessed March 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Information on the band's Facebook page , accessed on March 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Announcement by Svart Records ( memento from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Review on Angry Metal Guy
  5. ^ Acid King: Lori S. Interview. The Obelisk, accessed April 26, 2017 .