Benümb

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Benümb
General information
origin Oakland , California , United States
Genre (s) Grindcore
founding 1994
resolution 2006
Last occupation
Pete Ponitkoff
John Gotelli
Electric guitar , vocals
 Dave Hogarth
Electric guitar
 Paul Ponitkoff
Tim Regan
former members
Electric guitar, vocals
 Robb Koperski
Electric guitar
 Mike V

Benümb (often written in Benumb ) was an American grindcore band from Oakland , California that was formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2006.

history

The band was formed in 1994 in the San Francisco Bay Area . It was led by the guitarist Paul Pontikoff, a Russian immigrant. In the following time, the group worked on the first songs before a split release with Short Hate Temper appeared in mid-1995 on Same Day Records . In the following year and a half, songs were written and concerts were played with bands such as Man Is the Bastard , Spazz , Exhumed , Dystopia and Capitalist Casualties . In 1997 Benümb recorded various recordings, including two split releases with The Dukes of Hazzard and Apartment 213 . In addition, her appearance at the Fiesta Grande Festival was recorded and as part of the live sampler Fiesta Comes Alive! Released by Slap A Ham Records . Thereupon Relapse Records became aware of the band and signed them. Towards the end of the year the EP Gear in the Machine was released . 1998 was the Monkeybite Fanzine a live split Flexi Disc settled at the next Benümb also suppression was involved. In May of the same year, the debut album Soul of the Marty was released via Relapse Records . In addition to new material, the album contains the songs from the EP Gear in the Machine , songs from the split release with Apartment 213 and the later release with Agoraphobic Nosebleed, as well as the complete performance of Fiesta Comes Alive! . The release followed several small US tours and performances in 1998 and 1999 at the Milwaukee Metalfest and the March Metal Meltdown . In 2000 the next album Withering Strands of Hope was released , which had been recorded with producer Bart Thurber at the House of Faith Studios in Oakland. A split release with Bad Acid Trip was also released that same year . In spring 2002, Robotic Empire Records released a split release with label mates Pig Destroyer . Paul Pontikoff can be heard as guitarist for the first time since his return. In 2003 Relapse Records released the album By Means of Upheaval , before a split release with Premonitions of War was released in 2005 via Let It Burn Records . The following year the band broke up.

style

Jason Ankeny from Allmusic assigned the band to grindcore. According to rockdetector.com , the band mixes death metal and hardcore punk . Joel McIver found a mixture of Hardcore Punk and Thrash Metal in his book Extreme Metal II as a more appropriate description. On the other hand, he described Soul of the Marty as classic Grindcore, with Withering Strands of Hope being even more aggressive. Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties that Soul of the Marty contains extreme, quite catchy grindcore. The album is typical for a Relapse Records release. In addition, there is an oppressive mixture of blurry, mathematical grindcore mixed with crustcore . The songs are usually very short. David Perri said in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s that on Withering Strands of Hope you can already recognize the Vulgar Pigeons , which were later founded . The music is mostly aggressive. It is similar with By Means of Upheaval . The grindcore that can be heard here is well suited for dealing with anger. André Bohnensack from Ox-Fanzine wrote in his review of By Means of Upheaval that the band hardly deviates from the original Grindcore. There are only a few songs that are longer than two minutes, mostly they only last a few seconds, whereby the songs hardly differ from each other. Also characteristic are "the most primitive riffs , [a] short squeaky slide over the fingerboard, which should then be a kind of lead, blast beats , somewhat slower mosh parts to loosen up and very long, sometimes socially critical texts that nobody understands ". The singer is not a "grunt", but rather a "roar". Robert Müller from Metal Hammer summarized the music on Withering Strands of Hope as an "angry metal beast". The songs are "explosions of wild blastbeats, rumbling riffs and wild screams that last just seconds". He drew a comparison to the napalm death albums Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration , although the vocals were different. The texts are socially critical and political, but hardly understandable. In a later issue, Martin Wickler reviewed By Means of Upheaval . Then Grindcore can be heard, but it only sounds like unstructured noise. In addition, there are "blunt clods with riffs and chord progressions that have already been strung together in a more exciting form on countless albums". The singing is mostly expressionless and roared monotonously.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography. benumb.net, archived from the original on October 21, 2009 ; Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on May 15, 2016 ; Retrieved November 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  3. ↑ a b Jason Ankeny: Benumb. Allmusic , accessed November 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Benümb. Discogs , accessed November 26, 2016 .
  5. ^ Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 39 .
  6. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 44 .
  7. ↑ Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 48 .
  8. ↑ André Bohnensack: BENÜMB . By Means Of Upheaval CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 50 (March / April / May), 2003 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on November 26, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Robert Müller: benumb . Withering Strands of Hope. In: Metal Hammer . September 2000, p. 81 .
  10. ↑ Martin Wickler: Benümb . By Means of Upheaval. In: Metal Hammer . March 2003, p. 88 f .