Bloodstar
| Bloodstar | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Zurich , Switzerland |
| Genre (s) | Industrial metal |
| founding | 1985 |
| Website | http://bloodstar.ch |
| Founding members | |
Guitar, vocals |
Rolf Brunner |
guitar |
Micha Pansi |
| Current occupation | |
| Micha Pansi | |
Electric guitar, vocals
|
Rolf Brunner |
Electric guitar (live) |
Emanuel Meyer |
| former members | |
| Roland Eichenberger | |
| Roger Baumer | |
Organ , keyboard, drum computer
|
Roland Brändli |
Bloodstar is a Swiss industrial metal band from Zurich , which was founded in 1985.
history
The band was founded in 1985 and consisted of the guitarist and singer Rolf Brunner, the guitarist and keyboardist Micha Pansi , the bassist Roger Baumer and the percussionist Roland Eichenberger. In 1986 and 1987 the band released their first two demos. In 1988 the group recorded their self-titled debut album, which was released in 1989 on the band's own label Desert Engine Records. The album also includes a cover version of the goblin song L'alba dei morti viventi . The release was followed by appearances with Saint Vitus , Dinosaur Jr. , Messiah , Soundgarden and Human Rights , before work on the second album began in the winter of 1990. In 1991 the single Exterminator 666 Does Not Answer was released , before the second album was released in 1992 under the name Anytime - Anywhere on the Red Decibel Records label. This also includes a cover version of the Suicide song Ghost Rider . Baumer left the line-up in 2000 to begin a solo career under the name Roger Rotor. The sound carriers of Bloodstar were recorded in the band's own recording studio.
style
According to Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 2 , the band's first two demos offer “an absurd mixture of feedback howling, electronic effects and a chaotic, aggressive sound mix of a dark style”. For the debut album he read the description "Post Nuclear Industrial Metal" somewhere that he found appropriate. The band sees itself in the field of progressive metal . This is confirmed by the trade press, who say that the band is not like Celtic Frost , but more like Speed Metal mixed with Techno and Industrial . The music is underlain by a permanent double bass that is generated by a drum computer . According to Allmusic's Michael Sutton , the band combines techno rhythms with electronic experimentation and heavy metal . It is comparable to bands like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry . The band should be seen as equal to these groups and not as imitators due to their early founding date. The band Suicide is one of the influences. Lars Brinkmann ( Spex ) identified a “terrible tearful gloom” in the lyrics and mentioned the recurring musical comparisons with Ministry and Godflesh . In an interview with Robert Müller from Metal Hammer , Roger Baumer stated that the basis for the songs is metal . However, it doesn't matter to him whether one should call the music of Bloodstar techno or metal. Baumer found Müller's assignment to industrial metal inappropriate, since industrial metal for him was music like that of Ministry, with which, apart from the instrumentation, they had almost nothing in common. According to Müller, the band quote by the cyberpunk poker world by "whales, Suicide cover versions, Morricone - riffs and an oil-smeared pathos that Ministrys, Psalm 69 to retirement home-pastoral perspective." Müller had reviewed Anytime - Anywhere a previous issue . The record company likes to put the industrial metal stamp on the band, but Bloodstar is tinkering with its own sound universe. The songs would “build up around unshakable, shiny chrome rhythms, monstrous but dissecting clearly structured riffs” and “pad the whole thing with glowing keyboards”. Jon Kristiansen described the band's music as Death Metal comparable to the music of Bathory . The vocals sound like Quorthon's on the Hammerheart album .
Discography
- 1989: Bloodstar (album, Desert Engine Records)
- 1991: Exterminator 666 Does Not Answer / Hyperspace (Single, Red Decibel )
- 1992: Anytime - Anywhere (album, Red Decibel)
- 1999: Back from Hell (EP, Desert Engine Records)
Web links
- Bloodstar at Allmusic (English)
- Bloodstar at Discogs (English)
- Band's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ BLOODSTAR. (No longer available online.) Musicmight.com, archived from the original on December 13, 2014 ; Retrieved December 10, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ a b Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 2 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1990, p. 57 f .
- ↑ Bloodstar - Exterminator 666 Does Not Answer / Hyperspace. Discogs , accessed December 11, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Michael Sutton: Bloodstar. Allmusic , accessed December 11, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Robert Müller: Cybernetic Dances . Bloodstar. In: Metal Hammer . June 1993, p. 49 .
- ↑ Lars Brinkmann: Bloodstar . Blood is thicker. In: Spex . August 1993, p. 6th f .
- ↑ Robert Müller: Bloodstar . Anytime - Anywhere. In: Metal Hammer . May 1993, p. 67 .
- ^ Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 205
