Bongripper

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Bongripper
General information
origin Chicago , Illinois , USA
Genre (s) Stoner Metal , Drone Doom
founding 2005
Website www.bongripper.com
Current occupation
Drums
 Daniel O'Connor
guitar
 Nick Dellacroce
guitar
 Dennis Pleckham
Electric bass
 Ronald Petzke

Bongripper is a stoner doom band from Chicago formed in 2005 .

history

Bongripper were founded in Chicago in the summer of 2005 as an instrumental doom metal band. The group was formed from the members of a previously mutually entertaining death metal band, as the former singer had moved to his hometown. Nick Dellacroce brought in the name Bongripper. The name alludes to the album Dopesmoker by Sleep , as in the opinion of the Bongripper members, Sleep would have wasted 17 minutes of possible CD time on the 63-minute long release. The band records their albums in their own studio in the house of their guitarist Dennis Pleckmann.

About a year after its inception, the group self- published their debut album The Great Barrier Reefer . The 80-minute album was only released in a rare CD-R version. The length of the album presented in one piece was important to the members as they wanted to produce a longer piece than Sleep. The album was re-released in 2012 by the Stoner Doom and Sludge label Emetic Records with a different design. The reviews of the debut album were mostly positive. The second album Hippie Killer was released a year later and was also well received. The album, which, like the debut, is conceptually arranged as a continuous piece, has been divided into 10 parts, contrary to the previous album. Although the album is extremely popular with the group's supporters, the band members tend to reject the album.

The third album, entitled Heroin , was released in 2007 in a box limited to 25 copies, which, in addition to the experimental CD corresponding to Drone Doom, contained an almost complete set of fixers , albeit without a syringe. The album was re-released in 2014 via Ivory Antler. In 2008 the album Hate Ashbury and the EP Meat Ditch followed . The name of the album disrespectfully alludes to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco , a stronghold of the hippie movement . The EP was created as a collaboration with the Noise project Winters in Osaka .

In 2010 the band gained international popularity with the album Satan Worshiping Doom . The album was highlighted by reviewers as an upcoming genre classic and compared to drone and stoner-doom artists such as Sunn O))) , Sleep, Ufomammut , Bongzilla and Belzebong . In addition to their first UK tour in 2011, the album also made two appearances at the 2012 Roadburn Festival , one of which was used to present the full Satan Worshiping Doom album. From recordings of the first appearance at the regular festival and the second appearance at the Afterburner event, Roadburn Records put together a live album that was released in 2013. In 2011 the musicians founded the Great Barrier Records label and released the EP Sex Tape / Snuff Film . The group chose the title because the term makes searching for the EP more difficult. In the following years, the group toured more and more, including as the opening act for the reformed Sleep. In addition, Bongripper released Split EP's with Hate and Conan . The highly acclaimed album Miserable followed in 2014 . Since their first concerts in Great Britain, the group has also performed more frequently in Europe. In 2015 Bongripper gave other concerts at the Roadburn Festival.

style

Bongripper plays instrumental stoner doom with high proportions of drone doom. A few releases, such as the heroin recorded without drums or the experimental EP Meat Ditch , are completely subordinate to the drone. The group's riffing is described as psychedelic , wobbly, and particularly heavy. Playing the drums is considered thunderous, threatening and dragging. However, the title Satan from Satan Worshiping Doom is said to have an audible influence from Black Metal .

Discography

  • 2006: The Great Barrier Reefer (CD-R album, self-published; 2012 Emetic Records)
  • 2007: Hippie Killer (album, self-published; 2014 Great Barrier Records)
  • 2007: Heroin (album, self-published; 2014 Ivory Antler)
  • 2008: Hate Ashbury (album, self-published; 2008 Scab On My Brain; 2011 Féretro Records)
  • 2008: Meat Ditch (collaboration EP with Winters in Osaka, self-published)
  • 2010: Satan Worshiping Doom (album, self-published)
  • 2011: Sex Tape / Snuff Film (EP, Great Barrier Records)
  • 2013: Bongripper / Hate (split single with Hate, Great Barrier Records)
  • 2013: At the Roadburn (Live album, Roadburn Records )
  • 2013: Bongripper / Conan (split single with Conan, Holy Roar Records; 2015: Black Bow Records)
  • 2014: Miserable (Album, Great Barrier Records)
  • 2018: Terminal (Album, Comatose Studio)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Piero Scaruffi: Bongripper. scaruffi, accessed May 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Bongripper. vk.com, accessed May 6, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b c d Lee Edwards: Bongripper Interview. The Sleeping Shaman, accessed May 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Rich: BONGRIPPER: 'Playing Fast Is Too Hard!' Metal Recusants, accessed May 6, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Michael Bambas: Bongripper: Interview. (No longer available online.) Metalnews, archived from the original on May 6, 2016 ; Retrieved June 5, 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.metalnews.de
  6. ↑ a b Michael Bambas: Satan Worshiping Doom. Metalnews, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  7. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Satan Worshiping Doom. Allmusic, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Bongripper's entire Satan Whorshipping Doom performance at 2012 Roadburn Festival. (No longer available online.) Roadburn, archived from the original on June 30, 2016 ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Hear It Here: Roadburn 2015 Audio Streams On Line: Acid Witch, Bongripper, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Ken Mode and Thou Among Others. (No longer available online.) Roadburn, archived from the original on June 30, 2016 ; accessed on June 6, 2016 .