Carnivore (band)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carnivore
Carnivore at the Wacken Open Air 2006
Carnivore at the Wacken Open Air 2006
General information
origin New York City , United States
Genre (s) Thrash metal , hardcore
founding 1982
resolution 1989
Founding members
Peter Steele † 2010
Stan Pillis
Louie Beato
Other members
Keith Alexander † 2005
Electric guitar
Marc Piovanetti

Carnivore was a thrash metal band from Brooklyn , New York City , USA .

history

After the end of the joint band project Fallout, bassist and singer Peter Ratajczik and drummer Louis Beato founded the band Disciple in early 1982. The first guitarist Larry was replaced by Stan Pillis shortly after the band was founded. After several months of rehearsals together, the band changed their name to Carnivore in mid-1982. In the course of 1983 Peter Ratajczik wrote songs like Predator and World War III & IV , the first live performance as Carnivore took place on June 6, 1983, when the musicians wore the characteristic costumes for the first time.

In mid-1985 the debut album Carnivore was recorded. The ambiguous lyrics led to controversial reactions, but Roadrunner Records offered the band a record deal in 1984. Guitarist Keith Alexander (who died on July 11, 2005 due to a bicycle accident) left the band after the album was released in 1986 and was replaced by Marc Piovanetti. After the release of the second album, Retaliation (1987), and at the band's preliminary high profile, Marc Piovanetti got out in February 1988 to play with the band Crumbsuckers . Carnivore subsequently broke up. Almost a year later, Peter Steele founded the band Type O Negative , which until their second album was still clearly shaped by Carnivore in terms of style and content.

From 1994 to 1996, the band completed a number of Reunion mini-tours on the east coast of the United States , the majority of which took place in New York State. During these performances, the entire stage show was characterized by the use of Soviet aesthetics and symbols and the distribution of US Communist Party information brochures .

In 2006 Carnivore played two gigs in Germany (one at Wacken Open Air , the other in a club in Hamburg, as a replacement for the failed gig at a Monsters of Rock in Bulgaria), but with a new line-up: except for Peter Steele Steve Tobin (formerly Dust to Dust ) as drummer, Joey Zampela ( Life of Agony ) as guitarist and Paul Bento (sitar and tambourine player on several Type-O-Negative albums) as guitarist. The same line-up was also planned for seven more gigs on the east coast of the USA. The heavy metal band Seventh Void (consisting of Type-O-Negative members Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly as well as Matt Brown from Trespassers William and Ryan Juhrs from Flaw) performed as the opening act for the first two gigs of this mini tour .

In 2007 Carnivore played on a tour that also took them to Europe.

Carnivore AD

Marc Piovanetti and Louie Beato have been performing under different names with Baron Misuraca and Joe Branciforte since 2017. (See also: AD )

Occur

Carnivore at the Wacken Open Air 2006 with female support who fired fake blood into the audience

Carnivore was notorious for their performances, in which the band members appeared in martial costumes reminiscent of Mad Max scenarios and regularly threw animal blood and carcasses into the audience. Equally provocative were the song texts, in which gender roles , antitheism , homophobia and radical and sometimes apocalyptic traits bearing cultural pessimism with regard to technological progress and racial theories were discussed in an extreme and misanthropic way . Especially in big trouble earned the band their song "Jesus Hitler" one in whose intro an excerpt from a Hitler speech by the Nazi Party in 1934 ( "But the goal must be, all decent Germans are Nazis Only the best National Socialists are party comrades.."; also used in Triumph des Wills ) and chant chants were played on top of each other. The text deals in a very cynical way with the inner conflict of the son of a nun who was raped by a Wehrmacht soldier during World War II .

Some critics accuse the band of openly propagating racism , misogyny / sexism and nationalism for their provocative lyrics .

Discography

  • 1985: Carnivore
  • 1987: Retaliation
  • 1991: Retaliation / Carnivore (re-release)

Individual evidence

  1. Holger Stratmann: Carnivore . Retaliation. In: Rock Hard . No. 22 ( rockhard.de [accessed on September 26, 2014]).
  2. Jeff Wagner: Soul On Fire. P. 36f.
  3. Jeff Wagner: Soul On Fire. P. 41.
  4. Jeff Wagner: Soul On Fire. P. 44.
  5. RockHard Encyclopedia: 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years , RockHard Verlag, Dortmund 1998, p. 60, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1
  6. https://www.rockhard.de/news/newsarchiv/newsansicht/49722-carnivore-offizielle-reunion-als-carnivore-ad.html
  7. ^ Joachim Prein: Carnivore . Carnivore. In: Rock Hard . No. 16 ( rockhard.de [accessed September 26, 2014]).

literature

Web links

Commons : Carnivore  - album with pictures, videos and audio files