Skin chamber

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Skin chamber
General information
origin Boston , Massachusetts ,
United States
Genre (s) Post metal , industrial metal
founding 1991
resolution 1993
Website www.skinchamber.com
Last occupation
Drums, percussion, vocals
 Chris Moriarty
Guitar, electric bass, vocals, sampler
 Paul Lemos

Skin Chamber was a side project of two controlled bleeding musicians, founded in 1991 and dissolved in 1993 , which was dedicated to industrial metal .

history

Under the impression of the Grindcore releases of the Earache Records label and especially that of the early Napalm Death , Paul Lemos and Chris Moriarty decided to initiate a new music group alongside Controlled Bleeding. Lemos described the separation from Wax Trax as the decisive factor for founding a new band and, consequently, for the musical reorientation ! Records . As a reaction to the separation, the musicians stopped every artistic process for eleven months and only came into mutual contact sporadically. During the joint rehearsals, the musicians reduced themselves to playing electric bass and drums without the keyboards or synthesizers that are usual for controlled bleeding. The resulting project, initially called Fat Hacker , was exclusively dedicated to the extremely fast played Grindcore. Lemos and Moriarty put together a demo tape with several tracks, the longest of which had a playing time of less than 50 seconds, and mailed it without any reference to the musicians or the main band. Roadrunner Records responded and asked for more test recordings. Moriarty and Lemos then worked on new pieces for three months and in the process changed their musical and aesthetic orientation towards the rather slow sound that the group, renamed Skin Chamber , presented on their albums.

The debut album Wound was released in 1991, the second album Trial in 1993. At the time of publication, both albums were rarely discussed and mostly rated as average to poor. Holger Stratmann from Rock Hard describes the music of the debut album Wound as "scary, annoying and depressing". In his opinion, the music "has very little to do with metal in the true sense of the word [...]." Klaudia Weber, who also reviewed the second album Trial for Rock Hard , described the style as a "surge of sound, made by something circular saws. something similar is dominated, ”she calls drumming chaotic and she compares the singing to screeching gagging. However, the albums are retrospectively referred to as major industrial and thrash metal releases of the 1990s. Alex Henderson of Allmusic calls Wounds "one of the strongest alternative rock CDs of 1991." Also in 1993 a split EP with the grindcore band Candiru was released on which Lemos and Moriarty released an untitled track under the band name Fat Hacker .

Following their second album, Lemos and Moriarty ended their careers at Skin Chamber and immediately reactivated Controlled Bleeding. As a motivation for not continuing Skin Chamber, Lemos cited the wish not to allow any softening or unwanted changes to the band. However, Moriarty and Lemos sought in 2008 work on another album under the band name Skin Chamber. Moriarty died before the first recordings, whereupon Lemos stopped any further activity as a skin chamber.

style

Lemos stated that the style played on Wound and Trial was inspired by the Swans group . The Roadrunner Records label also draws a direct connection between the Swans albums Cop and Greed and the releases of Skin Chamber. The style is usually referred to as industrial metal and the music used to be close to Godflesh . According to Phil Freemann, the band mixes the guitar playing of Thrash Metal and clattering metal percussion with rough noise and guttural vocals described as “excruciating screaming” . According to Freemann, the music is "loud, aggressive and ugly stuff which until today [2013] is seen more as non-listener art [and at the same time] more punishment than pleasure."

Discography

  • 1991: Wound (album, Roadrunner Records)
  • 1993: Trial (Album, Roadrunner Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d About. Skin Chamber, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  2. ^ Skin Chamber. Chaos Control, accessed April 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Holger Stratmann: Skin Chamber: Wound. Rock Hard, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  4. ^ Klaudia Weber: Skin Chamber: Trial. Rock Hard, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  5. ^ Greg Prato: Skin Chamber. Allmusic, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Alex Henderson: Skin Chamber: Wound. Allmusic, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  7. ^ A b c Phil Freemann: 20 Years Ago: Skin Chamber. (No longer available online.) Roadrunner Records, archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; Retrieved April 6, 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 / us.roadrunnerrecords.com
  8. ^ Skin Chamber: Wound / Trial. Sea of ​​Tranquility, accessed April 6, 2016 .