Damnation AD

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Damnation AD
General information
origin Washington (United States)
Genre (s) Metalcore , Hardcore Punk
founding 1992 as Damnation, 2005
resolution 1998
Founding members
singing
 Mike "DC" McTernan
Guitar, drums
 Ken Olden
Current occupation
singing
 Mike McTernan
guitar
 Ken Olden
Drums
 Brian "Smitty" Smith
Electric guitar
 Daniel Fleming
bass
 Alex Merchlinsky
former members
Drums
 Colin Kercz
Drums
 Dave Ward
Drums
 Dave Bryson
Electric guitar
 Hillel Halloway
Electric guitar
 Brian Kerley
singing
 David Johnson

Damnation AD is an American metalcore and hardcore punk band from Washington, DC , founded in 1992 under the name Damnation , split up in 1998 and reunited in 2005.

history

The band was founded in 1992 under the name Damnation and was renamed Damnation AD in 1993 to avoid confusion with a Californian punk band of the same name . The group was founded as a studio project, and some members already had experience, for example Ken Olden had already played with Battery and Better Than a Thousand . In Battery also sang producer Brian McTernan, brother of the singer Mike "DC" McTernan. Damnation AD initially consisted of Olden, who played the drums and guitar, and the singer McTernan. After recording a few singles together, guitarist Hillel Halloway, bassist Alex Merchlinsky and drummer Dave Ward joined them. After the group had come into contact with Jade Tree Records , a split- release appeared about this with Walleye , before the debut album No More Dreams of Happy Endings was released in 1995 . Then the band went on tour and performed with groups such as Ignite and Earth Crisis . During the performances, McTernan and Olden, who belonged to the Straight Edge scene, provided themselves with scene-typical X-marks, while other members drank alcohol, which caused confusion among fans. In August 1996 the EP Misericordia was released, the next record. After switching to Revelation Records , the album Kingdom of Lost Souls was released , on which Dave Bryson could be heard as the new drummer. After the band broke up, Olden continued to play at Better Than a Thousand and opened his own recording studio. Halloway joined the metal band Black Manta. McTernan learned to tattoo and Merchlinsky studied design at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore . Ward moved back to Los Angeles . After a hiatus of several years, McTernan began again as a singer in a band called When Tigers Fight. He contacted Olden for advice on recording the singing. Both went to Olden's recording studio and recorded a few rehearsals together. They then decided to record a new Damnation AD album, which was released in 2007 under the name In This Life or the Next . The album features guest musicians from Give Up the Ghost , Darkest Hour , Earth Crisis and Fall Out Boy . The band had their first appearance after the reunification on New Year's Day 2005, on which the original line-up took part except for drummer Dave Ward, who was already on tour with another band. Another gig took place in August of the same year.

style

According to Allmusic's Ryan Downey , Damnation AD was one of the first US bands to make the transition from punk to dark, metal- heavy sounds reminiscent of Integrity . McTernan's singing is always reminiscent of Henry Rollins' singing at Black Flag . On In This Life or the Next , the group returned to their sludge -influenced Metalcore roots.

According to Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer , the band plays solid hardcore punk on Kingdom of Lost Souls , which however has a hard time in the market saturated by bands Pro-Pain , Ignite and MOD . Marcel Rudoletzky from Metal Hammer described the music on In This Life or the Next as aggressive hardcore punk. On the album “pulsating hardcore pieces like 'Knot' or 'Jigsaw' are juxtaposed with a number of dark, earthy numbers that know how to please with a damn heavy metal list”.

Marc Lohausen from Ox-Fanzine wrote in a review in 1998 that there are “ double bass attacks, high-speed and mid-tempo passages […] [and] heavy guitar riffs” on the album , which is reminiscent of the band No Escape . After fast passages you switch to a slower part and the aggressive vocals going through short spoken word - Samples replaced. According to David Häussinger from Ox-Fanzine encounter Kingdom of Lost Souls earlier Neurosis -Hardcore Punk on Saint Vitus - and Black Sabbath riffs, while the lyrics are depressed. The band use the same method as Corrosion of Conformity on their album Blind , combining "70s heavy rock with hardcore roots". The guitar sound is "super fuzzy ". According to Ingo Rothkehl from Ox-Fanzine , the band was a style- defining metalcore band in the mid to late 1990s. The album In This Life or the Next seems quite old-fashioned, which he found gratifying.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Damnation AD victoryrecords.com, accessed on August 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Bio. revelationrecords.com, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Ryan Downey: Damnation AD Allmusic , accessed August 5, 2014 .
  4. ^ New Years Hardcore 2005 show (New York). lambgoat.com, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Jadetree.com: Kid Dynamite And Damnation Ad Confirm Reunion Shows ( Memento August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Damnation AD Kingdom of Lost Souls. In: Metal Hammer . December 1998, p. 72 .
  7. ↑ Marcel Rudoletzky: Damnation AD In This Life or the Next. In: Metal Hammer . August 2007, p. 103 .
  8. ↑ Marc Lohausen: DAMNATION AD Damnation AD CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 33 , 1998 ( online [accessed August 6, 2014]).
  9. ↑ David Häussinger: DAMNATION AD Kingdom of Lost Souls CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 33 , 1998 ( online [accessed August 6, 2014]).
  10. ↑ Ingo Roth Kehl: DAMNATION AD In This Life or the Next. In: Ox-Fanzine . 73 (August / September), 2007 ( online [accessed August 6, 2014]).