Frankenbok
| Frankenbok | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Melbourne , Australia |
| Genre (s) | Groove Metal , Alternative Metal , Nu Metal , Metalcore |
| founding | 1997 |
| Website | http://www.frankenbok.com/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Tim Miedeckie | |
| Aaron Butler | |
| Mick Morley | |
Electric guitar |
Steve Watts |
| Dan White | |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Scott Lang |
singing |
Adam "Hutch" Glynn |
singing |
Adam B. Metal |
Electric guitar |
Nathan "Yeti" Amatnieks |
singing |
Dan McDougall |
Drums (live) |
John Sankey |
Frankenbok is an Australian metal band from Melbourne that was formed in 1997.
history
The band was formed in 1997. It initially only consisted of guitarist Aaron Butler and singer Adam "Hutch" Glynn, using a drum machine. After guitarist Scott Lang and bassist Tim Miedecke joined the group, their debut album Greetings and Salutations was released on Faultline Records in 2000 . It was only after the recordings that Mick Morley joined as a drummer. In May 2000 it went on tour with Skinlab and an appearance at the Metal for the Brain was held. At the end of the year the group signed a contract with Dark Carnival , which resulted in the EP The Loopholes and Great Excuses EP released in 2001 . This includes a cover version of the Madison Avenue song Don't Call Me Baby . As a result, the band was increasingly played on the Triple J radio station . In the middle of the year, the group went on a six-week tour through Australia with their label mates Dreadnaught, followed by four appearances with Slayer and Machine Head in August . In early 2002, the debut album was re-released on Dark Carnival, with eight live recordings from Sydney included as a bonus. The band also went on tour with Psy.Kore, performed with System of a Down and played at the Overcranket Festival . In November 2002 the singer Glynn left the cast and was replaced by Adam B. West in January 2003. Since Morley was injured in early 2003, Devolved's John Sankey helped out live for performances with Skinlab and Soilwork . In the same year the second album Blood Oath was released . The release took place via Roadrunner Records . The album was with producer DW Norton in the Back Beach Studios has been added. In 2004 the band went along with 8 Foot Sativa on tour in New Zealand . In May and June they went on tour through Australia together with 8 Foot Sativa, Full Scale and Sunk Loto . In 2005 he performed at the Metal for the Brain in Canberra and Brisbane . After that, the band began writing and recording the new album, but without Lang, who chose to live and work in Asia . He was replaced by Nathan Amatnieks. In early 2007 Adam B. Metal was also replaced by Dan McDougall. At the beginning of January Adam B. Metal broke his leg in a skateboard accident. In August, the album Murder of Songs was released on Prime Cuts Music . In April 2008 this label was followed by the EP The Last Ditch Redemption , before going on tour for the rest of the year. In 2013 the album Cheers, Bears & Beards was released , which consists of six previously unreleased recordings that were made for the 2011 album The End of All You Know , and four live songs.
style
According to Brian Fischer-Griffin in the Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal , the band sounds like a mix of Faith No More , Slipknot , Death Metal and Grindcore . On The Loopholes and Great Excuses the group moves away from Death Metal and closer to Nu Metal . After Glynn's exit, the style moved towards metalcore . He described Murder of Songs as modern Thrash Metal . Metalrage.com's Buzzin Hornet described the music on Blood Oath as Metalcore with influences from other genres such as Nu Metal. The vocals are variable and the riffs are unusual. Lennart "Grim Rieper" Riepenhusen from metalnews.de found the music of Murder of Songs to be a modern mixture of metalcore, nu metal and thrash metal. In the songs, clear vocals are often used, which he found to be artificial. Jonathon Besanko from metalobsession.net ranked the band as Cheers, Beers & Beards! to groove metal. In the first 20 seconds of the first song Flyblown there are shredding riffs that are reminiscent of Machine Head . Then the song changes into a double bass dominated groove . In the following Rebels in the Sewe , the group sounds more like Clutch than a Thrash or Groove Metal band. The subsequent instrumental Black Saturday deals with the bushfires in Victoria 2009 . The song has a rock-driven rhythm. Bottom Feeder offers a mixture of aggression from early Pantera and death metal bands from the early 1990s such as Cannibal Corpse or Immolation . So I Started a Cult is a mixture of hard rock and thrash metal. After the song Cut the Rope , which has a memorable riff, the live recordings would follow, which can also be assigned to Groove Metal.
Discography
- 1997: Frankenbok (demo, self-published)
- 2000: Greetings and Salutations (album, Faultline Records)
- 2000: The Frankenbok Special Master Movie Camera Music "Dodgy" Home Video (VHS, self-published)
- 2001: The Loopholes and Great Excuses EP (EP, Dark Carnival )
- 2001: Devestation Vacation (Split with Dreadnaught , Dark Carnival)
- 2003: Blood Oath (album, Roadrunner Records )
- 2007: Murder of Songs (Album, Prime Cuts Music )
- 2008: The Last Ditch Redemption (EP, Prime Cuts Music)
- 2011: Home Is Where the Stage Is (DVD, Fair Dinkum Records )
- 2011: Dine in Hell (single, self-published)
- 2011: The End of All You Know (Album, Fair Dinkum Records)
- 2012: Shit on the Liver / Genetic Lego (Split with King Parrot , Von Grimm Records )
- 2013: Cheers, Beers & Beards! (Album, Fair Dinkum Records)
- 2014: Never to Return (Single, Fair Dinkum Records)
Web links
- Official website
- Frankenbok at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Biography. (No longer available online.) Musicmight.com, archived from the original on January 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 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.
- ^ A b c d Brian Fischer-Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . Iron Pages Press, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-6398-2 , pp. 166 f .
- ↑ a b Jonathon Besanko: Album Reviews: Frankenbok - Cheers, Beers & Beards! metalobsession.net, accessed January 6, 2016 .
- ^ Buzzin Hornet: Frankenbok - Blood Oath. metalrage.com, accessed January 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Lennart Riepenhusen [Grim_Rieper]: .: CD REVIEWS :: Frankenbok - Murder Of Songs. (No longer available online.) Metalnews.de, archived from the original on January 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 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.
