Giraffe Tongue Orchestra
| Giraffe Tongue Orchestra | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | United States |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock |
| founding | 2011 |
| Website | giraffetongueorchestra.com |
| Current occupation | |
| William DuVall | |
| Brent Hinds | |
guitar |
Ben Weinman |
| Pete Griffin (since 2015) | |
| Thomas Pridgen (since 2015) | |
| former members | |
bass |
Eric Avery (until 2015) |
Drums |
Jon Theodore (until 2015) |
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra is an American hard rock - Supergroup . The band is under contract with Party Smasher Inc. and has so far released a studio album.
history
The band was formed in 2011 by guitarist Ben Weinman from the band The Dillinger Escape Plan . Weinman first worked with Brent Hinds from the band Mastodon . According to Hinds, both bands have toured many times and both musicians regularly played together in the backstage area . Later came the former Jane's Addiction- bassist Eric Avery and former The Mars Volta - drums Jon Theodore so. Initially the musicians wanted to win William DuVall from the band Alice in Chains as a singer. DuVall had to cancel due to lack of time. As a replacement, the actress Juliette Lewis was added as a singer on the mediation of Ben Weinman .
In March 2015, in an interview with Sirius XM radio station, Ben Weinman announced that bassist Eric Avery and drummer Jon Theodore had left the band. Theodore was too busy with his band Queens of the Stone Age . The musicians were replaced by Dethklok bassist Pete Griffin and former The Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen. The collaboration with Juliette Lewis didn't work well, according to Brent Hinds, and it ended. After Brent Hinds met William DuVall again in a supermarket , Hinds played the new songs for him.
In February 2016, William DuVall was finally introduced as the new permanent singer of the Giraffe Tongue Orchestra. The band name came about when Brent Hinds was in a zoo in Sydney . He got a banana from his backpack, which was stolen from him by a giraffe . The animal peeled the banana with its tongue and ate it. The name suffix Orchestra is inspired by the band Mahavishnu Orchestra . The band played their first concerts on August 27th and 28th, 2016 at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England . The debut album Broken Lines was released on September 23, 2016 and entered the Swiss album charts at number 89 .
At the Loudwire Music Awards 2016 , the band was nominated in the Best New Artist category. The award went to the band Shallow Side . In the same year Blood Moon was nominated in the Revolver Music Awards in the category Best Film / Video , but the award went to the band Gojira . A small tour through North America was planned for December 2016. However, this had to be canceled after Brent Hinds broke his leg in a motorcycle accident.
style
The band mixes the various influences of the main bands from the musicians involved. Giraffe Tongue Orchestra largely dispense with the verse - refrain- patterns traditional in rock music . According to Ben Weinman, the band shouldn't sound like any of the other bands of the musicians involved. Rather, the music should "represent the individual styles of the individual members". Weinman added that there were no rules for the Giraffe Tongue Orchestra. Allmusic's Rob Wacey described Giraffe Tongue Orchestra as an alternative metal band that combined elements of hard rock and progressive metal . Lothar Gerber from the German magazine Metal Hammer described the band's music as “completely unique, versatile rock that is sometimes straight forward, sometimes tricky and sometimes even extremely danceable”. In his review for the album Broken Lines , Ronny Bittner from the German magazine Rock Hard wrote that "the colorful variety of styles and the subliminal madness of Faith No More and System of a Down makes you think".
Discography
Albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 CH
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| 2016 |
Broken Lines Party Smasher Inc. |
CH89 (1 week) CH |
First published: September 23, 2016
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Music videos
- 2016: Crucifixion
- 2016: Blood Moon
Awards
| year | price | category | For | result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Loudwire Music Awards | Best New Artist | Giraffe Tongue Orchestra | Nominated |
| Revolver Music Awards | Best film / video | Blood Moon | Nominated |
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Lothar Gerber: Society of bourgeois rock . In: Metal Hammer , October 2016, page 32
- ↑ MASTODON, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, Ex-JANE'S ADDICTION Members Join Forces In GTO Blabbermouth.net, accessed on July 21, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b Martin Ioanidis: kisses with tongue . In: Visions , issue 283, page 38
- ^ Seth Werkheiser: Giraffe Tongue Orchestra has a new line-up. Metal Insider, accessed September 19, 2016 .
- ↑ GIRAFFE TONGUE ORCHESTRA Feat. ALICE IN CHAINS, MASTODON, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Members: 'Crucifixion' Song. Blabbermouth.net, accessed July 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Chad Childers: Vote for Best New Artist. Loudwire , accessed December 17, 2017 .
- ↑ GIRAFFE TONGUE ORCHESTRA Cancels US Tour Following BRENT HINDS's 'Motorcycle Incident'. Blabbermouth.net, accessed November 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Ryan Reed: Meet Alice in Chains, Mastodon Members' Wild Prog-Metal Supergroup. Rolling Stone , accessed October 5, 2016 .
- ^ Ronny Bittner: Giraffe Tongue Orchestra - Broken Lines . In: Rock Hard , October 2016, page 107
- ↑ Chad Childers: 6th Annual Loudwire Music Awards: Complete Winners List. Loudwire, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ wookubus: Here's Who Won At The 2016 'Revolver Music Awards'. The PRP, accessed April 14, 2019 .
Web links
- Official website
- Giraffe Tongue Orchestra at Allmusic (English)
- Giraffe Tongue Orchestra at Discogs (English)
- Chart sources: CH