Godspeed (band)

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Godspeed
General information
origin Asbury Park , New Jersey , United States
Genre (s) Alternative metal , alternative rock , stoner rock , heavy metal , hard rock
founding approx. 1991/1992
resolution 1996
Last occupation
Tom Southard
Tim Schoenleber
Rob Hultz
David Blanche
Electric bass
 Chris Kosnik

Godspeed was an American metal and rock band from Asbury Park , New Jersey , which was formed around 1991/1992 and disbanded in 1996.

history

The band was founded around 1991/1992 by guitarist Tom Southard, drummer Tim Schoenleber (a friend of Southard) and bassist Rob Hultz. A little later, David Blanche, who had become aware of the group through a classified ad in a local newspaper, joined as a singer. After a few gigs, Chris Kosnik was added as the second bass player. The band had met Kosnik in the Brighton Bar and was actually looking for a second guitarist. Hultz and Southard were previously in the band Social Decay. First they took part in the tribute album Nativity in Black in honor of Black Sabbath , in which Metallica and White Zombie also participated. Bruce Dickinson acted as a guest frontman for Godspeed. An Atlantic Records employee became aware of the group through local reviews and approached them after a concert. They first agreed on a demo contract. Through the demo produced by skid row bassist Rachel Bolan , the group finally reached an album deal in 1993. In early 1994 the debut album Ride , which had been produced again by Bolan, was released. The recording work had taken place for three weeks in the Electric Lady Studio . Then they went on tour through Europe with Black Sabbath and Cathedral . The band also held two tours across the United States, one with Ronnie James Dio and another with Sugartooth and Mutha's Day Out . After breaking up in 1996, Hultz and Southard formed the band Solace that same year, while Chris Kosnik played with Monster Magnet's Ed Mundell . For a gig on November 10, 2012 in Long Branch , the band got together once again and played with The Escape and Electrikill.

style

Christian Graf wrote in his Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon that the band saw itself in the field of tension between hard rock , metal and alternative rock . Alex Henderson from Allmusic wrote in his review of the debut album Ride that there is aggressive, noisy Thrash Metal on it , but that cannot reach the class of Slayer or Metallica . In addition to these two bands, Black Sabbath would also be one of the influences. The music also sounds influenced by industrial and alternative rock. The song My Brother mixes metal with avant-garde jazz . Achim Karstens from Metal Hammer noted in his review of the album that the Black Sabbath influence can clearly be heard on it. However, the music varies little in tempo and groove . He also pointed out that the band has two bassists. The vocals sound rattled and reflect the "melancholy, often depressive wisdom" of singer Blanche. Two issues later, Karstens interviewed David Blanche. Karstens wrote that the band combined sounds and riffs in the style of Black Sabbath with modern, alternative sounds. Blanche said that bassist Kosnik was responsible for the rhythm, while Hultz took care of more abstract things. In Darmstädter Echo, Dirk Winter criticized the transparency of the compositional pattern, because that would make the album Ride boring. The lyrics are plastic and would likely reflect depressing themes from the singer's past. However, his voice is thin. Buffo Schnädelbach from Rock Hard noted in his review of the album that the group can compete with bands like Pantera , White Zombie and Soundgarden in terms of hardness . The music is an aggressive mixture of metal elements in the style of Black Sabbath and alternative sounds. However, the album cannot be assigned to grunge . Schnädelbach also emphasized the use of two bass players as characteristic. In an interview with Oliver Klemm two issues later, Tom Southard stated that the band had attempted to admit hardcore punk in the style of the agnostic front , Cro-Mags and the Bad Brains, and 1970s-style metal (particularly Black Sabbath) mix.

Discography

  • 1992: Demo (demo, self-published)
  • 1993: Acid Face / Time Bomb (single, Heat Blast Records )
  • 1994: Houston St. / Stubborn Ass (single, Atlantic Records )
  • 1994: Ride (single, Atlantic Records)
  • 1994: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (single, Atlantic Records)
  • 1994: Ride (album, Atlantic Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shawn Zappo: GODSPEED AT BRIGHTON BAR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10. asburyanchor.com, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Oliver Klemm: Terrorkids on Speed . In: Rock Hard . No. 85 , June 1994, pp. 50 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d Info. Facebook , accessed November 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Biography. (No longer available online.) Musicmight.com, archived from the original on October 27, 2016 ; accessed on November 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 / www.musicmight.com
  5. ^ A b c Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 114 .
  6. ↑ a b Achim Karstens: Godspeed . Gods of Thunder. In: Metal Hammer . June 1994, p. 122 .
  7. ↑ Godspeed. rateyourmusic.com, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  8. ↑ John Bush: Godspeed. Allmusic , accessed November 6, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Alex Henderson: Godspeed. Ride. Allmusic, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Achim Karstens: Godspeed . Ride. In: Metal Hammer . April 1994, p. 52 .
  11. ↑ Dirk Winter: "Godspeed": a lot of bass, little voice . In: Darmstädter Echo . May 5, 1994, p. 33 .
  12. ^ Buffo Schnädelbach: Godspeed . Ride. In: Rock Hard . No. 83 , April 1994, pp. 82 .