GrimSkunk

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GrimSkunk
GrimSkunk in 2006
GrimSkunk in 2006
General information
Genre (s) Alternative rock , hard rock
founding 1988
Website www.GrimSkunk.com
Current occupation
Franz Schuller
Joe Evil
Peter Edwards
Vincent Peake
Alain "Ulf" or "VdaBC" Vadboncoeur
former members
Marc "Boris" Saint-Maurice (until 1999)
Todd Wircham (until 2004)

GrimSkunk is a rock band formed in Québec in 1988 .

Band history

GrimSkunk made their first appearance in April 1989, before their first demo, Autumn Flowers , was released in 1991 . The first EP , titled Exotic Blend and only released in North America, sold over 15,000 copies. GrimSkunk is one of the founders of the Canadian alternative scene and influenced many young bands of that genre . The band could be seen live in the opening act for Voivod , Econoline Crush and Neurosis .

In 1997, GrimSkunk founded her own independent label after her label partner Cargo Records got into financial difficulties. Indica Records was born, which today is home to artists such as James Murdoch, Vulgaires Machins and Ivy and has become one of the most important and successful indie labels in Canada . In the same year rhythm guitarist Franz Schuller took over the position of the band manager after her longtime friend and manager Simon Gallipeault was killed in a car accident. Two years later, bassist Marc “Boris” Saint-Maurice left the band to go into politics and campaign for the legalization of marijuana in Canada, and in the same year founded the Bloc Pot party . Saint-Maurice was replaced by Todd Wircham, who left after a few years and was in turn replaced by Vince Peake. He had previously been the singer and bassist with Groovy Aardvark . In 2002, GrimSkunk released Seventh Wave , their seventh album. This record was downright panned by fans and the press after a journalist accused the band of "selling their soul to the devil" because of a significant change in style. In the same year they played their first and only unplugged concert at Saint-Roch Church in Québec City .

In 2006 Fires Under The Road was released, which was based on the familiar sound of the previous albums. GrimSkunk got support in the production of the album from Garth Richardson , who had produced albums for Rage Against the Machine , Nickelback and Ugly Kid Joe , among others . In April 2007 GrimSkunk toured Europe with Suicidal Tendencies and was on a mini tour in Great Britain again in May, which ended at the Great Escape Festival in Brighton . In 2008 Alpha Galates took GrimSkunk on a tour of Canada.

Band name

Franz Schuller explains the band name as follows: “Skunk stands for the joy of the freedom of discovery to smoke weed in the forest with friends, while listening to music and feeling this magical feeling. Grim stands for all the bullshit in the world that makes you want to blow up your television or jump off a bridge these days. "

style

Markus Kavka described the band in the Metal Hammer as a “confused bunch” because no clear line could be seen. GrimSkunk is developing "more and more into a Canadian version of Waltari ". Lutz Koroleski used the styles hardcore , punk , alternative and crossover in his review for musikreviews.de and found that Scatterbrain had proceeded similarly. The intro wrote of a “mish-mash” after this empty phrase had been filled in with “sweaty mix of hardcore, punk rock, 60's psychedelic , hip-hop , ska and Caribbean sounds” a few issues before . A “multicultural crossover” of “Old School Metal […], Progressive Sounds […], Punk […], Ska, Latin and Far Eastern music”) made Frank Keil stand out from the Zillo .

In the online magazine Musik Zirkus , Stephan Schelle said that you don't recognize the band from one song to the next. Although, like other reviewers, he can think of a style and a comparative band for every single song, in the end he is able to summarize them: Metal, hard rock, punk and independent are predominant. "Alternative Rock" is the style assigned by Discogs and simply "Alternative" by The Canadian Encyclopedia . Sputnikmusic.com has decided on the stylistic term “punk” . “Ska-Punk” is what it says on spirit-of-rock.com . The term “hybrid rock” is brought into play on two-notes.com . In contrast to the formation of the all-unifying term “hybrid rock”, the decision to enter “no genre” in the relevant column stands as it was liked by the Ox-Fanzine. However, Joachim Hiller states in the text block that the "highly inconsistent picture" of hardcore, ska, punk, psychedelic rock and reggae in no way means incomplete: "Everything fits here, even if it doesn't seem like it at first glance."

The band themselves would call their style "New World Punk".

GrimSkunk is known for singing their lyrics in many different languages. In addition to French and English, there are also some texts in Spanish , Greek and Arabic . These texts always come from native speakers, so they are not the product of dumb dictionary consultations. In general, compositions and texts that are in the making are open to experiences and ideas from everyone in the band and from outside the band.

Discography

  • 1991: Autumn Flowers Demo (GrimSkunk Productions)
  • 1992: Exotic Blend EP (GrimSkunk Productions)
  • 1993: Rooftop Killer 7 " (GrimSkunk Productions, L'Oblique, en Guard Records)
  • 1994: Grim Skunk (Indica Records)
  • 1996: Meltdown (Indica Records)
  • 1997: Autumn Flowers - Rerolled (Indica Records)
  • 1998: Fieldtrip (Indica Records)
  • 2001: EP 2000 (Indica Records)
  • 2001: GrimSkunk Plays… Fatal Illness (Indica Records)
  • 2003: Seventh Wave (Indica Records)
  • 2003: Live + DVD unplugged (Indica Records)
  • 2006: Fires Under the Road (Indica Records)
  • 2012: Set Fire! (Indica Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Detlef Pirsig: GrimSkunk. Cross over to the general store . In: Intro . No. September 27 , 1995, p. 7 .
  2. ↑ GRIM SKUNK (05/99). (No longer available online.) Mucke-und-mehr.de, archived from the original on November 17, 2007 ; Retrieved March 28, 2009 . 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.mucke-und-mehr.de
  3. ↑ Markus Kavka: Grim Skunk. Meltdown . In: Metal Hammer . November 1996, Reviews. Wood and plastic, p. 59 .
  4. ↑ Lutz Koroleski: GrimSkunk: Skunkadelic (Review). In: musikreviews.de. May 20, 2011, accessed August 19, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Grim Skunk. Meltdown. (No longer available online.) In: intro.de. November 22, 1996, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved on August 19, 2015 (from Intro No. 39). 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.intro.de
  6. ↑ a b c d Frank Keil: Grimskunk . In: Zillo . February 1999, p. 36 .
  7. ↑ Stephan Schelle: Grimskunk - Skunkadelic. In: musik Zirkus-magazin.de. April 2011, accessed August 19, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Grimskunk. In: discogs.com. Retrieved August 19, 2015 .
  9. ↑ GrimSkunk ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
  10. ↑ Grim Skunk. In: sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved August 19, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Grimskunk. In: spirit-of-rock.com. Retrieved August 19, 2015 .
  12. ↑ GrimSkunk. (No longer available online.) In: two-notes.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2015 ; accessed on August 19, 2015 . 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.two-notes.com
  13. ↑ Joachim Hiller: Grim Skunk. Grim Skunk CD. In: ox-fanzine.de. 1995, accessed on August 19, 2015 (taken from print edition No. 20).