Halo (band)
| Halo | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Melbourne , Australia |
| Genre (s) | Industrial metal , drone doom , sludge |
| founding | 1997 |
| Current occupation | |
| Skye Klein | |
| Robert Allen | |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
David Ryan |
Electric guitar , vocals |
George "Hatzis" Hatzigeorgiou |
Halo is an Australian metal band from Melbourne that was formed in 1997. It has since moved its headquarters to London , England .
history
The band was founded in 1997 and initially consisted of bassist and singer Skye Klein, drummer Robert Allen, bassist David Ryan and guitarist and singer George "Hatzis" Hatzigeorgiou. The following year the self-titled debut album followed via Embryo Recordings . After Hatzigeorgiou left the line-up, the album Massive Corporate Disease was released in 1999 . Then Ryan left the group, before Guattari (From the West Flows Gray Ash and Pestilence) appeared that same year . The album was re-released in 2001 through Relapse Records , making it Halo's first album to be released in the United States . In the meantime, the fourth album entitled Degree Zero Point of Implosion was released on Embryo Recordings in 2000 . In 2003 the album Body of Light was released via Relapse Records , after which they went on a European tour with Pig Destroyer in 2006 . In 2014, the EP Gods of Sound was self-published.
style
For William York from Allmusic , the band plays a dark and slow mixture of industrial and sludge , which has often made the group compared to Godflesh or Swans . The music consists mostly of improvisation , which is loosely integrated into a rough structure. The sound is raw and uncompromising. The group mixes down the instruments so that you feel like you are in the same room with the band. In his review of Body of Light York wrote that the album was built on a foundation of industrial metal , but one should not think of bands like Rammstein or Nine Inch Nails , since Halo is much grotesque, clumsy and raw. He was particularly impressed by the bass, in which the amplifier is fully used. The singing is harsh and growls, although it is used sparingly. The lyrics are so hateful and negative that they occasionally come close to Whitehouse's . Brian Giffin summarized the band's music in his Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal as a mixture of Ambient , Drone Doom , Sludge and Noise . The sound has often been described as a combination of Godflesh and Sunn O))) . The songs have almost no structure, can hardly be heard and almost impossible to classify.
Discography
- 1998: Subliminal Transmissions (Album, Embryo Recordings )
- 1999: Massive Corporate Disease (Album, Embryo Recordings)
- 1999: Guattari (From the West Flows Gray Ash and Pestilence) (album, self-published)
- 2000: Degree Zero Point of Implosion (Album, Embryo Recordings)
- 2002: Agoraphobic Nosebleed / Halo (Split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Relapse Records )
- 2003: Body of Light (Album, Relapse Records)
- 2004: Live 06:06:01 (Live-Album, Embryo Recordings)
- 2014: Gods of Sound (EP, self-published)