Kill II This

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Kill II This
General information
origin Stockport , England
Genre (s) Industrial metal , groove metal
founding 1996, 2014
resolution 2005 or later as City of God
Current occupation
Simon Gordon
Mark Mynett
Pete Stone
Jeff Singer
former members
singing
 Phillip Bretnall
Drums
 Steve Rooney
singing
 Nick Arlea
singing
 Matt Pollock
Electric guitar
 Suneil Raj
Electric bass
 Caroline Campbell
Drums
 Ben Calvert
Electric bass
 Andy Whitehead
Electric bass
 Tim Lyons Preston

Kill II This (sometimes also Kill 2 This ) is an English industrial metal and groove metal band from Stockport that was founded in 1996, dissolved around 2005 under the name City of God and has been active again since 2014.

history

The band was formed in March 1996 by guitarist Mark Mynett and drummer Jeff Singer. The line-up was supplemented by singer Nick Arlea and bassist Pete Stone. Except for Arlea, all members of the China Beach band had previously been active. The band name Kill II This goes back to Mynett, who, when he was 19 years old, intoxicated because of his narcotics consumption and dancing naked in a cemetery, imagining talking to the dead, was arrested and as a result was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. In his room it had been written in blood on a wall "I kill all this". In June 1997, the album Another Cross II Bear, mixed by Colin Richardson , was released on Hardware Records . The album was banned in its original form in Japan because of its cover , so it had to be changed. A short time later Andy Whitehead was added as the new bass player. Also in June 1997 it went on a European tour with Grip Inc. and Skinlab . In the fall, the band played with Megadeth , where they also performed with Testament . The group could also be seen live with Annihilator . The two bands could also be seen together with Dearly Beheaed in Munich . Later, the preparatory work for the next album began with the producer Andy Sneap . In April 1998, Caroline Campbell joined the line-up as the new bass player, who first appeared live with the band in the summer of that year as the opening act for Stuck Mojo . After that Arlea got out and was replaced by the singer Patt Pollock. After the album Deviate was released in 1998 via Visible Noise , they went on tour, with 17-year-old Ben Calvert taking over the drums for Singer since the end of the year. The band played with Anthrax , performed in the UK with Soulfly and toured Europe with Entombed . In 1999 the band could also be seen together with My Ruin . After a tour of Great Britain in 2000 with Earthtone9 and Linea 77 , concerts with Slipknot followed on their first European tour. In July 2000 the band was part of the London Lost Weekend Festival program . 48 hours earlier, Calvert had left the band, whereupon Jay Micciche of the band Vacant Stare stepped in. Steve Rooney became permanent drummer in the summer of 2000. In autumn of that year they went on tour together with Brutal Deluxe and the Lost Prophets . After that, Campbell split from the group in an argument, after which Stone returned to the cast. On the third album Trinity , which was again produced by Sneap and released in the same year, Burton C. Bell is included as a guest singer in the song Two Tribes , originally by Frankie Goes to Hollywood . Ross Stone from Vacant Stare can be heard on the turntables . In mid-2001 the group could be seen at the Graspop Metal Meeting . In August of that year it was announced that Visible Noise had separated from the band, before Pollock announced his departure a short time later. On November 26th 2001 the new singer Phil Bretnall was presented. After appearing in the UK with Devin Townsend and Godflesh in December, Kill II This opened for SOiL at Camden Underworld in January 2002 . The next UK tour was with Fear Factory , after which there were renewed appearances with Slipknot in Europe. 2003 joined with the album Mass. [Down.] - Sin. (Drone.) The next release produced by Sneap. After appearances with Anthrax and Type O Negative in Great Britain, they went on a UK tour with Area 54 in September 2003 . This was followed by appearances with Machine Head in Europe, which were followed by others in Europe with Slitheryn and Dagoba . In the spring of 2004, Mark Mynett announced that the group's fifth album would be their last. From October 2004 the band called City of God, after which the album A New Spiritual Mountain was released, which was completed in January 2005. In addition to Mynett, the cast consisted of drummer Jeff Singer, singer Simon Gordon and bassist Tim Preston. A music video was created for the song God Kills America in February 2005, followed by a second in May for When Broken Glass Floats . The band didn't go on tour to promote the record, instead they broke up.

In 2014, Singer, Mynett and Stone Kill II This reactivated, with Simon Gordon taking over the vocals. After the band had performed at La Fiesta Du Rock in Belgium and the Bloodstock Open Air , they went on tour through Great Britain in autumn 2016.

style

Joel McIver counted the group in his book The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal to the "new wave of British nu-metal". Martin Popoff wrote about mass in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . [Down.] - Sin. (Drone.) That Gothic Rock , Industrial , Progressive Black Metal , some Nu Metal and the straight grooves of Paradise Lost are mixed up. On the other hand, the group also sounds like a mix of Slipknot and Stuck Mojo. Popoff summarized the music as a whole as futuristic progressive metal.

Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer noted that neo-Thrash influences can also be found on the debut album , so that a comparison with previous China Beach times is obvious. However, the comparison no longer fits Deviate , since they are now using industrial guitars. In an interview with Weckmann, Mynett justified the change in style by the fact that in the past people were often compared to Machine Head and Pantera , but you couldn't hold a candle to such bands. Since he could no longer find anything innovative in the metal sector , he then increasingly occupied himself with electronic music . Weckmann summarized Deviate as follows: “[T] he guitars buzz like turbines, female background vocals set an ingenious counterpoint to the harsh tones of the new singer Mat Pollock and the samples support the unstoppable energy of the songs, which are qualitatively not even before them Fear Factory genre leaders have to shy away ”.

Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Another Cross II Bare that you could hear “brutal, mostly murderous, grooving Power / Thrash Metal”, although you often feel reminded of Machine Head or Pantera. The singing is not only "aggressive roaring around the area", but the singer can also sing passably. Two years later, in the review of Deviate , Wolfgang Schäfer stated that the band has been in the industrial sector since it was founded. The band has a special feel for catchy melodies. As a basis we use "genre meet bold directed and produced guitars, crisp grooves and Rap - Beats , via the various electronic gadgets, Gescratche and soulful inspired female backings are piled up." The group manages the balancing act between heaviness and melody, whereby they can be described as a "minimally more moderate and melodic version of Machine Head and Clawfinger ". Three editions later, Rock Hard wrote that Deviate is for people who are disappointed with Fear Factory's Obsolete and that the album could even rival Demanufacture . Overall, the group plays a “ mixture of industrial and thrash metal pimped up by scratches and loops ”. In an interview with the magazine, Mynett stated that all the songs on the CD are about isolation, loneliness, despair and anger. He was strongly influenced by his childhood, as his parents traded in cremation devices, so that he often played in cemeteries and thus developed an interest in things like violent literature. He is particularly fascinated by the Old Testament , which is full of sex and violence. In another issue, Schnädelbach reviewed Trinity and counted the band among the “best modern / neo metal bands in Europe”, whereby the music is characterized above all by originality, as one avoids copying groups like Fear Factory. The band uses loops and samples in the songs and builds on a mixture of “rich grooves and catchy melodies”. Wolfram Küper put to measure in his review . [Down.] - Sin. (Drone.) Almost that you cannot put the band in a clear category, so that you can best assign the inhomogeneous term crossover to them. The group combines classic Thrash Metal, Nu Metal and Industrial as well as acoustic, symphonic and oriental elements. There is also a varied singing. This has resulted in an "interesting, creative and varied modern album".

Discography

as Kill II This
  • 1996: Kill II This (demo, self-published)
  • 1997: Another Cross II Bare (Album, Hardware Records )
  • 1998: Deviate (album, Visible Noise )
  • 2000: Trinity (album, Visible Noise)
  • 2003: Mass. [Down.] - Sin. (Drone.) (Album, M10 Records )
as City of God

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 145 f .
  3. ↑ a b Matthias Weckmann: Kill II This . In: Metal Hammer . March 1997, p. 109 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on April 11, 2016 ; accessed on August 18, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Info. Facebook , accessed August 12, 2017 .
  6. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Annihilator Dearly Beheaded Kill II This . Munich backstage. In: Metal Hammer . January 1997, p. 130 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Biography ... kill2this.co.uk, accessed August 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Robert Müller, Thorsten Zahn, Elmar Salmutter: Festival: Graspop . Orgies, orgasms and earaches. In: Metal Hammer . August 2001, p. 38 ff .
  9. ^ A b Martin Popoff , David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 263 f .
  10. ↑ a b c News. cityofgod.co.uk, archived from the original on Aug. 9, 2005 ; accessed on August 14, 2017 .
  11. ^ Joel McIver: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7119-9209-6 , p. 67 f .
  12. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Kill II This . Underwater metal. In: Metal Hammer . March 1999, p. 9 .
  13. ↑ Uwe "Buffo" Schnädelbach: Kill II This . Another cross to bear. In: Rock Hard . No. 118 , March 1997.
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Schäfer: Kill II This . Deviate. In: Rock Hard . No. 140 , April 1999.
  15. ↑ Kill II This . When does the tide come? In: Rock Hard . No. 143 , April 1999.
  16. ↑ Uwe "Buffo" Schnädelbach: Kill II This . Trinity (Voodoo, Vice and the Virgin Mary). In: Rock Hard . No. 157 , June 2000.
  17. ↑ Wolfram Küper: Kill II This . Mass Down Sin Drome. In: Rock Hard . No. 193 , June 2003.