Methadrons

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Methadrons
General information
origin New Jersey, United States
Genre (s) Drone Doom , Ambient , Postrock
founding 1998
resolution 2009
Last occupation
All instruments
 Craig Pillard
former members
Electric bass
 Randi Stokes
Live and session members
Vocals ( sterility )
David Galas
Singing ( Better Living (Through Chemistry) )
Thierry Arnal

Methadrone was a drone doom project founded in 1998 .

history

Craig Pillard ( Evoken , Incantation ) founded Methadrone in 1998 with the aim of combining influences from Dark Ambient , Martial Industrial and No Wave . Pillard named lust murder , raison d'être , Laibach and Swans as direct influences . From 2002, before the first publication of Methadrone, Pillard came under harsh criticism due to the activity of his project Sturmführer, which was oriented towards martial industrial and its neo-Nazi orientation, which was also taken up in the reception of his other participations and projects such as Disma. Opposite Mourning the Ancient , Pillard gave Methadrone as the original name of his Sturmführer project. Apparently there was another renaming from Sturmführer to Methadrone. Pillard is said to have distanced himself later on the one hand from earlier statements, but republished the Sturmführer material and numbered it by hand.

After the neglected publication of the demo Songs of Affliction in 2003, the debut EP Erroneous Enlightenment was released in 2004 . Pillard performed Randi Stokes as the second bassist. The EP received little reviews, but the British webzine Doom-Metal.com rated it as a promising debut. To release Erroneous Enlightenment , Pillard started a cooperation with the Belgian independent label NOTHingness REcords . In the following year Methadrone maintained this cooperation and released the album Retrogression and the split EP Absorption, designed with Nadja , via NOTHingness REcords. The album in particular was received positively internationally. In the years following the album's release, Methadrone toured Europe and the United States several times. To support the live activity, Pillard invited other musicians into the band, whose participation should be limited to concerts.

The second album Sterility was released in 2008 via Foreshadow Productions and was complemented by David Galas from Lycia as a guest singer. The album was again received internationally, and it was rated as moderate to positive.

In 2009, Better Living (Through Chemistry) was released , after an MC compilation and a split album with Fragment. in the same year, another studio album. Better Living (Through Chemistry) was released on the Belgian label ConSouling Sounds and by Thierry Arnal from Fragment. accompanied as a guest singer. Once again, the album received a mediocre to positive reception. Following the publication, Pillard stopped further activities with methadrone and devoted himself to other projects.

style

Methadron's first purely instrumental releases are discussed as a crossover between Industrial Metal and Drone Doom. Later releases are said to have a higher proportion of ambient and post-rock . Accordingly, the early work is compared with Godflesh, while later publications are compared with Nadja. While early releases, especially in the use of the drum computer, borrow from post-industrial and refer to industrial metal with guttural growling and two electric basses instead of guitars, later albums arranged “wobbly keyboards, gentle guitar banter, minimalist rhythms and here and there Singing ”in alternation to the genre-typical booming guitar playing.

Discography

  • 2003: Songs of Affliction (demo, self-published)
  • 2004: Erroneous Enlightenment (EP, NOTHingness REcords)
  • 2005: Retrogression (album, NOTHingness REcords)
  • 2005: Absorption (split album with Nadja, NOTHingness REcords)
  • 2008: Horizone (single, Foreshadow Music)
  • 2008: Sterility (Album, Foreshadow Music)
  • 2009: Forgotten Failures '01 - '03 (compilation, Audial Decimation Records)
  • 2009: Astray (split album with Fragment., Locust Swarm)
  • 2009: Better Living (Through Chemistry) (Album, ConSouling Sounds)

Web links

Individual evidence

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