Nicholas bulls

Nicholas James Bullen (other variants: Nik Bullen , Nick Bullen , * 1968 , Coventry ) is an English musician and sound artist . He became known as the founder of the grindcore band Napalm Death .

Life

Bullen was born in Coventry and grew up in Meriden , a village about 10 kilometers from Birmingham . As a teenager he was interested in music. Initially his main influences were British punk bands such as The Damned and Stiff Little Fingers , later hardcore punk bands such as Black Flag , Discharge and Chaos UK followed . In 1981, at the age of 13, he founded Napalm Death and took over bass and vocals . After numerous line-up changes, Justin K. Broadrick came to Napalm Death, with whom Bullen wrote the entire A-side of the album Scum . Bullen, who wanted to take a different path musically, left Napalm Death in 1986. From 1991 to 1995 he was active with Mick Harris in his industrial project Scorn . He also recorded the album Bass Terror in 1994 with Bill Laswell . From the mid-1990s, Bullen was no longer active as a musician, completed a computer science degree and developed online learning software. However, he continued to compose music, which he initially did not publish. From the mid-2000s, he devoted himself to various projects. With Simon Mabbott he released an EP as the electronica project Black Galaxy in 2007 and founded the record label Monium in 2007 . In 2007 he composed the music for the experimental radio play Showdown at the Pig Palace by Mark and Steve Beasley, which was released on CD in 2008 . Bullen has dedicated himself to field recording since the late 2000s . He presented his first results in 2012 at the Supersonic Festival in his hometown of Birmingham, and in May 2013 his solo debut Component Fixations was released on Type Records.

Discography

as a solo artist

• Component Fixations (2013)

with Napalm Death

• Scum (1987)

with scorn

• Uae Solis (1992)
• Deliverance (1992)
• White Irises Blind (1993)
• Evanescene (1994)
• Colossus (1994)
• Ellipsis (1995)
• Gyral (1995)

with Bill Laswell

• Bass Terror (1994)

with Black Galaxy

• The Taste of Noize ( Split with KrEEPA , 2007)

Web links

• nicholasbullen.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian Glasper: Trapped in a Scene - UK Hardcore 1985-1989 . Cherry Red Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-901447-61-3 , pp. 11 .
2. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag Jeske and Mader, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , p. 246 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Peter Nix: Brum Punch: FACT meets Napalm Death and Scorn legend Nicholas Bullen. FACT Magazine, June 6, 2013, accessed January 3, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Adventure: Showdown at the Pig Palace. Junior Aspirin Records, accessed February 2, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Component Fixations ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Type Records, accessed January 3, 2014. 

literature

• Jan Jaedike: That's how it used to be. Interview with Nicholas Bullen . In: Rock Hard . No. 263 .