Order from chaos

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Order from chaos
General information
origin Kansas City , Missouri
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1987, 2010
resolution 1995
Founding members
guitar
 Chuck Keller
Bass, vocals
 Pete Helmkamp
Drums
 Mike Miller
Current occupation
guitar
 Chuck Keller
Bass, vocals
 Pete Helmkamp
Drums
 Mike Miller

Order from Chaos is an American death metal band from Kansas City , Missouri .

history

Order from Chaos was founded in 1987. In January 1988 the demo Demo I was created in the garage of guitarist Chuck Keller with a four-track device, the cover was taken from a column in the Kansas City Star . About 75 to 100 copies of the cassette were sold. In July, Inhumanities followed , according to Keller, made by a strange producer who looked like Weird Al Yankovic and was therefore called Tony "Weird Al" Walters by the band. From January to July 1989 recorded the band Crushed Infamy . Since Keller's then girlfriend's father owned a studio and liked the band and respected their discipline and devotion, but according to Keller did not understand the music, he made his studio available to Order from Chaos and helped the band out. The band was able to sell 1,000 copies of Crushed Infamy . The band caught the attention of Putrefaction Records, where the EP Will to Power was released in a 1,100 edition.

Wild Rags Records originally had the rights to the debut album Stillbirth Machine . Order from Chaos was released in November 1992, but the material was not returned, and there was nothing the band could do about its release on Wild Rags. In the spring of 1993, the band designed the design for a version of the album planned by Decapitated Records, which was to deviate completely from that of Wild Rags. The Decapitated version ultimately released, however, looked in no way like what Order from Chaos had designed. Accordingly, the band sees them as a bootleg . From misspelled names to missing words in the song titles, she has numerous signs of an amateur work. In December 1993, the band recorded their second album Dawn Bringer , which was not released until 1995. A planned vinyl version of Dawn Bringer with free additional live EP was discarded by the record company.

The band gave a few concerts in their hometown of Kansas City , Missouri , where they were banned from all clubs for breathing fire , throwing bones and being on the stage. The band performed in Milwaukee, Omaha, Fort Wayne, Manassas, New Haven and New York, among others. The 1994 New York gig (known as Deathstock) is considered representative of Order from Chaos and legendary among concert goers. In 1994 Plateau of Invincibility appeared in the unusual 10 ” format. The sound carrier contained, among other things, two Venom cover versions. Keller justified the choice with the fact that nobody published maxi singles anymore, especially metal bands, and the format gave the band more freedom for their design. In addition to the vinyl version, which was limited to around 1,500 copies, a CD version was also released, which also contained the live EP Live into Distant Fears . The live EP was made in the same studio as all recordings since the Plateau of Invincibility .

While working on the third album An Ending in Fire , the band was drawing to a close. According to Keller, Pete Helmkamp changed the cover without Keller and Mike Miller's approval, and also changed the order of the track list without consulting them. He later tried to explain this by stating that they were no longer in a band together and that he therefore did not think that he should have consulted them. With the album also ended Order from Chaos. The band had decided from the start not to record more than three albums. On April 22, 1995, the band played one last time in front of friends in Kansas City. The album was ultimately released in 1998. Also, Stillbirth Machine was re-released together with Crushed Infamy by Osmose Productions .

After the band ended, Helmkamp founded Angelcorpse and Terror Organ. Keller and Mike Miller founded Vulpecula and Ares Kingdom . In 2005 Merciless Records released the compilation Imperium - The Apocalyptic Visions with rarities, including demos, live recordings from 1994 and rehearsal room recordings.

In 2010 there was a live reunion. Order from Chaos performed at the Nuclear War Now! Fixed Vol. II. In 2014, Nuclear War Now! Productions released the box set Frozen in Steel .

Music style and lyrics

Frank Stöver's modified version of an introduction by HEKSHEIM / Henry Leirvoll associates Order from Chaos with older European bands such as Bathory , Sodom , Venom, Celtic Frost and the Australian band Slaughter Lord . AllMusic's William Work also cites Venom, Bathory and Celtic Frost as the band's inspiration. He defines their style as raw, chaotic and fast music between Thrash and Death Metal . Keller stated that the band's ideal has always been to be as original as possible. It took him two years to work on their last song There Lies Your Lord, Father of Victories, discarding passages that sounded like the band's existing material. In Order from Chaos Helmkamp led the world in his concept of heretical supremacy ( Heretic Supremacy one), some texts of occult penetrated symbolism and directly on helmet Kamps Conqueror Manifesto were related. Nuclear War Now! Productions describes Order from Chaos as superior metal beyond the genre categorizations.

According to Keller, the versions of the songs on Demo I were "ultra-primitive". According to Keller, the sound on Inhumanities was "very unclear and atmospheric," but let her musical talent shine through. In a review of the demo in Slayer , Metalion wrote that the band name would be better suited to a hardcore punk band. However, the band play Death Metal, which is not typically American, but rather European Death Metal. He drew a comparison with early Sodom and ancient Bathory . The songs are quite long: with a total length of almost 30 minutes, the demo only contains four songs.

The cover for Crushed Infamy is by George Grosz and, according to Keller, expresses Grosz's disdain for humanity after the First World War . Keller describes the production of the EP Will to Power as "pathetic", making it unsuitable as a successor to Crushed Infamy .

An interview in Slayer from 1995 contains statements by Helmkamp about his white ancestry, he ended one of his answers with “Sieg Heil”. According to Helmkamp, Adolf Hitler , like Friedrich Nietzsche , Heinrich von Treitschke , Aleister Crowley and Niccolò Machiavelli, had incredible ideas and admired those who thought and acted with power. However, it is suicide to follow blindly and not to pursue the goals of the self leads to ignorance and slavery. Looking back, Metalion wrote in Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries that he had spoken out against Nazis in an earlier edition of the fanzine and that he had now offered Helmkamp a platform for statements about his white European heritage. He was not very judgmental at the time. Order from Chaos was added to the list of White Power Music Groups by the Anti-Defamation League . When asked if he knew about it, Keller replied:

“I had no idea. Evidently they never bothered to read our lyrics - which are the antithesis of those moronic and hateful ideologies. Clearly the OFC entry was not well researched. "

"I had no Idea. Obviously, they never bothered to read our texts - which are the antithesis of these idiotic and hateful ideologies. The OFC entry was clearly not well researched. "

- Chuck Keller : Chronicles of Chaos .

Helmkamp stated that he had never exactly understood how to answer questions such as his reaction to bigotry , Nazi or fascism allegations, because he was far from it. But he is interested in any kind of extremism, precisely because of the extremes. In a sense, extremism in every form is a wrong path that excludes everything else around it and only provides a line. He also defended the band Blasphemy as "one of the most brutal and blackest bands on the planet", and those who are only interested in the "race" of the members should "piss off".

According to Keller, the sound of An Ending in Fire is “incredible, but not too clean” and the album is a fitting epitaph . Mors Dalos Ra from Necros Christos describes the music on the album as "[k] osmic blackness paired with insane riffing " and lists the album as a classic of Black Metal and an "absolute masterpiece". Order from Chaos is “one of the most underrated bands of all time - it doesn't give a shit whether it's Black Metal or not”.

Discography

  • 1988: Demo I
  • 1988: Inhumanities
  • 1988: Rehearsal, December 25, 1988
  • 1989: Crushed Infamy
  • 1990: Will to Power (EP)
  • 1992: Stillbirth Machine
  • 1992: Alienus Sum (Promo)
  • 1994: Jericho Trumpet (EP)
  • 1994: Live into Distant Fears (Live EP)
  • 1994: Plateau of Invincibility (EP)
  • 1995: Dawn Bringer
  • 1996: And I Saw Eternity (EP)
  • 1998: Stillbirth Machine / Crushed Infamy (compilation)
  • 1998: An Ending in Fire
  • 2005: Imperium - The Apocalyptic Visions
  • 2005: Frozen in Steel (box set)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Frank Stöver: Order from Chaos. Voices from the Darkside, accessed August 21, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b c d William York: Biography. AllMusic , accessed September 5, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c Garry Sharpe-Young : Order from Chaos. (No longer available online.) MusicMight, archived from the original on August 20, 2014 ; accessed on September 5, 2014 . 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.rockdetector.com
  4. ↑ a b c d Interview with Chuck Keller. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 21, 2014 . 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.reocities.com
  5. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Death Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2001, ISBN 1-901447-35-9 , pp. 299 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Strater: Pete Helmkamp . Ex-Angelcorpse, Order From Chaos. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, March 2012, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 169 .
  7. ↑ a b Nuclear War Now! Fest Volume II. Nuclear War Now! Productions , archived from the original on July 22, 2011 ; accessed on April 12, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Darragh O'Leary: Pete Helmkamp. Voices from the Darkside, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  9. ^ Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Bazillion Points Books, Brooklyn, NY 2011, pp. 156 .
  10. ↑ Order from Chaos . In: Slayer . No. 10 , 1995, p. 64 .
  11. ^ A b c Jon Kristiansen: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Bazillion Points Books, Brooklyn, NY 2011, pp. 270 .
  12. ↑ a b Order from Chaos . In: Slayer . No. 10 , 1995, p. 65 .
  13. ^ White Power Music Groups. (No longer available online.) Anti-Defamation League , archived from the original on July 27, 2014 ; accessed on September 5, 2014 . 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 / archive.adl.org
  14. ↑ Bigots Who Rock: an ADL List of Hate Music Groups. (No longer available online.) Anti-Defamation League, archived from the original on February 27, 2015 ; accessed on September 5, 2014 . 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 / archive.adl.org
  15. ↑ a b T. DePalma: Ares' for the Taking. CoC chats with Chuck Keller of Ares Kingdom. Chronicles of Chaos, April 18, 2006, accessed September 5, 2014 .
  16. ^ Paul Schwarz: How to Philosophize With a Hammergod. CoC interviews Angelcorpse. Chronicles of Chaos, January 31, 2008, accessed September 5, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Mors Dalos Ra: 5 classics . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 73 .