Orgy
| Orgy | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Los Angeles , United States |
| Genre (s) | Synth rock , nu metal |
| founding | 1997 |
| Website | orgymusic.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Jay Gordon | |
| Amir Derakh | |
guitar |
Ryan Shuck |
| Bobby Hewitt | |
| Paige Haley | |
Orgy is an American synth rock - band from Los Angeles . Their name, the English word for orgy , does not mean sexually, but refers to a collage of the different styles of music that the band connects through their music. They use elements from industrial rock , glam rock and nu metal .
history
The band was founded in 1997 by guitarist Ryan Shuck and singer Jay Gordon, who previously worked for Deadsy . The line-up will soon be completed by bassist Paige Haley, guitarist Amir Derakh (ex- Rough Cutt , Jailhouse ) and drummer Bobby Hewitt (ex- Electric Love Hogs ), all veterans of the Los Angeles hair-metal club scene . Gordon and Derakh also had experience as producers.
Without even playing a gig, Orgy were the first band to sign with Elementree , a label founded by the nu-metal band KoRn , which is also a subsidiary of Reprise Records , just six months after they were founded .
In 1998 the debut album Candyass appears , which Gordon describes as a mixture of crap, lies and fairy tales ("... bullshit ... lies and fairy tales"). Their cover version of the New Order classic Blue Monday gave the band their breakthrough. The song is also on the soundtrack of Not Another Teen Movie! represented. The second single, Stitches , also received a lot of airplay . With their debut, the band achieved platinum status in the USA for over one million records sold.
The band had their live premiere on the 1998 Family Values Tour , a concert tour organized by KoRn, in which Limp Bizkit , Ice Cube , Incubus and Rammstein also took part. Excerpts from the event appear in 1999 on the live sampler of the same name. Further tours with Love and Rockets and Sugar Ray follow .
In 2000 the successor Vapor Transmission appeared , which made it to number 16 on the US Billboard charts. The singles Fiction (Dreams In Digital) and Opticon do their part. After the release, the band separated from Elementree and switched to the label D1 Music founded by singer Gordon , on which the band's third album, Punk Statik Paranoia , was released in 2004 . On August 23, 2005 Orgy released the DVD Trans Global Spectacle , which covers the entire history of the band for three hours.
Towards the end of 2003 the guitarists Shuck and Derakh launched the Julien-K project , with which they used the electronic music material that was created during the creative process with Orgy. You have been working on your first album since 2005, which was released in 2009 under the title Death to Analog .
Discography
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Studio albums
- 1998: Candyass
- 2001: Vapor Transmission
- 2004: Punk Statik Paranoia
Singles and EPs
- 1998: Blue Monday
- 1999: Stitches
- 2000: Fiction (Dreams In Digital)
- 2001: Opticon
- 2004: Vague
- 2005: Pure
- 2015: Talk Sick
- 2017: Grime of the Century
Soundtrack contributions
- 1999: Blue Monday ( The 13th Floor - Are you what you think? )
- 2001: Faces ( Zoolander )
- 2001: Opticon ( Valentine - cry if you can )
- 2002: Slept so Long ( Queen of the Damned )
Video albums
- 2005: Trans Global Spectacle (DVD)
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Orgy at laut.de
- Orgy at Discogs (English)
- Orgy on MusicBrainz (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources chart positions albums: US , accessed on July 21, 2013.
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
- ↑ Sources chart placements Singles: US DE ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed July 21, 2013.
