Painkiller (band)
| Painkiller | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Fusion , grindcore , ambient |
| founding | 1991 |
| resolution | 1995 |
| Last occupation | |
| John anger | |
| Bill Laswell | |
Drums , vocals |
Mick Harris |
| Important guest musicians | |
| Justin K. Broadrick | |
guitar |
Buckethead |
Painkiller (also Pain Killer ) was a music project around the American avant-garde musicians John Zorn and Bill Laswell . The group combined avant-garde jazz with influences from grindcore and ambient . The 1994 album Execution Ground was given a pioneering role in avant-garde metal .
history
John Zorn had started observing the grindcore scene and planned to combine the intensity of this music with jazz . That's why he founded the Painkiller project in 1991 together with Bill Laswell and Mick Harris , a former drummer of the grindcore / death metal band Napalm Death . Originally only intended as an experiment in the spirit of bands like Naked City , Painkiller developed a novel combination of ambient, electro and dub. In 1991 and 1992 two studio albums were released on the British independent label Earache Records . The project was particularly successful in Japan , where the trio collaborated with various Japanese musicians on their live performances. A 1991 show in Tokyo with Keiji Haino as guest guitarist and singer was released in 1993 under the title Ritual , a live recording in Osaka was released in 1995 on the Japanese version of the 1994 album Execution Ground on Toy's Factory. On some later appearances Mike Patton took part as a guest singer. After Harris left Painkiller in 1995 to fully concentrate on his solo projects, the group broke up. In the following years Zorn and Laswell reformed the band for a few live performances, for example in 2003 with Hamid Drake on drums on the occasion of Zorn's 50th birthday. The September 6, 2003 concert was published by Tzadik in 2005 under the title 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol . The Japanese Yoshida Tatsuya played drums on the album The Prophecy , released in 2013 and recorded on a European tour in 2004–05 .
Discography
- Guts of a Virgin ( Earache , 1991)
- Buried Secrets (Earache, 1992)
- Rituals: Live in Japan (Toy's Factory Records, 1993)
- Execution Ground (Subharmonic, 1994)
- The Complete Studio Recordings 1991-1994 ( Tzadik , compilation 1998)
- Talisman: Live in Nagoya 1994 (Tzadik, 2002)
- 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 12 (Tzadik, 2005)
- The Prophecy (Tzadik, 2013)
Web links
- Painkiller at Allmusic (English)
- Ian Christe : Painkiller. Trouser Press , accessed January 9, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Piero Scaruffi : A History of Rock Music 1951-2000 . iUniverse, 2003, ISBN 978-0-595-29565-4 , pp. 506 .
- ^ Ian Christe : Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . ItBooks, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 253 .
- ↑ a b Todd S. Jenkins: Painkiller . In: Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia . tape 2 . Greenwood Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-33314-9 , pp. 263 .
- ^ Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . ItBooks, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 252 .
- ^ Tad Hendrickson: Zorn's 50th Birthday Bash . In: CMJ New Music Report . September 15, 2003, p. 26 .
- ↑ The Prophecy on Tzadik.com.