Powerman 5000

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Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000 play at the Alternastage at Rock am Ring 2014.
Powerman 5000 play at the Alternastage at Rock am Ring 2014.
General information
Genre (s) Alternative metal , nu metal , crossover
founding 1991
Website www.powerman5000.com
Current occupation
Spider One
Ty Oliver
guitar
 Taylor Haycraft
Murv Douglas
DJ rattan
former members
Drums
 M 33 (Mike Tempesta)
Electric guitar
 Felix Moser
Electric guitar
 Terry Corso
guitar
 Johnny Rock
Electric bass
 Siggy Sjursen
Drums
 AD 27 (Adrian East)
Drums
 Al 3 (Al Pahanish)
Electric bass
 Dorian 27 (Dorian Heartsong)
guitar
 Adam 12
percussion
 Jordan

Powerman 5000 is a metal band formed in Boston in 1991 .

history

Founded in Boston, the band moved to Los Angeles before their first releases in order to gain a foothold in the music business. The only permanent member of the band, the half brother of Rob Zombie , Michael "Spider / Spider One" Cummings, earned with Powerman 5000, according to Allmusic , a cult status as an underground-electro-metal band. Significant for this were the 1994 indie debut EP True Force and the 1995 album The Blood Splat Rating System . Two years later the band switched to Dreamworks Records and relocated to Los Angeles. A revised version of the debut as Mega !! was released via Dreamworks. KungFu Radio released.

Tours with popular artists such as Marilyn Manson and Korn and festival appearances, especially at Ozzfest, increased the popularity of the project. The upcoming album Tonight the Stars Revolt! was recognized as a platinum album based on sales achieved after the music videos for the singles When Worlds Collide and Nobody's Real were presented on MTV . Due to a dispute with the former record label , the album Anyone For Doomsday? taken off the market and subsequently achieved high collector values. The album was released digitally in 2009. Streaming services like Spotify also offer publication. In the course of the production of the incomplete album, there were rifts in the band structure, whereupon the bassist Dorian Heartsong and the drummer Al Pahanish were eliminated and replaced. With their fourth completed album, Transform , the band initiated a style change. The album debuted at number 25 on the Billboard charts when it was released . The track Free turned out to be a hit . In 2004 the band released a compilation with rarities on Cummings own label Megatronic. During the production of the fifth album, Williams and Tempesta were replaced by Johnny Heatley and Terry Corso by Alien Ant Farm . Since then, Cummings has changed the line-up of the band several times and released a number of other albums and singles which, despite collaborations with renowned companies such as Universal Music Group , Pavement Music and Cleopatra Records, no longer achieved the popularity of the early work. After Destroy What You Enjoy was released via DRT in 2006, Powerman 5000 released a compilation with Copies, Clones & Replicants with cover versions about Cleopatra, Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere 2009 via Mighty Loud Entertainment , 2014 the album Builders of the Future via Universal Music Enterprises , 2017 New Wave via Pavement Music and 2020 The Noble Rot via Cleopatra Records.

style

The webzine Allmusic as well as the music magazine Sonic Seducer describe the music played by Powerman 5000 as electro-metal. Maik Koltermann described the album Mega !! KungFu Radio for Visions as "a less embarrassing - but not necessarily more original - American version of Clawfinger ."

“With a conventional rock band line-up, Powerman 5000 usually play a handful of metal riffs to an admittedly pretty cool, bubbling, almost funky bass, while singer Spider either uses the weirdo spoken- singing technique mentioned above or simply bobs around a little. Plus a lot of effects. "

- Maik Koltermann on Mega !! KungFu Radio for Visions

Later albums borrowed more from punk and witnessed a style development. Tobias Dahs discussed New Wave for Powermetal.de , using the term Industrial Metal for Powerman 5000, however, referring to popular alternative metal names such as Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie for comparison. In further discussions it is pointed out that the style of the band has changed only marginally.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Tonight the Stars Revolt!
  US 29 08/07/1999 (44 weeks)
Transform
  US 27 06/07/2003 (9 weeks)
Destroy What You Enjoy
  US 120 08/19/2006 (1 week)
Builders of the Future
  US 63 06/14/2014 (1 week)

Powerman 5000 songs are featured on various film soundtracks, including Chucky and His Bride , Dracula 2000 , End of Days , Little Nicky , Extreme Ops , Titan AE , Scream 3 and Zoolander . In addition, songs by the band can be heard in a variety of video games such as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 , Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec , WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW , NASCAR Thunder 2004 and NHL Hitz Pro . The WWE Tag Team Dudley Boyz (also known as Team 3D) also used " Bombshell " as entrance music for a while.

Albums

  • The Blood-Splat Rating System (1995, Conscience)
  • Mega !! KungFu Radio (1997, DreamWorks Records)
  • Tonight the Stars Revolt! (1999, DreamWorks Records, platinum )
  • Anyone for Doomsday? (2001, DreamWorks Records)
  • Transform (2003, DreamWorks Records)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Vol.1 '91 -'96 (2004, Megatronic Records)
  • Destroy What You Enjoy (2006, DRT)
  • Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere (2009, Mighty Loud Entertainment)
  • Copies, Clones & Replicants (2011, Cleopatra Records)
  • Builders of the Future (2014, T-Boy Records, Universal Music Enterprises )
  • New Wave (2017, Pavement Music )
  • The Noble Rot (2020, Cleopatra Records)

Singles

  • When Worlds Collide (1999)
  • Ultra Mega (2000)
  • Nobody's Real (2000)
  • Relax (2001)
  • Bombshell (2002)
  • Free (2003)
  • Action (2003)
  • Wild World (2006)
  • Super Villain (2009)
  • V Is for Vampire (2009)
  • Show Me What You've Got (2010)
  • Time Bomb, Baby (2010)
  • How To Be a Human (2014)
  • Sid Vicious in a Dress (2017)
  • Cult Leader (2017)
  • Black Lipstick (2020)
  • Brave New World (2020)

Soundtrack contributions

Films and series:

Video games:

  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - "When Worlds Collide" (2000)
  • Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder - "Bombshell" (2001)
  • Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec - "Supernova Goes Pop" (2001)
  • Frequency - "Danger Is Go!" (2001)
  • NHL Hitz 2003 - "Bombshell" (2002)
  • SX Superstar - "Bombshell" (2003)
  • NASCAR Thunder 2004 - "Action" (2003)
  • NHL Hitz Pro - "Transform" (2003)
  • WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW - "Riot Time", "That's the Way It Is", "Bombshell", "Last Night on Earth" and "When Worlds Collide" (2004)
  • WWE WrestleMania 21 - "Last Night on Earth", "Riot Time" and "That's the Way It Is" (2005)
  • MX vs. ATV Unleashed - "Heroes and Villains" (2005)
  • Supercross - "That's the Way It Is" (2005)
  • Shadow the Hedgehog - "Almost Dead" (2005)
  • SCORE International Baja 1000 - "Bombshell" (2008)
  • Rock Band 3 - "Do Your Thing", "Show Me What You've Got", "Time Bomb", "Super Villain", "V is for Vampire" and "Get Your Bones" (2010)
  • WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2011 - "Show Me What You've Got" (2010)
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD - "When Worlds Collide" (2012)
  • Rocksmith 2014 - "When Worlds Collide" (2014)
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 - "When Worlds Collide" (2020)

Music videos

  • Tokyo Vigilante # 1 (1997)
  • Organized (1998)
  • When Worlds Collide (1999)
  • Nobody's Real (1999)
  • They Know Who You Are (2000)
  • Supernova Goes Pop (2000)
  • Bombshell (2001)
  • Relax (2001)
  • Free (2003)
  • Action (2003)
  • Wild World (2006)
  • Super Villain (2009)
  • How To Be a Human (2014)
  • Invade Destroy Repeat (2015)
  • Sid Vicious in a Dress (2017)
  • David Fucking Bowie (2017)
  • Cult Leader (2017)
  • Footsteps and Voices (2018)
  • Black Lipstick (2020)
  • Brave New World (2020)

Web links

Commons : Powerman 5000  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Powerman 5000. Allmusic, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rock 94.5 - Biography - Powerman 5000. Accessed June 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Norman R .: Powerman 5000: New Wave. Music reviews, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Black lips in the new Powerman 5000 video. Sonic Seducer, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Maik Koltermann: Powerman 5000: Mega !! KungFu radio. Visions, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Tobias Dahs: Powerman 5000: New Wave. Powermetal.de, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ US chart history