Raging Speedhorn

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Raging Speedhorn
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General information
origin Corby , Northamptonshire , England
Genre (s) Extreme metal , hardcore punk , sludge
founding 1998, 2014
resolution 2008
Current occupation
John Loughlin
singing
 Frank Regan
James Palmer
Electric guitar
 Jay Thompson
Dave Thompson
Gordon Morison
former members
singing
 Bloody Kev
Electric guitar
 Tony Loughlin
Electric bass
 Darren Smith
Electric guitar
 Gareth Smith

Raging Speedhorn is an English extreme metal band from Corby , Northamptonshire , which was formed in 1998, split up in 2008 and has been back in action since 2014.

history

Foundation and debut album

The band was formed in August 1998 after the breakup of the two bands Soulcellar and Box by guitarist Gareth Smith, singer Frank Regan (drummer at Soulcellar) and bassist Darren Smith from Soulcellar and boxing members Tony (electric guitar), his brother Jon Loughlin (vocals) and drummer Gordon Morison. The band was named after a scene jargon that referred to an erection after taking amphetamines . This was followed by two demos in October 1998 and February 1999 , produced by Cubanate guitarist Roddy Stone, and a third. The first two demos each contain four songs. The first demo separated around 800 times. Songs from the first demo were used for various samplers: Knives and Faces was used for a sampler by Org Records , Superscud for another by Century Media, and Thumper for a CD addition to the Metal Hammer . In addition, various concerts were held, among other things, the group appeared in July 1999 as the opening band for Ministry in the London Astoria , which increased their popularity. In October 1999 they went on a tour of Great Britain with Emmity and Breakneck. Further appearances followed, including in November together with Earthtone9 as well as Will Haven , Kittie and Slipknot . In March 2000 a tour funded by the British Metal Hammer with Tribute to Nothing and Charger was carried out. The tour extended to the border with Scotland . The self-titled debut album was released in August 2000. It ranked 92nd in the UK album charts. The phonogram was produced by John Friar ( White Zombie , Nine Inch Nails ). Then it went on a European tour with Biohazard and to appearances in Europe and Japan with Amen . The band also played with Amen and Grand Theft Audio in Munich. In addition, the band was seen in 2001 in England at the Ozzfest . After this performance in May, the single The Gush was recorded in June with Billy Graziadei and Danny Schuler from Biohazard as producers. The single was number 47 on the UK Singles Chart, after which the debut album was re-released. In June 2000 the band played two appearances with Graham Coxon .

Second album and tours

After an appearance at the Japanese Beast Fest and participation in the British section of the large-scale Tattoo-the-Planet-Festival-Tour, the recording of the second album began. This was released on September 23, 2002 under the name We Will Be Dead Tomorrow . The album was number 63 in the UK album charts. It was again produced by Graziadei and Schuler, largely recorded in New York City and mixed by Joe Barresi . The single The Hate Song was released in May. It was number 69 in the UK charts. The "hate tirade " is primarily about the company policy of the record labels. When the song was published, the musicians also drew up hate lists for music magazines. They stated that they did not like German petrol stations, German discos and Rammstein , although one could ignore the former, but it was deep hatred at Rammstein. That month, the band had opened for (their alleged hateful object) Rammstein on their UK tour, which was followed by a two-week tour of Europe with Ill Niño and Pitchshifter . In the album release month of September, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Terrashima went on a concert tour. In the same year the group was seen at the Xtreme Fest in Dublin and also played appearances in London, Manchester , Birmingham and Glasgow . In the following years, the band held other gigs and played in 2003 at the Download Festival and in the same year on the With Full Force . In 2003 the group also played with Ministry in Berlin and with Stone Sour and Saliva in Munich. Performances in Europe with Fear Factory were planned for autumn 2003, but these were canceled due to the birth of Frank Regan's first child. Instead, Raging Speedhorn gave concerts with Clutch and Candiria in the UK. At the end of October the single Fuck the Voodooman was released , with the limited edition cover versions of Black Flags My War and Uriah Heeps Gypsy being included . The single reached number 88 in the UK charts.

Line-up change and decline

In January 2004 guitarist Loughlin left the band and was replaced by Jaye Thompson (Ex- Defenestration ). Loughlin stayed with the band, so to speak, because he joined the London management company that worked for Raging Speedhorn. After some members had devoted themselves to other side projects, the compilation Live and Demos was released in 2004 . This includes live recordings from The Garage in London from 2000 and the 2001 Ozzfest. At the end of May 2005 the next album How the Great Have Fallen followed , which was recorded with producer Joe Barresi in the 2KHZ Studios . The cheap studio set up in a remote residential building had to be chosen because the budget for the - as they self-deprecatingly described - “sunken greats” (hence the album title) was much tighter than three years earlier. During these recordings, a cover version of the Kiss song God of Thunder was made . Before the album was even released, Regan left the band and was replaced by Iron Monkey's Bloody Kev . In 2005 the group took part for the second time in both the Download Festival and With Full Force. After touring the US with Hypocrisy , Soilent Green , With Passion , Nile and Decapitated in early January 2006, bassist Smith left the band and was replaced by Jay's brother Dave Thompson. In 2007 the band contributed their version of $ 30 Bag to the EyeHateGod tribute sampler For the Sick . In April the group recorded songs for a new album at Foel Studio in North Wales . Before the Sea Was Built was available on September 7, 2007. In May, performances with Twelve Trives and Bridge of Solace followed. In 2008 the band played together with Carnivore in Munich . In the same year 2008 the band broke up.

Reunion and other appearances

In February 2014 the band got together again. She then gave a concert with ex-singer Frank Regan at the Damnation Festival in Great Britain. Thus the two singers Regan and Loughlin stood together on the stage; for guitarist Gareth Smith, however, James Palmer, a long-time friend of the band, got on board. The band also played at Hammerfest and the Sonisphere Festival . In December they went on a tour of Great Britain. In July 2016 the album Lost Ritual, produced by Russ Russell , was released on PledgeMusic after a funding campaign . Then it went on a tour of Great Britain. In the same year, the group was part of the Download Festival line-up for the third time. In their career the band was able to play together with Testament , Anal Cunt , Snapcase , Karma to Burn and Iron Monkey, among others . The group was also able to appear in the CBGB .

style

The band's music cannot be attributed to one genre. Andreas Herz from Rock Hard described the self-titled album as a “hard cocktail of hard , hate and doomcore, noise and heavy metal ”. The singers Loughlin and Regan sound like they are "throwing up". while the riffs are slow and sometimes groovy . The singing also occasionally reminds of Phil Anselmo . Melodies and comprehensible song structures are hardly available. Counterforce from metal.de described the music on the album as "[r] auh, brutal and dull", while guitar riffs were " doomy ", with the songs having a "brutal metalcore sound". The singing is a "scream / roar / screeching orgy". Sebastian König from metalnews.de found that Before the Sea Was Built is lacking in carefree and liveliness and that one is hardly fixated on the groove. The songs are now less fast, instead you usually move in the medium speed range. The song Dignity Stripper is a "mixture of wild sludge core with a sugar-sweet chorus melody".

Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s that the band on Before the Sea Was Built was like a mix of Helmet , Hatebreed , the most metallic works of Neurosis , Godflesh, and the jazziest moments of Napalm Death sounds. The result is intelligent, disharmonious Hardcore Metal . There are also similarities to early releases by Victory Records as well as Earth Crisis , Fugazi , No Means No and also Raging Slab , Speedealer and REO Speedwagon . Popoff also noted a slight influence from math rock .

Uwe Kubassa from Ox-Fanzine wrote about We Will Be Dead Tomorrow that Raging Speedhorn is the indirect successor to Iron Monkey. The group mixes old punk rock with contemporary groove and "a lot of screaming duels between the two front men". The sounds are influenced by Black Sabbath , Black Flag and Motörhead . Visions editor Michael Roither found the combination of “Doom Metal and Hardcore Party” to be a big plus.

According to Christian Graf in his Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon , the debut album is a mixture of Black Sabbath and Pantera and was described as a masterpiece of noise , metal and hardcore punk shortly after its release .

Joel McIver noted in his book The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal that the band's music can be described as Extreme Nu Metal. The vocals range from guttural death metal vocals, over low whispers, classic rap and melodic rock melodies.

Raging Speedhorn was introduced in Metal Hammer 2001 by Matthias Mineur with the following description: “This band is a completely frontal assault of all musical directions that one can only imagine. The songs get their obvious strength from the unconditional will to breathe riffs and let chords stand and as a result lead to […] haunting grooves […]. ”In his review of the self-titled album, Elmar Salmutter from Metal Hammer stated that there was one Mixture of hardcore punk and metal can be heard. Iron Monkey, but also Neurosis and Fudge Tunnel can be given as a reference . He described the singing as "nagging and grunting", with the two singers taking turns, as in hip-hop . The speed ranges from fast songs to slow doom metal songs. The songs would also focus strongly on the groove. In another interview with Henning Richter, Regan noted that We Will Be Dead Tomorrow sounds more structured because of the Graziadei and Schuler production. According to Henning, the band is often compared by critics to Soilent Green, EyeHateGod, Snapcase and Iron Monkey. Regan named UFO , Uriah Heep , Focus and Led Zeppelin as influences. As a singer, he admires Robert Plant , Bruce Dickinson , Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra . In the same issue Sal Mutter reviewed We Will Be Dead Tomorrow . In contrast to the debut album, it now seems less monotonous because the harder parts are dosed more consciously. Occasionally they work with Pantera - and Down - as well as Doom Metal influences. In a later interview with Sal Mutter, Darren Smith described the band's music as "the musical equivalent of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre ". As an influence he gave Brutal Truth . Similar to this band, How the Great Have traps were made to transfer the live energy. Sal Mutter found that the album "sounded like it was fresh out of the noise rock lab". Smith is influenced by this genre, but also by Doomcore, Black Metal , classical music, bluegrass and Death Metal in the style of Nile. Sal Mutter had reviewed the album an issue earlier and described the music as brutal "butcher's metal". The title song has a chorus-like refrain that is in the style of Faith No More . The groove of the songs is often reminiscent of Pantera. Two years later, in an interview with Gareth Smith, Salmutter wrote that Before the Sea Was Built sounds "dark and doomy". In the interview, Smith stated that most of the lyrics on the album were about women. In the same issue Sal Mutter reviewed the album, which, in his opinion, had “groove, force and dynamism”, whereby the first three albums were “mangy, drooling, yapping mixed breed bastards made of hearty metal, broken hardcore and dirty punk”. However, this album is darker and more Doom Metal-heavy and influences from Neurosis, Breach and Envy can be heard.

Discography

  • 1998: Demo 1 (demo, self-published)
  • 1999: Demo 2 (demo, self-published)
  • 2000: Raging Speedhorn (album, Green Island Records / ZTT Records )
  • 2001: The Gush (single, Green Island Records / ZTT Records)
  • 2002: The Hate Song (single, ZTT Records)
  • 2002: We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (Album, ZTT Records)
  • 2004: Live and Demos (compilation, Grand Recordings )
  • 2005: How the Great Have Fallen (album, Steamhammer )
  • 2005: How Much Can a Man Take (Single, Steamhammer)
  • 2007: Before the Sea Was Built (Album, Steamhammer)
  • 2015: Halfway to Hell (Single, Palm Reader Records )
  • 2016: DesertFest London Vol. 2 (Split with Monster Magnet , H42 Records )
  • 2016: Lost Ritual (album, self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

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