Scott Kelly (musician)
Scott Michael Kelly is a metal singer and guitarist born on June 13, 1967 in Evanston , Illinois . He is co-founder of the metal groups Neurosis , Tribes of Neurot , Shrinebuilder and Corrections House as well as the label Neurot Recordings .
Life
Little information is public about his childhood and youth. According to his own statements, his father never supported him in his musical career. Kelly lives in the southern Oregon Forests with his wife and two youngest children . He works full-time as a sound engineer in a theater with a repertoire system that specializes in Shakespeare's works . His son Damon Kelly is also a musician. He is the bass player for the Stoneburner group and temporarily helped the Atriarch group as a live bass player.
Kelly, who had previously indicated psychosocial problems and spoke of a diagnosed manic depression , made his mental illness public via Facebook in August 2017 . He explained his decision to go public with his behavior resulting from the illness. After he had stopped taking the prescribed medication on his own initiative, he terrorized his family, especially his wife. Only when the treatment was restarted did his behavior change. Along with an apology addressed to his family, he also called on those affected not to be ashamed and to speak openly about their own illness, but also to seek help and not to stop the medication prescribed by doctors on their own initiative.
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Kelly became known as one of the three founding members of the post-metal group Neurosis. In addition to the genre formative band Kelly plays in different metal formations, as in the Stoner Doom - Supergroup Shrinebuilder, with Al Cisneros , Scott Weinrich and Dale Crover and the industrial metal band Corrections House with Mike Williams , Sanford Parker and Bruce Lamont . In addition, Kelly often appears as a guest singer, especially with Mastodon he made guest appearances on several albums. In addition to various metal projects, Kelly has been playing solo as an alternative county and folk artist since 2000 . As such, he involved himself on Townes Van Zandt dedicated tribute compilation Songs of Townes Van Zandt . Together with Josh Graham , who also contributed to Neurosis, but also to A Storm of Light , Red Sparowes and Battle of Mice as an artist and musician, Kelly maintained the Neofolk project Blood and Time .
Kelly has been moderating the three-hour radio show KMBT on Scion A / V.com channel 5 since April 2011. He previously operated the Internet radio station combatmusicradio.com, on which he streams weekly programs by Eugene S. Robinson , Joe Preston , Mike Williams and others well-known musicians are moderated. Kelly has been running the We Burn Through the Night blog since December 2008 .
Kelly mentions Swans , Black Flag , Black Sabbath , Pink Floyd , Die Kreuzen , Amebix , Jimi Hendrix , King Crimson , Neil Young , The Melvins , Celtic Frost , Negative Approach , Townes Van Zandt, Voivod and Hank Williams as his main musical influences .
style
Kelly's musical origins are in the hardcore punk of the early 1980s. His band Neurosis initially played a mixture of hardcore punk and thrash metal . Neurosis developed into the original band of the post-metal genre. Kelly's other band projects play in the Doom Metal spectrum, in the field of experimental electronic music, such as the Neurosis side project Tribes of Neurot or in Alternative Country and Neofolk .
Kelly's singing is described as rough and engaging. His solo works are mostly recorded without drums and with few distortions, but with occasional electronics.
Discography
Neurosis
Shrinebuilder
See: Shrinebuilder # Discography
Corrections House
See Corrections House # discography
Scott Kelly
- 2001: Spirit Bound Flesh (album, Neurot)
- 2008: The Wake (album, Neurot)
- 2012: The Forgiven Ghost In Me (album, Neurot)
Tribes of Neurot
- 1995: Rebegin
- 1995: Silver Blood Transmission
- 1998: Static Migration
- 1999: Grace
- 2000: 60 °
- 2002: Adaptation and Survival: the Insect Project
- 2005: Meridian
Blood and Time
- 2003: At the Foot of the Garden
- 2007: Latitudes
Mirrors for Psychic Warfare
- 2016: Mirrors for Psychic Warfare
Web links
- Scott Kelly's own blog
- Scott Kelly on Neurot Recordings
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andreas: Scott Kelly kicks his demons in the ass. noisey, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Sean Reveron and Jonathan Keane: CVLT Nation interviews Scott Kelly of Neurosis. (No longer available online.) Cvlt-nation, archived from the original on May 30, 2013 ; accessed on August 31, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Mike Grid: Neurosis' Scott Kelly on Being a Father, Working a Day Job and Baseball. Noise Creep, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ^ Vandal: Interview - Depression and Darkness with Scott Kelly of Neurosis. Vandal Magazine, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Greg Kennelty: Neurosis' Scott Kelly Opens Up About His Mental Illness & Going Off His Meds, urging Others Not To Do The Same. Metal Injection, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Scott Kelly: Radio. (No longer available online.) Weburnthroughthenight, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 31, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Ram Samudrala: Q & A with Scott Kelly of Neurosis. Ram.org, accessed August 28, 2015 .
- ^ Jill Mikkelson: Neurosis are Insulated. Exclaim.ca, accessed August 31, 2015 .
- ^ Antal: Baroness & Scott Kelly - High Pressure & Grace in Berlin. whiskey-soda, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2015 .
- ^ Matthias Olejnik: The Forgiven Ghost In Me.metal.de, accessed on August 31, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kelly, Scott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kelly, Scott Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Evanston , Illinois , Illinois |