Shotmaker
| Shotmaker | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Emocore |
| founding | 1993 |
| resolution | 1996 |
| Last occupation | |
| Tim | |
Bass , vocals |
Nick |
| Frosted | |
Shotmaker was an emocore band from Belleville , Ontario / Canada that existed in the early to mid- 1990s .
history
The three-piece band was founded in 1993. The same year, Little Kid, the band's first EP was released. In total, the band made four EPs and three albums before they split up in 1996.
The band was formed at a time when some bands in the north and northeast of the USA are playing an indie rock style, which is also known as emo . Due to the commercial success of this style, the term is sometimes only associated with this style. Shotmakers who play emotional hardcore punk are often compared with this indie sound.
In 2000 the band released the complete discography on Troubleman Records .
They were one of the few emocore bands from the Canadian hardcore punk scene, which also gained a certain fame in the USA. So it says on the unofficial page:
"They are one of the few Canadians to take on the underground punk / hardcore / emo scene in an American dominated scene."
style
Shotmakers played an emocore style that was shaped by the so-called indie emo bands that were emerging at the time - especially in the north of the USA - but built on the typical elements of emotional hardcore. For example soft whispering singing and loud outbursts of screams, loud, hard chaotic guitars and softer, more monotonous interludes built on experimental mid-tempo DC sound hardcore .
Characteristic for their sound are the more pronounced than usual bass lines . On the unofficial page you can read about the sound:
"Esoteric lyrics, insane lab scientist screams, masterful bass playing, and crushing guitar riffs is Shotmaker."
Their influence on the genre is very strong. This also applies to the harder emo and screamo bands emerging on the west coast of the USA . In a text about the band it says:
“Shotmakers are also early progenitors of the current emo explosion, with their loud soft approach, complex guitar passages and screamy vocals. Though this is really just hardcore at its embroiled, impassioned best. [...] Shotmaker kind of follows the melody-through-chaos approach of other hardcore / emo bands- slightly like, say, the Swing Kids - and approaching at some times the full-on screamo sound ”
Discography
Singles / EPs
- Little Kid, 7 " (1993, Kung-Fu Manticore )
- Bull 7 " (1994, Kung-Fu Manticore)
- Split 7 ", w / Watershed (1994, Vital Communications )
- Split 12 ", w / Maximillian Colby (1995, Nervous Wreck Kids )
Albums
- The Crayon Club (1994, The Great American Steak Religion )
- Mouse Ear (Forget-Me-Not) (1996, Troubleman Unlimited )
- The Complete Discography: 1993-1996 (2000, Troubleman Unlimited)
Sampler contributions
- All The President's Men (1994, Old Glory Records , Song: Pilot )
- Heartattack # 10 (1996, Ebullition Records , Song: 7:14 )
Web links
- Unofficial page of the band on MySpace , accessed Dec 18, 2011
- Information and audio samples about the band at epitonic.com , accessed on Dec. 18, 2011
- Review of the discography and lots of information about the band at pitchforkmedia ( Memento from April 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. for example with: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/shotmaker/ accessed on Dec. 18, 2011; Quote: "helped found the new emo / indie rock generation that has so flourished recently."
- ↑ a b http://www.myspace.com/shotmaker ; Accessed Dec 18, 2011
- ↑ Accessed December 18, 2011