Skinlab

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Skinlab
General information
Genre (s) Nu metal , groove metal
founding 1995
Current occupation
Paul Hopkins
Steev Esquivel
Steve "Snake" Green
Electric guitar
 Julian Peach
former members
Electric guitar
 Mike Roberts
Electric guitar
 Gary Wendt
Electric guitar
 Scott Lee Sargeant
Electric guitar
 Glen Telford
Electric guitar
 Adam Albright
Electric guitar
 Nick St. Denis
Electric guitar
 Brian Jackson

Skinlab is an American groove and nu-metal band from San Francisco , California that was formed in 1995.

history

Skinlab was founded in September 1995 by bassist and vocalist Steev Esquivel ( Defiance ) and guitarist Mike Roberts; shortly afterwards guitarist Gary Wendt and drummer Paul Hopkins joined them. In the following years the band recorded two demos and received through one of the two - When Pain Comes to Surface , produced by James Murphy - a recording contract with Century Media . The label released the Andy Sneap- produced debut album Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded in 1997 . During the tour that followed, both guitarists left the band. That same year, the band also played well among others in Munich , along with Coal Chamber , Napalm Death and Machine Head on the Dynamo Open Air , and among others, along with bands like Stuck Mojo , Exodus , Skrew and Grip Inc. in Metal Hammer - Interview gave Esquivel as the reason for the departure of both guitarists, that Roberts had no more desire to tour and Wendt Star had allure and behaved "as if he was playing for Metallica ". In the case of Roberts, he added at Rock Hard that his early application to Machine Head had annoyed him. Steve "Snake" Green and Scott Sargeant (ex- Lääz Rockit ) came as replacements . With this line-up, the EP Eyesore was recorded in 1998. The sound carrier appeared with an edition of 5,000 copies. The cover of this was designed by Brujeria . In 1999 followed the next album called Disembody: The New Flesh , which was again produced by Andy Sneap. The group played in the same year together with Entombed in Berlin and also in the USA together with Napalm Death. Shortly before the band recorded the next album, guitarist Sargeant got out and was replaced by Glen Telford. The album reVoltingRoom was released in the summer of 2002, produced by Andy Sneap and mixed by Steve Evetts . The sound carrier contained a cover version of the Smashing Pumpkins song Bullet With Butterfly Wings as well as guest appearances by members of Unjust , 36 Crazyfists and Vile . In addition, Skinlab was featured on a DVD with the songs Slave the Way and Scapegoat on the occasion of Century Media's tenth anniversary. The two songs were recorded at the Hollywood Roxy Studio in September 2001.

After the release, the band went on a tour of the USA with Superjoint Ritual , which was followed by a performance with Soil in England in October . Labrat and Freebase were also there . In November and December it went on tour through North America together with Primer 55 , Dope and Society 1 . When Esquivel injured his hand, the band had to pause. In July 2003 a longer break from the band was announced; In the meantime, the members worked on their own projects. In August 2003, Esquivel and Green formed Re: Ignition with bassist Rick Valles and drummer Eddy Garcia .

In April 2004, the compilation Nerve Damage was published via Century Media . It contained two new songs, the already released EPs and other rare material. The compilation was supposed to offer a foretaste of the next release, which was, however, delayed further. Esquivel was also occasionally under discussion as the new singer for Exodus, before it was announced in late 2005 that Esquivel, Green, Roberts and Hopkins were working on new songs. In September 2006 the continuation of Skinlab was officially announced. In 2007 they toured North America with Will Haven , Ankla, Hostility, Apiary and Pain Principle. In the summer of 2007, Crash Music announced that a new album release was planned for 2008. Guitarist Glen Telford has meanwhile been replaced by Julian Peach (ex- December ). However, a new album was only released in 2009 under the name The Scars Between Us . The album was produced by Juan Urteaga .

style

In his style description, Thomas Kupfer from the German magazine Rock Hard mentions the band's roots in the traditional Thrash Metal scene, plus Drone Doom , Sludge and Stoner Rock . The music contains cross-references to the Deftones -Frühwerk, Neurosis and Soulfly . Their style on the album reVoltingRoom is described by Psycho vom Vampster as Nu Metal or "Modern Metal" and compared with bands like Pothead or Slipknot . Kupfer rejects these classifications, in this context refers to employees of Wikipedia and the Metal Archives as “Honk [s]” and refers to his classification of the debut album. However, some of the groups he named are also assigned to the genres he rejected. His editorial colleague Kai Wendel described the live performance as "acoustic chaos".

According to Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer , the band had cloned on Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded Machine Head and are now trying to develop their own style on Disembody: The New Flesh , so that the group only occasionally reminds of Robb Flynn . The album "shuttles from Hardcore to Noisecore to New Thrash". In another Metal Hammer report, Weckmann further emphasized the closeness to Machine Head and stated that Robb Flynn had even taken part in the preproduction. In contrast to Machine Head, Skinlab has a “stronger tendency towards weird riffs ”. Thorsten Zahn from Metal Hammer noticed hardly any innovations on reVoltingRoom , but the band now succeeds in being more than a machine-head copy, since "hard melodies, large choirs and sharp arrangements" are in the foreground. Zahn specified "New Metal" as the genre. Stefan Müller from Metal Hammer wrote that the band likes to fall back on clichés on the album, as bands from Nu Metal would often do. In his review of Nerve Damage , Armin Weber from Metal Hammer stated that Skinlab was an integral part of the Bay Area metal scene and that Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded were mainly due to the success of the machine-head album The More Things Change ... became known. He found the publication of Nerve Damage superfluous.

According to Christian Graf in his Nu Metal & Crossover Lexicon , the band is based on Machine Head, Neurosis and early Thrash Metal from the San Francisco Bay Area. On reVoltingRoom you can still hear Thrash and Noise borrowings, whereby the band can now be assigned to the hardcore crossover . Joel McIver described the band's music as aggressive Nu Metal in his book The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu Metal. According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal. Volume 3: The Nineties you can clearly hear the connection to the San Francisco Bay Area on Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded . He also drew comparisons with Machine Head. He also heard influences from industrial , grunge , noise, psychedelic rock , as well as from The Melvins . On Eyesore the band becomes much looser and more eccentric . On Disembody: The New Flesh , parallels to crossover hardcore groups such as Vision of Disorder , Nothingface and Earth Crisis can be heard. In addition, well-hidden noise elements have been incorporated.

Discography

  • 1995: Circle of Vengeance (demo, self-published)
  • 1996: Suffer (EP, self-published)
  • 1997: 1997 demo (demo, self-published)
  • 1997: Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded (Album, Century Media )
  • 1998: Eyesore (EP, Century Media)
  • 1999: Disembody: The New Flesh (Album, Century Media)
  • 2002: Anthem for a Fallen Star (Single, Century Media)
  • 2002: reVoltingRoom (Album, Century Media)
  • 2004: Nerve Damage (compilation, Century Media)
  • 2008: SkinnedAlive! (Live album, BCD Music )
  • 2009: The Scars Between Us (Album, Stand and Deliver Records )
  • 2019: Venomous (Album, AIW Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joel McIver: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu Metal . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7119-9209-6 , p. 112 f .
  2. ^ A b c d e Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 260 f .
  3. ↑ Steve Huey: Biography , accessed January 20, 2012.
  4. ^ Matthias Weckmann, Markus Kavka : Machine Head Napalm Death Coal Chamber . Babylon Munich. In: Metal Hammer . July 1997, p. 132 f .
  5. ^ Skin Lab. (No longer available online.) Tridentstudios.net, archived from the original on July 28, 2014 ; Retrieved July 23, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tridentstudios.net
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; Retrieved July 25, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  7. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Skinlab . Baby metal. In: Metal Hammer . April 1999, p. 57 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Skinlab . The gun on the chest. In: Rock Hard . No. 143 , April 1999, Smalltalk, pp. 69 f .
  9. ↑ Thorsten Zahn: Entombed + Skinlab . Berlin: Knaack. In: Metal Hammer . May 1999, p. 120 f .
  10. ↑ a b Thorsten Zahn: Skinlab . reVolting Room. In: Metal Hammer . June 2002, p. 101 .
  11. ↑ Skinlab , accessed on January 20, 2012.
  12. ↑ SKINLAB: 'The Scars Between Us' Release Date Announced - July 31, 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2009 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roadrunnerrecords.com
  13. ↑ a b Thomas Kupfer: Skinlab . Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded. In: Rock Hard . No. 325 , June 2014, p. 67 .
  14. ↑ Psycho: SKINLAB: reVoltingRoom , accessed January 20, 2012.
  15. ↑ Kai Wendel: Entombed, Skinlab, Kill II This . Stuttgart, tube. In: Rock Hard . No. 144 , May 1999, p. 148 f .
  16. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Skinlab . Disembody: The New Flesh. In: Metal Hammer . April 1999, p. 84 .
  17. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Skinlab . California genetic makeup. In: Metal Hammer . July 1997, p. 118 .
  18. ^ Stefan Müller: Skinlab . Modern dynamism. In: Metal Hammer . June 2002, p. 73 .
  19. ↑ Armin Weber: Skinlab . Nerve damage. In: Metal Hammer . July 2004, p. 113 .
  20. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 402 f .