Soilent Green (American band)

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Soilent Green
Soilent Green (2008)
Soilent Green (2008)
General information
Genre (s) Grindcore , sludge
founding 1988
Website www.soilent-green.com
Founding members
Brian Patton
guitar
 Donovan Punch
Tommy Buckley
Current occupation
Ben Falgoust
guitar
 Brian Patton
Scott Crochet
Drums
 Tommy Buckley
former members
bass
 Scott Williams († 2004)
singing
 Glenn Rambo († 2005)
guitar
 Tony White

Soilent Green is an American metal band that combines grindcore with influences from southern rock and sludge . The name alludes to an industrially manufactured food made from human flesh from the film adaptation of the year 2022 ... who want to survive .

Band history

After the breakup of the death metal band Nuclear Crucifixion , guitarists Donovan Punch and Brian Patton founded Soilent Green in New Orleans together with drummer Tommy Buckley . The first line-up was completed with singer Glenn Rambo and bassist Marcel Trenchard, and Soilent Green released two demos . Due to the work of guitarist Brian Patton at EyeHateGod and various line-up changes, it was not until 1993 that the group was able to put together a stable line-up. With bassist Scott Williams and singer Louis Benjamin Falgoust II, or Ben Falgoust for short, the band recorded their debut album Pussysoul in 1994 , which was released in 1995 on Dwell Records . This was followed by a US tour with Extreme Noise Terror , before the band had to take a break in 1996 because of Patton's obligations at EyeHateGod. 1997 began with a tour of Texas supporting Pantera and Clutch . Further appearances followed with Anthrax , Anal Cunt and Coal Chamber . After signing a record deal with Relapse Records , the EP A String of Lies was released in February 1998 and a little later the second album Sewn Mouth Secrets . In the late 1990s, singer Ben Falgoust founded the Goatwhore project , whose 1999 album featured guitarist Donovan Punch. Punch left Soilent Green and was replaced by Ben Stout for the recording of the next studio album. This album, entitled A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down , was released in 2001.

In December 2001, the band's tour van crashed on an icy road. Guitarist Brian Patton broke both of his legs and bassist Scott Williams suffered such serious shoulder injuries that he had to stop playing. The tour dates with Gwar and God Forbid planned for early 2002 had to be canceled for this reason. After guitarist Patton recovered, Soilent Green joined the ongoing Gwar tour, and Jonny Modell was hired as tour bassist. In another tour bus accident in April 2002, singer Falgoust and bassist Modell were seriously injured and the band had to take another break. During this time out, a split EP with EyeHateGod, limited to 2,000 pieces, and a re-release of the 2001 studio album, limited to 1,000 pieces, were released as LP in a fold-out cover, which have become sought-after collector's items today. In April 2003 the band was reactivated with the new second guitarist Tony White and bassist Scott Crochet and went on tour in the summer of 2003 with The Black Dahlia Murder . On April 26, 2004, the former bassist Scott Williams was found dead in his apartment in Gretna , according to official information, an acquaintance of Williams is said to have shot him and then committed suicide. In 2004 and 2005 further tours with Behemoth and Suffocation followed . Also in 2005, Tommy Buckley joined Crowbar and in June Soilent Green recorded the fourth studio album Confrontation , which was released a little later. Ex-singer Glenn Rambo was one of the victims of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 .

The year 2006 was full of extensive tours and the like. a. marked with Hypocrisy and Nile . After switching the record label to Metal Blade Records , Soilent Green recorded the fifth studio album Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction with producer Erik Rutan (guitarist of Morbid Angel ) . After its release in April 2008, there followed live performances with Hate Eternal and Testament as well as a tour with Dethklok . In early 2009 Soilent Green took on the theme song for the fourth season of the adult swim series Squidbillies , which was shown on television from May 2009. After it became quiet around the band, singer Falgoust announced in spring 2010 that Soilent Green would start work on a new album in autumn 2010. Although drummer Tommy Buckley renewed the announcement of a new studio album in May 2011 and assured that Soilent Green will go to the recording studio in 2012, no release is foreseeable so far. In the summer of 2013, drummer Buckley had to undergo a prostatectomy .

Music genre

The albums released by Soilent Green in the 1990s and early 2000s are considered to be trend-setting for the Grindcore genre, and in an article in the music magazine Rolling Stone Soilent Green was listed as one of the ten most important hard and heavy bands of the hour in the late 1990s. The musical style of the band is characterized as a mixture of grindcore with sludge and blues-heavy southern rock. The band initially saw Rock Hard as an intersection of EyeHateGod, Crowbar and Anal Cunt with occasional borrowings from Death Metal , but sees Grindcore in the foreground on the next album, which the band combines and shapes with influences from Sludge and Technical Death Metal with the 2008 album for the music of Soilent Green the term Sludgegrind . Michael Edele from laut.de describes the band's style as a "contradicting mixture of Hardcore , Sludge, Grindcore and Southern Rock".

Discography

  • Pussysoul (1995)
  • A String of Lies (EP, 1998)
  • Sewn Mouth Secrets (1998)
  • A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down (2001)
  • Confrontation (2005)
  • Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction (2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young : New Wave of American Heavy Metal . Zonda Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9582684-0-0 , pp. 282 .
  2. ↑ Megan Masters: Goatwhore - Louis Benjamin Falgoust II. Metal Obsession, April 6, 2010, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Philip Whitehouse: OneMetal.com Talks To Soilent Green's Tommy Buckley. (No longer available online.) OneMetal.com, May 21, 2011, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 23, 2014 (English). 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.onemetal.com
  4. ↑ SOILENT GREEN / CROWBAR drummer Undergoes Prostatectomy. blabbermouth.net , August 22, 2013, accessed January 23, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag Jeske and Mader, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , p. 235 .
  6. ^ William York: Soilent Green - Biography. Allmusic, accessed February 2, 2011 .
  7. ^ Garry Sharpe-Young : New Wave of American Heavy Metal . Zonda Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9582684-0-0 , pp. 281 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Stappert: Review: Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets . In: Rock Hard . No. 140 .
  9. ^ Andreas Stappert: Review: Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down . In: Rock Hard . No. 176 .
  10. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Review: Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction . In: Rock Hard . No. 252 .
  11. ↑ Michael Edele: laut.de review: Where others play two riffs, nine or more are heard here. laut.de, accessed on February 2, 2011 .

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