Stephen O'Malley

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O'Malley performing with Æthenor in Rome 2010

Stephen O'Malley (born July 15, 1974 ) is an American musician, graphic artist and journalist.

biography

In the 1990s, O'Malley and Tyler Davis published the black metal magazine Descent , 5 issues of which appeared and which also included industrial bands and musicians; he also wrote for other publications such as Slayer , Metal Maniacs , Ledo Takas and Seconds . In 1995 he wrote an article called Nordic Darkness ... for the American right-wing rock magazine Resistance of the Resistance Records label , in which Descent also advertised. An interview with Varg Vikernes published by O'Malley in Descent in 1994 was reprinted in 1996 in the Swedish right-wing rock magazine Nordland . He also worked for Misanthropy Records , including the design and artwork (with the exception of the cover) for the album Hliðskjálf from Vikernes' project Burzum .

In 1996 he worked on the power electronics project Sarin, in 1998 he founded the Southern Lord Records label together with Greg Anderson to release the music of their former bands Thorr's Hammer and Burning Witch . In 1999 he founded the experimental Lotus Eaters project with James Plotkin and Aaron Turner . With Davis, O'Malley is in charge of The Ajna Offensive label, which mainly publishes black metal, but also ambient and post-industrial . In addition to mostly apolitical albums, the right-wing extremist band Sigrblot re-released the album Blodsband (Blood Religion Manifest) in 2005 . When asked about Nazism and Burzum, however, he stated that he had "never had an affinity for Vark Vikernes [sic!] Ideology and his racism", but that "his music and everything around him were interesting". And while Black Metal takes itself and its aesthetics very seriously, as a listener it doesn't.

O'Malley's best-known project is the drone-doom band Sunn O))) , in which he appears alongside Greg Anderson as a guitarist and composer. O'Malley also plays improvised rock as the bass player in Trio Nazoranai with Keiji Haino and Oren Ambarchi .

Design (selection)

Discography

With Thorr's hammer
  • 1995: Sannhet i Blodet (demo)
  • 1996: Dommedagsnatt
With Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
  • 2002: Rampton
With Sunn O)))
With sarin
  • 1996: Nihilist
With Lotus Eaters
  • 2001: Alienist on a Pale Horse
  • 2001: Four Demonstrations
  • 2002: DR-55 (7 ")
  • 2002: Mind Control for Infants
  • 2007: wormworm
With khanates
  • 2001: Khanates
  • 2002: Live WFMU 91.1 (Live)
  • 2003: Things Viral
  • 2003: No Joy (Remix) (EP)
  • 2004: Let Loose The Lambs (Live DVD)
  • 2004: KHNT vs. Stockholm (Live)
  • 2004: Live Aktion Sampler 2004 (Live)
  • 2005: Capture & Release
  • 2005: Dead / Live Actions (DVD)
  • 2005: It's Cold When Birds Fall From The Sky (Live)
  • 2009: Clean Hands Go Foul
With Ginnungagap
  • 2004: 1000% Downer (EP)
  • 2004: Return to Nothing
  • 2005: Remeindre
  • 2006: Crashed Like Wretched Moth (EP)
With Fungal Hex
  • 2001: Fungal Hex
With Burning Witch
With KTL
  • 2006: KTL
  • 2007: KTL 2
  • 2007: An iron fist in a velvet glove (CDR)
  • 2007: Live in Krems
  • 2008: KTL 3 (12 ")
  • 2008: IKKI
  • 2008: Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage: KTL Edition (DVD)
  • 2008: KTL IV Paris Demos (CDR)
  • 2009: KTL 4
With Burial Chamber Trio
  • 2007: Burial Chamber Trio
  • 2007: WVRM (Live EP)
With gravetemple
  • 2007: The Holy Down
  • 2008: Ambient / Ruin
  • 2009: Le Vampire de Paris
With Æthenor
  • 2006: Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light
  • 2008: Betimes Black Cloudmasses
  • 2009: Faking Gold & Murder
  • 2011: En Form for Blå
With Äänipää ( Mika Vainio / Stephen O'Malley)
  • 2013: Through A Pre-Memory


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spirit of Metal: Stephen O'Malley
  2. ↑ Metal Archives: Stephen O'Malley
  3. ↑ The Noiseist. Retrieved September 30, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Aldo Quispel, Kostas Panagiotou : To me 'heaviness' equates with passion and honesty . Interview with Stephen O'Malley , June 23, 2001, accessed November 10, 2012.
  5. ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 277 .
  6. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 326 .
  7. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 265 .
  8. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 307 .
  9. ^ A b c Andreas Hartmann: That is folk music. September 30, 2007, accessed April 12, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Michael We .: NAZORANAI (STEPHEN O'MALLEY): Nazoranai. Nonpop, June 24, 2012, accessed June 29, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Malley, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th July 1974