Vauxdvihl

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Vauxdvihl
General information
Genre (s) Progressive metal
founding 1992
resolution 2001
Founding members
Fab Gallen (real name Fabrizio Gallina)
guitar
 Paul Read
Chris Delov
Edward Katz
former members
singing
 Stacy Handchild
Guitar, mandolin
 Frederic Leduc

Vauxdvihl was an Australian progressive metal band .

Band history

Vauxdvihl was founded in 1992 by guitarist and songwriter Fab Gallen in Melbourne . Originally the band was called Vaudeville , a term that from Gallen's point of view reflected the diversity of the band's influences (see Vaudeville for the etymology). However, there was already a band of the same name, which is why they finally renamed themselves Vauxdvihl .

After initial difficulties in completing the line-up, they released a demo that included three songs, all of which were also found on the 1994 debut album To Dimension Logic . The band recorded this album entirely at their own expense, which is why they only had 12 days to record. Critics consider it a milestone in the field of progressive and avant-garde heavy metal. In 2010, Rock Hard magazine selected it as the sixth of the 15 most important progressive metal albums .

After the release, Frederic Leduc and Edward Katz left the band, the latter was subsequently a member of the Australian band Where Echoes End , in which former Vauxdvihl member Paul Read played. Both founded Department in 1997 . The remaining two members of the original cast released a demo in 1996 and the self-produced EP Vog in 1998 . The second studio album, announced in an interview with the scene magazine Rock Hard , was no longer released because the band could not sign a record deal and the musicians lacked the financial means for their own production. A planned collaboration with the former founding member Paul Read did not materialize either, as he died of leukemia at the end of 1998 .

In 2001 the band released their 1996 demo with Siberian Church Recordings , supplemented by the tracks not used in the recordings of Vog . Around the same time, the band broke up. Some of the members of the last known line-up, including singer Fabrizio Gallina, are currently playing with the Australian sludge band Wurms .

In early 2014 Century Media announced that the label would re-release the band's entire back catalog. At the beginning of September a double CD was released with the pieces from the album To Dimension Logic and the two EPs Siberian Church Recording and Vog .

Musical background

By his own admission, Fab Gallen was self-taught and never had guitar lessons. His early musical influences included bands like Coroner , Celtic Frost and Possessed , later he was interested in progressive metal , especially Fates Warning and Queensrÿche . The other band members were not professional musicians either. Only singer Stacy Handchild, heard on To Dimension Logic , was able to gain musical experience as a member of the Australian Jesus Christ Superstar Ensemble.

The band always named Psychotic Waltz as well as Rush , Pink Floyd , Dead Can Dance and Jethro Tull as main influences . In addition to the classic elements of progressive metal , ambient and blues also played a role in the music . Stylistically, the band was next to the aforementioned Psychotic Waltz most comparable to Voivod (at Nothingface times).

Discography

  • To Dimension Logic , Advent Records Australia 1994
  • Underground Revolution Vol. 1 , Advent Records Australia 1995 (sampler)
  • Demo '96 (demo), in-house production 1996
  • Vog (EP), in-house production 1998
  • Unheard of! The best bands without a deal / Vol. 3 , Rock Hard 1999 (Sampler)
  • Siberian Church Recordings (EP), A and A Recordings 2001
  • To Dimension Logic (Limited Edition) , Century Media 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Rensen: betrayed and forgotten. Interview with Fab Gallen . In: RockHard magazine . No. 104 .
  2. ↑ Michael Rensen: Review of "To Dimension Logic" (10/10 points) . In: RockHard magazine . No. 102 .
  3. ↑ Thorsten Gürntke: Review of "To Dimension Logic" (14/15 points). In: Baby Blue Pages. Retrieved February 23, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Michael Rensen: The 15 most important progressive metal albums . 6. Vauxdvihl: To Dimension Logic. In: Rock Hard . No. 277 , p. 95 f .
  5. ↑ Michael Rensen: The largest underground band in the world. (No longer available online.) In: RockHard Online. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 22, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / shop.rockhard.de  
  6. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Vauxdvihl: Troubled times . In: Rock Hard . No. 277 , p. 89 .
  7. ↑ VAUXDVIHL signs back catalog deal with Century Media Records. Century Media , January 17, 2014, accessed November 29, 2014 .