Watchmaker

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Watchmaker
General information
origin Boston , Massachusetts , United States
Genre (s) Grindcore
founding 1997
resolution 2006 or later
Last occupation
Nick Kirlis
Mark York
Electric guitar
 Paul Vaughan
Brian Livoti
former members
John Gillis
Electric guitar
 Tim Donovan
Drums
 Michael Garret

Watchmaker was an American grindcore band from Boston , Massachusetts that was formed in 1997 and disbanded around 2006.

history

The band was formed in 1997 by singer Brian Livoti with a few friends after he graduated from college. The first rehearsals then followed in Livoti's cellar. In addition to Livoti, the cast consisted of guitarists Paul Vaughn and Tim Donovan, bassist Nick Kirlis and drummer Michael Garret. The name was borrowed from the chapter "The Watchmaker" of the book Watchmen by Alan Moore . Thanks to a friend who worked in a recording studio and whom the band had met again at a wedding, the group was able to record a first demo cheaply. Through this friend the band also got a record deal with Wonderdrug Records , the label being in the same building as the recording studio. After the 2001 debut album Kill.Crush.Destroy. was willowtip records attention to the group, what 2003 the second album Kill.Fucking.Everyone. was published in the USA and England . This was followed by concerts with Today Is the Day , Burnt by the Sun and Cephalic Carnage . During the performances, the band did not provide any set lists and Brian Livoti kept the song titles to himself. In the rest of Europe , the album was released two years later. In 2005 the third album Erased from the Memory of Man was released worldwide at the same time. After a split release with Hirudinea in 2006 via Bestial Onslaught Productions , the band split up .

style

According to Brian Livoti in an interview with Kirby Unrest from scenepointblank.com, the band does not rehearse their songs in advance , but rather write them spontaneously in the recording studio. On the first weekend, one of the two guitarists as well as Livoti and the drummer play the Thrash passages. After a short break, the recordings are divided into songs and the guitarist who did not take part in the original recordings plays over them. The drummer, however, no longer takes part in the recordings. At the end the bassist plays his part. The texts would usually arise spontaneously and would deal with everyday topics and fears or Livoti's marital problems. Livoti was most strongly influenced by Def Leppard's Pyromania , The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden and Slayer's Reign in Blood . Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Kill.Fucking.Everyone. that the pace of the game is consistently high. In terms of songwriting , level of play and content, the songs do not come close to grind and crustcore groups such as Napalm Death , Doom , Discharge , Sore Throat , Nasum and Skitsystem . Uwe Kubassa from Ox-Fanzine also reviewed the album and described the music as destructive and aggressive Grindcore and rarely "experienced such a pissed off band". Jan Jaedike, also from Rock Hard , said in his review of Erased from the Memory of Man that it contained a “ noise grind eruptions with sometimes more, sometimes less understanding”, which is also known as “white trash noise “Could denote. However, he found the music less annoying than that of many mathcore bands. Ollie Fröhlich from Ox-Fanzine wrote in his review of the album that at first he would have assigned it to crustcore alone, but now he would describe the music as a mixture of crustcore, hardcore punk , grindcore and noise. However, this aggressive mix quickly becomes boring. In the songs there are "infernally bellowed lyrics".

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kirby Unrest: Interviews: Watchmaker (page 1). scenepointblank.com, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Watchmaker. laut.de , accessed on January 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Watchmaker (3) - Kill.Crush.Destroy. Discogs , accessed January 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hirudinea / Watchmaker (3) - Split. Discogs, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Kirby Unrest: Interviews: Watchmaker (page 2). scenepointblank.com, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Watchmaker . Kill.Fucking.Everyone. In: Rock Hard . No. 219 , August 2005.
  7. ↑ Uwe Kubassa: WATCHMAKER . Kill.Fucking.Everyone CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . 61 (August / September), 2005 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed January 27, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Watchmaker . Erased from the Memory of Man. In: Rock Hard . No. 225 , February 2006.
  9. ↑ Ollie Merry: WATCHMAKER . Erased From The Memory Of Man CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . 65 (April / May), 2006 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on January 27, 2018]).