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Background information | |
Origin | Portland, Oregon (early) Los Angeles, California (after) |
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Years active | 1988–present |
Labels | Re-Constriction, Metropolis |
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Website | www |
16volt is an American industrial rock band featuring Eric Powell, with other performers added for live shows. [1] [2] [3]
16volt was formed in Portland, Oregon by composer and vocalist Eric Powell. Powell recruited musicians drummer Joel Bornzin, guitarist Jon Fell and Jeff Taylor to record "Motorskills", which debuted on The Cyberflesh Conspiracy various artist compilation by If It Moves... [4] That band released their first full-length studio album Wisdom on May 25, 1993, after signing to Re-Constriction Records. [5] The album received critical attention for its industrial-informed beats and abrasive electronic textures. [6] The band continued to issue albums via Re-Constriction for the next three albums: Skin (1994), LetDownCrush (1996), and SuperCoolNothing (1998).
The band is featured in the opening scene of video game Primal , and contributed nine songs to the game's soundtrack. [7] [8] [9]
16volt released its fifth album titled FullBlackHabit in 2007 for Metropolis Records. [10] The band followed that release with two more studio albums for Metropolis, American Porn Songs [11] and Beating Dead Horses , [12] which were released in 2009 and 2011 respectively. 16volt self-released the 2016 album The Negative Space on their label Murder Creek. [13] The EP Dead on Arrivals was self-released for Murder Creek in 2017. [14] [15]
Studio albums
Remix albums
Compilation albums
Extended plays
Singles
SuperCoolNothing is the fourth studio album by 16volt, released on August 18, 1998 by Cargo and Re-Constriction Records. Two-thousand copies of the album were re-pressed by Dark City Music with new cover art and the first 100 copies signed by the band.
The Best of Sixteen Volt is a compilation album by 16volt, released on May 10, 2005 by Cleopatra Records. It comprises songs from the band's first four releases as selected by fans through the band's website. Disc two was recorded live in 2003 at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago.
Re-Constriction Records was a division of Cargo Music based in California. The label was founded in 1992 and headed by Chase, who was previously the Music Director at KCR, a student radio station on the campus of San Diego State University. They specialized in releasing bands belonging to the industrial, aggrotech and EBM genres.
Jeremy Michel Neville Inkel was a Canadian electronic musician based in Vancouver. He was best known as a keyboard player and programmer for Left Spine Down and electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly as well as producing tracks for various well known musicians worldwide. He began his work with Left spine Down in 2003 when he replaced original member Frank Valoczy. He was invited into Front Line Assembly in 2005 and made his first contributions to their 2006 album Artificial Soldier. He also made contributions to Front Line Assembly side-projects Noise Unit and Delerium. Inkel died from complications with asthma at the age of 34 on January 11, 2018.
SuperCoolNothing v2.0 is a compilation album by 16volt, released on July 1, 2002 by Dark City Music. The album comes with a bonus disk of remixes and demos. Several tracks of the album are featured in the video game Primal. Two-thousand copies of the album were re-pressed by Dark City Music with new cover art and the first 100 copies signed by the band.
Diatribe was an American industrial rock group from San Jose, California, active in the 1990s. They had a sound similar to 16 Volt and Chemlab, integrating synthesizers and vocal samples with more traditional rock instruments. The band's full-length debut Diatribe was released by Cargo Music and Re-Constriction Records on November 3, 1996.
Wisdom is the debut studio album by 16volt, released on May 25, 1993, by Re-Constriction Records. It was produced with the aide of Skinny Puppy composer and musician Dave Ogilvie.
LetDownCrush is the third studio album by 16volt, released on August 7, 1996, by Cargo and Re-Constriction Records.
FullBlackHabit is the fifth studio album by 16volt, released on June 19, 2007 by Metropolis Records. The album's title was directly inspired by the 1987 film FullMetalJacket. Early versions of the song "Suffering You" previously debuted on the soundtrack to the 2003 PlayStation 2 video game Primal and later appeared the band's greatest hits album in 2005.
Skin is the second studio album by 16volt, released on January 13, 1994 by Re-Constriction Records.
Demography > The Basement Tapes is a compilation album by 16volt, released on November 14, 2000, by Cleopatra Records. The album comprises a collection of old, unfinished tracks by the band. Specifically, it contains the Imitation cassette produced in 1991, which helped 16volt secure a place on Re-Constriction Records, and "Out of Time", which was cut from their first album, Wisdom, due to time constraints.
Society Burning is an American coldwave industrial rock band composed of Daveoramma, Twitch, and Boom chr Paige. The group was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1991 and was originally named The Watchmen.
American Porn Songs is the sixth studio album by 16volt, released on September 8, 2009 by Metropolis Records.
Beating Dead Horses is the seventh studio album by American industrial rock band 16volt, released on May 5, 2011 by Metropolis Records.
The Negative Space is the eighth studio album by 16volt, released on September 14, 2016 by Murder Creek.
H3llb3nt were an electro-industrial supergroup formed in 1995. The original line-up band consisted of Bryan Barton, Charles Levi, Jared Louche, Jordan Nogood and Eric Powell. They released three full length albums: 0.01 (1996), Helium (1998), Hardcore Vanilla (2001)
Stalemate is the debut studio album of SMP, released in May 1995 by Re-Constriction Records.
"The Dreams That Rot in Your Heart" is a song by 16volt, released as a single on July 23, 1996 by Re-Constriction Records. It was the only single created to support the band's third album LetDownCrush, which was released in August of that year.
American Porn Songs is a remix album by 16volt, released on May 11, 2010, by Metropolis Records. The album comprises remixed versions of the tracks the appear of the band's 2009 album American Porn Songs.
Dead on Arrivals is an EP by 16volt, released on October 26, 2017 by Murder Creek.
Primal features extensive musical contributions from LA rockers 16 Volt, who donated nine tracks to the game, three created exclusively for the game.