Probot was a heavy metal side project of former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl. Described by Grohl as "a death metal Supernatural",the album mixes instrumentals recorded by Grohl himself with various metal singers whom the musician admired. The album was released in February 2004 by Southern Lord Records. It featured one single entitled "Centuries of Sin"/"The Emerald Law".
Kim Anand Thayil is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden,which he co-founded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. Cornell and Thayil remained as the original members of the band until Cornell's death in 2017,and the band's subsequent split in 2018. Thayil was named the 100th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2010,and the 67th greatest guitarist of all time by SPIN in 2012. Thayil has won two Grammy Awards as a member of Soundgarden.
Sunn O))) is an American drone metal band formed in 1998 in Seattle,Washington. The band is known for their distinctive visual style and slow,heavy sound,which blends diverse genres including doom metal,drone,black metal,dark ambient,and noise rock,as well as for their extremely loud live performances.
Joe Preston is an American bass guitarist and a former band member of the rock bands Earth,Melvins,Men's Recovery Project,The Need and High on Fire. Preston has also played with Sunn O))),and has his long-running solo project called Thrones. In 2007,he joined Harvey Milk in the studio for the recording of Life... The Best Game in Town and toured with them during their 2008 US and European tours. He is currently serving as a touring member of Sumac. He is the uncle of actor Dominic Janes.
Strangers Almanac is the second studio album by American alternative country band Whiskeytown,released on July 29,1997,on Outpost and Geffen Records. The album was reissued as a deluxe edition with bonus tracks and an additional disc of previously unreleased material on March 4,2008.
Boris is a Japanese band formed in 1992 in Tokyo and composed of drummer Atsuo,guitarist/bassist Takeshi,and guitarist/keyboardist Wata. All three members contribute vocals. Their work has drawn variously on styles such as sludge metal,drone,noise,psychedelia,and minimalism. Boris has released more than 20 studio albums on various labels around the world,as well as a variety of live albums,compilations,EPs,singles,and collaborative albums. They have collaborated with acts such as Sunn O))),Merzbow,Keiji Haino,and guitarist Michio Kurihara.
Eyvindur Y. Kang is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is viola,but has also performed on violin,tuba,keyboards and others.
Jesse Sykes is an American singer and songwriter,best known for her band Jesse Sykes &the Sweet Hereafter, which was formed in 1999 with Phil Wandscher.
Solo is the third studio album by the Swedish progressive rock band Kaipa. It was released in 1977 by Decca Records.
The following is the discography of the Japanese experimental band Boris.
Like Love,Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul is the third album by Seattle band Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter. It was released in 2007 on Barsuk Records.
Smile is the fourteenth full-length album by Japanese band Boris. It was released through Diwphalanx Records in early 2008,featuring guest musicians Michio Kurihara of Ghost and Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))),both of whom have collaborated with Boris in the past. Shortly after this initial release,the album was released by American label Southern Lord with a slightly different track listing,different artwork,and an almost entirely different sound. The first 3000 copies of this edition include a DVD containing videos for "Statement","Pink" and "My Neighbor Satan".
Born to Laugh at Tornadoes is a 1983 album by the art-funk band Was. Rolling Stone declared it "conceptually,the best album of the year" shortly after its release. Despite the glowing reviews,Tornadoes made little commercial impact in a year dominated by Michael Jackson's Thriller and Prince's 1999.
Monoliths &Dimensions is the sixth studio album by American drone metal band Sunn O))). The album was created and recorded over a period of two years and features the collaborations of composer Eyvind Kang,Australian guitar player Oren Ambarchi,Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar,Dylan Carlson from the drone band Earth,and trombonists Julian Priester and Stuart Dempster. Also present is an upright bass trio;French and English horns;harp and flute duo;piano,brass,reed,and string ensembles;and a Viennese woman's choir led by composer and vocalist Jessika Kenney.
Before I Forget is a 1982 album by Jon Lord,featuring a largely conventional eight-song line-up,no orchestra. The bulk of the songs are either mainstream rock tracks or,specifically on Side Two,a series of very English classical piano ballads sung by mother and daughter duo,Vicki Brown and Sam Brown and vocalist Elmer Gantry. The album also features prolific session drummer Simon Phillips,Cozy Powell,Neil Murray,Simon Kirke,Boz Burrell and Mick Ralphs. Lord used synthesizers more than before,principally to retain an intimacy with the material and to create a jam atmosphere with old friends like Tony Ashton.
WORLD TOUR 1980 is a live album by Yellow Magic Orchestra. It was recorded during the band's 1980 international tour. This is the only YMO live album to include songs originally released on X∞Multiplies;it also features six songs from YMO members made for other projects and two covers. It was released,with a book with photographs taken during the tour,as both a 2-CD set and a 3-LP set,which had a bonus track. "Jiseiki Hirake Kokoro" was originally made for a Fujifilm cassette commercial. It was included in Snakeman Show's self-titled album in mono so that the lyrics,which reference Fujifilm cassettes,could not be understood properly;it was presented here in stereo,and was included in the UC YMO compilation.
Kannon is the seventh studio album by American drone metal band Sunn O))).
Pyroclasts is the ninth studio album by American drone metal band Sunn O))). The album was released through Southern Lord Records on October 25,2019. Pyroclasts was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini entirely using analog tape. In addition to Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley,the album features collaborators Tos Nieuwenhuizen,Tim Midyett and Hildur Guðnadóttir.
The discography of Sunn O))),an American drone metal band,consists of nine studio albums,three collaborative albums,six EPs,four demos,one remix album,eight official live albums,one box set compilation,two stand-alone singles and three compilation contributions.
Straight Songs of Sorrow is the twelfth and final studio album by American singer Mark Lanegan. It was released through Heavenly Recordings on May 8,2020. The album was inspired by writing his memoir Sing Backwards and Weep,which was published April 28,2020. It's his first solo album credited to simply Mark Lanegan,as opposed to Mark Lanegan Band,since 2013's Imitations,and the first one credited to Mark Lanegan that doesn't feature former collaborator Mike Johnson.
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