Greg Anderson (guitarist)

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Greg Anderson
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Anderson performing with Sunn O))) in 2005
Background information
Born1970 (age 54–55)
Origin Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genres Doom metal, avant-garde metal, hardcore punk
Instrument(s) Guitar, bass
Years active1980s–present
Labels Southern Lord Records
Website www.southernlord.com

Greg Anderson (born 1970) is an American musician, a co-founder of Southern Lord Records.

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Anderson is the guitarist of stoner doom band Goatsnake, [1] but is also well known for his collaborations with Stephen O'Malley. Together, the duo participated in projects such as the short-lived death/doom metal band Thorr's Hammer, the extreme doom metal band Burning Witch (although Anderson left before the band could record an album), as well as the drone metal bands Sunn O))) and Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine.

Career

Earlier in his career, Anderson was involved with the straight edge hardcore punk bands False Liberty, Brotherhood, Amenity, Statement, Galleon's Lap, and the Revelation Records and indie rock/hardcore punk band Engine Kid.

Around 1994 and 1995 while still playing with Engine Kid, he met Stephen O'Malley, and they joined the Seattle death-doom band Thorr's Hammer. Their singer Runhild Gammelsæter was a Norwegian exchange student studying at the University of Washington. The band split after she went back to Norway, but Anderson and O'Malley still played with drummer Jamie Sykes to form Burning Witch. [2]

Wino had left The Obsessed and the rhythm section were still looking for someone to play with. They saw Engine Kid in Los Angeles and decided they wanted to jam with me. My taste in music was getting heavier over time. We did a ton of experimenting with different dynamics, hardcore, and just wanting to play in a metallic direction. [3]

Both Brotherhood and Galleon's Lap featured future Foo Fighters and Sunny Day Real Estate bass player Nate Mendel. In 2007, Greg joined Attila Csihar and Oren Ambarchi in a new drone-doom project called Burial Chamber Trio, as well as Ascend, a current project/record with Gentry Densley, the former singer-guitarist of Revelation Records band Iceburn.

In April 1998, Anderson and O'Malley founded the independent, underground label Southern Lord Records, based in Los Angeles, California. The company has been specializing in doom, sludge, drone, experimental metal, left-field black metal, and crust punk. [4] Anderson has been serving as the label's music curator. [1]

While working with Sunn O))), Anderson sometimes credited himself as "The Lord", and under the same pseudonym recorded two benefit tracks; "We Who Walk In Light" (2021) with Alice in Chains' vocalist William Duvall raising funds for "Jail Guitar Doors", and "Needle Cast" with Big Brave's Robin Wattie benefiting "The Native Women Shelter of Montreal". Around the same time, he was involved in a production of a score for an anthology of found-footage horror stories called "V/H/S 94". [1] [5] [6]

In 2022, Anderson released his solo debut Forest Nocturne under the name "The Lord", drawing inspiration from "hikes in the woodlands of the Pacific Northwest" and the notion about trees as "perhaps the last known connection that we have to an ancient world". Attila Csihar provided guest vocals on the album. "Triumph of the Oak" was released as the first single. [1] [7]

Discography

With False Liberty

With Brotherhood

With Amenity

With Statement

With Galleons Lap

With Engine Kid

With Thorr's Hammer

With Goatsnake

With Sunn O)))

With Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine

With Burial Chamber Trio

With Ascend

With Pentemple

With The Lord

[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Miloš Hroch (21 April 2022). "If You Go Down To The Woods Today: Forest Nocturne By The Lord". The Quietus . Archived from the original on 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Stannard, Joseph (April 2009). "Sunn O))) Exclusive Interview Transcripts: Greg Anderson". The Wire (302 ed.). Archived from the original on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  3. ↑ Tom Campagna (July 28, 2022). "How Goatsnake's Soulful, Bluesy Doom Blossomed On "1" (Interview with Greg Anderson)". Archived from the original on July 10, 2023. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  4. ↑ Jeff Terich (February 9, 2018). "Shadow of the Horns: 20 Years of Southern Lord". Archived from the original on November 12, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "ALICE IN CHAINS' WILLIAM DUVALL Collaborates With GREG ANDERSON On THE LORD's 'We Who Walk In Light'". Blabbermouth.net . September 15, 2021.
  6. ↑ Andrew Sacher (August 6, 2021). "Greg Anderson (Southern Lord, Sunn O))), etc) & Robin Wattie (BIG BRAVE) team up on new song".
  7. ↑ "GREG ANDERSON Streams Droning Demos For His Forest Nocturne Solo Album". Metal Injectionlast=Kennelty. 31 July 2022. Archived from the original on 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.{{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
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