Kevin Hufnagel

Kevin Hufnagel
Born	Kevin Hufnagel
Genres	Progressive rock, Technical metal, Classical, Avant-garde, Experimental, Ambient, Rock/Pop
Occupation(s)	Musician, guitar teacher, producer
Instrument(s)	electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone ukulele
Years active	1994-present
Labels	Burning Witches Coup Sur Coup Handmade Birds Nightfloat Nostalgium Directive Profound Lore Relapse Records Season of Mist Svart Translation Loss Wierd Records
Member of	Byla, Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Sabbath Assembly, Vaura, Veldune
Website	kevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com/

Kevin Hufnagel is an American musician, based in New York City. He is known for his solo guitar works, for forming the progressive instrumental rock/metal band Dysrhythmia, ^[1] and for being a member of Gorguts, ^{[2] [3]} Vaura, Sabbath Assembly, Veldune, and Byla. He also is a full time guitar instructor, teaching both in-person and virtually.

Performance discography

Byla

• 2005: Byla (Translation Loss Records)
• 2007: Byla + Jarboe - Viscera (Translation Loss Records)
• 2009 : Francesco Brunotti/Various Artists - Nocturne (Persistencebit Records) (contributes the track "Bloodrush")

Dysrhythmia

• 2000: Contradiction (self-released)
• 2001: No Interference (self-released)
• 2001: split 10-inch w/ xthoughtstreamsx (Rice Control Records)
• 2002: split 7-inch w/ Technician (Tranquility Base Records)
• 2003: Pretest (Relapse Records)
• 2004: Live from the Relapse Contamination Festival (Relapse Records)
• 2005: No Interference - reissue with bonus tracks (Translation Loss Records)
• 2006: Barriers and Passages (Relapse Records)
• 2007: Fractures - split CD w/ Rothko (Acerbic Noise Development Records)
• 2009: Psychic Maps (Relapse Records)
• 2012: Test of Submission (Profound Lore Records)
• 2016: The Veil of Control (Profound Lore Records)
• 2019: Terminal Threshold (Translation Loss Records)
• 2024: Coffin of Conviction (Nightfloat Recordings)

Gorguts

• 2013: Colored Sands (Season of Mist)
• 2016: Pleiades' Dust (Season of Mist)

Grey Division Blue

• 1994: Departure (self-released)

Kevin Hufnagel

• 1997: While I Wait (self-released)
• 2009: Songs for the Disappeared (Nightfloat Recordings)
• 2011: Transparencies (Nightfloat Recordings)
• 2012: Polar Night (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
• 2013: From the 23rd Floor (Abandoned 4-track demos 1996 - 1998 + Live in Baltimore 2008) (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
• 2013: Ashland (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette)
• 2014: The Murderer's Tracks/The Weather Was Wrong (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
• 2015: Kleines Biest (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Handmade Birds-cassette)
• 2015: V/A - And Suddenly Everything, Absolutely Everything, Was There (bandcamp) (contributes the track "Hallucination II")
• 2016: Backwards Through the Maze (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Nostalgium Directive-cassette)
• 2017: The Protected Shards (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette)
• 2017: Halloween EP 2017 (bandcamp)
• 2017: V/A - Coup Sûr: An Introduction To Coup Sur Coup Records (Coup Sur Coup Records) (contributes the tracks "Ancestral Instinct" and "Ashland")
• 2018: Messages to the Past (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Translation Loss Records-LP)
• 2018: Halloween EP 2018 (bandcamp)
• 2018: V/A - Feedback Through A Magnifying Glass Volume I (Coup Sur Coup Records) (contributes the track "Final Dawn")
• 2022: Polar Night II (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette)
• 2023: Liaison Dawn (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
• 2024: Dusting For My Fingerprints (Nightfloat Recordings)

Invisible Traces

• 2020: Invisible Traces (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)

Sabbath Assembly

• 2012: Ye Are Gods (Anja Offensive/Svart) (guitar on "We Come From The One")
• 2013: The Four Horsemen 7-inch (Svart)
• 2014: Quaternity (Svart)
• 2014: Eno Ot Derotser cassette (Svart)
• 2015: Sabbath Assembly (Svart)
• 2017: Rites of Passage (Svart)
• 2017: Various Artists - Communion of Saints (Brave Mysteries) (contributes the track "And It Was Dead, Having No Motion (St Peter)")
• 2018: Exsanguinata (original soundtrack) (bandcamp)
• 2019: A Letter of Red (Svart)

Vaura

• 2012: Selenelion (Wierd Records)
• 2013: The Missing (Profound Lore Records)
• 2019: Sables (Profound Lore Records)
• 2022: Vista of Deviant Anatomies (Primal Architecture Records)

Veldune

• 2022: Veldune (Nightfloat Recordings)

Anabiosis

• 2018: Submerged Into Scattered Patterns (bandcamp) (additional guitar on "Approaching the Void", "Shore", "Absolute Zero")

Aseitas

• 2018: Aseitas (bandcamp) (guitar solo on "City of Stone")

The Brazilian Gentleman

• 2019: s/t (Lazy Thinking) (baritone ukulele on "Sweep Back Those Leaves (C.A. Mix)")
• 2020: 808 Hymns (Internet and Weed)

Costanza

• 2008: Sonic Diary (Zerokilled Music) (guitar on "I Am Ready")

Didkovsky / Hufnagel / Ulrich / Smith

• 2015: Petromyzontiformes Vol 1 (bandcamp) (guitar on "III, for Electric Guitars")

Doctor Nerve

• 2020: Loud (Punos Music) (guitar solo on "Meta 04 (bonus CD only)")

Empty Flowers

• 2014: The Air You Found (Translation Loss) (remix/guitar on "Call A Priest")

Fear Falls Burning

• 2007: Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects (Tonefloat) (guitar on "Fear Falls Burning vs Byla")

Feast of the Epiphany

• 2023: Significance (Strategy of Tension) (guitar on "Love Dream")

Hathenter

• 2017: Hathenter Ouija (Hathenter)

Honeybloom

• 2020: Blooming (Troll Sounds) (guitar solo on "Selfless Warrior")

Horror God

• 2019: Cursed Seeds (Lavadome Productions) (guitar solo on "They Were Behind Barbed Wire")

Howling Sycamore

• 2018: Howling Sycamore (Prosthetic Records) (guitar solos on "Upended" and "Midway")
• 2019: Seven Pathways to Annihilation (Prosthetic Records) (guitar solos on "Mastering Fire" and "Initiation")

Jarboe

• 2008: Mahakali (The End Records)
• 2018: The Cut of the Warrior (Translation Loss Records) (guitar on "Karuna" (Byla mix))

The Mirror and The Shadow

• 2017: Various Artists - Communion of Saints (Brave Mysteries) (contributes the track "Vox Sanguinis (St Ursula)")

Moral Collapse

• 2021: s/t (Subcontinental Records) (guitar solo on "Suspension of Belief")

Sanity Obscure

• 2012: Subterranean Constellation (self-released) (guitar solo on "Doublethink")

Sculptured

• 2021: The Liminal Phase (BMG Records) (trade-off guitar solos on "State of Exception")

Svengahli

• 2020: Nightmares of Our Own Design (self-released) (guitars on "Nightmares of Our Own Design II (Adrift)")

Theta International

• 2020: Continual Activation Theory (bandcamp) (guitar solo and additional rhythm guitar on "Sons of Hydra")

Wake

• 2022: Thought Form Decent (Metal Blade Records) (guitar solo on "Observer to Master", additional guitar on "Pareidolia")

Warforged

• 2019: I: Voice (The Artisan Era) (guitar solo on "Eat Them While They Sleep")

Yellow6

• 2010: Close/r (Editions6)

Soundtracks

• 2019: Kevin Hufnagel & Natasha Kermani Imitation Girl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Burning Witches Records)

References

1. "Dance". The New Yorker. September 7, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
2. "Kayo Dot, Lichens, Fielded & Psychic Steel shows & stuff". Brooklyn Vegan. August 23, 2010. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
3. Black Bubblegum Brooklyn Vegan. "Gorguts is back" (Statement from Luc Lemay), 2009-03-16

External links

• Official page on Bandcamp
• Kevin Hufnagel Interview for La Hoja de Arena (in Spanish)