Discordance Axis

Discordance Axis
Годы активности	с 1992
Жанры	грайндкор
Лейблы	Hydra Head Records
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Discordance Axis - американская грайндкор-группа из Нью-Джерси, США. Одна из наиболее влиятельных американских грайндкор-групп. После записания первого сплита группа стала культовой, так как исполняла чрезвычайно технический и творческий грайндкор, с отличной работой гитар и барабана.

Биография

Frontman Jon Chang on the history of the band:

"Discordance Axis was a three piece grind core band that started in NJ around 1992. The band started after myself and Rob's previous band disintegrated and we found Da5e at a Human Remains show. We asked him to play a split 7" with us and it snowballed from there.

The pattern was, we got together and wrote and recorded some material, then would part ways. We never really played live much because...well we couldn't manage to sell more than 500 copies of any of our records and we all had conflicting schedules.

We get asked why we only toured Japan. That's easy. That's where all our records sold. And most of the bands we liked were from over there.

Steve Procopio played live a lot with us and recorded the guitar tracks on the Necropolitan ep. Rob Marton plays guitar on every other recording we produced. Steve and Rob were two really gifted people and I(Jon) feel fortunate to have played with both them and Da5e.

There's a much more detailed band history in the Original Sound Version and Jouhou resissue CDs that Hydrahead released, but in brief, Discordance Axis started in 1992 and broke up in 2001. All of our music has been re-issued on CD except for our tracks on the Necropolitan EP(because the master is lost) and our track from the Snarl Out Vol 2 7" comp record.

Jon Chang now sings for GridLink Rob Marton writes lots of music but isn't in a band. Dave Witte plays for Municipal Waste (among others)."

Стиль

На раннем этапе творчества группа играла подобно ранним Napalm Death. Впоследствии же группа создала свой оригинальный стиль, который состоял в чрезвычайно диссонансных гитарных партиях, скоростной и одновременно техничной барабанной игрой и применении экстремального вокала. Группа никогда не имела басиста, а в отличие от большинства музыкальных коллективов альбомы выпускались на DVD, а не на CD, это позволяло группе в каждой песне разместить вступления и отступления (буклеты).

Тематика группы уникальна для грайндкора, если для этого музыкального жанра характерны либо темы социальной несправедливости, либо описания паталогий и внутренностей, лирика группы в основном посвящена конкректным персонажам с поэтической или абстрактной точки зрения.

Участники

• Jon Chang – vocals (Gridlink, Hayaino Daisuki)
• Rob Marton – guitar
• Dave Witte – drums (Burnt by the Sun, Human Remains, Municipal Waste, Black Army Jacket, Melt-Banana, Exit 13, Hope Collapse, East West Blast Test, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Birds of Prey, Phantomsmasher)

Бывшие участники

• Steve Procopio – guitar (live only) (Human Remains)
• Rob Proctor – drums (filled in for Witte during tour of Japan in 1995) (Assück, Nasty Savage)

Дискография

Студийные альбомы

• Ulterior (1995), Devour Records/Pulp Records
• Jouhou (1997), Hydra Head Records
• The Inalienable Dreamless (2000), Hydra Head Records

Мини-альбомы

• split with Cosmic Hurse (1992), Pulp Records
• split with Hellchild (1993), HG Fact
• split with Capitalist Casualties (1994), Pulp Records
• split with Def Master (1994), HG Fact
• split with Melt-Banana (1995), HG Fact
• split with Plutocracy (1995), Slap a Ham Records
• Necropolitan (1997), HG Fact
• split with Corrupted and 324 (2001), HG Fact

Компиляции

• Original Sound Version 1992–1995 (1998), Devour Records
• The Inalienable Dreamless Perfect Version Box Set (2000), self-released
• Our Last Day (2005), Hydra Head Records

Видео

• 7.62mm (1997), self-released
• Pikadourei (2002), Hydra Head Records

Внешние ссылки

• Официальный сайт
• Discordance Axis на Allmusic
• Discordance Axis на MySpace
• Interview with Dave Witte на Lambgoat.com