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Artist: Mortician
A grindcore-influenced death-metal duo from Yonkers, NY, Mortician is made up of vocalist/bassist Will Rahmer and guitarist/drum machine programmer Roger Beaujard. Although the group's sound is extreme and inaccessible to many ears, their song intros and use of slasher-film samples demonstrate a sense of humor (albeit a morbid one), overall a... [+] Read More
Artist: Mutilated
Formed in February of 2000 by Russ Crossman (guitar), Ryan Hall (guitar), and Tony Cosgrove (drums), Detroit, Michigan's Mutilated was originally known as "Decapitator" and performs hyper-technical grindcore with disgusting lyrics รก la Cannibal Corpse. After a vocal-free first demo, the group recruited vocalist Justin Emery in time for their... [+] Read More
Artist: ...And Oceans
...And Oceans assembled in 1995 out of scattered components from Finland's black metal scene, and made its official debut with 1998's Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts (Season of Mist); The Symmetry of 1 - The Circle of O followed a year later. ...And Oceans jumped to Century Media for 2001's A.M. G.O.D.: Allotropic/Metamorphic-Genesis of Dimorphism,... [+] Read More
Artist: Skinless
New York grindcore merchants Skinless were formed in 1992 by vocalist Sherwood Webber and guitarist Noah Carpenter. Undergoing countless line-up changes early on, the band finally stabilized with the arrival of bassist Joe Keyser and drummer Bobby Dulac prior to recording 1998's independently released Progressions Towards Evil debut. The album... [+] Read More
Artist: Wallace Jones
Although Duke Ellington was famous for featuring his many sidemen in very favorable and inventive settings, in most of his bands there were one or two players who were underutilized. Wallace Jones, a fine first trumpeter with an appealing tone, was unfortunately rarely featured with Ellington although he was considered a valuable musician by the... [+] Read More
Artist: John Conlee
One of the most respected vocalists to emerge during the urban cowboy era, John Conlee was known for his superb taste in material and his distinctively melancholy voice. Conlee was born and raised on a tobacco farm in Versailles, KY, in 1946, and took up the guitar as a child, performing on local radio at age ten. He went on to sing with the... [+] Read More
Artist: Bill Castagnino
This trumpeter is best known to big band fans as part of Woody Herman's roaring, screaming brass section from 1954 through 1957. Regardless of that impressive credit and a variety of other achievements as both a bandleader on his own and a Los Angeles session musician, William (Bill) Castagnino's choice of an additional career may seem even more... [+] Read More
Artist: Incantation
Not to be confused with other acts that are called Incantation (including a group that specializes in South American music), the band profiled in this bio is a ferocious, mercilessly brutal outfit that is known for death metal, black metal and grindcore. The words "pop" and "mainstream" are not in the vocabulary of this Incantation, which has... [+] Read More
Artist: Willie Willis
Dallas bluesman William "Willie" Willis didn't receive too many grand opportunities in his career until fairly late in his life. As for the first 50 years of singing, playing and bandleading, Willis would be described as someone who had never really made it, not only as a bandleader and sideman but as a barber and mortician as well. These were... [+] Read More
Artist: Slim Gaillard
One of the most eccentric vocalists ever to hit the jazz scene, Slim Gaillard became a legendary cult figure thanks to his own privately invented jive dialect "vout," a variation on hipster slang composed of imaginary nonsense words ("oreenie" and "oroonie" being two other examples). Gaillard's comic performances, laid-back cool, and supremely... [+] Read More
