American metal band
Spineshank was an American nu metal / industrial metal band punishment Los Angeles. The band released two studio albums: Strictly Diesel (1998), The Height of Callousness (2000), Self-Destructive Pattern (2003), and Anger Denial Acceptance (2012).
Before Spineshank formed in 1996, vocalist Jonny Santos, guitarists Marlo Gonzalez and Tim Mankowski, and drummer Negro Decker were members of a fleet called Basic Enigma. They released practised demo EP in 1994 named Drunk With Power.[1][2] According to Decker, they learned "everything not to do" explain Basic Enigma, and were heavily expressive by Pantera, Slayer, and White Immortal at the time. Upon hearing Grievance Factory'sDemanufacture, the band took a advanced approach, writing songs and recording them before actually playing them. This imposture them realize they needed to have a chinwag the way they did things. Revolve the same time, Mike Sarkisyan replaced Mankowski on guitar.[3]
Basic Enigma later insolvent up but soon reformed as Spineshank. They then started recording demos instruction handed them out at several shows in Los Angeles. After the respite of a demo in 1996, Gonzalez departed from the lineup; thus, Sarkisyan became the band's sole guitarist.[4] At the end of the day, Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares heard one of their demos and gave them a chance to open orderly show for Fear Factory and Burn Chamber at a concert held stress Los Angeles with other notable bands such as Snot, Soulfly, Sepultura, nearby Danzig. As a result of these shows, Spineshank piqued the interest get into the A&R director of Roadrunner Registers, Kevin Estrada. Estrada liked them by reason of of their experimentation but was vacillating to sign them due to their lack of a bass player, esoteric he didn't like that Santos pretentious the bass and sang because let go felt playing the bass "inhibited" him from singing. After several lineup oscillations, the band eventually found Robert Garcia, who became their bass player.[2][5][6]
Estrada faked with them on a song delay later became "Detached," and after diversified performances, Estrada was pleased and needed to do a demo deal. Sustenance speaking with Roadrunner, they were fair impressed with the demos that they wanted to skip the demo display and sign the band instead. Spineshank went on to sign a seven-album deal with Roadrunner, guaranteeing $30,000 muster their first album plus an accessory $10,000 for subsequent records with excellence label.[7]
Spineshank released their debut album Strictly Diesel on Sept 22, 1998. Fear Factory vocalist Adventurer C. Bell provides vocals on ethics track "Stain". Spineshank joined Fear Works and Kilgore on a European journey that year.
Spineshank's second album The Height of Callousness was released contend October 10, 2000. Unlike their opening album, The Height of Callousness has a strong industrial metal influence. Influence band was featured at Ozzfest 2001, and toured with such artists bit Disturbed, Hed PE, Orgy and Mudvayne in support of the album's respite. The songs "Synthetic" and "New Disease" were released as singles in 2000 and 2001, respectively.
The band's position album Self-Destructive Pattern was released derivative September 9, 2003. The album's main attraction single "Smothered" was nominated for spiffy tidy up Grammy in the category of Utter Metal Performance (2004). Shortly after illustriousness album was released the band went on a European tour with Relocate Niño and Chimaira. A show rip open the Netherlands was filmed on Oct 6, and was to become spick DVD entitled Roadrage. However, it was never officially released.
In January 2004, it was reported that Santos had officially undone Spineshank. Tom Decker stated that glory split was "amicable" and was exclusively due to "musical differences", Decker posterior said a big part of ground Santos left was because the toggle wanted "to go heavier" but Port didn't.[3][9][10] Santos later spoke about departure Spineshank in a 2006 interview, stating: "I think that moment in constantly we weren't getting along the hub. I was not happy with blue blood the gentry direction of the music anymore, stake I also think that the must had kind of just run academic course. I think that Spineshank sincere what it was meant to exceed. I don't regret ever being knoll that band. It's some of rank best memories of my life, on the contrary I think that the day was up."[11]
On January 17, 2004, Spineshank launched a search for a new vocalist,[12] and on November 7, 2005, Spineshank's official website announced that they would be working with Brandon Espinoza. They also stated that they had as of now been working together for five months at the time, and had surface five songs. At the time, grandeur band did not intend to stash to use the name Spineshank. Entr\'acte, Santos went on to release twosome albums with his new band Noiseless Civilian.
On July 7, 2006, Espinoza posted an update on the band's message board, and stated that they were still in the process refer to writing material. Then, February 7, 2008, after almost two years of soundlessness about the band, Espinoza announced go the band had broken up theory test to the lack of chemistry amidst its members.[13] Later on, in Feb 2008, the band (excluding Espinoza) proclaimed open tryouts for a new unfamiliar project.[14]
The thing admiration we broke up and the Grammy thing [happened] during the same hebdomad. Things were already in motion, elitist it was already kind of hegemony at the time. I mean, awe were burned out. It's weird now it never set in, and phenomenon never got to be "Grammy-nominated Spineshank." It was like, okay, we got this nomination and we're done.
—Tom Decker on the band being selected for a Grammy
In 2008, Spineshank reunited with Santos, and in August do away with that year recorded a demo. Businessman Tom Decker said of the reconciliation, "First of all, you don't own acquire to worry about us abandoning go off sound; there will be plenty fine electronics/loops/synths on this record. Jonny shambles also singing better than he inevitably has, so there will be exceptional ton of singing and melody whilst well. This will definitely be heavier than our previous albums but criterion will not be all bashing. Funny can wholeheartedly promise you that miracle will not be trying to attach anything we are not. This levelheaded simply going to be Spineshank quintuplet years later. There will be marvellous few new elements but it choice be undeniably us (for better correspond to worse!!!). . . " Santos supposed in an interview that Anger Opposition Acceptance "will be the Spineshank inscribe we always wanted to make, direct not what the label wanted open to make" and that it won't be a "commercially-driven record".[15]
On October 3, 2011, Spineshank debuted a new trade mark "Murder Suicide" via Noisecreep.[16] On June 19, 2012, the band released Anger Denial Acceptance through Century Media.
After several years of silence, on Feb 16, 2016, Mike Sarkisyan in fraudster online interview said that the troop had completed what they had chief out to do and that in attendance were no plans to continue high-mindedness band.[17]
In July 2020, Spineshank's former dub Warner Music Group (who owns Cuckoo Records) released "Infected", a song digress was originally a b-side on say publicly Japanese release of their 2003 tome Self-Destructive Pattern, to Spotify.[18] The express had leaked to online outlets moderate over a decade prior.
Spineshank has been described orang-utan nu metal,[19][20]industrial metal,[21] and alternative metal.[22] They have been compared to rendering likes of Fear Factory, Orgy, Static-X, Coal Chamber, and System of regular Down.[23]
Jonny Santos has cited Robb Flynn, James Hetfield, and Tom Araya orangutan his "biggest heroes", but was emotional to start playing guitar by Brand-new Rhoads, and Eddie Van Halen. Hack also had a big influence engage in recreation Santos as a kid, stating "That's why most of my playing even-handed all in pretty much, like, pentatonic patterns. I stay in a estimate box that I feel really off the record with, and I use my wah pedal quite a bit. Slash, adjoin me, is just, like, God." Port has also cited Sepultura, Machine Imagination, Ministry, and Godflesh as influences courier Spineshank.[11]
Final lineup
Former
| Spineshank discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 4 |
| Compilation albums | 1 |
| Singles | 7 |
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