Just in case you weren't aware; if you're looking for a more in depth discography with album covers, lyrics, etc then visit my Amebix page HERE. There is a lot more content that can be found on that page.
Billy Jug - Drums
Ric Gadsby - Bass
Chris Miller (Stig) - Guitar
Rob Miller (Baron) - Vox
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The
Baron - Bass & Vocals
Stig - Guitar
Spider - Drums
George - Synth
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The
Baron - Bass & Vocals
Stig - Guitar
Spider - Drums
A. Droid - Keyboards
2009
The
Baron - Bass & Vocals
Stig - Guitar
Roy Mayorga - Drums,Keyboards,programming D I S C O G R A P H Y
Demo (1979)
Who's The Enemy (7" 1982)
Winter (7" 1983)
No Sanctuary (12" 1984)
Arise! (LP 1985)
Monolith (LP 1987 CD 1996)
Right To Rise (Demo 1987)
'V Zivo Live in Ljubljana, Slovenia' (Cassette 1987)
The Power Remains (LP 1994)
Beginning Of The End (CD 1998)
Make Some Fucking Noise Live in Slovenia (CD 2003)
Amebix Japan - Tribute To Amebix (CD 2006) ACROSTIX
Chain Reaction
Spoils Of Victory EFFIGY
Arise!
Largactyl RAW GUAGE
Drink & Be Merry
The Darkest Hour AGE
I.C.B.M.
Fallen From Grace LIFE
Battery Humans
Coming Home ZOE
The Power Remains
Winter
All the Amebix artwork was originally done by the band, mainly Rob (The Baron), however the most notable Amebix icon was originally created by Austin Osman Spare and I believe it was titled "Self-Love." There's been a few messages regarding the artwork, in particular the face of Amebix so I figured I'd take a moment to clear things up. Here's what the original actually looked like:
THE "CONTACT" TABLE CODE:
I've had a few requests for the contact table code so here you go. I think this is right, if not, it should at least give you enough direction to figure it out. Enjoy: CONTACT TABLE TEXT (NOTEPAD OR WORD)
DVD UPDATE FROM THE BARON 7-04-2007
Brian,we have an interview with Neurosis from last weekend, plus most of the band stuff, we are looking for contributions from anyone interested in being interviewed or submitting pics/videos etc.looking good so far.
Hello Everyone,We Just wanted to let you all know that this myspace page is now official for the record. Hurrah!!!! ROB-STIG and ROY
AMEBIX - RISEN DVD TEASER
Amebix, now recognized as one of the most influential ponderous bands
ever, was born in England during the summer of 1978. Originally
trolling their minds and coming up with the thought provoking
moniker the Band With No Name, the group of dirty,
broke punks recorded a trashy six-song demo and managed to sell
a meager four copies of it. Opting for the name Amebix, the
band released a track from the demo called "University Challenged"
on the first edition of the obscure compilation series "Bullshit
Detector".
Life was chaotic from start to finish for Amebix, because they
were really living the lifestyle that their lyrics and image
portrayed. Guitar player Stig writes on the gatefold of the
posthumous album of live and studio recordings "The Power
Remains" that "none of us signed off the dole in all the
years we were together." Living in squats (abandoned buildings)
and other unstable accommodations, eating out of the garbage,
scamming and hacking out a living by any means possible, it's
amazing that the band were able to amass equipment and practice
on a somewhat regular enough basis to last for nine full years.
However, through all of the strife and chaos, the band were
astoundingly prolific, recording enough material (including
bootlegs and posthumous releases) for seven full-length albums,
two 7" records, two compilation tracks, and the previously mentioned
Band With No Name demo in that period of time.
Prior to 1983, the band's lineup changed quite a bit. In one
humorous incident, shortly after the release of the "Bullshit
Detector" compilation, the band added a fellow named Martin
to their roster in the drummer role. One of the fringe benefits
of Martin's being in the band was that he invited the whole
group to come live with him in a manor house in Dartmoor. Unfortunately,
the owners of the house (Martin's parents, who were away at
the time) weren't aware that Martin had extended this kind offer
to the band. Upon returning home, the horrified parents booted
Amebix into the street and sent Martin away to an institution
to be "corrected."
The Baron and Stig, the core of the band, added synthesizer
player Norman to the mix and moved to Bristol in 1981. By 1983
they had acquired a stable drummer named Virus, who left the
band Disorder to join Amebix. 1983 saw the release of the "Who's
the Enemy" EP, the "Winter" 7", and the first
LP "No Sanctuary" on Spiderleg Records. Norman appeared
as the synth player on the two 7" records, but was replaced
by a fill-in player on the full-length album.
After a brief tour, the band returned to England and in 1984
signed on a new synthesizer player named George. With George
filling the synthesizer position for the remainder of the band's
existence, the band hit the road again for a short tour, and
upon their return kicked Virus out of the drummer's chair.
The final band lineup was secured in 1985 when drummer Spider
joined the group. After disputes with Spiderleg, the band had
gotten a deal with Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra's label
Alternative Tentacles just prior to the drummer Spider's arrival
on the scene. "Arise" hit the stores with the Alternative
Tentacles imprint in 1985. Alternative Tentacles didn't mesh
with the band either, and they left the label after the release
of "Arise". In 1987, the masterpiece album "Monolith"
was released just months prior to the breakup of the band. Amebix
split up at the end of 1987. Spider, George and Stig then went
on to form Zygote. Spider now has a band called Muckspreader
and the Baron lives on the Isle
Of Sky where he has a successful sword making business!
During and since the actual life of Amebix, a number of bootlegs
and retrospective have come to the surface. Although both the
official and unofficial albums are completely obscure among
the mainstream culture, Amebix have been tremendously influential
in the hardcore, crust punk, and metal underground scenes. Artists
as divergent as Sepultura, Neurosis, and Deviated Instinct pay
homage to these original masters of the blending of metal, punk
rock squatter lifestyle and political fury into a droning, pounding,
ballistic crunch.
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F R O M T H E B A R O N :
I was there from the beginning to the end, along with my brother
Stig, a period of adventure, fun, and extremes of hardship that
spanned nearly ten years, that took us around most of Europe,
made us good friends and firm enemies and produced a small number
of records to leave behind us.
We started whilst I was at school in Devon. A fellow friend
Andy Billy Jug played drums and Clive the bass, we practised
in old village halls, never learning to tune the instruments
and calling ourselves the BAND WITH NO NAME. Stig had been working
in Jersey and returned with a guitar to start the ball rolling.
We played every little hall in the Tauestock area, delighting
in the thrown cans of beer and insults, 1978, and anyone could
play in a band!
We released a 6-track tape recorded in my bedroom and sold 4 copies, all to friends
from school. I had a part time job as a columnist in a local
paper and wrote a review of any bands that played the area.
This led to us giving a tape to CRASS when they played in Plymouth,
one of the tracks University Challenged subsequently
appearing on the first Bullshit
Detector LP and launching us into the heady world of local stardom,
albeit unearned.
The dark side of the band did not appear until we met Martin,
a 6 foot 5 Sid Vicious look alike whose parents had a manor
house on the edge of Dartmoor. They were away in London and
had no idea that the family home had been overtaken by spiky
undesirables. We played music all night and slept during the
days, living a weird twilight existence that began to inform
the lyrics and style of music. Martin became the new drummer,
I played the bass and sang, and the band was called AMEBIX.
Martin was taken away to London upon his parents return, he
suffered a breakdown that has had him diagnosed as paranoid
schizophrenic and on heavy medication to this very day. I have
seen him several times in the preceding years, a gentle soul
in a giant¹s body who was punished for his sensitivity.
After
Martin we acquired Norman as a synth player and moved en masse
to Bristol in the hope of furthering ourselves, only to fall
into abject poverty fairly quickly. The first squat we moved
to had sold all the doors to buy glue. We lived with and close
to DISORDER at this time, and for another four years moved from
one ruin to another, no sanitation, little electricity, and
skip raids for food.
Friends were lost to heroin and drink, we excelled in drug abuse,
a way to numb the hard life on the streets. Guitars were never
sold, we borrowed Virus, DISORDER'S drummer, who became a solid
part of the band for the recording of our first two singles
Who's the Enemy, Winter, and the 12" EP No Sanctuary. These
were all recorded for Spiderleg Records, run by A Flux of Pink
Indians. We met Jello Biafra during the recording of No Sanctuary
at Southern Studios in London. He liked what we were doing,
gave us a copy of Generic Flipper, and suggested we get in touch
in the future.
AMEBIX
became the first UK signing for Alternative Tentacles with our
debut album Arise. I remember some reluctance to release the
LP, mainly because of the style. There was simply no one else
at that time playing heavy music with a punk attitude. We were
steeped in BLACK SABBATH despite our musical illiteracy, waking
up to MOTORHEAD and bass power chord riffing. Gigs were amazing,
people didn't know quite what the fuck was going on, we were
intense, heavy as hell, and loud!
It's funny to look back and see the stock that was spawned from
those tunes and a legacy that still carries on, a lot of it
of a very dubious and nefarious nature, but to have been at
the crucible was a privilege none of us will forget. We played
hard, practiced hard, and lived the life.
We didnt release another LP until 1987 Monolith the last AMEBIX
release, the last tour ending in Sarajevo before the brutal
war there tore Yugoslavia apart. AMEBIX made one demo tape after
that, unreleased until now. When we split it was because we
had run our course, played every variation of 'E' and 'A' that
we could, and basically finished what we came to do. We never
had any intention of reforming that was simply antithetical
to all that we were about. AMEBIX stands by its own merit, dated
and primitive in some respects but a great and important rite
of passage for us all.
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Z Y G O T E :
After the break of Amebix, Spider, George and Stig went on to form Zygote. Some of the final music created as Amebix was used to develop Zygote, for example, "Man In The Crowd" was actually "Right To Ride" with transformed lyrics. The band released a demo and "A Wind Of Knives" LP, however, the band was short lived.
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Comé maltinha, prontos para mais um tema do nosso 1º EP "SEMENTES DA DESORDEM"?
Já podem escutar o revisitado tema "BAR DA GNR", tema nº 2 do EP e que precede às "GUITARRAS DE GUERRA". Este tema já com alguns anitos lavou a cara e foi gravado no inicio de 2009 com novos arranjos, mantendo no entanto todo o carisma que vez dele um dos hinos dos ERVAS DANINHAS. Durante 20 dias, mais ou menos, vão poder entrar no "BAR DA GNR" e buer uma cervejola e morfar uma entremeada e até mesmo apanhar uma carraspana sem ficarem de cana... Dêm gás no volume e acordem os vizinhos... pelo menos aqueles que dormem a sesta ao Domingo à tarde. O "BAR DA GNR" contou com a presença de dois convidados muito especiais, foram eles o Igor e o Arroja dos SHIVERS, que por entre copos de binho e assaltos à sacristia ainda tiveram tempo para uma ida à Sela... ops, desculpem o erro... uma ida à cela.
Um grande abraço para eles e um grande abraço para todos vocês!
Buy our 3-track demo of absolute shitty thrash metal at 6 Singapore dollars or 4 US dollars or 3 Euros. Trades are welcome as well, but write first and please don't rip us off!! Contact us at xanadoosg@hotmail.com or just drop us a message on our Myspace. Wholesalers contact us for special rate
How are you ? Me I'm again in heaven...I was in Lille (France) wednesday 04 to see VIRUS IV...It's a band with Magali Luyten and Samuel Arkan. Go to my page myspace and listen the music...It's them !
Bye and don't hestitate to talk to me, ok ? Kiss.
Mike
Comment vas tu ? Moi je suis encore dans les nuages. J'y ai fait un bond mercredi 04 Novembre... J'ai vu VIRUS IV à Lille...Trop bien je t'assure ! C'est un goupe avec Magali Luyten et Samuel Arkan. Ecoute le titre sur ma page, c'est VIRUS IV, çà te donnera une idée. Allez, n'hésites pas à me causer ! Biz.
BARON if you ever read these i just wanted to tell you about a dream i had last night. in waking life i have a dog named Baron Roscoe Bartholomew, whose first name i took from you.. and in the dream i went to introduce you and my dog to each other and it meant nothing to you because you couldn't remember that your amebix moniker was Baron. Also in the dream you guys played a show and for some reason it was Stig i guess doing vocals and he kept fucking up the words to "Largactyl" (this is how SALVATION feels, etc.) Anyway it was really vivid and cool. I really enjoyed seeing you guys at Chaos in Tejas this year. I was front and center despite an epic journey against all odds and barely making it. Never got to speak with you but i doubt i could say anything about your music that hasn't already been said. Anyway, thank you for further inspiring me to ARISE and not be a SLAVE. If you're ever in Baton Rouge, LA i have friends with couches y'all might be able to sleep on. HA!
I wish you a good weekend and seal our friendship with great respect, I am grateful to the winds of destiny by providing that it includes you like my friends hugs from brazilian uderground metal scene!!!