This is a music page of my personal musical footprints.
I am a Veteran of the Extreme Metal, Grindcore, Experimental music scene. My style ranges from the extremely brutal and avant garde to experimental hardcore crust punk, stoner, psychedelic blues based doom and beyond.
Over the years I have worked with many different musicians in a wide range of bands primarily as a drummer and primary songwriter, as well as a rhythm guitarist.
With over 35 years professional recording & touring experience, I have had the pleasure of playing with the best of the best, and sharing the stage with legends.
From the likes of Spazz, Sepultura, D.R.I., Brutal Truth, Soilent Green, Nile, Incantation, Death, Suffocation, S.O.D. Misfits, B52's, Scott Weinrich, Cramps, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Slayer, Cephalic Carnage, Flipper, GWAR, Napalm Death, Opeth, Mojo Nixon, Justin Broderick, Cathedral, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Assuck, Motorhead, Imprecation, Puncture, Dead Horse, Rigor Mortis, Death Angel, Absu, Hank III, Eyehategod, Acid Bath and many more, I can truly say I have had a charmed existence as a performing musician by simply being able to share a venue with those I admire.
But none are more important than those with whom I've created and performed with from the beginning to the present.
I am currently involved in a horror punk - outlaw country project called Christophe & The Dead Man's Hand.
Anything I do outside of this is toward my own evolving work, THOU ART THAT.
Discography:
includes all bands
(guitarist - drummer)
(drummer - guitarist)(2001-2007)
(drummer - songwriter)(1993-2000)
(drummer - songwriter) (2008-2009)
(drummer - songwriter) (1992-1995)
SITH - Q'ON'OS ~ (guitarist -drummer)(2001-2007)The Problems of the Mind, Black Godbeast, Aiwass Kaiowas, Dominus Goudeamus, Raga Veda Ragas, A Gram of Pent, Convulsing Writhing, In Other Words, Bring Your Own, Pass In Peace, GOoD dEVIL, Nonesuch, Takism Oud, I Am Siam, Talas Gnosis, Aria Alap, Victimae Requiem, Discombobulated, Inferior Interior, Spiral Redemption, In the Drain, Pretty Mystical Things, Headchange, Left of Center, Ousias, Breathe Deep, Alumnus, Opus, Avernus, Citrus, Nitrus, Magus, Gnosis, Ate Up, Digitaria Sirius C, Endure, Envelop, Fade Away, Logos Solstice Naught, Once and For All, Faust Aleph Null, Release, Sweet Madness, Hole In My Head, Why Waste Time, Vicious, World of Shit, Facing Down, Pieces of the Past, Fuck Hollywood, The Shit Continues, Governed by Lies, Humanity is Shit, Defiance Within You, And End, You Will Kneel, Journey to the Sun, For the World is HOllow, And I Have Seen The Sky, Christainos Brutales, Render Unto Caesar, A Series of Dogs I, A Series of Dogs II, Protocols of the Goyim, Mercy, Mercy Repeated, After the Fall- Dance of the Infinite, Abandoned Offerings, Accelerate, Pierced by Anarchy, Veil of Illusion, Blood and Flesh, Thirst, Created Destroyed, Omnipotent, Transparent, Muse, O Thou Owest Thou Owe, Naught Alpha Omega Ox, Paradigm, Silence, Giants, Dying Muse, Thou Idiot, Undeluded, Absorbed, Key XXI, Dead Christians, Equinox Mass of the Sentinel, Mercury Rising, Idiots Them All, Beneath the Earth
SERPENT ASSASSIN~ (drummer)(2008-2009)
Visage of Pain * Bitch Lake * Serpent Assassin * I Live In The Mouth Of The Worms
DEAD PEOPLE~ (drummer - guitarist) (1980-1999)
Gates of War, Indoidioms, What's a Door?, YFTCEAS, Locopressure, Slow Frozen Hell, Intruuhell, Peedopressure, It's Your Fault, Death Eats a Cracker, Fast Forward, You Should Watch Out For This, It's Not Easy Being a Monster, The Strict Nine, Purr, Amalgaminiums, Meditations, Twelve Hour Trip, Peod, Embalmed Roaches, I Feel All, First Words, Hay, The Final Solution, Horrorside, Awe Top Sea, Bobbed, Fetal Crud, Embryonic Accident, Flesh of the Gods, Shifting. Death of a Tripper, Liquid Sound Bites, Blurp, Neutron, What's So Good About It?. Thumping Melons, Phase 1, Eternal Vigilance, Playing Roadkill, Pidapeds, I Am, Iraquinam, Mad Kitten Fits, Sonic Assault, Deep Fried Anarchy, Mad, Wavy & Bold, Lightning Bong, Poets Pudding, Handy Apple God, Painful Orange Problem, Amnesia is Moisture, The Human Condition, Anxiety Trip, Scuzz Poop, Incestestes Sex, Liquid Journey, Hypnotic Jiggle, Without Hormones, Tickman's Brother, Moondrop Parlor, X-Day, Ghost, Third Stoned, A Tribute to Madness...
DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM~ (drummer)World Gone Mad (1988) My Hell (1988) Save Yourself (1989) Permutation (1989) Thinnerhead (1989) Punishment (1989) Mindscape (1990) Queen Ant (1990) Sanity Famine (1990) World of Tears (1990) Human Butcher (1991) The Return (1991) Personality Graft (1991) America the Hateful (1991) Dahmer (1991) Day of Deliverance (1991) The Enemy (1991)
LOT 9~ (drummer)(1991) A Pack of Derms, A Gang of Wolves, Revolution 666, Raingodz, Lying
TWO TOKE CHOKE~ (drummer)(1991-1992)
Bitch Lake, Soul Dissection, Social Parasite, Goddamn Big Hand, Fear Sleep
SOCIAL PARASITE~ (drummer)(1992-1995)Loss of Self * Not Such Big Hand * Land Shark * Fat Pad * Visage of Pain * Bitch Lake * Round Room * Psychedelic Pharmacy * Corporate Whore * Laughing at You * A Scar is Born * Beneath The Infernal Temple Of Lies * Terminal Dumbness * None More Black * Hatred is Real * Strange Byrd * Fear Sleep * Didn't Inhale * All Christians Must Die * Raped by Misery * To Fly a Giant Bird
Subsanity ~(drummer) (1993-2000) [[[POST APOCALYPTIC DOOM ATTACK 1993-1996]]] ~ not fit for this world ~ in star mental ~ hag of elysium ~ scorned ~ centuries death ~ opaque daze ~ bride of war ~ irreparable ~ slave new world ~ convulsing discharge ~ a series of dogs ~ (debut cd distributed by wild rags, relapse, sensual underground ministries, profane existence, etc. and others - uncredited drum performance and song writing no one in the band is credited on this recording actually) - [[[HAG OF ELYSIUM / SCORNED / A SERIES OF DOGS II / BRIDE OF WAR / CENTURIES DEATH / CAUSTIC ANTIPATHY / RED CHRIST / A FRIGID GALE / CONFUSION HOLD / GOD IS DEAD 1995]]] (EP - uncredited drum performance and song writing) [[[LOST ON EARTH / KILL THE KING / FROZEN SUNSET / FINAL CONQUEST 1996]]] (split vinyl EP - uncredited drum performance and song writing) [[[HUMAN IS SHIT / DEAD PIGS ON PARADE / CONTINUITY OF SCUM / AN END TO THE BULLSHIT / A SERIES OF DOGS III / POST APOCALYPTIC DOOM ATTACK II 1997]]](vinyl EP - uncredited drum performance and song writing) [[[WHY WASTE TIME / FAUST ALEPH NULL / THE FUTURE IS WAR / A WORLD OF SCUM / CURSED CHAINS / CAPITALIST DISEASE 1998 1999]]] (last full length recording uncredited drum performance and song writing) [[[SPACED WIZARD 1998 1999]]] (vinyl - uncredited drum performance and song writing) [[[LOGIC PLAGUE 1998 2004]]] (original FUTURE IS WAR recordings renamed and split from the rest as an EP and released for GAME TWO, zines and other label comps & uncredited drum performance and song writing)
Influences
Thelema. Aleister Crowley. The Dali Lama. Buddha. Chaos. Anarchy. The Pulse.
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Thou Art That is my own personal output as a musician, whether it is a collection of what I've done, what I am doing, what I will do, rehearsal dubs, studio work, live bootlegs or signed & published work.
Current Tracks
• The first few tracks are miscellaneous 7 inch releases.
• SITH was an odd stripped down side-project of Q'ON'OS. The band is Raylene Sanchez, Chris, Grey Harris, Tommy Steiner & myself.
• Four EP songs: The first track is actually two songs, Corporate Whore & Visage of Pain, and the second is Strange Byrd followed by Round Room, all recorded for the EP, Psychedelic Pharmacy.
• The last track is from a bootlegged Destructive Criticism show. This recording has Steve on guitar. Chuck is the vocalist.
• The old player has a nearly identical playlist, except it is not updated when songs are added or subtracted to the new player. The last song on it is not included on the new player. It is a rehearsal of 3 songs. The songs are: Laughing at You, Psychedelic Pharmacy & Round Room. Recorded during rehearsal on a boom box. The quality is what you would expect it to be~
• There is a full discography on the side of the page.
I like all music, so I am inspired to put elements of other musics into the context of Metal. I think of myself primarily as a drummer, but I would be very unfulfilled without the guitar as well. I really don't like to be pigeonholed either, though my own creativity comes out always in the form of Metal, that does not mean that i am colored by that alone. I believe Metal is a large enough genre to accept influences from anywhere in order to keep it alive and relevant. I am not a trained musician, I was self-taught from the age of 4, for better or worse. The sky is the limit and I see no need to be painted into any corners creatively.
My path as a musician began at age 4 when I witnessed a drummer by the name of Matt Martin play in a jazz band. From that point on, I knew a drummer is what I Am, so I began playing at the age of 4. As KISS dominated those times, that had a huge influence on me & predispositioned me toward crazy, heavy music. As a drummer, I leaned heavily toward Bill Ward, Neil Peart, Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Peter Criss, Eric Carr, Phil Rudd, Clive Burr, Nicko McBrain, Terry Bozio, Buddy Rich, Louis Belson, Gene Krupa, Dave Holland, Simon Phillips & other legends.
As a musician, one is inclined to want to push their ability beyond their perceived limits. For a drummer, there is no finer way to do that than through the art form of Metal.
There is no other form of music on the planet that will push the physical ability of your capability to play your instrument to it's fullest potential than Metal. Jazz is fundamental, but it cannot touch the demands and ultimate prowess of Metal.
There is nothing more cutting edge and fruitful with raw brilliance, talent, experiments and pure time manipulation than Metal.
I love all music, but before I was a teenager, I was a dyed in the wool full-on Metalhead, and ultimately, that lead to Grindcore as well as Doom and any other experimental form of extreme performance.
From a drummer's point of view, I draw a lot of my style from drum & bugle corps and primitive indigenous styles of percussion & prefer to play my blast beat with a single foot, punctuating with the snare & cymbal work while i do fills with the left foot, hand combination.
Guitar-wise, I tend to be very percussive & I like to carry the work of hypnotism over to the axe. I do not believe the almighty riff is the sole determiner of any song, and when writing, I prefer to let the rhythm be so thick as to not allow for any lead-guitar wanking. The tunings I use are a combination from Sonic Youth & Robert Johnson. 440 is over-rated & limiting, and I feel it's time is over, just as the 2/4 - 4/4 beat structure most be DESTROYED.
I take a lot of my guitar inspiration from Paul Leary, Lee Ranaldo, Kat Bjelland, King Buzzo & Justin Broderick. Feedback, dissonance and noise is just as crucial to a complete sound as any one chord, perhaps more. These 5 people alone draw heavily from the experimentation of Hendrix and have done more to bring heavy music to it's knees by finding out just what the library of sounds are that the guitar is capable of. One can hear their influence all over the map, outside of the genre's the public lumps them into. In order to keep Extreme Metal extreme, to keep the grind and the core relevant, one must borrow and derive inspiration OUTSIDE of what is considered heavy.
As a drummer, guitarist and songwriter, that is what I bring to the table.
anarchie voor altijd, malen tot u sterft.
Anarchie für immer, Schleifen bis Sie sterben.
l'anarchia per sempre, frantumazione lavorare voi muore.
a anarquia para sempre, moagem até você morre.
la anarquía por siempre, rutina hasta usted muere.
And i to wish you a very happy holidays and i hope you have an awesome new years as well, your my best friend and i love the hel out of you, you know this Brad, your my best friend for many many lifetimes now because no matter what im always with you in spirit.. your babalon many 93's~
hey you!! how goes it? missing my best friend (you) lol ive been hela busy here, got a wonderful man in my life thats in the same town and so much like me its scary lol.. i hope your happy man hope you have a wonderful xmass lol like i do xmass but still wishing you the best as usual and i hope everything this coming year wil be as wonderful as you are!! yours always Dana
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