Karnivool
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| Karnivool | |
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 Karnivool Performing At The 2008 Big Day Out
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Genre(s) | Progressive Rock Alternative Rock Nu metal (early) |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Label(s) | Independent (Australia) Bieler Bros. (International) |
| Associated acts | Birds of Tokyo Revolucion Street |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Ian Kenny Andrew "Drew" Goddard Mark Hosking Jon Stockman Steve Judd |
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| Former members | |
| Ray Hawking (former drummer) | |
Karnivool is a five-piece Alternative rock/progressive rock music group from Perth, Western Australia.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Tours
Formed in 1997, Karnivool have since released several singles, 2 EPs, their first album Themata and their just released second album Sound Awake. Notable performances include playing at the Big Day Out Festival in Perth twice, as well as performing at the Rock-It Festival. They toured with Cog on the Homeland Security Tour shortly after the release of Themata and since have toured Australia extensively on their own headline tours. Karnivool, along with Ankla played alongside Skindred and Nonpoint on the Great American Rampage Tour in the North America in late 2007. The band played all 5 cities of Big Day Out 2008 during January and February. During April and May 2008, they toured Australia with special guest That 1 Guy. They performed in various locations during the summer festival circuit of 2008/09, playing Pyramid Rock Festival, Southbound and Homebake. They have recently stated they do not like Justin Kane. In the same statement they revealed that they have a new found respect for the Heavy Metal pioneer, Robbie V. Karnivool; "rob v is a great bloke".
The band are currently touring nationally around Australia in support of Sound Awake, supported by Sugar Army.
[edit] Themata
Their album was named after Themata, an old Greek word; the plural of Thema. A Thema is gut assumption or intuition about the workings of the world or life itself, a philosophy you can't prove with hard evidence, but something you instinctively know is right and are willing to back. For the recordings of Themata, they used guitars tuned in the very awkward tuning of B-F#-B-G-B-E (which some fans have affectionately dubbed 'Karnivool Tuning'), which is basically a hybrid tuning of Dropped-B (low strings) and Standard E (high strings). Guitarist Andrew Goddard said that this was because he forgot the high strings while detuning and that he liked the complexity. Andrew Goddard wrote the tracks for Themata. Karnivool only actually played the songs from Themata together as a band after the album was recorded, according to Goddard.
Themata was released independently on 7 February 2005, and was distributed via MGM Distribution. The album was released in the US on 10 April 2007 via Bieler Bros. Records and in the UK on 7 May. The album was well received in Australia, with Kerrang! Magazine describing it as "a ten-track journey of soaring melody". The music video for the single Themata was recently added to the UK version of MTV's Headbangers Ball.
[edit] Sound Awake
After returning from the US, and completing their slot in the 2008 Big Day Out the band headed back into the studio to write their follow-up to Themata.
In an interview with X-Press Magazine, guitarist Andrew Goddard said that the new album would be a huge step up from Themata. He also said that the writing process of the new record had been more of a collaborative group effort by the band than previous works, and that they were going to go into the studio with a new recording strategy: that is, trying to focus less on the minute details, and put together a more natural sounding album.
During their live performances in the Aeons Tour, they played three new songs, titled "Goliath", "Deadman" and "Pearogram", as well as "New Day", which had been played at previous shows. At their performance at Homebake in 2008, they debuted a fifth new song entitled "Set Fire To The Hive" - this was confirmed as the first single from the album. The new songs appeared to have a more mature vibe, while still bearing resemblance to the band's other work.[1]
The album was to be one of the most anticipated Australian releases for 2009. In an interview with Channel V, Ian Kenny stated that after the success of the Aeons Tour, the band's next tour will be based on a similar layout which brings a new impression on the typical rock show. On 15 April 2009, Karnivool stated on their MySpace page that the new album would be called Sound awake. They also posted tour dates for their new 'Sound Awake' tour.
On the 26 April 2009, two days before schedule, the band's first single from Sound awake, "Set Fire to the Hive" was released on the band's MySpace page. The video for the single, confirmed by the band earlier, was released on the 9 May 2009. The entire album was posted on Karnivool's MySpace page on May 31. Just afterward, it was made available through illegal download.
It was eventually released on 5 June 2009.
[edit] Awards
At the 2007 WAMi Awards Karnivool won five WAMingtons for 'Most Popular Act', 'Most Popular Live Act', Best Male Vocalist' (Ian Kenny), 'Best Guitarist' (Andrew Goddard) and 'Best Hard Rock Act'.
Three Karnivool songs have featured in Triple J's Hottest 100 to date. These are:
- 2005 Themata (#97)
- 2006 Roquefort (featuring The Cat Empire horn section) (#45)
- 2007 The Only Way (Gotye cover) (#62)
[edit] Record Deals
On 23 August 2006, it was announced that Karnivool had signed a licensing deal with prominent American indie label, Bieler Bros. Records. Themata was released in the United States on 10 April 2007 and in the UK on 7 May.
[edit] Members
- Ian Kenny – Vocals (Birds of Tokyo)
- Andrew "Drew" Goddard – Lead Guitar
- Mark Hosking – Guitar (Revolucion Street)
- Jon Stockman - Bass
- Steve Judd - Drums
[edit] Discography
- Karnivool (EP) (1999)
- Persona (2001)
- Themata (2005)
- Sound awake (2009)
[edit] Singles
- "L1FEL1KE" (2003)
- "Shutterspeed" (2005)
- "Themata" (2005)
- "Roquefort" (2005)
- "Set Fire To The Hive" (2009)
Andrew Goddard (guitar) and Jon Stockman (bass) played on the title track of Perth/London drum'n'bass group Pendulum's 2005 album Hold Your Colour.
Karnivool also contributed a cover of Gotye's song The Only Way to the album Mixed Blood, which contains only covers and remixes of songs from Gotye's Like Drawing Blood.
The song "Sleeping Satellite" by pop singer-songwriter Tasmin Archer, was covered by Karnivool and was released as the B-side to their single "Themata" in 2005, however, this song does not feature Ian Kenny singing lead vocals; guitarist Mark Hosking takes his place on this song.
The new single from Sound awake, "Set Fire To The Hive" premiered on radio station triple j on Tuesday April 28, 2009; and video for the single was released on YouTube on the 8th of May, 2009.
[edit] References
- ^ Seng, Jarred. "Artist Profile: Karnivool". Access All Areas. http://www.accessallareas.net.au/artists/Karnivool.php. Retrieved on 2008-12-08.
