Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull (guitars, drum programming), who also plays guitar in Pig Destroyer. The current line-up also includes vocalists Jay Randall, Kathrine Katz of Salome, and Richard Johnson of Enemy Soil and Drugs of Faith, who also plays bass guitar . Agoraphobic Nosebleed are one of the most well-known drum-machine grindcore bands, and have influenced countless drum-machine grindcore bands.

Biography

Through the use of drum machines, the band has been able to play songs with over a thousand BPM. The lyrics usually revolve around subjects such as drugs and violence, though many of their songs reveal ideologies similar to those held by the punk culture.

The band is known for the conciseness of its songs: Their album Altered States of America features 100 songs (including one hidden) in just under 22 minutes, with many songs clocking in at 5 seconds or less, and the longest song clocking in at 1:45.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed played their first live set at the 2003 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. As their appearance was unscheduled, Pig Destroyer cut their set short so they could play two songs and an intro.

In 2006, Hydra Head Records reissued Agoraphobic Nosebleed's 6" PCP Torpedo as a double disc set entitled PCP Torpedo/ANbRX. The first disc consisted of the 10-song, 6-minute original single. The second disc is over an hour's worth of remixes of songs from PCP Torpedo by breakcore and noise music artists such as Xanopticon, James Plotkin, Merzbow, and Justin Broadrick.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed have many releases forthcoming. They have finished a new full length album (as yet un-titled), a split 5" with Crom and a split 5" with Insect Warfare. They are also working on a split 7" with The Endless Blockade for Relapse Records, a split 7" with Agents Of Satan (label currently unknown), a 7" with Lack Of Interest and a CD/LP with Despise You (maybe for Relapse, as yet unconfirmed). Randall is currently working on Drum Machine Gun 2 as well as doing a collaborative 7" with Wadge and a collaborative 12" with Black Mayonnaise.

James Randall posted a blog on MySpace stating that the 5" with Crom has now been re-scheduled to be pressed as a 7". The release is being pressed by Regurgitated Semen Records and will likely be limited to 1000 copies.

The split with Insect Warfare was released by Relapse on 7th November 2008 and is available as a 3" CD embedded in a 5" clear disc, and a 5" record.

Discography

Full Length CD

• Honky Reduction CD (1998)
• The Poacher Diaries split with Converge CD (1999)
• Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope CD/LP (2002)
• Altered States of America CD/10" (2003)
• Split CD/LP with Apartment 213 (2007)
• Split CD/LP with Despise You (2009)
• Agorapocalypse (2009)

Other releases (splits, 7"'s, remix cd's, etc.)

• 30 Song Demo cassette (1995)
• Agoraphobic Nosebleed (Bovine Records) 7" (1996)
• Split with Cattlepress LP (1997)
• Split with Enemy Soil 7" (1997)
• Split with Laceration 7" (1997)
• Agoraphobic Nosebleed 7" (Clean Plate Records)
• PCP Torpedo 6" (1998)
• Split with Gob 7" (1998)
• Split with Benümb 7" (2001)
• Split with Halo 7" (2002)
• Bestial Machinery (Discography Volume 1) 2xCD (2005)
• PCP Torpedo/ANbRX 2xCD (2006)
• Split with Kill The Client 7" (2007)
• A Clockwork Sodom 7" (2007)
• Split with Total Fucking Destruction 7" (2007)
• Altered States of America re-release with bonus remix disc (2008)
• Split with Insect Warfare 5"/CD (2008)
• Split with Crom 7" (2009)
• Split with Agents of Satan 7"
• Split with Endless Blockade 7" (2009)
• Split with Lack Of Interest 7"
• Split with Thrones 12"
• Split collaboration with Wadge
• Split with ANS 5"

Current members

• Scott Hull – guitar, drum programming
• Jay Randall – vocals, electronics
• Richard Johnson - vocals, bass guitar
• Katherine Katz - Vocals

External links

• Official Web site

References

• Purcell, Natalie J. (2003). Death Metal music: the passion and politics of a subculture. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. p. 21. ISBN 0-7864-1585-1.
• Kahn-Harris, Keith (2007). Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers. p. 4. ISBN 1-84520-399-2.