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Combichrist is a Norwegian Aggrotech band formed in 2003 by Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 Andy LaPlegua
Andy LaPlegua
Andy LaPleguaa, born September 15, 1975 in Fredrikstad, Norway, is a musician originally known for being founder and lead vocalist of the futurepop band Icon of Coil...

 (founder of the band Icon of Coil
Icon of Coil
Icon of Coil is a Norwegian electronic music band. The band was established as a solo project in 1997 by Andy LaPlegua who was joined by former Sector 9 bandmate Sebastian Komor to perform live. With the release of Shallow Nation, the band's first single, Komor joined full-time. In 2000, Christian...

) based in Atlanta.

Formation

The first material LaPlegua wrote was a few powernoise/techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 crossover tracks under the moniker DRIVE. The band name was later changed to Combichrist before the debut album The Joy of Gunz
The Joy of Gunz
The Joy of Gunz is an album by the Norwegian aggrotech band, Combichrist. The album itself shows the very first sound of Combichrist ‒a mixture of power noise and harsh EBM‒ which later evolved into what LaPlegua dubbed TBM...

was released on the German record label Out of Line .
The band name came from a fanzine
Fanzine
A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...

 of Andy's in the 90s, with Combichrist being a character in it that was a "punk-rock messiah." The character would go on drug and alcohol fuelled rampages, later healing those whom he had beaten.

A few years after the band's conception, LaPlegua departed Norway for the United States, which is now the current homebase for Combichrist and his other projects, Scandy, Panzer AG
Panzer AG
Panzer AG is the name of an aggrotech/industrial rock side-project by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua, the founder of futurepop band Icon of Coil. Formed in 2004, Panzer AG's sound combines Power noise, Industrial, Trance, Rock and other genres to create a caustic but danceable form of music.-History:After...

, Scandanavian Cock and Icon of Coil
Icon of Coil
Icon of Coil is a Norwegian electronic music band. The band was established as a solo project in 1997 by Andy LaPlegua who was joined by former Sector 9 bandmate Sebastian Komor to perform live. With the release of Shallow Nation, the band's first single, Komor joined full-time. In 2000, Christian...

 .

Success

In 2003 Combichrist released the LP The Joy of Gunz
The Joy of Gunz
The Joy of Gunz is an album by the Norwegian aggrotech band, Combichrist. The album itself shows the very first sound of Combichrist ‒a mixture of power noise and harsh EBM‒ which later evolved into what LaPlegua dubbed TBM...

. On Halloween 2003 the limited edition EP Kiss The Blade
Kiss the Blade
-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website*http://www.myspace.com/combichrist - Combichrist official myspace*http://www.outofline.de/ - Out of Line Records official website...

was released with 667 pressings which sold out in less than a week .

In 2004, the second EP, Sex, Drogen Und Industrial
Sex, Drogen Und Industrial
-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website*http://www.myspace.com/combichrist - Combichrist official myspace*http://www.outofline.de/ - Out of Line Records official website...

, spent 7 weeks at number one in the DAC charts
Deutsche Alternative Charts
The Deutsche Alternative Charts is the primary record chart for Germany's alternative music scene. The charts cover genres ranging nu metal to Britpop, from rock music to alternative electronic...

. The same time Sex, Drogen Und Industrial was released, a limited edition of 666 white-vinyl 12" for Blut Royale
Blut Royale
-Music Video:"Blut Royale" was directed by Sandra Jensen, and completed in 2005, but it's release was delayed until 2007. The reason for the delay is currently unknown, but a seemingly rough-cut 'first version' of the video was posted on June 1 on Youtube by the director.-External...

was produced, and sold out quickly. 2005 saw the release of Everybody Hates You
Everybody Hates You
Everybody Hates You is the second full-length studio album by the Norwegian aggrotech band, Combichrist. The album features more complex lyric-based songs, as well instrumentals featuring vocoder lines. Most non-vocoder vocals are portrayed by Andy LaPlegua...

and it was at this time that Andy began labeling the music as "Techno Body Music" or TBM . The band released a song called "This is TBM" on the Out-of-Line compilation Techno Body Music volume 1. Their single Get Your Body Beat
Get Your Body Beat
-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website*http://www.myspace.com/combichrist - Combichrist official myspace*http://www.outofline.de/ - Out of Line Records official website...

 turned out to be a commercial success debuting in the number 14 slot for Billboard
Billboard
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

's Dance Singles . In 2007 What the Fuck is Wrong With You People?
What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People?
What the Fuck is Wrong With You People? is an album by the Norway aggrotech band Combichrist, which featured the break-out single Get Your Body Beat. 2CD digipack edition includes a bonus-disc with specific loop tracks in a similar pattern, going one by one without breaks...

was released, becoming a best seller for both Metropolis and Out of Line records. Combichrist released Today We Are All Demons on Jan 20, 2009 with new percussionists, Joe Letz and Trevor Friedrich, formerly of Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions was an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in October of 1995, the group was one of the first practitioners involved in the metalcore genre...

 and Imperative Reaction
Imperative Reaction
Imperative Reaction is an electro-industrial band founded in 1996 by Ted Phelps and David Andrecht from the remains of the band D.N.A.-History:...

. For part the 2009 European tour, Trevor was temporarily replaced by Mark Jackson of VNV Nation
VNV Nation
VNV Nation are a British/Irish electronic music band originally from Dublin, Ireland and Essex, United Kingdom and now based in Hamburg, Germany. They combine elements of electro-industrial, trance, synthpop and electronic body music . The members are Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson...

 .
The band had been selected to support Industrial Metal
Industrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 band Rammstein
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...

 for their 2009 European tour and continued to support them during the 2010 part of the tour. They did a double tour known as "Monsters on Tour Part II" with the same supporting line up of Aesthetic Perfection
Aesthetic Perfection
Aesthetic Perfection is an American electronic-industrial musical project created by Daniel Graves in 2000. The style is reminiscent of many aggrotech, industrial, dance music bands, while also leaning towards other styles such as alternative music....

 and iVardensphere
IVardensphere
Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, iVardensphere is a band that plays a mixture of tribal-tinged industrial, EBM and power noise music.On June 16, 2009 via Synthetic Sounds the band released their full length album entitled Scatterface across Canada. And in Early 2010, released Scatterface V2 on...

as well as Angel Spit on select dates. The tour was scheduled around their support for Rammstein
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...

's current North American tour.

In 2009, Combichrist's song "Shut Up and Bleed" featuring W.A.S.T.E was on the soundtrack for the horror movie The Collector
The Collector (2009 film)
The Collector is a 2009 American horror film written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton and directed by Marcus Dunstan. Originally titled The Midnight Man, the script was originally intended to be a Saw prequel, but the producers were against the idea and quickly dismissed it.-Plot:Arkin, is an...

.

Limp Bizkit's guitarist Wes Borland
Wes Borland
Wesley Louden Borland is an American musician and artist, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well including: Black Light Burns, The Damning Well, Goatslayer, Big Dumb Face, and Combichrist...

 joined Combichrist in October 2010 for their tour of North America, and has joined them in the studio for recording of new material on Making Monsters
Making Monsters
-DVD Track listing :-Charts:...

.

The new album, Making Monsters
Making Monsters
-DVD Track listing :-Charts:...

, was released digitally on 31 August, 2010 and on CD on 28 September, 2010 . Combichrist began a tour in support of the new album in late 2010, with Aesthetic Perfection
Aesthetic Perfection
Aesthetic Perfection is an American electronic-industrial musical project created by Daniel Graves in 2000. The style is reminiscent of many aggrotech, industrial, dance music bands, while also leaning towards other styles such as alternative music....

 and iVardensphere
IVardensphere
Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, iVardensphere is a band that plays a mixture of tribal-tinged industrial, EBM and power noise music.On June 16, 2009 via Synthetic Sounds the band released their full length album entitled Scatterface across Canada. And in Early 2010, released Scatterface V2 on...

 as the support bands. In 2011, after opening for Rammstein at Madison Square Garden in December, Combichrist announced they would be supporting the band on their current North American tour and also announced the "Monsters on Tour Part II" taking place around the scheduled Rammstein shows with the same support as the 2010 tour but with Angel Spit also performing on select dates.

Combichrist's song Never Surrender is featured in a gameplay demo of the upcoming horror video game DmC Devil May Cry with Andy LaPlegua
Andy
Andy may refer to:*Andy *Andy , a monotype font*Typhoon Andy -Fictional characters:*Andy in Toy Story*Andy Larkin in What's With Andy?*Andy Panda in classic cartoons-Music:...

 working on the soundtrack for the rest of the game.

Albums

Year Album
2003 The Joy of Gunz
The Joy of Gunz
The Joy of Gunz is an album by the Norwegian aggrotech band, Combichrist. The album itself shows the very first sound of Combichrist ‒a mixture of power noise and harsh EBM‒ which later evolved into what LaPlegua dubbed TBM...

2005 Everybody Hates You
Everybody Hates You
Everybody Hates You is the second full-length studio album by the Norwegian aggrotech band, Combichrist. The album features more complex lyric-based songs, as well instrumentals featuring vocoder lines. Most non-vocoder vocals are portrayed by Andy LaPlegua...

2007 What the Fuck is Wrong With You People?
What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People?
What the Fuck is Wrong With You People? is an album by the Norway aggrotech band Combichrist, which featured the break-out single Get Your Body Beat. 2CD digipack edition includes a bonus-disc with specific loop tracks in a similar pattern, going one by one without breaks...

2009 Today We Are All Demons
Today We Are All Demons
Today We Are All Demons is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. The album is available in both in a one disc and a two disc version. A remixed version of the title track can be found on Underworld soundtrack....

2010 Making Monsters
Making Monsters
-DVD Track listing :-Charts:...


EPs

Year EPs Label
2003 Kiss the Blade
Kiss the Blade
-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website*http://www.myspace.com/combichrist - Combichrist official myspace*http://www.outofline.de/ - Out of Line Records official website...

Out of Line
2004 Blut Royale
Blut Royale
-Music Video:"Blut Royale" was directed by Sandra Jensen, and completed in 2005, but it's release was delayed until 2007. The reason for the delay is currently unknown, but a seemingly rough-cut 'first version' of the video was posted on June 1 on Youtube by the director.-External...

Bractune Records
Sex, Drogen und Industrial
Sex, Drogen Und Industrial
-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website*http://www.myspace.com/combichrist - Combichrist official myspace*http://www.outofline.de/ - Out of Line Records official website...

Out of Line
2006 Get Your Body Beat
Get Your Body Beat
-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website*http://www.myspace.com/combichrist - Combichrist official myspace*http://www.outofline.de/ - Out of Line Records official website...

Out of Line / Metropolis Records
2008 Frost EP: Sent to Destroy
Frost EP: Sent To Destroy
-Music Video:The video for "Sent to Destroy" was directed by Robyn Von Swank and featured appearances by the popular movie actor, Bill Moseley.-External links:*http://www.combichrist.com/ - Combichrist official website...

2009 Heat EP: All Pain is Beat
Heat EP: All Pain Is Beat
-External links:**...

2010 Scarred
Scarred (song)
-External links:**...

Never Surrender
2011 Throat Full of Glass
Throat Full of Glass
-Music Video:On 14 February with the release of the "Throat Full of Glass" single, the video was also released. The American copy of the single has the "Clean" version of the video...


Compilations

Year Album
2010 Noise Collection Vol. 1
Noise Collection Vol. 1
Noise Collection Vol. 1 is an compilation album by Combichrist. The first disc is their album 'The Joy of Gunz', while the second disc collects their first 3 EPs; 'Kiss the Blade', 'Blut Royale' & 'Sex, Drogen und Industrial'.-Track listing:...



Remixes



Music Videos

Year Video Director
2005 "Blut Royale" Sandra Jensen
2006 "Get Your Body Beat" Agata Alexander
2007 "Electrohead"
"Deathbed" Andy LaPlegua & Agata Alexander
"Fuck That Shit" Brandon Duncan
2008 "Sent to Destroy" Robyn Von Swank
2011 "Throat Full of Glass"
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