Greg Anderson (musician)
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Greg Anderson is an American
musician
and co-founder
of Southern Lord Records
.
Anderson is the guitarist
in the doom
/stoner metal outfit Goatsnake
, but is also well known for his collaborations with Stephen O'Malley
.
Together they have participated in projects such as the short-lived death/doom metal band Thorr's Hammer
, the extreme doom metal band Burning Witch
(although Anderson left before the band could record an album), as well as the drone metal
bands Sunn O)))
and Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
.
Earlier in his career, Anderson was involved with the straight edge
hardcore punk
bands: False Liberty, Brotherhood, Amenity, Statement, Galleon's Lap and the Revelation Records
, indie rock
/hardcore punk
band, Engine Kid.
Both Brotherhood and Galleon's Lap featured future Foo Fighters
and Sunny Day Real Estate
bass
player, Nate Mendel
.
Recently, Greg has joined Attila Csihar
and Oren Ambarchi
in a new drone doom project called Burial Chamber Trio
, as well as Ascend
, a current project/record with Gentry Densley, the former singer/guitarist of Revelation Records
band, Iceburn
.
In April 1998, Anderson and O'Malley founded the independent
, underground
label
Southern Lord Records
, based in Los Angeles
, California
. The company specializes in doom
, sludge
, drone
, experimental
metal
, and more recently left-field black metal
.
With Thorr's Hammer
With Goatsnake
With Sunn O)))
With Burial Chamber Trio
United States
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musician
Musician
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and co-founder
Entrepreneur
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of Southern Lord Records
Southern Lord Records
Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...
.
Anderson is the guitarist
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
in the doom
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
/stoner metal outfit Goatsnake
Goatsnake
-Biography:Goatsnake was formed in 1996 after the disbanding of The Obsessed. After The Obsessed's disbanding, the rhythm section consisting of Guy Pinhas on bass and Greg Rogers on drums began jamming with guitarist Greg Anderson )))...
, but is also well known for his collaborations with Stephen O'Malley
Stephen O'Malley
Stephen O'Malley is a musician, predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer from Seattle, Washington who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental music groups....
.
Together they have participated in projects such as the short-lived death/doom metal band Thorr's Hammer
Thorr's Hammer
Thorr's Hammer was an American/Norwegian death/doom band.Thorr's Hammer was formed in Ballard, Washington by Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley during winter 1994-1995. Soon after, Runhild Gammelsæter, then 17-year-old Norwegian exchange student, joined the band as vocalist/lyricist. The band...
, the extreme doom metal band Burning Witch
Burning Witch
Burning Witch was an American doom metal band from Seattle, Washington, active between 1995 and 1998.-History:Burning Witch formed on Capitol Hill, Seattle in early 1995. After the breakup of the doom/death band Thorr's Hammer in 1995, Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson and Jamie Sykes formed Burning...
(although Anderson left before the band could record an album), as well as the drone metal
Drone metal
Drone metal is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music...
bands Sunn O)))
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
and Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine are an English drone doom supergroup, formed in 2001 and featuring musicians from other metal bands.They take their name from the second song from the Earth album Earth 2...
.
Earlier in his career, Anderson was involved with the straight edge
Straight edge
Straight edge is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs. It was a direct reaction to the sexual revolution, hedonism, and excess associated with punk rock. For some, this extends to not engaging in promiscuous sex, following a...
hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
bands: False Liberty, Brotherhood, Amenity, Statement, Galleon's Lap and the Revelation Records
Revelation Records
Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for its role in the evolution of hardcore and metallic post-hardcore with important releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side,...
, indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
/hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
band, Engine Kid.
Both Brotherhood and Galleon's Lap featured future Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...
and Sunny Day Real Estate
Sunny Day Real Estate
Sunny Day Real Estate is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. In the 1990s, the group expanded upon the grunge style that was popular in the local scene to make a more melodic sound. While not the first band to be classified as emo, they were instrumental in establishing the genre. In...
bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
player, Nate Mendel
Nate Mendel
Nathan Gregor "Nate" Mendel is an American bassist for the bands Foo Fighters, The Jealous Sound, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Fire Theft.-Biography:...
.
Recently, Greg has joined Attila Csihar
Attila Csihar
Attila Csihar , also sometimes known as Void, is a Hungarian black metal vocalist, best known for his vocal work on the album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem. Author Ian Christe describes his vocals as "operatic."-Biography:...
and Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist who in major plays electric guitar and drums, with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Jewish family originally from Iraq....
in a new drone doom project called Burial Chamber Trio
Burial Chamber Trio
Burial Chamber Trio is a drone doom band consisting of American guitarist/bassist Greg Anderson, Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar and Australian multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi...
, as well as Ascend
Ascend
Ascend may refer to:* Ascend, an experimental doom metal band.* Ascend , by Greg Howe* ASCEND, mathematical modelling/simulation software* Ascend Communications-See also:* Ascent * Ascension...
, a current project/record with Gentry Densley, the former singer/guitarist of Revelation Records
Revelation Records
Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for its role in the evolution of hardcore and metallic post-hardcore with important releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side,...
band, Iceburn
Iceburn
Iceburn, known later as the Iceburn Collective, was a musical group formed in 1991 in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., by guitarist/vocalist/composer Gentry Densley, the sole constant member through multiple personnel changes. They were known for their unique style that combined elements of jazz,...
.
In April 1998, Anderson and O'Malley founded the independent
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
, underground
Underground music
Underground music comprises a range of different musical genres that operate outside of mainstream culture. Such music can typically share common values, such as the valuing of sincerity and intimacy; an emphasis on freedom of creative expression; an appreciation of artistic creativity...
label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
Southern Lord Records
Southern Lord Records
Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...
, based in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. The company specializes in doom
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
, sludge
Sludge metal
Sludge metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that melds elements of doom metal and hardcore punk, and sometimes incorporates influences from southern rock, stoner rock and grunge. Sludge metal is typically abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting...
, drone
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...
, experimental
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
, and more recently left-field black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
.
With Engine Kid
- Engine Kid (EP 1992)
- Astronaut (EP 1993)
- Bear Catching Fish (CD and LP 1993)
- The Little Drummer Boy/In The Bleak Midwinter (split with SilkwormSilkworm (band)Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
1993) - Three On The Tree (split with WreckWreck (band)Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to join The Waco Brothers.-History:...
1994) - Iceburn/Engine Kid (split CD with IceburnIceburnIceburn, known later as the Iceburn Collective, was a musical group formed in 1991 in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., by guitarist/vocalist/composer Gentry Densley, the sole constant member through multiple personnel changes. They were known for their unique style that combined elements of jazz,...
1994) - Angel Wings (CD 1995)
- Troubleman Unlimited (EP 1995)
With Thorr's HammerThorr's HammerThorr's Hammer was an American/Norwegian death/doom band.Thorr's Hammer was formed in Ballard, Washington by Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley during winter 1994-1995. Soon after, Runhild Gammelsæter, then 17-year-old Norwegian exchange student, joined the band as vocalist/lyricist. The band...
- Sannhet i BlodetSannhet i BlodetSannhet i Blodet is a demo by the American death/doom metal band Thorr's Hammer.-Line-up:*Runhild Gammelsæter – vocals, lyrics*Greg Anderson – guitars*Stephen O'Malley – guitars*James Hale – bass guitars...
(Demo 1995) - DommedagsnattDommedagsnattDommedagsnatt is the only album released by Thorr's Hammer. It was originally released on Moribund Records on cassette in 1996, but it was not until it was re-released on CD in 1998 on Southern Lord Records that it began to gain more popularity. The CD release contained a track that was not on the...
(Cassette 1996, CD 1998, CD Reissue 2004, Picture Disc 2004)
With GoatsnakeGoatsnake-Biography:Goatsnake was formed in 1996 after the disbanding of The Obsessed. After The Obsessed's disbanding, the rhythm section consisting of Guy Pinhas on bass and Greg Rogers on drums began jamming with guitarist Greg Anderson )))...
- IV 7" (EP 1998)
- Man Of Light 7" (EP 1998)
- Goatsnake Vol. 1Goatsnake Vol. 1Vol. 1 is the debut album of the band Goatsnake. The album includes the former rhythm section of The Obsessed, consisting of Guy Pinhas and Greg Rogers, as well as Greg Anderson of Sunn O))) and Peter Stahl of Scream and Wool.-Track listing:...
(CD 1999) - Goatsnake/Burning WitchGoatsnake/Burning WitchGoatsnake/Burning Witch is a split EP by Goatsnake and Burning Witch. It was released on Hydra Head Records in 2000. Both bands contribute two tracks. The second Goatsnake track, "Burial at Sea", is a Saint Vitus cover....
(split with Burning WitchBurning WitchBurning Witch was an American doom metal band from Seattle, Washington, active between 1995 and 1998.-History:Burning Witch formed on Capitol Hill, Seattle in early 1995. After the breakup of the doom/death band Thorr's Hammer in 1995, Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson and Jamie Sykes formed Burning...
) (CD 2000) - Dog DaysDog Days"Dog Days" are the hottest, most sultry days of summer. In the Northern Hemisphere, the dog days of summer are most commonly experienced in the months of July and August, which typically observe the warmest summer temperatures. In the Southern Hemisphere, they typically occur in January and...
(CD 2000) - Flower of DiseaseFlower of DiseaseFlower of Disease is the second album by American doom metal band Goatsnake. The LP version was released by Southern Lord Records.-Track listing:# "Flower of Disease"# "Prayer for a Dying"# "Easy Greasy"# "El Coyote"# "The Dealer"...
(2000) - Trampled Under HoofTrampled Under HoofTrampled Under Hoof is the final release from Goatsnake. It was released in 2004 by Southern Lord Records. The name is a reference to the Led Zeppelin song "Trampled Under Foot"...
(CD 2004) - 1 + Dog Days (CD 2004)
With Sunn O)))Sunn O)))Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
- The Grimmrobe Demos (demo 1998, CD 2000, 2xPLP 2003, 2xLP 2004)
- ØØ VoidØØ Void-Guest musicians:* Petra Haden - violin, vocals* Scott Reeder - bass guitar* Peter Stahl - vocals...
(2000) - Flight of the BehemothFlight of the BehemothFlight of the Behemoth is the third album by Sunn O))). Significantly, the band collaborated with Japanese noise artist Merzbow, who mixed tracks 3 and 4, and used drum machine and vocals on the track "FWTBT"....
(2002) - White1White1White1 is the fourth album by Sunn O))). It was the most significant departure from their original style to date. Each track was experimental in its own way, with Julian Cope reciting occultic druidist poetry for half of "My Wall," Norwegian lyrics sung by Runhild Gammelsæter of Thorr's Hammer as...
(2003) - White2White2White2 is the fifth album by Sunn O))). It was recorded during the same sessions as White1, but it was not released until a year later.This album features Attila Csihar of Mayhem fame quoting the Srimad Bhagavatam on "Decay2 [Nihils' Maw]". The vinyl also features him on "Decay [The Symptoms of...
(2004) - Black OneBlack OneBlack One is the sixth album by Sunn O))). It is a combination of both experimental and traditional Sunn O))), utilizing many guest musicians, including black metal musicians Malefic and Wrest from Xasthur and Leviathan, respectively...
(2005) - AltarAltar (album)Altar is a collaboration album between Japanese doom band Boris and American drone doom duo Sunn O))), released on October 31, 2006 through Southern Lord Records. A limited two-CD edition was released on October 23 via Southern Lord with a 28 minute bonus track with Sunn O))), Boris, and Dylan...
(Collaboration with BorisBoris (band)is a Japanese experimental rock band, known for often combining and switching between different music genres including drone metal, sludge metal, noise rock, psychedelic rock, ambient and pop...
, CD 2006) - OracleOracle (Sunn O))) album)Oracle is an EP by Sunn O))) containing material written for a collaboration with the American sculptor Banks Violette.The jackhammer in "Belülről Pusztít" was provided by Joe Preston. Belülről Pusztít is a Hungarian phrase meaning "destroys from the inside"...
(2007) - DømkirkeDømkirkeDømkirke is a live album by Sunn O))), recorded at Bergen Cathedral in Bergen, Norway, during the Borealis festival. The album was pressed only on vinyl, never to be released on other formats, though it has now been made available for digital download direct from Southern Lord's webstore.It is a...
(live 2xLP 2008) - Monoliths & DimensionsMonoliths & DimensionsMonoliths & Dimensions is the seventh studio album by the avant-garde drone doom band Sunn O))). The album was created and recorded over a period of two years and features the collaborations of composer Eyvind Kang, Australian guitar player Oren Ambarchi, Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar, Dylan...
(2009)
With Burial Chamber TrioBurial Chamber TrioBurial Chamber Trio is a drone doom band consisting of American guitarist/bassist Greg Anderson, Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar and Australian multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi...
- Burial Chamber TrioBurial Chamber Trio (album)Burial Chamber Trio is the debut album by Burial Chamber Trio, which is composed of Greg Anderson, Attila Csihar and Oren Ambarchi. The album was released in 2007 on 180 grm vinyl and limited to 2,000 copies by Southern Lord Records.- External links :**...
(LP 2007) - WVRMWVRMWVRM is a live EP by the American drone doom band Burial Chamber Trio. It is a 10" picture disc which was recorded live in Rotterdam, Holland on January 31, 2007 at Club Worm. The disc comes in a clear sleeve with two transparent inserts and is limited to 3000 copies.-Line-up:*Attila Csihar -...
10" (Live EP 2008)