James Fogarty
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James Fogarty is an English
multi-media artist. Concentrating mainly on music crossing over between metal and sampled based music, his projects past and present are The Blacksmoke
Organisation, The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom, Ewigkeit
, Jaldaboath (both as a solo artist and founding member of The Meads Of Asphodel
) and producing occasional releases for Death To Music productions. He also contributed artwork to the CNPD
in the book Stamps Of Mass Destruction (and other postal disasters) Vol 2 (ISBN 1-871894-97-2), printed in 2005.
, along with James Cauty (KLF, K Foundation
, Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice
). After Cauty left the project in 2005, Fogarty continued as the sole musical composer of the collective, whose main credits include official remix
es of a-ha
(Cosy Prisons), The Bloodhound Gang
(Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo), Goldie Lookin' Chain (RnB), Cradle of Filth
(Mannequin) and two tracks on the soundtrack
to Disney's Herbie Fully Loaded.
(1997–2007), for which he recorded and wrote all the music. Recording a total of five albums, The last two - Radio Ixtlan
(2004) and Conspiritus
(2005) - were released through the UK's Earache Records
.
The music of Ewigkeit differed vastly from beginning to end, but in general could be described as metal
.
Additionally, the track "Its Not Reality" was featured on a Playstation 2
video game called Extreme Metal Racing
, as well as being remixed by Hardcore Techno producer Scott Brown
. In 2007, Ewigkeit was ended (as reported by Blabbermouth), and following, Fogarty founded a new project called The Bombs of Enduring Freedom.
in 2003. The self-titled debut album gained a two-page article in the UK's Metal Hammer
magazine. Further EPs have been released, displaying a fusion of death metal
guitars and drum and bass
programming.
In 2008, The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom remixed the track "Survival of the Outlaw" for Norwegian black metal
band Solefald
for their remix album The Circular Drain. In 2011, a video was made for a track called 'Bin Laden Is Dead' by Matthias Fritsch (filmkaer behind Techno Viking
).
As well as releasing limited edition CDs, all material is available to download free from the band's website.
under the pseudonym of Jaldaboath, for whom he wrote and recorded the band's demos, the debut album The Excommunication of Christ
and the "Jihad" EP (a spilt EP with Norwegian Black Metal
band Mayhem
which gained 'Single of the Week' in Kerrang!
magazine). In 2003, Fogarty left the project to concentrate fully on Ewigkeit.
In 2008, Fogarty formed a new project called 'Jaldaboath' - the music is comical in nature, taking inspiration from Monty Python, Black Adder and various sub-genres of heavy metal. Austria's Napalm Records
released the debut full-length album The Rise of the Heraldic Beasts worldwide in September 2010. The CD was also released via Death To Music productions as a limited edition.
'Death To Music' is also a Netlabel
, releasing various artists. The majority of these releases are MP3 downloads.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
multi-media artist. Concentrating mainly on music crossing over between metal and sampled based music, his projects past and present are The Blacksmoke
Blacksmoke
Blacksmoke a.k.a. The Blacksmoke Organisation are "an occasional art collective and musical group dedicated to the propagation of audio visual noise". The precise creative membership of Blacksmoke is a closely guarded secret. It is documented that a founding member is The KLF co-founder Jimmy Cauty...
Organisation, The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom, Ewigkeit
Ewigkeit
Ewigkeit was the experimental extreme music project, formed in 1995 by James Fogarty . On 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace.-Band history:...
, Jaldaboath (both as a solo artist and founding member of The Meads Of Asphodel
The Meads of Asphodel
The Meads of Asphodel are an experimental black metal band with pronounced medieval and Eastern influences from Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
) and producing occasional releases for Death To Music productions. He also contributed artwork to the CNPD
Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice
The Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice is a fantasy stamp producer founded by British artist/musician Jimmy Cauty.It produces parodies of Royal Mail stamps, some of which are collected by enthusiasts...
in the book Stamps Of Mass Destruction (and other postal disasters) Vol 2 (ISBN 1-871894-97-2), printed in 2005.
Blacksmoke (a.k.a The Blacksmoke Organisation)
In 2003, Fogarty co-founded the "occasional art collective" called The Blacksmoke Organisation, generally referred to as BlacksmokeBlacksmoke
Blacksmoke a.k.a. The Blacksmoke Organisation are "an occasional art collective and musical group dedicated to the propagation of audio visual noise". The precise creative membership of Blacksmoke is a closely guarded secret. It is documented that a founding member is The KLF co-founder Jimmy Cauty...
, along with James Cauty (KLF, K Foundation
K Foundation
The K Foundation was an art foundation set up by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement KLF income...
, Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice
Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice
The Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice is a fantasy stamp producer founded by British artist/musician Jimmy Cauty.It produces parodies of Royal Mail stamps, some of which are collected by enthusiasts...
). After Cauty left the project in 2005, Fogarty continued as the sole musical composer of the collective, whose main credits include official remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
es of a-ha
A-ha
A-ha were a Norwegian pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The band was founded by Morten Harket , Magne Furuholmen , and Pål Waaktaar...
(Cosy Prisons), The Bloodhound Gang
The Bloodhound Gang
The Bloodhound Gang may be a reference to:*The Bloodhound Gang , a segment on the program 3-2-1 Contact*The Bloodhound Gang, a band that took its name from the TV show segment...
(Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo), Goldie Lookin' Chain (RnB), Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
(Mannequin) and two tracks on the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
to Disney's Herbie Fully Loaded.
Ewigkeit
Fogarty's initial recording project was EwigkeitEwigkeit
Ewigkeit was the experimental extreme music project, formed in 1995 by James Fogarty . On 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace.-Band history:...
(1997–2007), for which he recorded and wrote all the music. Recording a total of five albums, The last two - Radio Ixtlan
Radio Ixtlan
Radio Ixtlan is the fourth studio album by the British experimental extreme music project Ewigkeit. It is a concept album based on the concept of the journey of the soul, examining psychological, parapsychological and mythological themes.-Further reading list:...
(2004) and Conspiritus
Conspiritus
Conspiritus is the fifth studio album of the left field metal/rock project Ewigkeit, released in 2005 by Earache Records.The album displays a mix of industrial, ambient and electronic music set to a metal back-drop and centres around a hypothetical global conspiracy whose aim is to install a...
(2005) - were released through the UK's Earache Records
Earache Records
Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...
.
The music of Ewigkeit differed vastly from beginning to end, but in general could be described as 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...
.
Additionally, the track "Its Not Reality" was featured on a Playstation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
video game called Extreme Metal Racing
Earache: Extreme Metal Racing
Earache: Extreme Metal Racing is a budget title from UK developer Data Design Interactive and Metro 3D. It incorporates an Extreme metal music soundtrack from artists signed on the Earache Records record label as players race. It has been released on the PC and PlayStation 2...
, as well as being remixed by Hardcore Techno producer Scott Brown
Scott Brown (DJ)
Scott Alexander Brown is a Glasgow-born Scottish DJ and music producer, now living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres commonly called rave. Although he is most associated with bouncy techno, his music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to...
. In 2007, Ewigkeit was ended (as reported by Blabbermouth), and following, Fogarty founded a new project called The Bombs of Enduring Freedom.
The Bombs of Enduring Freedom
Formed in 2007, the music of 'The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom' is a mix of industrial metal and modern electronic music. The name of the project is a phrase taken from the paper The United Nations of America written by political comentator Tariq AliTariq Ali
Tariq Ali , , is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator...
in 2003. The self-titled debut album gained a two-page article in the UK's Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer is a monthly heavy metal music magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and in several other countries by different publishers. Metal Hammer articles feature both mainstream bands and more unusual acts from the whole spectrum of heavy metal music...
magazine. Further EPs have been released, displaying a fusion of death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
guitars and drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
programming.
In 2008, The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom remixed the track "Survival of the Outlaw" for Norwegian 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....
band Solefald
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...
for their remix album The Circular Drain. In 2011, a video was made for a track called 'Bin Laden Is Dead' by Matthias Fritsch (filmkaer behind Techno Viking
Techno Viking
Techno Viking is an internet phenomenon or meme based on a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin.The 4-minute video shot by experimental video artist Matthias Fritsch at the Fuckparade on 8 July 2000 begins with the title "Kneecam No...
).
As well as releasing limited edition CDs, all material is available to download free from the band's website.
Jaldaboath / The Meads of Asphodel
In 1998, Fogarty co-founded the experimental black metal band The Meads Of AsphodelThe Meads of Asphodel
The Meads of Asphodel are an experimental black metal band with pronounced medieval and Eastern influences from Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
under the pseudonym of Jaldaboath, for whom he wrote and recorded the band's demos, the debut album The Excommunication of Christ
The Excommunication of Christ
The Excommunication of Christ is the first full-length studio album by the black metal band The Meads of Asphodel. It was released on Supernal Music in 2001. The band's debut album, this featured A.C.Wild from Italian thrash legends Bulldozer re-working the narrative originally found on Bulldozer's...
and the "Jihad" EP (a spilt EP with Norwegian 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....
band Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...
which gained 'Single of the Week' in Kerrang!
Kerrang!
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...
magazine). In 2003, Fogarty left the project to concentrate fully on Ewigkeit.
In 2008, Fogarty formed a new project called 'Jaldaboath' - the music is comical in nature, taking inspiration from Monty Python, Black Adder and various sub-genres of heavy metal. Austria's Napalm Records
Napalm Records
Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock.Originally, Napalm Records focused mainly on black metal acts such as Abigor and Summoning and folk metal bands such as Falkenbach and Vintersorg....
released the debut full-length album The Rise of the Heraldic Beasts worldwide in September 2010. The CD was also released via Death To Music productions as a limited edition.
Death To Music productions
In 2007, Fogarty burned all of his record contracts (documented in a YouTube video 'burn the bastards') and reclaimed his back catalogue and subsequently gave it away for free via the website www.deathtomusic.com. Death To Music productions is also the "anti record label" through which he would release the debut album for his newly founded music/art project 'The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom'.'Death To Music' is also a Netlabel
Netlabel
A netlabel is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats over the Internet...
, releasing various artists. The majority of these releases are MP3 downloads.