Jason Edward Kocol is an American instrumentalist, composer, recording engineer and performer, active since age 10. His musical interests and offerings range from modern day orchestral music to 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....

, electronic music to tango

Tango music

Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...

, noise to synth pop, etc. He performs on the following instruments: guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, voice

Voice

Voice may refer to:* Human voice* Voice control or voice activation* Writer's voice* Voice acting* Voice vote* Voice message-In film:* Voice , a 2005 South Korean film* The Voice , a 2010 Turkish horror film directed by Ümit Ünal...

, bandoneon

Bandoneón

The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...

, mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

, bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

, tuba

Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

, drum

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

s and percussion

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

. He is currently a guitarist and vocalist in Oakland-based death metal band Impaled

Impaled (band)

Impaled is a death metal/goregrind band from Oakland, California.-History:The band's name is an acronym, standing for: Impaled - Immoral Medical Practitioners And Licentious Evil-Doers...

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Discography

• 1993 - The New President (self-titled demo tape) - guitar, vocals
• 1994 - Mister Lazy (self-titled demo tape) - vocals, guitar, synthesizer
• 1997 - suburban: "Henri, Come Out...I Want to Play With You" (LP) - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, piano
• 1997-1999 - Century Quartet (various recordings totaling ~18 hours long) - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, sampler, mandolin, trombone, percussion, co-engineer
• 1998 - The Lane 29 Orchestra (self-titled LP) - composer
• 2000 - Assumed Name (self-titled LP) - everything
• 2000 - Jason Kocol: From That One Country (LP) - everything
• 2001 - qoqol (self-titled LP) - everything
• 2002 - Jason Kocol: Actual Sighs (LP) - everything
• 2002 - Kocolcainut (Cococainut and Jason Kocol split CD) - everything on Kocol material, vocals and co-arrangement on joint Cococainut/Kocol track
• 2002 - Puny Humans: No One Will Ever Understand Our Genious (LP) - guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals, accordion, synthesizer, kazoo, virtual glockenspiel, whistle
• 2003 - The Unicorn Stickers (self-titled demo) - synthesizer, vocals, co-engineer
• 2004 - Madera Road (self-titled LP) - guitar, vocals, mandolin, electric piano
• 2004 - The John Francis: Voyage of the Daring Cornelius (LP) - bandoneon, piano
• 2005 - Impaled
  Impaled (band)
  Impaled is a death metal/goregrind band from Oakland, California.-History:The band's name is an acronym, standing for: Impaled - Immoral Medical Practitioners And Licentious Evil-Doers...
  
  : Death After Life (LP) - guitar, vocals, bandoneon
• 2006 - Ghoul
  Ghoul (band)
  Ghoul is a thrash metal band from Oakland, California. Though the members' actual identities are meant to be concealed, it is known that some members of Ghoul also play or have played in other bands such as Impaled, Dystopia, Wolves in the Throne Room, Exhumed, Phobia, Asunder and Morbosidad...
  
  : Splatterthrash (LP) - co-engineer, voice of "Billy"
• 2007 - Impaled
  Impaled (band)
  Impaled is a death metal/goregrind band from Oakland, California.-History:The band's name is an acronym, standing for: Impaled - Immoral Medical Practitioners And Licentious Evil-Doers...
  
  : The Last Gasp (LP) - guitar, vocals, bandoneon, trombone, co-engineer

Filmography

• 2000 - Ballbreaker (short, silent) - composer
• 2001 - The Runaway (short, silent; dir. Brandon Thomas) - composer
• 2002 - Words From the Bible (short; dir. Christopher Bruce) - composer
• 2003 - The Crowd (short, animation, unfinished) - composer

Videography

• 2002 - Things Go Wrong (short) - co-director, co-editor, composer
• 2005 - Impaled: Preservation of Death (music video) - actor, editor
• 2008 - Impaled: G.O.R.E (music video) - actor, co-editor