Kelly Conlon
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Kelly Conlon is an American
bass guitar
ist. He has been a hired member of Death and Monstrosity
.
underground metal scene until 1994 when Orlando
-based Chuck Schuldiner
hired him to play with the international death metal
band Death. He recorded the album Symbolic and went on the subsequent international "Full of Hate Festivals" tour, until Schuldiner terminated his services afterwards, as Conlon "didn't fit the Death mold". As to Conlon's firing, Schuldiner stated "unfortunate" reasons for needing to replace him with Brian Benson prior to the North American Death tour in support of Symbolic.
Conlon joined Monstrosity
, another Florida death metal band, in 1996 and played on the albums Millennium (1997) and In Dark Purity (1999).
It was announced in August 2011 at Blabbermouth.net that Conlon was recruited to join "Arizona-based death/thrash metallers Sargon".
United States
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bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
ist. He has been a hired member of Death and Monstrosity
Monstrosity (band)
Monstrosity is a death metal band originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the death metal scene of the early 1990s. Vocalist, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and drummer, Lee Harrison, were the founders of Monstrosity. Harrison had just left the band Malevolent Creation and George Fisher...
.
Career
Conlon was part of the FloridaFlorida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
underground metal scene until 1994 when Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
-based Chuck Schuldiner
Chuck Schuldiner
Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.Schuldiner was the singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the band Death, which he founded in 1983, initially under the name Mantas. He also recorded as guitarist and songwriter with his other band, Control Denied...
hired him to play with the international 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....
band Death. He recorded the album Symbolic and went on the subsequent international "Full of Hate Festivals" tour, until Schuldiner terminated his services afterwards, as Conlon "didn't fit the Death mold". As to Conlon's firing, Schuldiner stated "unfortunate" reasons for needing to replace him with Brian Benson prior to the North American Death tour in support of Symbolic.
Conlon joined Monstrosity
Monstrosity (band)
Monstrosity is a death metal band originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the death metal scene of the early 1990s. Vocalist, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and drummer, Lee Harrison, were the founders of Monstrosity. Harrison had just left the band Malevolent Creation and George Fisher...
, another Florida death metal band, in 1996 and played on the albums Millennium (1997) and In Dark Purity (1999).
It was announced in August 2011 at Blabbermouth.net that Conlon was recruited to join "Arizona-based death/thrash metallers Sargon".