Left Spine Down
Encyclopedia
Based in Vancouver
, BC
, Canada
, Left Spine Down (also known by the acronym LSD) is a band that plays what they call "cyberpunk," a mixture of electronica, metal, punk, and drum & bass.
The band features Jeremy Inkel
of electro-industrial
bands Front Line Assembly
and Noise Unit
.
, in June 2007. The EP was produced by Front Line Assembly/Noise Unit's Chris Peterson
. Their debut LP, Fighting for Voltage
, was released in April 2008 on Synthetic Sounds
in Canada, and a Canadian tour followed in support of the album. Bit Riot Records
picked up the rights to the release of Fighting for Voltage in the USA and released the album in September 2008.
On March 3, 2009 and again via Synthetic Sounds the band released their second full length album entitled Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited
. The album featured three new songs; "Welcome to the Future" with covers of "Territorial Pissings" by Nirvana
and "She's Lost Control
" by Joy Division
; along with remixes and segues. In January 2011 the bands fourth music video was released for She's Lost Control which made it into rotation on MuchMusic
in Canada.
The band has toured North America extensively with Revolting Cocks
, SNFU
, 16 Volt
and Chemlab
and opened for groups such as The Birthday Massacre
, Combichrist
, DOA
, Genitorturers
and Front Line Assembly.
In May 2011 Left Spine Down signed with Metropolis Records
. They released their second full length album, Caution, on August 23, 2011 which was preceded by a new single and video for the track "X-Ray". The album was produced by well known industrial music producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and features the band as a four-piece stripped down from their previous incarnations as a five and six-piece band.
In late 2011 Skinny Puppy
lead singer Nivek Ogre
's side project ohGr
announced a December 2011 West Coast USA and Canada tour consisting of 9 dates with direct support by Left Spine Down.
Former members
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, BC
British Columbia
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, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Left Spine Down (also known by the acronym LSD) is a band that plays what they call "cyberpunk," a mixture of electronica, metal, punk, and drum & bass.
The band features Jeremy Inkel
Jeremy Inkel
Germy redirects here. For the iCarly character, see iCarly.Born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, Jeremy Inkel is best known as a keyboard player and programmer in Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly...
of electro-industrial
Electro-industrial
Electro-industrial is a music genre drawing on EBM and post-industrial that developed in the mid-1980s. While EBM has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial has a deep, complex and layered sound. The style was pioneered by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and other groups,...
bands Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...
and Noise Unit
Noise Unit
Noise Unit is a musical band, a side-project of the prolific Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, of Front Line Assembly. Its members have included Marc Verhaeghen and Chris Peterson...
.
History
The group self released their debut EP, Smartbomb EPSmartbomb EP
The Smartbomb EP is the first studio release by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on June 26, 2007 via the bands website and online music retailers such as iTunes and Amazon.com. All 4 tracks from the EP can be heard on the bands Myspace, Last.fm and...
, in June 2007. The EP was produced by Front Line Assembly/Noise Unit's Chris Peterson
Chris Peterson (producer)
Chris Peterson is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada based producer and keyboard player and works for Front Line Assembly, Noise Unit and Decree...
. Their debut LP, Fighting for Voltage
Fighting for Voltage
Fighting for Voltage is the debut full length album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on April 22, 2008 via Synthetic Sounds in Canada and on September 23, 2008 in the USA via Bit Riot Records....
, was released in April 2008 on Synthetic Sounds
Synthetic Entertainment
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Synthetic Entertainment is a concert promotion and music management/booking company focused on industrial, metal, punk and electronic rock music...
in Canada, and a Canadian tour followed in support of the album. Bit Riot Records
Bit Riot Records
Bit Riot Records is an American sublabel founded by Eric Dusik and Tonya Leigh and is a subsidiary of WTII Records. This record label was formed in 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Since its inception the label has grown into a full service sub label of WTII Records...
picked up the rights to the release of Fighting for Voltage in the USA and released the album in September 2008.
On March 3, 2009 and again via Synthetic Sounds the band released their second full length album entitled Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited
Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited
Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited is the second full length album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on March 3, 2009 via Synthetic Sounds and features 3 newly recorded songs along with remixes and segues...
. The album featured three new songs; "Welcome to the Future" with covers of "Territorial Pissings" by Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
and "She's Lost Control
She's Lost Control
"She's Lost Control" is a song by British post-punk band Joy Division. It was first introduced in a concert in June 1978. Two separate single recordings have been released: a guitar-dominated version appearing on the band's 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures, and a heavier and more electronic...
" by Joy Division
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
; along with remixes and segues. In January 2011 the bands fourth music video was released for She's Lost Control which made it into rotation on MuchMusic
MuchMusic
MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...
in Canada.
The band has toured North America extensively with Revolting Cocks
Revolting Cocks
Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, is an American–Belgian industrial rock band and sometime supergroup that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.-History:...
, SNFU
SNFU
SNFU is a Canadian punk rock band formed in 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta and later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. They have released nine full-length albums and are cited as a formative influence on the skate punk sub-genre....
, 16 Volt
16 Volt
16Volt is an industrial rock band featuring Eric Powell and Mike Peoples with various other performers added for live shows.-History:Powell became interested in music early on, and formed 16Volt in 1988. While shopping his demos several years later, he met up with a college-radio music director who...
and Chemlab
Chemlab
Chemlab is a coldwave and industrial rock band formed in Washington D.C., USA, in 1989 by Dylan Thomas More, Joe Frank , and Jared Louche . Influenced by the pioneers of the industrial genre, such as Throbbing Gristle, Chemlab mixed experimental sounds with rock and metal, which they dubbed...
and opened for groups such as The Birthday Massacre
The Birthday Massacre
The Birthday Massacre is a synthrock band, based in Toronto, Canada. The band formed in 1999, known then as Imagica...
, Combichrist
CombiChrist
Combichrist is a Norwegian Aggrotech band formed in 2003 by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua based in Atlanta.-Formation:The first material LaPlegua wrote was a few powernoise/techno crossover tracks under the moniker DRIVE...
, DOA
D.O.A. (band)
D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...
, Genitorturers
Genitorturers
The Genitorturers are an industrial metal/industrial rock band from the United States, with influences extending into the 1990s hardcore punk and electronic music. They proclaim themselves to be "The World's Sexiest Rock Band".-History:...
and Front Line Assembly.
In May 2011 Left Spine Down signed with Metropolis Records
Metropolis Records
Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....
. They released their second full length album, Caution, on August 23, 2011 which was preceded by a new single and video for the track "X-Ray". The album was produced by well known industrial music producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and features the band as a four-piece stripped down from their previous incarnations as a five and six-piece band.
In late 2011 Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....
lead singer Nivek Ogre
Nivek Ogre
Nivek Ogre is a Canadian musician, performance artist and actor best known as a founding member of the industrial band Skinny Puppy. Since that band featured another Kevin and was produced by another Ogilvie Nivek Ogre (born Kevin Graham Ogilvie December 5, 1962) is a Canadian musician,...
's side project ohGr
OhGr
ohGr is a band formed by Nivek Ogre, of Skinny Puppy, and musician/engineer Mark Walk. Although the pedigree of the group's members might suggest otherwise, early ohGr releases differed in sound to its related industrial bands, drawing more on hip-hop and electro-pop influences, incorporating more...
announced a December 2011 West Coast USA and Canada tour consisting of 9 dates with direct support by Left Spine Down.
Members
Current members- kAINE D3L4Y - vocals
- Jeremy InkelJeremy InkelGermy redirects here. For the iCarly character, see iCarly.Born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, Jeremy Inkel is best known as a keyboard player and programmer in Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly...
- keyboards, programming - Matt Girvan - guitar
- Galen WalingGalen WalingGalen Waling is a classically trained musician based out of Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC who is the drummer for Left Spine Down, in addition to also drumming for Stiff Valentine and Stayte. He previously played drums for the band Desillusion....
- drums
Former members
- Denyss McKnightDenyss McKnightDenyss McKnight was born in Vancouver, Canada in January 1982 and spent much of his early years being classically trained on piano and music theory. After relocating to the Central Interior of British Columbia as a teenager he started playing guitar and started several punk and hardcore bands as...
- guitar, bass - Jared SlingerlandJared SlingerlandJared Slingerland was born on January 16, 1984 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada where his father was a radio announcer on CKIQ. The family moved to Calgary, Alberta shortly after birth due to his father securing an on air job with a new CHR radio station...
- guitars, programming - Tim Hagberg - drums
- Frank George Valoczy ("Comrade Skveltš") - keyboards, programming
Albums
| Date of release | Title | Label |
| 2007 | Smartbomb EP Smartbomb EP The Smartbomb EP is the first studio release by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on June 26, 2007 via the bands website and online music retailers such as iTunes and Amazon.com. All 4 tracks from the EP can be heard on the bands Myspace, Last.fm and... |
Synthetic Sounds Synthetic Entertainment Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Synthetic Entertainment is a concert promotion and music management/booking company focused on industrial, metal, punk and electronic rock music... |
| 2008 | Fighting for Voltage Fighting for Voltage Fighting for Voltage is the debut full length album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on April 22, 2008 via Synthetic Sounds in Canada and on September 23, 2008 in the USA via Bit Riot Records.... |
Synthetic Sounds Synthetic Entertainment Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Synthetic Entertainment is a concert promotion and music management/booking company focused on industrial, metal, punk and electronic rock music... / Bit Riot Records Bit Riot Records Bit Riot Records is an American sublabel founded by Eric Dusik and Tonya Leigh and is a subsidiary of WTII Records. This record label was formed in 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Since its inception the label has grown into a full service sub label of WTII Records... |
| 2009 | Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited is the second full length album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on March 3, 2009 via Synthetic Sounds and features 3 newly recorded songs along with remixes and segues... |
Synthetic Sounds Synthetic Entertainment Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Synthetic Entertainment is a concert promotion and music management/booking company focused on industrial, metal, punk and electronic rock music... |
| Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes is the second remix album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The double album features remixes from across the industrial and EBM spectrum from mind.in.a.box, Angelspit and Cyanotic to Psy'Aviah and Dismantled; along with all three of... |
Synthetic Sounds Synthetic Entertainment Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Synthetic Entertainment is a concert promotion and music management/booking company focused on industrial, metal, punk and electronic rock music... |
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| Fighting for Voltage/Voltage 2.3 Double Disc Deluxe Edition (Europe) | Synthetic Sounds Synthetic Entertainment Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Synthetic Entertainment is a concert promotion and music management/booking company focused on industrial, metal, punk and electronic rock music... / Danse Macabre Records |
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| 2011 | Caution | Metropolis Records Metropolis Records Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres.... |
Music Videos
| Year | Title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "Last Daze" | Casey O'Brien |
| "Reset" | Thana Fauteux | |
| "Welcome to the Future" | Brian Moelker | |
| 2010 | "She's Lost Control She's Lost Control "She's Lost Control" is a song by British post-punk band Joy Division. It was first introduced in a concert in June 1978. Two separate single recordings have been released: a guitar-dominated version appearing on the band's 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures, and a heavier and more electronic... " |
Troy Sobotka |
| 2011 | "X-Ray" | Troy Sobotka |