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Colossamite
Colossamite was a mid-to-late 1990s math rock band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were one of the most prominentexponents of the
genre.Colossamite's members included Nick Sakes (vocals, electric guitar), Ed Rodriguez (electric guitar), John Dieterich (electricguitar), and
Chad Popple (drum set); the group had no bass player. All except Sakes were transplanted Wisconsinites.Like similar groups such as Zeni Geva,
Craw, U.S. Maple, or Dazzling Killmen (this last group for which Sakes sang beforerelocating to Minnesota) Colossamite's music was almost
hyperbolically br ...read more
Colossamite
Colossamite was a mid-to-late 1990s math rock band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were one of the most prominentexponents of the
genre.Colossamite's members included Nick Sakes (vocals, electric guitar), Ed Rodriguez (electric guitar), John Dieterich (electricguitar), and
Chad Popple (drum set); the group had no bass player. All except Sakes were transplanted Wisconsinites.Like similar groups such as Zeni Geva,
Craw, U.S. Maple, or Dazzling Killmen (this last group for which Sakes sang beforerelocating to Minnesota) Colossamite's music was almost
hyperbolically brutal, chaotic, and rhythmically and formally complex.Rather than relying, as most heavy metal bands, on guitar distortion to
produce an intense sound, Colossamite instead oftenrelied on very loud "clean" (undistorted) guitars, played dissonantly, in conjunction with
vocals that were screamed ratherthan sung. Songs featured jarring shifts in tempo and mood, with the overall sound being extremely raw, heavy
and oftenslow.Colossamite released three recordings on the Chicago-based Skin Graft Records and one split CD on Italy's Freeland Records.The
group, however, did not last long, perhaps because the extreme and uncompromising nature of its music (as with muchcontemporary classical
music, which incidentally Colossamite's music resembles) was appreciated mainly by a niche audience,thus proving fairly uncommercial.The
group disbanded in 1998. Three of the four members now play in the experimental rock band Gorge Trio, based inOakland,
California.Discography[edit]
1997 - All Lingo's Clamor EP (Skin Graft)1998 - Gust's of Lead split 7" with White Tornado (Skin Graft)1998 - Economy of Motion (Skin
Graft)1998 - Frisbee EP - came with a Colossamite frisbee (aka Camera Within EP, Skin Graft) « hide |
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