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Providence, Rhode Island, United States (1994 – present)

Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo which formed in 1994 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The band consists of Brian Chippendale (drums, vocals) and Brian Gibson (bass). The band also originally included Hisham Bharoocha (vocals, guitar), who left the band in 1996 to join Black Dice. The band has released 5 albums: “Lightning Bolt” (1999), “Ride the Skies” (2001), “Wonderful Rainbow” (2003), “Hypermagic Mountain” (2005) and “Earthly Delights” (2009). A documentary film of the band’s 2001 tour, entitled “The Power of Salad”, was released in 2003 .

Lightning Bolt are known for their guerrilla-style live performances, where they typically play on the ground rather than a stage, with the crowd gathered around them. The band’s sound is typically loud and aggressive, though the group cites composers Philip Glass and Sun Ra as compositional influences.

The band formed while Chippendale and Gibson attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, and Chippendale had heard about “a new kid who was a whiz on the bass guitar.” The two formed Lightning Bolt, with Brian Chippendale on drums, Brian Gibson on bass guitar, and with Hisham Bharoocha on guitar and vocals joining the group after their first show. Bharoocha left the group in 1996 to continue with another RISD band that would eventually become Black Dice, and Chippendale took over vocal duties. The only officially released music with Bharoocha was a track on the Repopulation Program compilation.For the first few years, Lightning Bolt was primarily an improvisational band, touring the United States for months at a time and “just playing”.
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  • OskarSluring

    I like how everybody thought that statement actually had any sort of serious thougt behind it. Of course they're not similar in any major way. It was just a shitty joke.

    Friday evening

  • ElChepito

    Helter Skelter is a rough and rowdy, bluesy garage rock song and sister ray is just a punk song. You guys are seriously over analyzing it. Lightning Bolt is just a noisy conceptual jam band on the punk rock side. God damn you fucking tunnel vision hubris filled fuck-tards.

    Friday afternoon

  • u2theedge

    proto... fuck it whatever. they are simply good

    Thursday morning

  • GenericMagnetic

    "Helter Skelter is proto-Lightning Bolt. DEAL WITH IT!" correction: Sister Ray is proto-Lightning Bolt.

    9 days ago

  • Eukatheude

    @OskarSluring I don't see how Helter Skelter being noisy would have anything to do with LB

    10 days ago

  • Eukatheude

    Check out my Lightning Bolt, Om, Skullflower, Ufomammut inspired two piece band: http://www.last.fm/music/Ouroboros+Is+Broken

    10 days ago

  • OskarSluring

    Helter Skelter is proto-Lightning Bolt. DEAL WITH IT!

    19 days ago

  • Galleguinho

    When I was 17 Lightning Bolt, Merzbow and others changed my idea of noisy extreme music.

    26 days ago
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