Play Lightning Bolt Radio

Lightning Bolt

On Tour

1,789,441 plays (98,946 listeners)

821 shouts

Add to my Library Share

Providence, Rhode Island, United States (1995 – present)

Lightning Bolt emerged from Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1995 as a three-piece art school project. Initially there was Brian Chippendale’s explosive, non-stop drumming, Brian Gibson’s Contortions like bass lines, and Hisham Bharoocha’s vocals propelling them in a fury of volatile noise and orgiastic tribalism. The group helped found Fort Thunder, a music and art collective, and recorded Lightning Bolt which was issued through Load in 1999. By 2001’s Ride the Skies, Bharoocha had departed (he eventually formed Black Dice). This left the vocal duties to Chippendale, who put the microphone into a sock and stuffed it under a mask he wears while performing. Lightning Bolt did a series of tours with bands like The Locust, Arab on Radar, Orchid, and melt banana before returning in 2003 with the studio album Wonderful Rainbow. The album did very well in underground music circles, and set up the release of 2005’s Hypermagic Mountain.

Lightning Bolt is well known for their live performances, in which they turn up the volume as loud as it can possibly go and forgo a traditional stage, preferring to perform amidst the audience.
Read more… Edit

Top Albums

See more

Top Tracks

1 Play
Assassins full track
400
2 Play
Dracula Mountain full track
371
3 Play
Hello Morning full track
320
4 Play
Captain Caveman full track
293
5 Play
Birdy full track
273
6 Play
2 Morro Morro Land full track
259
7 Play
On Fire full track
258
8 Play
Crown of Storms full track
251
9 Play
Longstockings full track
221
10 Play
Wonderful Rainbow full track
217
11 Play
2 Towers full track
209
12 Play
Magic Mountain full track
208
13 Play
Dead Cowboy full track
199
14 Play
13 Monsters full track
171
14 Play
Bizarro Zarro Land full track
171
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 821 shouts

Videos

See more

Events

Add event See more

News

Fan Art 2!!

25 May 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/laserbeast

http://www.myspace.com/ianthelumberjackwww.myspace.com/kiteracerhttp://www.myspace.com/77089139http://www.myspace.com/popbrute http://www.myspace.com/grossadmiral_danitz www.myspace.com/jorda...

Add comment

See more

Listeners

See more

Recent Activity

Related Journals

See more

More Information

Links
Band Members
Labels