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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.

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sexnapoleon wrote:
yesterday morning

thirteen monsters

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Mikk84 wrote:
Thursday evening

Cool live band.

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LISAVSSHARK wrote:
Thursday evening

Would anyone like to review Earthly Delights for an online magazine? Email me at at lisa@wearerebels.com if you're interested!

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elisdickgif wrote:
Thursday morning

please be polite :[

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Cerviche wrote:
Thursday morning

They were called that? Neato.

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skullduggeryyy wrote:
Wednesday morning

I liked this band better when they were called shutthefuckup

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Cerviche wrote:
Wednesday morning

I liked this band better when they were called Cerviche.

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elisdickgif wrote:
Tuesday morning

i liked this band better when they were called godheadSilo

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scrapyardbaby wrote:
last week

It's quite nice that the new album is FANTASTIC.

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MelonHCST wrote:
8 days ago

thirteen monsters

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secretpassage wrote:
8 days ago

thirteen monsters

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boumalhab wrote:
8 days ago

Just learned how to play Saint Jacques on the bass. So fun.

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
12 days ago

Fail. Maybe you should try making sense first before you try to talk shit. Thanks for playing!

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dearl wrote:
12 days ago

are you intentionally engineered to always sound like a bell end?

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
13 days ago

LOL

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GregSNJ wrote:
13 days ago

my ass is engineereded to sound like military cartoons.

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
15 days ago

No, dearl, they're intentionally engineered to sound like military cartoons.

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nuclearistic wrote:
15 days ago

They should play in germany. I'd go there.

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Antikrun wrote:
19 days ago

they sound like everything is not under control. but it is

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MHotel wrote:
22 days ago

Every Lightning Bolt picture is pure fucking gold. Like the kind of gold that bends your mother over her sewing table and fucks her hard. Like that.

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