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Nottingham, United Kingdom (1989 – present)
Pitchshifter are a British industrial rock/metal band originally hailing from Nottingham.
The band was formed in 1989 by bassist Mark Clayden with his brother and vocalist JS Clayden, with guitarists Johnny Carter and Stuart Toolin. During this time, the band played with local bands and soon gained attention of the Peaceville Records. During this time, JS went to live in France to sell paintings.
During 1990, the band started recording their début album, Industrial, with the main vocalist being Mark Clayden instead of JS, who contributed with backing vocals. The band later went on a small tour with bands like Napalm Death.
Their first few releases had a distinctive industrial sound where the influential gaze of Godflesh was abundantly apparent.
The simplified 808 style drum tracks and sluggish drone guitars evolved over the next decade to produce some of the most intense loop based crunching metal/punk riffs and hard floor dance rhythm sections.
Throughout their highly acclaimed career although often commercially overlooked, Pitchshifter were often heralded with founding the Electro Punk genre with JS Claydon’s ‘sex pistols’ barrages on the current state of the UK, simplistic chord driven guitar lines and the inclusion of more and more elaborate sampling and synth based elements.
Similar to previous attempts at this meld of minds such as pop will eat itself (PWEI) Pitchshifter created an intense and dedicated fan-base who still work hard to promote the outfit.
The band was formed in 1989 by bassist Mark Clayden with his brother and vocalist JS Clayden, with guitarists Johnny Carter and Stuart Toolin. During this time, the band played with local bands and soon gained attention of the Peaceville Records. During this time, JS went to live in France to sell paintings.
During 1990, the band started recording their début album, Industrial, with the main vocalist being Mark Clayden instead of JS, who contributed with backing vocals. The band later went on a small tour with bands like Napalm Death.
Their first few releases had a distinctive industrial sound where the influential gaze of Godflesh was abundantly apparent.
The simplified 808 style drum tracks and sluggish drone guitars evolved over the next decade to produce some of the most intense loop based crunching metal/punk riffs and hard floor dance rhythm sections.
Throughout their highly acclaimed career although often commercially overlooked, Pitchshifter were often heralded with founding the Electro Punk genre with JS Claydon’s ‘sex pistols’ barrages on the current state of the UK, simplistic chord driven guitar lines and the inclusion of more and more elaborate sampling and synth based elements.
Similar to previous attempts at this meld of minds such as pop will eat itself (PWEI) Pitchshifter created an intense and dedicated fan-base who still work hard to promote the outfit.
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Twisted-gamer wrote:
twisted metal 3 <3
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Thorgrimm6 wrote:
Industrial...and that's it. Godflesh is rolling their grave.
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mkmouse wrote:
<3 this !!!!
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I_feel_nothing wrote:
хороший олд,долгоиграющий.или я такой старый)
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Vajcrist wrote:
This band is fucking awesome !
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oknome wrote:
fuck yeah
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DetoxScission wrote:
I love the earlier Industrial Metal albums. I love the later, Industrial Rock/Nu Metal albums. It's all good, so long as it's Pitchshifter.
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nicolauz wrote:
-Present ? Wait...what ?
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jeerzu wrote:
fap fap fap :)
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KurtonLFM wrote:
Pitch-shiff-TAHHH >:D
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Romez84 wrote:
c00l band
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kidnay wrote:
still waiting. hopefully Tim Rayner has recovered from that cancer... or doin' well at least.
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Fetuz wrote:
Nice
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weirditude wrote:
"What's In It For Me?"!!
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NarooN wrote:
Yeah because obviously anytime a band changes style and/or direction, that means they're "selling out" to some mythical money machine. Get the fuck over yourselves and learn to just appreciate and enjoy music for what it is instead of acting like a buncha dumbass fanboys.
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NikkuBR wrote:
...And I'm still waiting for the new album.
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Archaenon wrote:
I remember buying Infotainment when it came out. Love these guys still.
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inflikkt wrote:
loving these guys, cant believe i never checked em out till now. great shit :D
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DaniRai wrote:
Desensitized = .com = Infotaiment? > rest
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GavinGrimbold wrote:
I personally like everything up to and including Dot Com, but prefer the first few releases.
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deth_from_above added Pitchshifter to the lineup of Obituary at Noorderligt. yesterday afternoon
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NihilistSufi, Blaze_Sarkisian and ST3RST1K4R added Pitchshifter to their libraries. Thursday morning
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Mikhail19 tagged Pitchshifter with ‘industrial metal’. Tuesday afternoon
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ronnyimwesten added Pitchshifter to the lineup of Pitchshifter at Knaack. last month
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RobotPolarBear connected Pitchshifter to the group Technical Gothic Metal. last month
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SatanMD tagged Pitchshifter with industrial metal and industrial rock. last month
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