Artist: Monster Magnet
Genre(s):
Metal
Alternative
Rock
Metal: Alternative
Discography:
4-Way Diablo-(Advance)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Spine Of God
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Monolithic Baby
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits (CD 2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Greatest Hits (CD 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
God Says No
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Powertrip
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Superjudge
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Retro-rock visionaries Monster Magnet spent much of the 1990s struggling against the prejudices imposed upon image and sound by substitute stone fashion nazis. In fact, it wasn't until that movement's late-'90s decline that the band's dour perseverance ultimately nonrecreational off, when their fourth record album, Powertrip, catapulted to au gross sales condition on the effectiveness of its massive hard rock candy hit, "Space Lord." In the lag, Monster Magnet had managed to become one of the most successful and influential bands associated with the so-called underground "lapidator stone" view. And yet, their influences bridge lots farther than that scene's foundations in '70s hard rock and metallic element, delving into space stone, psychedelia, and beyond.
New Jersey native Dave Wyndorf was already a rock & roll old hand by the time he formed Monster Magnet in 1989, having cut his dentition with little-known punk rocker band Shrapnel (also featuring succeeding strong-armer producer Daniel Rey on guitars) in the late '70s earlier past from music on the whole. But, after teaching himself guitar, Wyndorf began collection Monster Magnet with a handful of swain New Jersey natives, singer Tim Cronin, guitarist John McBain, bassist Joe Callandra, and drummer Jon Kleiman. Fusing their alloy, punk rock, space rock candy, and psychedelic influences, the band developed a sludgy, feedback-heavy hard rock well-grounded that helped them stall out from the era's burgeoning retro-rock movement -- too count the Black Crowes, White Zombie, and many others. After cathartic a self-titled six-song EP through Germany's Glitterhouse Records, Wyndorf assumed all vocal responsibilities, spell Cronin retreated to a in arrears the scenes "conceptual consultant" position -- a good deal like that of John Sinclair for the MC5.
In the interim, Monster Magnet had gestural with independent label Caroline Records in 1992, and recorded their showtime uncut album: the very impressive, uniquely dark psychedelic chef-d'oeuvre Backbone of God. The generative roger Huntington Sessions besides yielded a number of extensive place rock jams that would afterward be issued as the Tab key record album in 1993. A video recording for showtime single "Medicine" and a support tour with the fast-rising Soundgarden also helped attract powerhouse A&M Records, just even as they prepared to sign with the label, Wyndorf had a serious break with guitar player McBain, world Health Organization was soon replaced by Ed Mundell. Despite the eleventh hour change, 1993's Superjudge proven to be a star major-label debut -- although it did visit the stria sacrificing some of their rampant feedback in exchange for more clearly defined, muscular metal riffs. Unfortunately, the group's retro-rock double had become highly unfashionable at the time, arriving at the height of the post-Nirvana alternative bunce, and the album sold indisposed. Under mounting pressure to deliver a more commercial-grade follow-up, Monster Magnet delivered a decidedly sleeker -- though no less quad rock-drenched -- exertion in 1995's Dopes to Infinity. This yielded a Top Ten rock exclusive in "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" and was supported by extensive touring with C.O.C., among others, just the album sold only slightly better than its predecessor.
Finding himself mentally and physically spent in the aftermath, Wyndorf exiled himself to Las Vegas to begin composition the tracks that would form 1998's breakthrough expiration, Powertrip. By far the group's near straightforward hard stone album, Powertrip channeled all of Sin City's vice, greed, and sex into its epicurean just surprisingly accessible tracks, and first single "Blank Lord" went on to rule rock radio that summer, driving the album over the gold gross sales plateau. With raw calendar method of birth control guitar player Phil Caivano in tow, Monster Magnet then embarked on a marathon two-year world tour, both as a headliner and as support to the likes of Aerosmith, Metallica, and Megadeth. By the twelvemonth 2000, the band had contributed the track "Silver grey Future" to the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack and realised work out on their fifth record album, Supreme Being Says No, released in Europe in October. But their new American record book label, Interscope (which had swallowed A&M in a hostile takeover the year before) inexplicably fussed and messed with the record album before last cathartic it domestically in April 2001. Precious impulse and gross sales were therefore missed to an influx of import copies of Deity Says No -- according to to the highest degree veteran fans, already a "hard," overtly commercial album to start with -- and Monster Magnet shortly launch themselves rudely dropped.
Following this out of the blue blow, Wyndorf watched as various bandmembers chased side projects. Ed Mundell recorded a number of well-received albums with his index trio the Atomic Bitchwax, piece Tim Cronin and Jon Kleiman collaborated on the Ribeye Brothers and Gallery of Mites. But, Monster Magnet duly reunited for a short North American circuit in early 2002 and, a year later, a new manage with the German SPV label was proclaimed. Recorded in late 2003, the group's sixth uncut record album, 2004's Monumental Baby!, would be recorded with a new musical rhythm section, these existence bassist Jim Baglino and drummer Bob Pantella. In 2005, Phil Caivano left hand the band amicably, and the rest of the chemical group started recording in L.A. with producer Matt Hyde. Reissues of Tab and Backbone of God were released in the meantime, on with a 20th Century Masters -- Millennium Collection phonograph recording of their greatest hits. In November 2007, later a European circuit, 4-Way Diablo was released.
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