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Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, comedian, and presenter. After performing in the short-lived hardcore punk band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986.
[31] The Beaver County Times labelled it the band's "most proactive album" in May 1994, saying "poet, author and rock icon Henry Rollins — whose band laid the groundwork for the current 'message metal' — has some advice for the angst-ridden: Stop whining about systemic oppression; change is up to the individual."
- Weight (1994) After Andrew Weiss’ dismissal from the group, the addition of jazz bassist Melvin Gibbs proved to be a perfect foil for Haskett and Cain.
- The End of Silence (1992) The End of Silence was recorded with Andy Wallace after the band’s appearance on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour. It was a shrewd appointment, as the producer had just mixed Nirvana’s Nevermind, which was mere weeks old as the Rollins Band entered Showplace Studios in New Jersey.
- Life Time (1987) Following the dissolution of Black Flag, the vocalist returned almost immediately with two releases: the album Hot Animal Machine (as Henry Rollins) and the Drive by Shooting EP (as Henrietta Collins and The Wifebeating Childhaters).
- Come In And Burn (1997) The band’s debut for major label Dreamworks was stalled by a legal dispute with their former label Imago. Given extra time to work on their follow-up to Weight, guitarist Chris Haskett told this writer that the results were overthought by the time they joined Steve Thompson at Bearsville Studios in upstate New York (where the producer helped mix Metallica’s divisive 1988 set …And Justice For All).
The most searing image of Henry Rollins is on the cover of Black Flag’s 1981 album Damaged, where he is punching out his own reflection in a mirror. That photo and record set the stage for a ...
- Many of Undertow‘s songs had already been written by the time Tool recorded the Opiate EP. Maynard James Keenan and Adam Jones began writing songs together in 1987, and had thus amassed a substantial amount of material by the time Tool signed with Zoo Entertainment in 1992.
- The album’s intense, “reactionary” energy was partly a reaction to Maynard’s experiences in the film business – and to the band’s brushes with the Hollywood hair-metal scene.
- Maynard shot a piano to death for “Disgustipated.” During the recording of “Disgustipated,” the album’s creepy closing cut, Massy added to the aural nightmarishness of the track by recording Keenan firing four rounds from a shotgun into an old upright piano.
- Adam Jones kept his guitar head stored in a refrigerator during the making of the album. Back during the early Nineties, if someone talked about keeping a head in their refrigerator, gruesome images of mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer would have been the first thing to come to mind.
Feb 9, 2021 · Don’t mistake the liminal place of Hard Volume in the Rollins catalogue as a sign of its insignificance: this is an album of back-to-front scorchers, a point of arrival as much as a stepping stone to the bluesier, funkier sound that would elevate Rollins Band to commercial success in the 90s.
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Undertow is the debut studio album by the American rock band Tool, released on April 6, 1993, by Zoo Entertainment. Produced by the band and Sylvia Massy, it was recorded from October to December 1992 at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys and Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood.
