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David Wyndorf (born October 28, 1956) is an American musician who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for rock band Monster Magnet. He is the frontman and only remaining original member of the band.
Biografia. Nel 1989 ha fondato il gruppo stoner rock Monster Magnet, di cui è cantante, autore, chitarrista e produttore. Discografia. Album in studio con i Monster Magnet. 1991 - Spine of God. 1993 - Superjudge. 1995 - Dopes to Infinity. 1998 - Powertrip. 2000 - God Says No. 2004 - Monolithic Baby! 2007 - 4 Way Diablo. 2010 - Mastermind.
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Beginnings and Spine of God
Original names for the band were Dog of Mystery, Airport 75, Triple Bad Acid and King Fuzz before finally settling on Monster Magnet, taken from the name of a 1960s toy made by Wham-O, which Wyndorf liked when he was a child. In 1989, Monster Magnet released two demo cassettes: Forget About Life, I'm High on Dope and I'm Stoned, What Ya Gonna Do About It?. The band's first "official" release was a single "Lizard Johnny/Freakshop USA" on Long Island-based Circuit Records. The first demo and si...
A&M Records-era and popularity
In 1992, Monster Magnet was signed to A&M Records, and their first album on the label, Superjudge, was released the following year. Despite being released on a major label, it fared poorly commercially. The songs "Twin Earth" and "Face Down" were released as singles (with accompanying videos), but it did little to help promote the album. Dopes to Infinity (1995), the follow-up record, had a hit single, "Negasonic Teenage Warhead", which benefitted from a music video that received regular rota...
Monolithic Baby! and 4-Way Diablo
In 2003, Monster Magnet released Greatest Hits, a double album featuring their best songs, some rarities, and music videos from their time with A&M. They then signed to the European label SPV, and in early 2004 released Monolithic Baby!throughout Europe. The US release followed in May on SPV America. The band had a minor hit with the song "Unbroken (Hotel Baby)". In March 2005, Caivano departed after seven years service in a split described as amicable by Wyndorf. A followup to Monolithic Bab...
Monster Magnet is noted for having a "heavy and spacy sound". They have been described as a "space-metal outfit [that] helped codify the stoner-rock template with their landmark efforts in the early 1990s". The album Superjudge, according to Metal Injection, "helped forge a sound that crafted a band and a genre." Their sound has been described as "...
Television
The television drama series Sons of Anarchyuses Monster Magnet tracks frequently. Those featured include "Monolithic" in season 1 (episode 10), "Radiation Day", "Slut Machine" and "Freeze and Pixelate" in season 2 (episodes 1, 4 and 13), and "100 Million Miles" in season 3 (episode 12). Tracks from the 2001 album God Says No have been used in television series, including the sci-fi TV series Alphas ("Heads Explode"), and The Shield, which featured the track "God Says No" in an early episode....
Film
Tracks from the 1995 album Dopes to Infinity were included on the soundtrack for The Matrix ("Look to Your Orb for the Warning") and The Girl Next Door ("Dopes to Infinity"). The soundtrack of the 1994 movie S.F.W. features an early, otherwise-unreleased version of a song originally from Dopes to Infinity, "Negasonic Teenage Warhead". The 1999 film Beowulf features the track "Lord 13" from Monster Magnet's early 1990s EP Tab during its end credits. The film Boys(1996) features the track "The...
Video games
1. Sony Computer Entertainment's 2007 PlayStation 3 release MotorStorm featured "Powertrip" from Powertrip. 2. Electronic Arts's early 90s release Road Rash featured "Dinosaur Vacume" from Superjudge. 3. Activision Value's 2006 release American Chopper featured "Space Lord". 4. MercurySteam's 2017 release "Raiders of the Broken Planet", later renamed to "Spacelords", featured "Space lord" as the opening theme
As teenagers, Wyndorf and Caivano played in punk/power pop band Shrapnel from the late 1970s until 1985. The band was managed by Legs McNeil, put out two indie singles and an EP on Elektra Records, played with the Ramones at CBGB, featured guitar from future producer Daniel Rey, and appeared both on the Uncle Floyd Show and in a Frank Miller issue ...
Monster Magnet at AllMusic10 apr 2021 · Sono i Monster Magnet e il loro leader, Dave Wyndorf, è uno di quei personaggi dall’aura decisamente pericolosa, ma affascinanti come pochi.
9 lug 2021 · Dave Wyndorf is the leather trouser-clad Lord High Priest Of Stoner Rock. In a scene where drug-hazed rumble trumps personality, the larger-than-life Monster Magnet frontman stands out.
17 mag 2021 · A piece of Dave Wyndorf’s heart will forever be 1971. The Monster Magnet frontman had was just enterin g his teens when rock’n’roll got really freaky. “It was this era when flower power was gone, but psychedelia was still alive - and that psychedelia was bleeding into hard rock,” says Wyndorf.
27 mar 2018 · Led by the enigmatic frontman Dave Wyndorf, the New Jersey five piece are set to unleash their 10th studio album Mindfucker onto the world on March 23rd via Napalm Records, but not before the...
