Seattle, Washington, United States (1997 – 2007)
The Blood Brothers were an American post-hardcore band formed in Seattle, Washington, United Stateson September 27, 1997, who officially announced their breakup in October 2007. Their music combinedpunk influences with an experimental edge and abstract lyrics. Members were: Jordan Blilie (vocals),Johnny Whitney (vocals), and Morgan Henderson (bass), along with Waxwing’s Cody Votolato (guitar) and Mark Gajadhar (drums).
The band was considered unusual in that it had two dedicated lead vocalists. In addition to this, Cody and Morgan performed back-up vocals. Later albums (…Burn, Piano Island, Burn and especially Crimes) featured a degree of experimental instrumentation: Morgan often deviated from bass to add a second guitar or synthesiser, and also utilized a sampler. Johnny added piano/Wurlitzer to many more songs, a process which actually began on “Time for Tenderness” from This Adultery Is Ripe. He has claimed he always wanted to incorporate such instruments into the Blood Brothers’ sound, but only on signing with a major label prior to …Burn, Piano Island, Burn did he have the means to do this.
The band has been described as punk, hardcore, post-hardcore, spazzcore and even extremo andsasscore (see Alternative Press Issue from October 2005). In small circles discussions of the band related with the concept that they have influences from the no wave punk scene of the 1980’s. The band made wide use of various punk/hardcore vocal styles (i.e. screaming) and instrumentation (i.e., fast drumming and plentiful power chords).
While two ‘lead’ vocalists produced a unique spectacle, the on stage aura they produced was due in great part to the band’s musicality. Blilie and Whitney’s voices tended to overlap in the style of punk guitar rhythm/lead arrangements. The two vocalists contrasted each other to good effect: Whitney’s voice was generally accepted to have evolved from the slurred, venomous drawl on This Adultery Is Ripe to the insanely high-pitched squeals (“like a child being tortured”) heard on Crimes, while Blilie’s maintained the same low, robust ferocity throughout so that his screams continue to stand out in much of their material.
Whitney performed vocals for the now defunct Soiled Doves. Whitney is now a part of Jaguar Love with other ex-Blood Brothers member Cody Votolato and Pretty Girls Make Graves’ Jay Clark. In August 2007 Mark Gajadhar and ‘Pearl Dragon’ joined together to create a pop/hip-hop act by the name ofChampagne Champagne. Jordan Blilie, Mark Gajadhar and Morgan Henderson formed the band Past Lives in late 2007, with original Blood Brothers guitarist Devin Welch.
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Studio Album
This Adultery Is Ripe
Track Listing :
1 "Rescue" - 2:06
2 "Doctor! Doctor!" - 3:29
3 "The Face in the Embryo" - 2:21
4 "James Brown" - 1:05
5 "Mutiny on the Ark of the Blood Brothers" - 2:09
6 "Jordan Billie Pets the Wild Horse's Mane" - 1:47
7 "Marooned on Piano Island" - 1:55
8 "This Adultery Is Ripe" - 1:37
9 "Time for Tenderness" - 3:24
10 "Jennifer" - 1:54
Released : 2000
Genre : Post hardcore
Label : Second Nature
Producer : Matt Bayles
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March on Electric Children
Track Listing :
1 "Birth Skin/Death Leather" - 1:43
2 "Meet Me at the Water Front After the Social" - 2:46
3 "March on Electric Children!" - 3:03
4 "New York Slave" - 2:44
5 "Kiss of the Octopus" - 2:39
6 "Siamese Gun" - 3:21
7 "Mr. Electric Ocean" - 2:16
8 "Junkyard J. vs. the Skin Army Girlz/High Fives, LA Hives" - 2:57
9 "American Vultures" - 3:27
Released : February 25, 2002
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Track Listing :
"Guitarmy" 0:39
"Fucking's Greatest Hits" 2:59
"Burn, Piano Island, Burn" 3:48
"Every Breath Is a Bomb" 4:45
"Ambulance vs. Ambulance" 2:52
"USA Nails" 5:11
"Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon" 4:53
"Six Nightmares at the Pinball Masquerade" 4:16
"The Salesman, Denver Max" 4:31
"I Know Where the Canaries and the Crows Go" 3:26
"God Bless You, Blood Thirsty Zeppelins" 4:49
"The Shame" 5:34
Released : March 18, 2003
Genre : Post hardcore, experimental rock, art punk
Label : Reincarnate Music, V2 Records
Producer : Ross Robinson
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Crimes
Track Listing :
1 "Feed Me to the Forest" – 2:23
2 "Trash Flavored Trash" – 2:38
3 "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck" – 3:14
4 "Peacock Skeleton with Crooked Feathers" – 4:31
5 "Teen Heat" – 2:07
6 "Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy" – 3:52
7 "Crimes" – 4:00
8 "My First Kiss at the Public Execution" – 2:50
9 "Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret" – 3:12
10 "Beautiful Horses" – 1:47
11 "Wolf Party" – 3:28
12 "Celebrator" – 2:16
13 "Devastator" – 2:45
Released : March 18, 2003
Genre : Post hardcore, experimental rock, art punk
Label : Reincarnate Music, V2 Records
Producer : Ross Robinson
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Young Machetes
Track Listing :
1 "Set Fire to the Face on Fire" - 2:19
2 "We Ride Skeletal Lightning" - 3:22
3 "Laser Life" - 2:44
4 "Camouflage, Camouflage" - 4:54
5 "You're the Dream Unicorn!" - 2:18
6 "Vital Beach" - 2:35
7 "Spit Shine Your Black Clouds" - 4:20
8 "1, 2, 3, 4 Guitars" - 3:35
9 "Lift the Veil, Kiss the Tank" - 4:05
10 "Nausea Shreds Yr Head" - 2:10
11 "Rat Rider" - 2:03
12 "Johnny Ripper" - 2:39
13 "Huge Gold AK-47" - 2:31
14 "Street Wars/Exotic Foxholes" - 5:31
15 "Giant Swan" - 5:51
Released : October 10, 2006
Genre : Post hardcore
Label : V2 Records
Producer : Guy Picciotto & John Goodmanson
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EP's
Rumors Laid Waste
Track Listing :
1 "Gagged in a Casket" - 2:11
2 "Rumors Laid Waste" - 1:09
3 "Boy Armageddon" - 1:55
4 "Lost Boys" - 1:27
5 "Red Blooded American Girls" - 1:54
6 "While the Party Was Kissing" - 1:31
7 "1, 2, 3, 4 Act Two: Now You're the Bitch..." - 1:21
8 "Blood Bank" - 1:26
9 "Data Perversion" - 2:14
Released : 2003
Genre : Post hardcore
Label : Luckyhorse
Producer : Jake Snider
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Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck
Track Listing :
1 "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck"
2 "Ladies and Gentlemen"
3 "Metronomes"
4 "Crimes" (Alt. Version)
5 "Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers" (Alt. Version)
6 "Anthrax" (Remix of a Gang of Four song)
7 "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck" (Live)
Released : July 12, 2005
Genre : Post hardcore
Label : V2 Record
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