Artist description Put 5 guys, who have a totally different musical taste and perspective, together and you've got a band named Ground Control. Styles of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Korn, Slayer, beastie Boys, Rage against the Machine, Joe Satriani and many others are combined in one formula. NOT the typical "cross-over" sound though....

Music Style Crossover of hardcore, Rap, Rock, and Metal

Musical Influences The rough stuff

Similar Artists Rage against the Machine, Beastie Boys

Artist History Ground Control was formed in 1995 as a metal band, by brothers Jochem and Sander Jacobs. Though, as soon as hardcore/punk fanatics (and cousins) Walter Poppelaars and Bart de Jong arrived, shortly followed by rapper/vocalist Deuce da hatemale, the style soon emerged to the musical cocktail Ground Control produces today. Up until now, Ground Control has released 2 demotapes, called "the infamous 50 bucks tape" and "Access 2 Control" and more recently a CD called "God Mode", which has gotten very positive reviews so far. All of their recordings have been released by the band themselves. The CD has been released under their own label: "Rock-A-Gain records". One month after the CD God Mode was released, Marco Roelofs, the singer of Hollands most famous Punk-band "de Heideroosjes", arranged for them to be on the second installment of a project called "Hollandse Herrie", a compilation Disc of various dutch underground bands, which was released nationwide in several countries, among which: Holland, Belgium and Germany. Ground Control has built up quite a reputation in the Southern part of Holland, winning the popvendetta in 1996, supporting bands like "the Brotherhood Foundation", "Travoltas", and "Right Direction" (Hollands most famous hardcoreband), being elected for the "Breda Barst" and "Wraak van Brabant" festivals, and more recently winning the "kleine prijs van Zundert" Contest, which gave them the right to play at "het 1 tot 1 festival", at which the likes of "the Golden Earring" have played.

Group Members Richard "Deuce" Rietdijk - Vocals, Walter Poppelaars - Guitar, Jochem Jacobs - Guitar, Bart de Jong - Bassguitar, Sander Jacobs - Drumms.

Instruments Vocals, 2 Guitars, a Bassguitar and Drumms.

Albums "the Infamous Fifty Bucks Tape" (demo), "Access 2 Control" (demo), "God Mode" (CD), "Hollandse Herrie 2" (Compilation CD)

Press Reviews The first Ground Control CD "God Mode" has received very positive reviews in the short time it has been out on the streets: "Catchy, inventive, tight and damn, it even swings!" (pobsession), "The production is Brilliant!" (Pobsession), "this CD is the evidence that their funkmetal is Millenium-proof" (BN/ de stem)

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Location Breda - Netherlands

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