Artist description Surgery7 is the fusion of emotional and sonic elements, slammed together with a hard-hitting, eerie array of sound. My sights and standards as a musician are set very high. It is my goal to consistently write and produce powerful music for a broad audience. I have no ties to genre, although "Surgery7" will always be "Surgery7" (i.e. I don't intend to release any rock operas under this alias!). My music will progress as I do and will always be "something more."

Music Style Industrial Electronic Metal

Musical Influences Devin Townsed, A Perfect Circle, NIN, Marylin Manson, Pantera

Similar Artists NIN, Marylin Manson, Ocean Machine(Devin Townsend), A Perfect Circle

Artist History The ideas behind Surgery7 began in mid-late 2000, while spending much of my time hidden in the refuge of my room - the tools of sonic manipulation finally at my disposal. So why "Surgry7"? The amount of time spent writing and experimenting with composition was roughly 8 - 16 hrs every day. Without fail. Days turned into unfound, blurred memories while the nights became a womb for the creation of an intangible being that is now "Surgery7: DARKNESS." Day-to-day routines like eating and sleeping quickly became a thing of the past as I was consumed by a long lost dream. Naturally, my body couldn't keep up with my demands and I found myself becoming ill. I went for visit after visit after visit to the doctors - waiting outside (you guessed it!) surgery number 7. At my worst I had lost about 15kg's (which isn't good when you're only 67kg@6'!!). Going further back, I first started out with music with piano in High School - sometime around 1993. After hearing a few Metallica songs and seeing some of the guitarists playing at school, I started experimenting with guitar. Having some knowledge on piano served as a great reference point for conquering guitar. I used an old Yamaha keyboard with a built in sequencer to learn guitar solos by programming them in note-for-note and then slowing the tempo down. This use of sequencers soon became a tool for my own compositions - my first being an overture for Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in 1994. For this I used "Notator Logic v1.2" on a Macintosh. This in turn gave me a brief exposure to MIDI capabilities. It was very soon after this that I left school to chase bigger and better things. Between 1995 and 1999, after moving to Sydney Australia, I played in several bands, starting out with "Metallica" and "Pantera" covers and soon progressing onto writing my own compositions. I played numerous live performances, the most prominent with "Emodium" at "The Declaration of Independents" in 1998, which was an all-day 12 band feature - with "Cryogenic" being the headliner. After that point, band relations seemed to dwindle so I simply decided to branch off on my own. It wasn't until 1998, after returning to school, that I truly became exposed to the potential presented through music and technology. I primarily used a 16 channel Yamaha sequencer (which was much better than 8 channel, 8 not polyphonic keyboard I had used previously!) drum machines, and keyboard/synths to cover many genres; composing drums and percussion, basslines, and synth parts which was then recorded onto a Fostex 4-track reel-to-reel. From here I'd dub some guitars over the top to give to other bandmembers. I was also composing classical pieces for piano and completed a symphony (with the MIDI sequencer) which featured string, wind, brass, and percussion sections as a major part of my music subject. Throughout 2000 I was exposed to more sotware-based compositional tools and sound editing utilities, such as Fruity Loops, Sound Forge, Cool Edit Pro, Cubase VST, and a whole host of other similar programs. My main tool for composition today is Fruityloops, which is a powerful software drum machine which can also be used to write melodies. At present, I am living on the east coast of Australia, north of Sydney with my eldest daughter. I inject hours of my time every day into writing music, and compose songs almost on a daily basis. Since November 2000 I've completed over 350 songs... a lot crap - some good. I've recently returned to Sydney and gathered some band members for the live thing... so get ready!

Group Members Greg Cooper - composition, engineering, programming, guitars, keyboards, vocals, and production.

Instruments Synth/electronic/samples, guitars

Albums Darkness

Press Reviews Surgery 7 have been a hard band to review, the music’s good, that’s for sure, it’s just hard to pin them down to a particular style, which incidentally is a good thing. Imagine if the Stone Roses hadn’t split and had slowly evolved into an electronic, synth based band. Hard to imagine I know but that’s give you a rough idea of Surgery 7’s sound. Lots of tinkling pianos, sweeping, eerie synth pads, samples and the occasional vocals provided by a vocalist whose style fits in just right. The beats and rhythms driving the songs are spot on to, thundering and devoid of any particular patter, they band and thud at random intervals un yet still just about in time with the rest of the music. It’s strange, ethereal stuff, but likeable, well played and different from a lot of the other artists you find on MP3.com doing similar things. - Chinchilla Music

Location Sydney, NSW - Australia

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