Artist description High Energy Instrumental Math Metal

Music Style Instrumental Math Madness

Musical Influences Fantomas, Ruins, Boredoms, NoMeansNo, King Crimson, Luigi Nono, Naked City, Slayer, Magma, Penderecki,Voivod, and more!

Similar Artists Cross Last of the Luanita's with Don Caballero and early Iron Maiden

Artist History The formed in April 2001 when members of 17956 merged with members of the Feraliminal Lycanthropizers after they returned from their spring European tour. They combined the highly tight, complex presentation of the Math Punk band with the spastic flashy improv of the Avant Jazz band and created the original feel that they had been looking to get for years. Add a second drummer from the rocking bands, Debauchery and Sorrow Bequest and you get the amazing, unstopable sound of BAAMPHF!!

Group Members John Snead : Drums from the feet up Chad The Destroyer Boyd : Runaway Train Guitar Susan Humpries : Demonic She-Bass Craig Hilton : Airplane Crash Guitar Will Connor : Drums from the hands down

Instruments Two Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, Two Trap Kits and scrap metal

Albums Masters of Ji Jia Temple!!

Press Reviews Spectator, JAN. 15, 2002: ...Craig Hilton, also a Dio fan -- whether he admits it or not, is one of the two guitarists for Baamph!, a new Raleigh rock band who will open for Analogue at Kings this weekend. The five piece instrumental outfit has only been together a short while, but has already managed to impress just about everyone who has seen them play live. Baamph! consists of Hilton and Chris Pilion on guitar, Susan Humphries on bass, and both John Snead and Will Conner on drums. Their few shows to date have been intense, loud, and almost completely unpredictable. Baamph!'s songs are removed from any sort of traditional verse-chorus-verse formula, frantically changing pace without warning, yet steering clear of the math-rock stereotype. The band got together shortly after the demise of 17956, of which Humphries, Conner, and Pilion were all members. The three continued playing together after the bands demise; later asking Hilton to join their new project. He agreed and proposed the idea of a second drummer. Conner and Humphries had played in a band several years prior with tandem drummers, which, according to Hilton, "worked out pretty well, so they decided to try it again." "I had been talking to John about the possibility of joining up with us," Hilton says, and as luck would have it, Sorrow Bequest, the metal band that Snead played in for several years, had also just broken up. So he agreed. Hilton, the primary songwriter of the band, attributes the complex song structures to being "trained as a classical guitarist for several years before getting back into the 'rock' scene." While admittedly a fan of bands such as Voi Vod and Killing Joke, Hilton claims that he and Conner are pretty "die hard avant-garde music fans," citing Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, and the Hafler Trio, among others, as influences. "What I listen to on a daily basis sounds nothing like us," Hilton says. Conner, Humphries and Hilton are also involved in the now infamous Centre For Transgressive Behavior, a performance art troupe that uses to noise, nudity and pyrotechnics as their main medium. Their risqué stage antics have become somewhat legendary in this area. Hilton says he started the CTB "about three or four years ago with friends John Dawkins and Steffan Person." He and Dawkins will be going to Europe in October to perform new CTB material in Germany, Sweden, and possibly Spain. In the meantime Baamph!, have recorded a demo tentatively titled, Masters Of Jijia Temple. The five songs were recorded at the Brewery and will hopefully be released for public consumption at some point, but until then, their live shows still come highly recommended. s NC State Technician: Baamphf, who will be headlining, plays guitar-driven instrumental punk rock. Even though it is instrumental guitar-rock, the guitar parts don't resemble guitar solos. It's also hard to call the guitar parts riffs, because riffs tend to repeat, and Baamphf's music keeps heading off in different directions rather than repeating itself. To top it all off, they have two drummers, making for a sound that is very chaotic. It is the kind of punk rock that reminds me of campy horror movies of the '50s and '60s.

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Location Raleigh, North Carolina - USA

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