Artist description Adam Christian is a solo artist from Pittsburgh. His music is a mix of trance-influenced Goth with a touch of hard-edge industrial. Music for a rainy evening.

Music Style Gothic/Industrail

Musical Influences Cure/Peter Gabriel/Orbital/Pink Floyd/Pale Saints

Similar Artists Mistle Thrush/Delerium/Cure/Red House Painters

Artist History Adam Christian grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, playing guitar with various garage bands. Eventually, while attending art school, he began to experiment with audio recording and expanded his selection of instruments. While spending two years as a designer in New York, he was able to continue adding equipment to his growing studio. Soon after moving back to his hometown, he started Ground Zero Recording and began free-lance engineering. Still playing with a constantly changing line-up of musicians and working on assorted side projects, Adam finished his first full-length work and decided to go solo. Now, after countless hours of studio and live performance, as well as recently locating to Atlanta, several professionally recorded works are available.

Group Members Recording at Ground Zero, his studio, Christian performs all of his own music. Playing live, though, he sings and plays guitar while backing tracks provide the drums and keyboards. "Live, I usually have a bass player and a keyboardist," it’s constantly changing as people get sick of me." Christian laughs after this comment. Most people who know him think of him as painfully nice.

Instruments All

Albums One Star to the Head/Thirty Pounds of Sleep - The Black Bible

Press Reviews Toiling in secrecy and obscurity, local gothic/industrial artist Adam Christian was suddenly brought to international scrutiny in ’98 as a "revelation" on the Cleopatra Records compilation "The Black Bible" which brought together legends of yesteryear, current stars an up-and-comers of the genre. Now his double-length CD "One Star to the Head & Thirty Pounds of Sleep" promises to bring him some much warranted regional notoriety as well. The CD’s two sections delineate the split sides of Christian’s musical personality. 'One Star' is by and large a rather mellow disk of Euro-shaded darkwave, with moody, shimmering guitars and minor-key synth colorings holding sway. Christian’s vocals retain the sorrowful-angst affection of Xymox or Red House Painters, with the more straight-ahead pop songs such as "Moment of Clarity" capturing a thoughtful cross between mid-80’s Joy Division wannabes (such as Trisomie 21 and Siglo XX) and today’s neo-goth proponents like Bella Morte and Malign. Meanwhile, the program is interspersed with apocalyptic instrumentals featuring spooky, industrial atmospherics and stark piano ("Non-Fiction" and "Tin Soldiers") and the occasional quiet, contemplative nod to the windswept Laterna/Area axis ("Number One Fan"). In contrast, 'Thirty Pounds' sees Christian adopting a lower, gothic tone of command, drenched in reverb `a la Peter Murphy, as he places ominous, noisy guitars and mechanical percussion up front for the dancefloor, where cheerily-titled thumpers such as "Death & Burial" and "Self-Destruction" might keep the crowd twirling Lestat and Rosetta Stone. The best thing to be said about Adam Christian’s debut is that despite the fact that there’s very little original room to move in the G/I realm (the very term implies "doomed to a subcultural pigeonhole" at this point), he displays more than ample creativity and variation, showing a great deal of poignant emotion and attention to sonic detail. Worldwide fans of this musical style will doubtless think the same. -Full reprint from In Pittsburgh magazine volume 15, number 23, 01/13/99 2000 East Carson street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 (412)488-1212

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Location Pittsburgh, PA - USA

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