Spahn Ranch is the name of two bands:
1. An industrial group from LA Read Full Bio ↴Spahn Ranch is the name of two bands:
1. An industrial group from LA
2. A post-punk act from Detroit
The first and most well known is the Los Angeles electronic-industrial music group, formed in 1992 by Matt Green and his New York-based collaborator, Rob Morton. The group signed to Cleopatra Records. That same year, a self-titled, four-song EP with vocals supplied by Scott Franklin (later to become bassist for The Cramps), was released. In 1993, they added vocalist Athan Maroulis and recorded their debut album Collateral Damage. Their sophomore effort, The Coiled One, appeared two years later in the midst of Morton leaving the band due to creative and logistical differences. After his departure, the line-up was expanded to include Christian Death drummer David Glass, Screams for Tina guitarist Kent Bancroft, and Tubalcain drummer Harry Lewis. This offered a beginning of the fuller, more diverse, dark electro-industrial sound that Spahn Ranch would continue to pursue. By 1997 Spahn Ranch pared themselves down to a tight, three-piece unit of Green, Maroulis and Lewis.
Architecture, released in 1997, featured contributions from Killing Joke/Prong bassist Paul Raven and Rockats/Nancy Sinatra guitarist Danny B. Harvey. This album took an even more experimental appraoch to the Spahn Ranch sound, incorporating elements of drum and bass, dub and for the first time, live guitar parts. Beat Noir, in 1998, followed a similar path even further and included work with Bauhaus/Love & Rockets bassist David J.The band regularly toured throughout North America during their existence with the likes of Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Switchblade Symphony and The Electric Hellfire Club. Spahn Ranch also made a couple of European treks prior to their demise as a group in 2000. Closure was a posthumous release in 2001 of their final album recorded in 2000.
The second band was formed in Detroit, MI in 1986 and released one album in 1987 called Thickly Settled. In it's infancy, the band played in many local venues on the bill with various local bands. Quickly a strong following developed, which immediately precipitated a self titled cassette release of six tracks on the Ikthus Network label. After having missed their own billing at a show, the band was introduced to Eric Cope of Insight Records from San Francisco, CA. He offered them a contract with Insight after reviewing their cassette and video work. The band accepted and began recording their first LP, 'Thickly Settled' in California where they were welcomed by receptive audiences. 'Thickly Settled' was hailed as one of the best albums of the year by England's Underground Magazine, and also met favorable reception in the U.S.A. None of the members of Spahn Ranch had any formal music training and had not played an instrument prior to forming the group. "The sound they create is tense and raw, not polished to distract from the music itself. Drummer Odell Nails lays down a thick, almost tribal drum beat, accompanied by Hobey Echlin's bass foundation for the music. Guitarist Bradley Horowitz adds the energetic, consuming guitar melodies, changing the tunings for each song in order to make no two sets alike. Bob Sterner's vocals with a touch of folk influence, mesh with the instrumental sounds that give the finished product, intense music which envelopes and audience." Hobey Echlin later joined the band as bassist.
1. An industrial group from LA
1. An industrial group from LA
2. A post-punk act from Detroit
The first and most well known is the Los Angeles electronic-industrial music group, formed in 1992 by Matt Green and his New York-based collaborator, Rob Morton. The group signed to Cleopatra Records. That same year, a self-titled, four-song EP with vocals supplied by Scott Franklin (later to become bassist for The Cramps), was released. In 1993, they added vocalist Athan Maroulis and recorded their debut album Collateral Damage. Their sophomore effort, The Coiled One, appeared two years later in the midst of Morton leaving the band due to creative and logistical differences. After his departure, the line-up was expanded to include Christian Death drummer David Glass, Screams for Tina guitarist Kent Bancroft, and Tubalcain drummer Harry Lewis. This offered a beginning of the fuller, more diverse, dark electro-industrial sound that Spahn Ranch would continue to pursue. By 1997 Spahn Ranch pared themselves down to a tight, three-piece unit of Green, Maroulis and Lewis.
Architecture, released in 1997, featured contributions from Killing Joke/Prong bassist Paul Raven and Rockats/Nancy Sinatra guitarist Danny B. Harvey. This album took an even more experimental appraoch to the Spahn Ranch sound, incorporating elements of drum and bass, dub and for the first time, live guitar parts. Beat Noir, in 1998, followed a similar path even further and included work with Bauhaus/Love & Rockets bassist David J.The band regularly toured throughout North America during their existence with the likes of Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Switchblade Symphony and The Electric Hellfire Club. Spahn Ranch also made a couple of European treks prior to their demise as a group in 2000. Closure was a posthumous release in 2001 of their final album recorded in 2000.
The second band was formed in Detroit, MI in 1986 and released one album in 1987 called Thickly Settled. In it's infancy, the band played in many local venues on the bill with various local bands. Quickly a strong following developed, which immediately precipitated a self titled cassette release of six tracks on the Ikthus Network label. After having missed their own billing at a show, the band was introduced to Eric Cope of Insight Records from San Francisco, CA. He offered them a contract with Insight after reviewing their cassette and video work. The band accepted and began recording their first LP, 'Thickly Settled' in California where they were welcomed by receptive audiences. 'Thickly Settled' was hailed as one of the best albums of the year by England's Underground Magazine, and also met favorable reception in the U.S.A. None of the members of Spahn Ranch had any formal music training and had not played an instrument prior to forming the group. "The sound they create is tense and raw, not polished to distract from the music itself. Drummer Odell Nails lays down a thick, almost tribal drum beat, accompanied by Hobey Echlin's bass foundation for the music. Guitarist Bradley Horowitz adds the energetic, consuming guitar melodies, changing the tunings for each song in order to make no two sets alike. Bob Sterner's vocals with a touch of folk influence, mesh with the instrumental sounds that give the finished product, intense music which envelopes and audience." Hobey Echlin later joined the band as bassist.
Don't Blow Your Top
Spahn Ranch Lyrics
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En Esch I'm obsessed and deranged for I am destined to rule And…
ESCH I'm obsessed and deranged for I am destined to rule And…
Esch/KMFDM/Meyer/Sascha Konietzko I'm obsessed and deranged for I am destined to rule And…
K.M.F.D.M_ I'm obsessed and deranged for I am destined to rule And…
KMFDM I'm obsessed and deranged for I am destined to rule And…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Spahn Ranch:
A Depression Glass He has another gun Armed and wrong He makes his way She t…
A Picture The phone buzzed silent Back at my desk Piling the reminde…
Anti-Body Given viral fluid to the fourth power Synthetic crematorium …
Antibody Given viral fluid to the fourth power Synthetic crematorium…
Babel The eyes quite sanely Reach to explain The bruising year …
Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys People, white is white ? black is clover Together we'll be…
Breath and Taxes I can breathe When it was revealed Became what you hate B…
Cesium 137 Pierce my eyes Tell me stories Rip my wrist Disciplined s…
Compression Test The corner of decision Sedatives labor shift Driven by cau…
Con Smiles so you can see The pearly sharp, the father hat Mov…
Destruction Watch one choosing paths Watch rooms filling gas Another s…
Embodied Another hour burned It seems to take away The screen charm…
Forceps The machines hum turning Delivering the paper So you can s…
Futurist Limited Singed memory That you're paging through Born between the …
Futurist Unlimited The sameness of ends A city of endings Catharos Develop a…
Heretic's Fork Pull the curtain over the head Blackened by all the needs …
In The Aftermath A juggler Breathes this hour Knows the wire of indecision …
Infrastructure Seen this before Infrastructure…
Laurels Above the crowd Behind the panes of glass Seen the dreams …
Locusts I could see the other end Repeat as necessary A beam shown…
Monochrome Blue eyed eugenics They play the pictures Spilled out on p…
Peel Peel the skin Black shiny long Extend Pool the mouth Com…
Phase When I'm blind you are not there There's no meaning to…
Quince Come lay down to see Cancers' cure the aches of head Yes…
Rationale You've fallen victim To your story It took all of me To c…
Reasons Another fall insert here You'll find the way if you hear A…
Remnants From the lines you read They have you believe That there i…
Shot Down in Flames Out on the town, looking for a woman Gonna give me…
Stoma If she could just touch Methodical tongue Move the picture…
Succumber I am Martin Boorman Pornographer, scum Same feelings Same…
Swim Put Your Head On My Shoulder Baby? Things Can′t Get Any…
Syndrome Exhibit The mass curtains and tape Plagued time and again An expos…
Test My Reaction View a world twisting May have always been this way Embitt…
The Catalyst In the waiting room Climbed the length Of the wall Scene …
The Conversation In a room darkened Like a calming plain Draped longingly …
The Judas Cradle From the hanging cages Radiate the forger's pen Taken for th…
The Last Laugh Swimming in cesspools In a school called a city Now a vacu…
The Missing Frame Listen to the voice As it says Sorting through the pretens…
The River And they came to the river And they came from the…
The Warmth of Silence The scene arranged She carefully placed each As if she cou…
Threnody Your plan devised A battery of words Where fueled by self …
Vortex Breathing an image Unrivaled in this form Planned movement…
Wires His neck taught the wire And new knew the ending Ribbons r…
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