- Dazzling Killmen
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Dazzling Killmen Origin St. Louis, Missouri area Genres Math rock
Post-hardcoreYears active 1990–1995 Labels Skin Graft Records Associated acts Laddio Bolocko, Brise-Glace Past members Nick Sakes
Darin Gray
Blake Fleming
Tim GarriganDazzling Killmen was a math rock band from the St. Louis, Missouri area. The band combining a punk-inspired noisy ruckus with jazzy Sun Ra-type intelligence and complex arrangements.
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Biography
The group, which formed in 1990, was composed of jazz students—drummer Blake Fleming, bassist Darin Gray, vocalist/guitarist Nick Sakes, and later on guitarist Tim Garrigan.
The Dazzling Killmen caught the attention of Skin Graft Records. They released two full-length albums, as well as several 7" singles before breaking up in the fall of 1995, immediately prior to a planned tour of Japan with Jim O'Rourke.[1]
Today, its members are better-known for their later projects - Nick Sakes has been in bands Colossamite and Sicbay. Darin Gray was in Brise-Glace, and has performed and recorded with Jim O'Rourke and with Glenn Kotche in On Fillmore. Blake Fleming was in Laddio Bolocko, The Mars Volta and Electric Turn to Me. Tim Garrigan, now based in Brooklyn, is a solo performer.
Discography
Albums
- 1992 - Dig Out the Switch CD/LP, Intellectual Convulsion Records
- 1994 - Face of Collapse CD/LP, Skin Graft Records
7" Singles
- 1990 - Numb/Bottom Feeder 7", Sawtooth Records
- Torture/Ghost Limb 7", Crime Life Records
- 1991 - Mother's Day Split 7", Skin Graft/Sluggo Records
- 1993 - Medicine Me/Poptones 7"/Comic Set, Skin Graft Records
Live Albums
Lounge Ax Cassette-Only, Skin Graft Records
Compilations
Recuerda CD, Skin Graft Records (1996)
See also
- List of bands from St. Louis
References
External links
Categories:- Music of St. Louis, Missouri
- American post-hardcore musical groups
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