Balázs Pándi

Balázs Pándi
Birth name	Pándi Balázs
Also known as	666 Cent, Mustache
Born	August 6, 1983
Origin	Budapest, Hungary
Genres	Grindcore free improvisation free jazz metal Noise
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Drums, accordion
Labels	Ad Noiseam Ohm Resistance RareNoise
Associated acts	Venetian Snares Otto von Schirach Merzbow Mats Gustafsson The Blood of Heroes Obake Wormskull The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Zu Rope Cosmetology Slobber Pup To Live and Shave in L.A. Joe Morris Sunn O))) Attila Csihar drMáriás
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Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer. He worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, Last Step To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for Blood of Heroes project.

Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow,^[1] and they have releases three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015), they were joined by Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth.

Balázs started electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album "Sound of Hell" was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and Jamie Saft, and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and Trevor Dunn). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.

Discography

With Merzbow

Year	Title	Label
2010	Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna, 2010/05/18	Dry Lungs
2011	Ducks: Live in NYC	Ohm Resistance
2012	Katowice	Instant Classic

With Merzbow and Mats Gustafsson

Year	Title	Label
2013	Cuts	RareNoise
2015	Live in Tabačka 13/04/12	Tabačka

With Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore

Year	Title	Label
2015	Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper	RareNoise

With Metallic Taste of Blood

Year	Title	Label
2012	Metallic Taste of Blood	RareNoise

With Obake

Year	Title	Label
2011	Obake	RareNoise
2014	Mutations	RareNoise

With Ivo Perelman and Joe Morris

Year	Title	Label
2013	One	RareNoise

With Slobber Pup

Year	Title	Label
2013	Black Aces	RareNoise
2015	Pole Axe	RareNoise

With Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, and Joe Morris

Year	Title	Label
2014	Red Hill	RareNoise

With Rope Cosmetology

Year	Title	Label
2009	Diffusion de la rue de la Double Identité	Karl Schmidt Verlag
2009	Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought)
2009	Discoteca Festival
2011	The Honey Fox in Hare's Longing
2012	Disunion Strips

With Mikołaj Trzaska and Rafal Mazur

Year	Title	Label
2014	Tar & Feathers	Gusstaff

With Wormskull

Year	Title	Label
2011	Sound of Hell	Ad Noiseam

Other appearances

Year	Artist	Title	Label
2007	Venetian Snares	Pink + Green	Planet Mu
2008	Last Step	1961	Planet Mu
2010	The Blood of Heroes	The Blood of Heroes	Ohm Resistance
2011	Submerged	Before Fire I Was Against Other People	Ohm Resistance
2011	Enduser	Even Weight	Ad Noiseam
2011	Imaginary Forces	Uppstigande	Ad Noiseam
2012	The Blood of Heroes	The Waking Nightmare	Ohm Resistance
2012	Loops Haunt	Zenith	Black Acre
2013	To Live and Shave in L.A.	The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply	Monotype
2013	Highness	Hold	Magic Bullet
2013	Les Rhinocéros	Les Rhinocéros II	Tzadik
2014	Loops Haunt	Exits	Black Acre

References

1. Ratliff, Ben (September 27, 2010). "A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village". The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2015.

External links

• Balázs Pándi at Facebook
• Balázs Pándi discography at Discogs
• Balázs Pándi discography at MusicBrainz
• Merzbow Gustafsson Pandi at RareNoise
• Interview at ThisIsNotAScene
• Interview at The Horrible And The Miserable
• Interview at Asymetry festival