Peculate (band)
Peculate | |
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Background information | |
Origin | USA |
Genres | Avant-garde metal, progressive metal, progressive rock, experimental, avant-garde, mathcore, djent, contemporary classical, jazz fusion, 12-tone serialism |
Years active | 2012—present |
Labels | Independent |
Website | Peculate.co |
Members | Ben Norton |
Peculate is an American avant-garde metal and progressive metal band, formed in 2012. Peculate "combines metal, djent, jazz, contemporary classical, avant-garde, electronic, and experimental music together to create progressive music with punk sensibilities."[1] Much of Peculate's music is composed using the 12-tone technique.[2] Metal blog Invisible Oranges describes the hallmarks of the band's sound as the "utilization of twelve-tone technique, the Zappa jazz fusion tangents, and the Devin Townsend-esque attention to production details."[3]
Peculate is a project of composer and musician Ben Norton.[4] Norton releases all of Peculate's material for free on the band's Bandcamp website.
"This Sick Beat™"
Peculate generated controversy for a song it released on 31 January 2015 titled "This Sick Beat™." Norton says he wrote the song in protest of Taylor Swift's application to trademark phrases such as "This Sick Beat."[5] The lyrics of the song consist almost exclusively of the phrase "this sick beat."
In the description on the video he uploaded of the song, Norton wrote "Trademarks of common idioms such as this are a direct attack on one of the most fundamental and inalienable rights of all: our freedom of speech. If you give the bourgeoisie an inch, they will take a mile... and everything else you have in the process. They have already privatized land, water, and words. After language, they will next try to privatize air. But, although the rich can try, they will never truly own the words we use and the language we speak."[6]
The song was featured in Billboard,[7] TIME,[8] NME,[9] Yahoo! Music,[10] The Independent,[11] and more.
Ben Norton published an official statement about the song on his website, detailing what exactly his intentions were with the song and how he believe the media misrepresented it.[12]
Discography
Studio albums
- There Are No Angels (December 2015)
- The Chain Industry (July 2014)
- In Two (A) (March 2014)
- Anti-Christ(mas) (December 2013)
- Fiscal Cliffs (September 2013) [13]
EPs
- Mines in the Sand (July 2015)
- Bouazizi (December 2014)
- The Anarchist Prince (Tracks 1 and 2, July 2013; tracks 3-5, November 2013)
- Pax Tecum (July 2013)
- The Great Gesticulator (May 2013)
- Collateral Damage, Pt. I (March 2013)
Singles
- A Lesson in Mortality (April 2015)
- Love Is a Bourgeois Construct (March 2015), which Norton describes as a "very loose arrangement (ahem, derangement) of Pet Shop Boys' 'Love Is a Bourgeois Construct'" with counterpoint "based on this material and the theme of Pachelbel's Canon"
- This Sick Beat™ (January 2015)
- Hot Air (February 2014)
- Get Engaged (November 2013), what Norton calls a progressive metal "derangement" of the [Bridal Chorus] from Wagner's Lohengrin
- PARTY! (October 2013)
- Skinner Box Mortgage (August 2013)
Videography
- A Lesson in Mortality (April 2015)
- Love Is a Bourgeois Construct (March 2015)
- This Sick Beat™ (January 2015)
- Middle of the Railroad (May 2014)[14]
- PARTY! (October 2013)
- Cut! Cut! Cut! (September 2013)
- Skinner Box Mortgage (August 2013)
External links
- Official website
- Official Bandcamp page
- Official YouTube page
- Official Facebook page
- Official Twitter page
- Official Soundcloud page
References
- ↑ "Got-Djent". Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ↑ Tremblay, Dæv. "Protists, Spicy food, 12-tone and Politics: An Interview with Ben Norton, Head, Body and Mind of Peculate". Can This Even Be Called Music?. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ↑ Chainey, Ian. "Peculate – The Chain Industry". Invisible Oranges. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Official Website". Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ↑ "This Metalhead's Protest Song Perfectly Takes Down Taylor Swift's 'Trademark' Lyrics". Mic.
- ↑ "Peculate - This Sick Beat™ (Lyric Video)". YouTube. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Taylor Swift's Trademark Act Met With Metal Protest Song". Billboard. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark “This Sick Beat” So Somebody Wrote a Metal Song to Protest It". TIME. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Metal band record protest song after Taylor Swift trademarks 'this sick beat' – listen". NME. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Take That Sick Beat: Metal Dude Challenges Taylor Swift's Lyrical Trademark". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Taylor Swift attacked for 'This Sick Beat' trademark by metal dude on YouTube". The Independent. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ Norton, Ben. "Official Statement on ‘This Sick Beat™,’ Trademarks, and Taylor Swift". Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ Metal Underground. "Peculate Releases "Fiscal Cliffs" LP, Posts New Lyric Video"". Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ↑ "Peculate Releases "Middle Of The Railroad" Video". Metal Underground. Retrieved 31 May 2014.