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For|the Acid Bath Murderer|John George HaighInfobox musical artist| | name = Acid Bath| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Houma, Louisiana , United States|US | genre = Sludge metal , stoner metal , doom metal | years_active = 1991–1997| label =| associated_acts = Agents of Oblivion , Deadboy & the Elephantmen , Goatwhore , Crowbar (US band)|Crowbar , Shrum (band)|Shrüm | current_members =| past_members = Sammy "Pierre" Duet Mike Sanchez Joseph Fontenot Jimmy Kyle Audie Pitre Tommy Viator Dax Riggs Acid Bath was a seminal United States|American Heavy metal music|heavy metal band from Houma, Louisiana|Houma , Louisiana that was active from 1991 to 1997. Acid Bath combined doom metal roots with influences from black metal , death metal , gothic rock , blues , Folk music|folk , and Country music|country ."Modern hardcore music scene". Metalhammer magazine No.32.Mahoney, Steve (March 30, 1995). http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=MWSB& p_theme=mwsb& p_action=search& p_maxdocs=200& p_topdoc=1& p_text_direct-0=0EB828D4BAF75B4C& p_field_direct-0=document_id& p_perpage=10& p_sort=YMD_date:D& s_trackval=GooglePM "Acid Bath's not famous but it is one hot band". jsonline.com , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . In a Pit Magazine interview, vocalist Dax Riggs classified their sound as "death rock"cite web|url= http://www.skeletalcircus.com/acidbath/media.php |title=Dax Riggs' Skeletal Circus • Acid Bath • In the Media |archiveurl= http://replay.web.archive.org/20081207161620/ http://www.skeletalcircus.com/acidbath/media.php |archivedate=2008-12-07 |publisher=skeletalcircus.com (referring to death as a dominant lyrical theme, rather than deathrock ), and also classified the band's music as a blending of stoner metal and doom metal. In another interview, guitarist Sammy Duet described their sound as "gothic hardcore". http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=u76Knw4tuQo "*FULL* Acid Bath Interview". YouTube.com. User:thelostcollection (Dax Riggs).
Biography
Acid Bath was an incarnation of two bands, Dark Karnival which featured Audie Pitre, Sammy "Pierre" Duet, and Disincarnate|Tommy Viator , and Dax Riggs#Golgotha|Golgotha which featured Dax Riggs , Mike Sanchez, Chris VicknairCitation needed|reason=I can't find a source that lists or mentions the person Chris Vicknair in relation to Golgotha or Acid Bath|date=January 2012, Jimmy Kyle, and Jerry "Boon" Businelli. Golgotha's bassists were in frequent rotation finally culminating with Chad Pierce, who would then be succeeded by Pitre during Acid Bath's formation. Tommy Viator was later replaced by Jimmy Kyle on drums but would return to play keyboards toward the end of the band's career. Joseph J. Fontenot was the bassist for a short period of time and so was Hans van den AardwegCitation needed|reason=I can't find a source that lists or mentions the person Hans van den Aardweg in relation to Golgotha or Acid Bath|date=January 2012.
Acid Bath was formed in 1991. The band was based south of New Orleans in several small towns including Houma, Louisiana|Houma , Thibodaux, Louisiana|Thibodaux , Morgan City, Louisiana|Morgan City and Galliano, Louisiana|Galliano . Influenced by thrash metal as well as bands and artists such as Black Sabbath , AliceCooper , Celtic Frost , Carcass (band)|Carcass and Darkthrone , they recorded their demo Hymns of the Needle Freak with their manager and producer Keith Falgout in 1993. The strength of the demo earned them a deal with an independent label. They released When the Kite String Pops produced by Spike Cassidy in 1994, followed two years later by their second and final effort Paegan Terrorism Tactics (also produced by Keith Falgout). Neither gained them mainstream success by any means, but both albums earned a high degree of underground acclaim. In 2005, another album composed of their demos, Demos: 1993 - 1996 , was released.
Break up and subsequent projects
After two studio albums, Acid Bath's career came to an abrupt close on January 23, 1997 when bass guitar ist Audie Pitre and his parents were killed by a drunk driver who ran a stop sign.
While rumors of another album circulated after the band's end, nothing new surfaced. The supposed album was named "Killer Rat Poison". Tommy Viator played keyboards on this album. Sammy Duet has only given out copies to a few close friends because he used some of the riffs for Goatwhore's earlier material. http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/lane/gd36/ant/abbio.html Acid Bath Setch's Unofficial Site. DialSpace fan page.
Tommy Viator played drums on Disincarnate|Disincarnate's album Dreams of the Carrion Kind with the well-known death metal guitarist James Murphy (guitarist)|James Murphy . Dax Riggs and Mike Sanchez went on to perform in the band Agents of Oblivion , releasing one self-titled album in 2000 and disbanding shortly thereafter. Starting in 2000, Riggs was also the frontman for the swamp rock band Deadboy & the Elephantmen , before he began releasing material under his own name in 2007. Sammy Pierre Duet was once a member of Crowbar (US band)|Crowbar , but has since left the band. He is now a member of the blackened death metal band Goatwhore and Ritual Killer and his doom metal band with Kelly Pitre (the brother of Audie) Vual (band)|Vual . Sammy Duet has remained an open satanist since his days in Acid Bath. Audie had formed a unique metal band in 1995, blending black metal vocals with the heavy sound of multiple bassists with no guitars, known as Audie Pitre|Shrüm . Tommy Viator and Joseph Fontenot were also members of Shrüm. Shrüm utilized two distorted low-end basses, and Fontenot would alternate between playing a distorted high-end bass and a clean bass. Fontenot later joined Devourment to play bass for a couple years.
Musical style and legacy
Acid Bath are best known for blending extreme, grindcore -influenced sludge metal with a mixture of death growls and melancholic Gothic rock|goth / grunge -style vocals and acoustic guitar passages, as well as use of Sampling (music)|sampling and the spoken word poetry. The band sampled sound clips from controversial movies including Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet and A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange . Dax Riggs' vocals were processed, which produced an Industrial music|industrial feel; some other instruments have been processed through industrial effects in their recordings (such as the snare drum on the second half of "New Death Sensation"). One of Acid Bath's most trademark sounds was the way in which they crafted multiple tempo changes and worked them into the song structure. Their experimentation drifted into diverse territory. The song "Scream of the Butterfly" is an acoustic blues song with the drummer utilizing double bass drum patterns toward the end of the song. The song "The Bones of Baby Dolls" experiments with folk music|folk musicianship, and the song "Dead Girl" is a country music|country song and was described as such by Dax Riggs.
Dax Riggs' lyrics are frequently poetic, oftentimes displaying an obsession with death, drug use, mental illness, dark humor, Louisiana-based regional culture, and continuous references to animism as well as paganism, nihilism, and misanthropy. He has claimed these inspirations are culled from comic books, namely those authored by Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller , Alan Moore , and Clive Barker , and has also expressed admiration for ANSWER Me! and Boiled Angel . Allmusic 's William York has stated that the song "Venus Blue" could have been a radio hit "if not for the graphic lyrics".Allmusic|class=album|id=r261808|pure_url=yes "Paegan Terrorism Tactics > Overview". AllMusic.com. Another facet of their presentation which may not have endeared them to popular sentiment was the use of art by John Wayne Gacy and Dr. Jack Kevorkian . Due to the controversy surrounding Kevorkian's artwork For He Is Raised on the album, Paegan Terrorism Tactics was initially banned from Australia. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=OUJu8H7QWkA "Acid Bath radio interview on 106.7 The End". YouTube.com. User:thelostcollection (Dax Riggs). The ban has since been lifted. The cover of the band's 1994 extended play simply entitled Edits featured the artwork of Richard Ramirez http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Acid_Bath/Edits/25134#album_tabs_notes. cite web|title=Acid Bath Edits|url= http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Acid_Bath/Edits/25134#album_tabs_notes|work=Acid Bath Discography|accessdate=24 January 2012 The cover of their 1996 compilation entitled Radio Edits featured the artwork of Kenneth Bianchi http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Acid_Bath/Radio_Edits/25133#album_tabs_notes.cite web|title=Acid Bath Radio Edits|url= http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Acid_Bath/Radio_Edits/25133#album_tabs_notes|work=Acid Bath Discography|accessdate=24 January 2012 Their song Paegan Terrorism Tactics|Diäb Soulé (The "Drunken Devil" in Cajun-French) starts out with an audio sample of Jim Jones of the People's Temple screaming. Their song When the Kite String Pops|Toubabo Koomi is Cajun-French for the "Land of White Cannibals."
Despite only releasing two albums, as well as a number of radio edits and an official bootleg DVD, Acid Bath have gained a strong underground following (especially in Louisiana ) owing to the unique, experimental nature of their music.
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