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Artist
Orchid
12+ albums
screamoemo violencehardcoredoom metalreal screamo
about
There are at least 11 artists called Orchid: 1. A screamo/emoviolence band from Amherst, Massachusetts; 2. A doom metal band from San Francisco, California; 3. Helix Tears and Bloodhounds singer/rappper, https://soundcloud.com/0rch_id; 4. An pop band from Poznan, Poland; 5. A rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia; 6. An alias of Alexander Tooth; 7. A "post-prog" band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 8. A progressive metal/mathcore band from Bangalore, India (renamed to Maneating Orchid); 9. A pop rap/rock duo based in Arizona known for their songs "Mama" and "Catatonia"; 10. An electro-pop artist from the UK; 11. An electronic artist whose music is available at orchidsmantissa.bandcamp.com. 1. Active from 1998 to 2002, Orchid was first and foremost a hardcore band. Orchid combined a post-modern aesthetic with emo/screamo and even added prominent powerviolence/grindcore elements, an approach which positioned them as one of the most iconic 'emoviolence' musical groups; a genre humorously invented by In/Humanity several years prior to Orchid's existence. Their sound was a highly frantic and chaotic amalgamation of blast beats, distorted tremolo picking/octave riffing and high pitched shrieks that gave way to very short and erratic/spastic songs; a style that would not be too far off from condensed black metal. Orchid's members more often cite the German bands Systral and Carol as influences but they are said to particularly have borrowed a considerable amount of their sound fr
