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Whores of Babylon
12+ albums
disappointingpunkdiscovered through bandcamp
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1990 - Julian ( Gobz ) is messing around with samplers, house music and metal while Shaun is fronting metal bands ( one of which included Joseph White ) then Julian and Shaun team up under the name "THE WHORES OF BABYLON" as a musical experiment to record the track ` Charmeur des serpents ` in Julian`s bedroom recording set up. The track is nine minutes long and is of a gothic rock and dramatic filmscore influenced nature. It is then distributed amongst friends and that was that. 1991 - Opened a commercial recording studio `State of Art` in Bristol,UK. Employed Shaun Atkins ( soundisciples ) and Dave McDonald ( later in Portishead ) as extra engineers. 1992 - Formed the `Whores of Babylon` with Shaun Atkins ( soundisciples ). Shaun - vocals and Gobz - guitars, drum programming, sampling, synths, engineering, mixing etc ). Most of the musical composition by Gobs and some by Shaun. 1993 - Released a demo tape entitled `Eternal` throughout the underground fanzines etc. The music was a kind of hybrid goth/dramatic classical/metal crossover, some called it `darkwave`. Tape received many favourable reviews. 1994 - Signed to `Candlelight` records and released the album `Metropolis`, all credits as before. Received a mixture of good and average reviews as album not to everyones taste in the metal scene. Interview in `Terrorizer` magazine 1995 - left `Candlelight` records as their artist promotion seemed to be non-existant at the time! Recruited extra band members in order to per
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