Biography
ELECTRONICORE ENTER SHIKARI Music Style Patterns for almost a decade went to success and glory. Starting a career of the underground team, London's natives released a number of gold and silver drives and won the hearts of fans around the world. Now the popular team performs at the leading festival sites and is actively toured in Europe and the United States, fulfilling loved hits and songs from the last album "The Spark".The history of creation and composition
The Hybryd Group, founded in 1999 by the singer and guitarist Rauton Realds, Basist Chris Batten and Drummer Robol Rolf, became the predecessor.
The location of the dislocation guys was the small British town of Saint-Olban, located near London, in the southern part of Hartfordshire County. It was there that the enthusiasts of non-traditional music in 2002 recorded the demo album "Commit No Nuisance" with the compositions "Perfect Pygmalion", "Look Inside", "Torch Song", "Honesty Box" and "Fake" and submitted a mixture of popular hard Fatty styles with electronic inserts and transcendental content.
In 2003, guitarist Liam Klelola on nicknamed Rory, and the group changed the name on ENTER Shikari, joined the experimenters.
Musicians speak different about the history of the creation of the team name. In some sources, the word "Shikari" appeared in honor of the boat belonging to Uncle Vocalist, and in others it was borrowed from the hunter - the hero of the play, written by Realds in his youth.
In any case, this concept that came from Indo-European Languages Farsi, Hindi, Nepali and Punjabi, became the embodiment of positive aggression, and in stylized writing (σπτσr shφκδrφ) soon appeared on the Red-black logo of the group.
At first, Rau and the company did not strive to fame, recording their own compositions on non-professional equipment in the Batten Garage. However, the acquisition of a small van, which received the nickname "Shikari-Ferrari", allowed the young British to get out of the underground and go on a journey through English pubs and clubs.
Gradually, the guys found their own audience and earned the attention of critics and press. Fans love musicians for the stability of the composition and powerful performances accompanied by diving from the scene, Hedbenging and Slame.
The only moment that was upset by the public was the abolition of a concert at the DOWNLOAD 2006 festival. This was due to the mental problems of the soloist, who, after numerous panic attacks, was depressed and was forced to resort to the help of specialists.
Music
At the beginning of the Career ENTER Shikari specialized in live performances reflected in the Nodding Acquaintance mini albums, Anything Can Happen in The Next Half Hour and Sorry You're Not A Winner.In parallel, the group worked on a new material and thanks to DJ Alex Beiker had a broadcast ether from the Myspace Internet resource. Then, in 2006, the iTunes Store appeared the video clip of the composition "Mothership" and the processed audio versions of Sorry You're Not A Winner songs and OK Time for Plan B. Musicians woke up recognizable, commercially successful and popular.
ENTER SHIKARI songs appeared in the screensavers of the NHL 08 and Madden 08 video game and sounded at the Gibson / Myspace site of the British Festival of 2006.
After an interview published in the rock-weekly "Kerrang!" and an alternative magazine "Rock Sound", the group was invited to the famous now the currently existing club "London Astoria" and included in the category "New Noise 2007" according to the NME music edition.
Inspired by the attention, Enter Shikari began to prepare for the record of the debut album, which was preceded by the single "Anything Can Happen in The Next Half Hour" and the collection "The Zone".
The record itself, named "Take to the Skies" appeared on March 19, 2007 and a week later, took 4th place in the UK Official Album Charts. At the same time, the musicians announced participation in British Festivals Download, Reading and Leeds, Give It A Name and Glastonbury and International Open-Arah in Ireland and Germany.
After waking over 500 concerts for the year, Reinalds with friends went to the touring tour in North America and released a clip to the song "Jonny Sniper", and then returned to the studio and started recording the 2nd album.
Before the release of the record, the group created a community on the YouTube channel and published a backstage video from the "ENTER SHIKARI: IN THE 'LOW" series, which demonstrated a draft composition "We Can Breathe in Space, The Just Don't Want US to Escape".
In June 2008, the guys performed the processed version of some new songs at a concert at the Milton Keynes Bowl, organized by the American rock band Linkin Park, and in March 2009, the NME edition announced that the group finished work on an announced album called "Common Dreads".
The record recorded with the support of the producers Andy Gray and Dan Weller was very different from the previous ENTER Shikari project. Sleocial and political topics came to replace the lyrics, reflecting the punctivist positions of musicians. Thus, in the track "Step Up", Rauton and the company criticized the free world trade, and in the songs "Fanfare for the Conscious Man" and "Juggernauts" opposed the injustice of the modern war.
As a result, the disc received favorable evaluation of critics and a high rating of Metal Hammer musical publications and Kerrang, and the edition on CD, Vinyl and MP3 followed the main release.
In 2009-2010, the new stars of the British scene toured at home and abroad, among the other, the Group played Seth at the Australian SoundWave Festival and gave a series of concerts in the largest cities of Japan.
It was on these trips that the idea of a new album was born, the first swallow from which was the track "Destabilise". Then the "Quelle Surprise", "Sssnakepit" and "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" and "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" singles appeared on the network, and in early January 2012, the presentation of the 3rd plates took place on the venues of 3 English cities: London, Leeds and Kingston-on-Thames.
"A Flash Flood of Color", which came out at the American label Hopeless Records, started at the 4th place in the US and the UK hit parades and demonstrated the merger of electronic rock, hip-hop and punk.
The unusual sound of the guitar, the synthesizer and vocal critics attributed to the new ELECTRONICORE Music style, which later found reflected in the work of Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack!, Eskimo Callboy and other American and European groups.
In the substantive part of Rau, Chris, Rory and Rob continued to argue about politics, opposed global warming and the situation in Israel, but did not recognize this in an interview with British magazines.
Tour in support of "A Flash Flood of Color", where the author's drink was sold, named after the SssnakePit track, gathered thousands of fans and helped the group to receive the reward of the weekly "Kerrang!" For the best live performance.
In 2013, the ENTER Shikari discography was replenished with a mini-album "Rat Race" released through iTunes, and then the guys have taken a trip for small rarely visited cities of Great Britain so that music lovers with a limited budget could visit the show.
At the same time, the team began to collect material for the next record and, declaring the name "MindSweep", held fans in anticipation and tension until 2015. True, shortly before the official release, the musicians were pissed by the students of the "The Last Garrison" and "Anaesthetist" singles, and then made a real gift by laying out the entire new album on their own website.
According to Reynalds, at work on "MindSweep" the group tried to cover all the corners of the musical spectrum and made a selection of songs, completely different in style and content. For example, the composition "The Last Garrison" became a gem of life and good luck, and the Torn Apart and Anaesthetist tracks told about the problems of genetics and privatization of the health care system.
As a result, the plate received the maximum ratings from Alternative Press and Kerrang! " And in 2015, it became the fourth in the list of the top 50 releases of the Rock Sound authoritative edition.
In 2016, the personal problems of the Solist briefly interrupted the ENTER Shikari musical career, and then the British announced the album called "The Spark" and before the official presentation released the Single "Live Outside" illustrated by a colorful video clip.
At the end of 2017, the Group organized a tour in support of a new project and visited the city of Great Britain and the countries of Continental Europe.
Enter Shikari now
In 2018, ENTER SHIKARI recorded the song "Stop The Clocks" and went to the extensive tour under the same name.
Along with the listeners of Great Britain, Europe and Scandinavia, on March 7, 2019, the music of the British team was heard fans from Russia.
Before the concert at the site of the Moscow club "ADRENALINE STADIUM" Reynalds and the company made a fun photo from the building of the Bolshoi Theater and fulfilled the Live Outside composition in the Evening Urgant Transmission Studio.
In the future, musicians plan to continue global tour and play in France, Italy, Germany and other European countries. In addition, in the near future, a limited circulation of ENTER Shikari concert albums will be on with the Take to To The Skies show: "Live in Moscow. May 2017 "and" Live At Alexandra Palace 2 ".
Discography
- 2003 - "NODDING ACQUAINTANCE"
- 2003 - "Sorry, You're Not A Winner"
- 2004 - "Anything CAN HAPPEN IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR ..."
- 2007 - "Take to the Skies"
- 2007 - "The Zone"
- 2009 - "COMMON DREADS"
- 2010 - Tribalism
- 2012 - "A Flash Flood of Color"
- 2013 - "Rat Race"
- 2015 - "The MindSweep"
- 2017 - "The Spark"
Clips
- "The Sights"
- "Live Outside"
- "Sorry You're Not A Winner"
- "The Last Garrison"
- "DESTABILISE"
- "Anything CAN HAPPEN IN THE NEXT ..."
- "Hoodwinker"
- REDSHIFT
- "Arguing WITH THERMOMETERS"
- "NO SLEEP TONIGHT"