Carnival In Coal is an Extreme Metal/Avant Garde metal band from France. Founded in 1995, the band claim to be an effort to create the musical missing link between Mr. Bungle and Pan.Thy.Monium, while pushing the limits of good taste at the same time. The band mixes Extreme Metal with off the wall uses of other genres such as easy listening, disco, pop and other things. A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Extreme metal is a broad term for metal subgenres of a more aggressive style than traditional heavy metal. ... Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Extreme metal is a broad term for metal subgenres of a more aggressive style than traditional heavy metal. ... Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mr. ... Pan. ... Extreme metal is a broad term for metal subgenres of a more aggressive style than traditional heavy metal. ... Easy listening music is a style of popular music which emerged in the mid-20th century. ... Disco is a genre of music that originated in discothèques. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ...

Original Carnival In Coal signed to and released their debut album though now defunct French indie label, War On Majors Records. The band have released two albums through another French based indipendent Metal label, Season of Mist and have now signed a multi-album deal to Earache Records and their Elitist Records sub-label. The first album from this deal is the band's latest album, 2005's Collection Prestige. Season of Mist is a French independent record label. ... Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York USA, which helped pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal releases in the period 1988-1992. ...

Band members

• Arno Strobl – vocals
• Axel Wursthorn – all instruments, live bass

Live members

• Alexis Damien – live drums
• Fred Leclercq – live guitar
• El Worm – live guitar
• Timmy Zecevic – live keyboard

Discography

• Sramik (demo) (1997)
• Vivalavida (1999)
• French Cancan (1999)
• Fear Not (2001)
• Collection Prestige (2005)

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External links

• Official homepage
• Carnival In Coal at Encyclopaedia Metallum
• Carnival In Coal at All Music Guide