This article does not cite any references or sources. (July 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

Combichrist
Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist at New City in Edmonton, August 2007
Background information
Origin	Norway
Genre(s)	Electronic body music
Years active	2003 – present
Label(s)	Metropolis Records (North America) Out of Line (Europe)
Members
Andy LaPlegua - Music, Vocals Jon H - Live Percussion Mr. Petersen - Live Keyboards Shaun F - Live Keyboards Joe Letz - Live Drums Former Members Syn M - Visuals, Live Keyboards Kourtney Klein - Live Electronic Drums

Combichrist was formed in 2003 by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua (founder of the band Icon of Coil) as an Electronic body music project. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (498 × 750 pixels, file size: 203 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) (All user names refer to en. ... Andy LaPlegua, (born Ole Anders Olsen) born September 15, 1975 in Fredrikstad, Norway, is the founder and lead vocalist of the futurepop/electronic body music band Icon of Coil. ... For other places with the same name, see Edmonton (disambiguation). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Electronic body music (mainly known by its acronym EBM) is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres. ... Out of Line Music is a German electronic music label. ... Andy LaPlegua, (born Ole Anders Olsen) born September 15, 1975 in Fredrikstad, Norway, is the founder and lead vocalist of the futurepop/electronic body music band Icon of Coil. ... Andy LaPlegua, (born Ole Anders Olsen) born September 15, 1975 in Fredrikstad, Norway, is the founder and lead vocalist of the futurepop/electronic body music band Icon of Coil. ... Icon of Coil is a Norwegian futurepop group. ... Electronic body music (mainly known by its acronym EBM) is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music. ...

History

Formation

The first material LaPlegua wrote were a few powernoise/techno crossover tracks under the moniker DRIVE. The band name was later changed to Combichrist before the debut album, The Joy Of Gunz was released on the German record label Out of Line. The name Combichrist originates from a hardcore fanzine LaPlegua made during the late 90s, with JR Ewing guitarist Håkon Mella. A few years after the band's conception, LaPlegua departed Norway for the United States, which is now the current homebase for Combichrist and his other projects, Scandy and Panzer AG. Powernoise is a subgenre of industrial music. ... For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ... The Joy Of Gunz is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. ... Out of Line Music is a German electronic music label. ... JR Ewing is a post-hardcore band from Norway. ... Panzer AG is the name of a power noise/electronic body music side-project by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua, also the founder of futurepop/EBM band Icon of Coil. ...

Commercial success

In 2003 Combichrist released the LP "The Joy of Gunz". On Halloween 2003 the limited edition EP " Kiss The Blade" was released, and sold out in weeks. In 2004, The second EP, Sex, Drogen Und Industrial, spent 7 weeks at number one in the DAC charts. The same time "Sex, drugs und industrial" was released, a limited edition white-vinyl 12" for "Blut Royale" was produced, and sold out quickly. 2005 saw the release of Everybody Hates You and it was at this time that the band began labeling their music as "Techno Body Music" or TBM. The band released a song called "This is TBM" on the Out-of-Line compilation "Techno Body Music volume 1". The release of Get Your Body Beat in 2006 turned out to be a commercial breakout for the band. In 2007 "What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People?" was released, becoming a best seller for both Metropolis and Out of Line records. The Joy Of Gunz is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. ... Kiss The Blade is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist, limited to 667 copies. ... Sex, Drogen Und Industrial is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist. ... The Deutsche Alternative Charts (often referred to as DAC) is the primary record chart for Germanys alternative music scene. ... Blut Royale is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist, limited to 666 copies on white vinyl. ... Everybody Hates You is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. ... Get Your Body Beat is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist limited to 667 copies. ... What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist, which featured the break-out single Get Your Body Beat. ...

Discography

Studio albums

• 2003 The Joy Of Gunz (Out of Line)
• 2005 Everybody Hates You (Out of Line / Metropolis Records)
• 2005 Everybody Hates You 2-Disc Digipack (Out of Line)
• 2007 What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? (Out of Line / Metropolis Records)
• 2007 What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? 2-Disc Digipack (Out of Line)

The Joy Of Gunz is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. ... Out of Line Music is a German electronic music label. ... Everybody Hates You is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. ... Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres. ... Everybody Hates You is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist. ... What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist, which featured the break-out single Get Your Body Beat. ... What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? is an album by the Norwegian Aggrotech band Combichrist, which featured the break-out single Get Your Body Beat. ...

EPs

• 2003 Kiss The Blade Limited to 667 copies.(Out of Line)
• 2004 Blut Royale Limited to 666 copies on white vinyl.(Bractune Records)
• 2004 Sex, Drogen Und Industrial (Out of Line)
• 2006 Get Your Body Beat (Out of Line / Metropolis Records)

Kiss The Blade is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist, limited to 667 copies. ... Blut Royale is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist, limited to 666 copies on white vinyl. ... Sex, Drogen Und Industrial is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist. ... Get Your Body Beat is an EP by aggrotech band Combichrist limited to 667 copies. ...

Compilation appearances

• 2003 Extreme Jenseitshymnen Vol. 4 (Track: "Line to the Dead")
• 2003 Dark Awakening Vol. 4 (Track: "God Wrapped in Plastic")
• 2003 Awake the Machines Vol. 4 (Track: "Vater Unser")
• 2004 Intensivstation (Track: "Vater Unser")
• 2004 Machineries of Joy 3 (Track: "Lying Sack of Shit")
• 2004 Industrial for the Masses Vol. 2 (Tracks: "Strike" and "Without Emotions"
• 2004 15 Minutes into the Future (Exclusive Track: "Das Der Bunker")
• 2004 Per:Version: Vol 14 (Track: "Blut Royale")
• 2005 Endzeit Bunkertracks: Act I (Track: "Tractor")
• 2005 This Is... Techno Body Music (Exclusive Track "This is TBM")
• 2006 Das Bunker: Fear of a Distorted Planet (Exclusive Track: "Christus Commando")
• 2007 Machineries of Joy Volume 4 (Exclusive Track: "Hate and Booze (featuring Helltrash)

Endzeit Bunkertracks is an album compilation with dark elektro/industrial artists featuring exclusive, deleted and/or hard-to-find tracks. ...

Remixes by Combichrist

• Agonoize - Chains of Love (Destruction Remix)
• The Azoic - Conflict
• Hocico - Ruptura (Motherfucker 667 Remix)
• Icon of Coil - Android
• Icon of Coil - Regret
• Icon of Coil - Shelter
• I:Scintilla - Havestar
• Snakeskin - I am the Dark (Electronoir Mix)
• Warren Suicide - Butcher Boy
• Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight to Video
• SSS - Demi God
• FGFC820 - Existence
• Interface - Faith in Nothing
• Dive vs. Diskonnekted - Do you believe it
• Tamtrum - Abort The Pope
• W.A.S.T.E. - Shut Up And Bleed
• Angelspit - 100% (110% Fucked Mix)
• Angelspit - 100% (99% Rawmix)
• Modulate - Skullfuck
• Front Line Assembly - Beneath The Rubble

// Inspired by acts such as Klinik and Suicide Commando, Agonoize is a German EBM/electro-industrial band constituted of Mike Johnson, Oliver Senger and Chris L. Established in late 2002 as a duo between Johnson and Senger, it soon became apparent that the act needed a frontman to improve their... The Azoic is an American Industrial and EBM band that was formed by Steve Laskarides, Shawn Lower, and Kristy Venrick in February of 1996. ... Hocico is a Mexican aggrotech group. ... Icon of Coil is a Norwegian futurepop group. ... Snakeskin is a material that is produced from the hide of a snake. ... Mindless Self Indulgence (commonly referred to as MSI) is an American-based band. ... Interface is an electronic music group based on Long Island, New York. ... Dive is a Belgian industrial music band formed in 1990 by Dirk Ivens (Absolute Body Control, Klinik, Blok 57, Sonar). ... Not to be confused with tantrum. ... Angelspit is a two-piece industrial rock band based in Sydney, Australia. ... Front Line Assembly (also known by the acronym FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy. ...

Remixes of Combichrist

• Kiss the Blade remixed by Soman
• Sex, Drogen, und Industrial remixed by Soman
• Sex, Drogen, und Industrial remixed by Lowtech
• Vater Unser remixed by Combicritters
• This Is My Rifle BioMechAnimal Mix by XP8
• This Is My Rifle AK47 Mix by Controlled Collapse
• This Is My Rifle BFG Remix by Servo.Hatred
• This Is My Rifle Pussy Pounding Mix by Encoder
• This Is My Rifle Spoils Of War Remix by Kandelectra
• This Is My Rifle UCNX Mix
• This Is My Rifle Killswitch Remix
• This Is My Rifle Zyst3m 3rror Re.mix by ZyVar +2
• This Is My Rifle (CL-Macromix) by Caustic Light
• This Is My Rifle (Gravemachine mix)
• This Is My Rifle (TU-160 remix)
• This Is My Rifle (5ilent Narcotic remix)
• This Is My Rifle (Flesh Eating Foundation remix)
• This Is My Rifle (Adipocere remix)
• This Is My Rifle (Bang, you're dead mix by Catharsis)
• This Is My Rifle (B'christ mix by Afront)
• This Is My Rifle (Exit-Wound mix by Fatal Rupture)
• This Is My Rifle (Lasergun remix by T3CHN0PH0B1A)
• This Is My Rifle (Reverie remix)
• This Is My Rifle (Sthilmann remix)
• This Is My Rifle (Vietcong remix by Attack)
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by KMFDM
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by Amduscia
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by Point 45
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by Manufactura
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by Spetsnaz
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by Sergio Mesa
• Get Your Body Beat remixed by Controlled Collapse

Soman is a power noise band from Germany. ... XP8 is an Anglo-Italian futurepop band formed on May 1, 2001, by Marco Visconti, Paul Toohill and Marko Resurreccion. ... KMFDM is an industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. ... Amduscia is a harsh electronic music band from Mexico City combining elements of new and old school EBM, industrial, and trance. ... Spetsnaz (russian acronym for Special Forces) is an EBM old school duo, formed in Sweden by Stefan Nilsson and Pontus Stålberg in 2001. ...

Videography

As of June 2007, the band has recorded four promo videos.

• The first, Blut Royale (from the album Everybody Hates You) directed by Sandra Jensen, was completed in 2005, but release was delayed until 2007. The reason for the delay is currently unknown, but a seemingly rough-cut 'first version' of the video was posted on June 1st on Youtube by the director.
• The second was for Get Your Body Beat (first heard on the 'Get Your Body Beat' single and later the What the Fuck is Wrong With You People? album,) was directed by Agata Alexander and features scenes from the upcoming film The Gene Generation from director Pearry Teo. This video may be viewed on YouTube.com as well as the band's official website.
• The third video is for the track Electrohead from the What the Fuck is Wrong With You People? album. The band posted a bulletin on their website and myspace, "We will be shooting a video for “Electrohead” on Friday February 2, in Los Angeles, at Das Bunker. If you want to be a part of the video, dress hot or "crazy", and show up early. We expect to see all of the So Cal CC Army out for this. Doors open at 10pm." However, after reviewing the material shot during the performance, the footage was found too dark to use due to the venues poor lighting. The band then opted to re-shoot the live video portion in North Carolina. 'Electrohead' was officially released on June 10th 2007 via Myspace video.
• On May 7th 2007 LaPlegua posted the band's new video Deathbed (from the What the Fuck is Wrong With You People? album,) on his livejournal and on YouTube.com. This time the video was filmed and directed by LaPlegua with help from Agata Alexander who also directed the 'Get Your Body Beat' video.
• The fourth video is for the track Fuck That Shit from the album "What the Fuck is Wrong With You People?" The video was animated and directed entirely by Brandon Duncan of corporatedemon.com. After viewing Duncan's online portfolio, LaPlegua quickly asked Duncan to animate the video. The video was initially posted through YouTube on the official Combichrist MySpace page, but a much higher quality version has since been posted at http://corporatedemon.com/12/09/2007/combichrist-fk-that-st/.

YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... The Gene Generation film poster The Gene Generation is a 2006 film directed by Pearry Teo. ... Pearry Reginald Teo, film director/producer (b. ...

Related bands

• DRIVE
• Icon of Coil
• Panzer AG
• Scandy

Icon of Coil is a Norwegian futurepop group. ... Panzer AG is the name of a power noise/electronic body music side-project by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua, also the founder of futurepop/EBM band Icon of Coil. ...

External links

• Official site
• Official MySpace page
• Official LiveJournal
• Official YouTube account of Combichrist
• Combichrist Gallery Page