User:Namib dessert/Ehnahre

Ehnahre is an American extreme metal band from Boston, Massachusetts founded by former Kayo Dot members Ryan McGuire in November 2007.

Genesis
Ryan McGuire, John Carchia and D.J. Murray started an earlier version of Ehnahre in high school. The band was originally called Negative Reasoning, named after a song on Eyehategod's album, Dopesick called "Non Conductive Negative Reasoning". When the band wanted to change its name, Murray suggested they take NR, and spell it phonetically. This became Ehnahre (pronounced N-R). They disbanded sometime around 2000. Then when I joined Kayo Dot in 2003, we needed a soundguy and a guitar player, so John and DJ joined up. After leaving KD in 2006 we started up another band together. We kept the name Ehnahre, even though musically we were doing something totally different, because we still had a burned screen (for screen printing) lying around with the old band logo on it, and we could print t-shirts easily.

Musical
The leitmotif of Ehnahre's music is based on the emancipation of the dissonance concept, created by composer Arnold Schoenberg when he was developing his atonal and serial method of composition. The band themselves felt it is definitely an important aspect in their writing, as they agree with Schoenberg assessment that music needs further exploration of dissonant sounds. To them, the basic idea is that dissonance does not sound bad. It sounds as good as any consonant sounds.

Well we are influenced by many things, but mostly death metal and doom metal, and modern classical music. A lot of the 90's death metal bands have a huge influence- like Morbid Angel, Immolation, Incantation, Death, etc. Also, many doom and sludge metal bands, like Grief, Corrupted, Eyehategod, and Burning Witch. But classical music plays a big influence on how we write, and the structures in our music. Some important composers to us would include Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Igor Stravinsky, and Kaija Saariaho. We are also influenced by noise artists (Ricardo, our drummer, is a noise musician himself) and free improvisers.

Discography

 * The Man Closing Up (2008)
 * Pipeline (2009)
 * Alpha/Omega (2010)
 * Taming the Cannibals (2010)