These elements mean that they are often cited as one of the progenitors of hard rock and heavy metal and they have been described as the " definitive heavy metal band ", although they have often eschewed the label.

Zevon turned to a musical career early, including a stretch with high school friend Violet Santangelo as a musical duo called lyme & cybelle ( exercising artistic license, the band name eschewed capitalization ).

Despite enjoying increased press, radio airplay, record sales, and concert fees, the band did not regret their decision and eschewed the idea of commercial success.

Called " Black Sam " in Cape Cod folklore because he eschewed the fashionable powdered wig in favor of tying back his long black hair with a simple band, Bellamy became known for his mercy and generosity toward those he captured on his raids.

In 1998, the band returned with Witch-Hunts, a conceptual album which eschewed much of the melodic stylings of the previous two albums ; the Viking metal sound was replaced with black metal.

Carmen eschewed the use of a band on the recording, playing most of the instruments and programming the drum parts himself.

Instead, the band released a stream of live recordings and remixes.

Later that year, the band recorded a Japanese version of " Kiss Me ", which was released exclusively in Japan on an EP with numerous versions of the song, as well as remixes of other songs on the self-titled album.

In the 1990s Stereolab and veteran industrial band Nurse With Wound released two limited-edition records together ; both contained Nurse With Wound remixes of original tracks provided by Stereolab.

At the end of 2005, the band together with EMI released a compilation album of remixes called The Human League Original Remixes and Rarities aimed at the DJ / Dance market in the US and UK.

Since the release of Fasciinatiion, three of the band members, Clark Baechle, Todd Fink and Jacob Thiele have been quietly, with little advertising, performing under the name Depressed Buttons, playing remixes of other artists, and DJing for various small clubs and venues.

During this period, in which the band could not release their own music owing to the legal dispute with Rhythm King, the pair undertook remix work for React 2 Rhythm, ICP, Supereal, Inner City, Sunscreem, Ultra Nate and provided two remixes to David Bowie's single Jump They Say.

A lot of fans still saw DJ Gismo as one half of the face of the band, despite DJ Gismo not being involved in the production of the band's music, except for providing scratches ( the remixes of Bomfunk-tracks carrying his name were produced by the band's producer, JS16 ).

In late summer 2003, a compilation album titled Giving the Devil His Due was released which included several demo tracks submitted by the band prior to their signing with Roadrunner Records in 1997, along with several alternative studio recordings and remixes of various tracks from their previous albums.

It featured three remixes of tracks from Furnace ( only one of which was remixed by the band itself, the other two were remixed by Biosphere and Newt ), along with five original tracks.

Three were remixes by Download of songs from The Eyes of Stanley Pain, and one was a remix of the song " Attalal " from Furnace by the band Haujobb ( although the packaging of Sidewinder spells it " Attallal ").

This remastered collected all permutations and remixes of tracks released by the band.

Following up on this renewed popular interest in the band, the label then released History Revisited in 1991, a compilation of 12 inch singles and alternative versions which made the UK Top 40, an unusually high placing for what was effectively a remixes album ( it also reached the Top 30 in Germany and the Top 75 in the Netherlands ).

In July 2007, the band released Rio Grande Dub, an album featuring remixes from the band's 2006 Rio Grande Blood album.

This would become the band ’ s most prolific period, with a number of releases, including the Arkestra album, various 12 ” and 7 ” records ( which included remixes from Arkestra songs as well as completely new tracks ), the Hinotama Jive EP, the soundtrack to the video game Incredible Crisis, and several tribute album appearances.

In 11 January 2011, the band issued a digital EP of " Ace of Hz ", which contained the album mix plus 5 remixes.

In 1985, the band released the EP Freeways, consisting of multiple ( and multi-lingual ) remixes of one of their earliest efforts, Ivan Doroschuk and Jeremie Arrobas's 1980 " Freeways ".

Film series narrator Patrick Allen was featured in certain early remixes of the song " Two Tribes " by the UK pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, saying " Mine is the last voice you will ever hear.

After the band recorded a version of Dreams for a fleetwood mac tribute album, they re-released Talk on Corners, with new remixes of " What Can I Do?

The band has had remixes by electronic artists Daft Punk, Hot Chip, Justice, The Avalanches, Microfilm, and Erol Alkan.

In addition to dozens of remixes released over the years, Freezepop released a remix of their song " Shark Attack " done by chiptune band 8 Bit Weapon in October 2007.

Midihead is the sole mastermind behind the band, and can be found in the credits of music for remixes, TV, and motion picture trailers.

A remix compilation Between the Valley of the Ultra Pussy was released the same year by the band, featuring industrial rock remixes of their classic tracks, along with a bonus cover of KISS ' " I Was Made For Loving You ".

According to a press release, this version of the band — which did not include Downe — will perform " all classic tracks, no remixes, no B. S.

The box set includes all B-sides by the band, apart from a number of remixes, as well a number of unreleased songs and songs that had been out of physical circulation for years.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

) for 3 alphorns and concert band, by Kurt Gable.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt

His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

The channel frequencies chosen represent a compromise between allowing enough bandwidth for video ( and hence satisfactory picture resolution ), and allowing enough channels to be packed into the available frequency band.

Arrangers in pop music recordings often add parts for orchestral or band instruments involving new material such that the arrangers may reasonably be considered co-composers, although for copyright and royalty purposes usually are not.

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

Most arrangements for large ensembles, big bands, in the swing era, were written down, however, and credited to a specific arranger, as were later arrangements for the Count Basie big band by Sammy Nestico and Neal Hefti.

Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for the Duke Ellington big band were usually new compositions, and some of Eddie Sauter's arrangements for the Benny Goodman band and Artie Shaw's arrangements for his own band were new compositions as well.