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Painkiller
Origin New York City, USA
Genre(s) Avant-jazz
Grindcore
Punk jazz
Experimental
Years active 1991–1995
Various brief reunions
Label(s) Earache
Tzadik
Members
John Zorn
Bill Laswell
Mick Harris
Former members
Yamatsuka Eye
Buckethead
Mike Patton
Makigami Koichi
Justin Broadrick
G. C. Green
Keiji Haino
Andy "Flippin" Williams

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The three primary members of the band are: John Zorn on saxophone, Bill Laswell on electric bass and Mick Harris (formerly of Napalm Death and founding member of Scorn) on drums. John Zorn (born September 2 1953 in Queens, New York City) is an American Avant-garde Composer, arranger, Record The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical- bored transposing Musical instrument considered a member of the Woodwind Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the Michael John Harris (commonly known and credited as Mick Harris or occasionally M Napalm Death are Scorn is a Feeling of Contempt or Disdain for something or somebody to Despise. A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells The band has also had several musicians make guest appearances both live and in the studio, including Yamatsuka Eye, Buckethead, Mike Patton, Makigami Koichi, Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green of Godflesh, and Keiji Haino of Fushitsusha. real name, born 1964 in Kobe) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist best known as a member of Boredoms. Brian Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American Guitarist and Songwriter. Michael Allan Patton (born January 27 1968) is an American singer Songwriter, Composer, multi-instrumentalist and Video Justin Broadrick (born on 15 August 1969 in Birmingham England) is a British singer songwriter guitarist and drummer G C Green is a British bass -player In 1988 he founded the band Godflesh with Justin Broadrick. Godflesh were an Industrial metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1988 by Justin K Keiji Haino (灰野 敬二 Haino Keiji) born 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has Fushitsusha ( 不失者) is a Japanese Rock band specialising in the Psychedelic rock, Space rock and noise rock genres

Harris departed from the band in 1995 to dedicate himself solely to computer music; following his departure many assumed that Painkiller was defunct. Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of Computing technology in music composition However, Zorn and Laswell have recently resurrected the band name and played some dates with either Hamid Drake or Yoshida Tatsuya playing drums. Hamid Drake (b Monroe, Louisiana, August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist is a Japanese Musician and Composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned Progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as Koenji Hyakkei Rumours of a new studio album from the band have not been confirmed.

Discography

(A bit of overlapping occurs in the discography: obviously Guts of a Virgin/Buried Secrets collects the first two discs onto a single CD; Collected Works includes the first two EPs with Execution Ground and a bonus live disc. )

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