Leviathan is an American ambient black metal solo project that started in 1998 by Jef Whitehead, using the pseudonym Wrest. In Leviathan, Wrest records and plays all instruments including vocals entirely on his own. Despite having early problems with the release of Massive Conspiracy Against All Life, it was released March 24, 2008 in Europe and March 25, 2008 in North America. Additionally, Wrest has collaborated with the band Sunn O))), and is an active member of the U.S. black metal supergroup Twilight. He has stated in interviews that he has been playing drums longer than any other instrument and that the drums are his instrument of choice. Wrest also plays and records everything in his other project Lurker of Chalice. Regarding his writing, Wrest says that most of his lyrics are about suicide and that "[l]yrics are important and also very hard for me... at times, the way things come out in words sounds like nonsense. I don't consider myself a poet by any means."
+/-, or Plus/Minus, is an Americanindietronic band formed in 2001. The band makes use of both electronic and traditional instruments, and has sought to use electronics to recreate traditional indie rock song forms and instrumental structures. The group has released two albums on each of the American indie labels Teenbeat Records and Absolutely Kosher, and their track "All I do" was prominently featured in the soundtrack for the major film Wicker Park. The group has developed a devoted following in Japan and Taiwan, and has toured there frequently. Although many artists append bonus tracks onto the end of Japanese album releases to discourage purchasers from buying cheaper US import versions, the overseas versions of +/- albums are usually quite different from the US versions - tracklists can be rearranged, artwork with noticeable changes is used, and tracks from the US version can be replaced as well as augmented by bonus tracks.
!!! is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Its name is most commonly pronounced "Chk Chk Chk" ([/tʃk.tʃk.tʃk/]). Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. They are currently based in New York City, Sacramento, and Portland, Oregon. The band's sixth full-length album, As If, was released in October 2015.
Background and history
!!! is an American band formed in the summer of 1995 by the merger of part of the group Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. After a successful joint tour, these two teams decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the The Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmens' Khoisan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation, which the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest is the preferred pronunciation.
Leviathan is a biopunk/steampunk novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. It was released on October 6, 2009.
First of a young adult fiction trilogy set in alternative version of World War I, it has Central Powers (Clankers) using mechanized war machines opposed by Entente Powers (Darwinists) who fabricate living creatures genetically. The heroes are teens Aleksander, son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Deryn, Scottish girl with dreams of joining the British Air Service with her brother. The sequels are Behemoth and Goliath. The first two chapters of this book were released with Bogus to Bubbly: Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies.
It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, diesel-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.
LEVIATHAN is a stream cipher submitted to NESSIE by Scott Fluhrer and David McGrew. It is a seekable stream cipher, which means that the user may efficiently skip forward to any part of the keystream, much like CTR mode or Salsa20, but unlike those ciphers generating contiguous blocks of the keystream is made especially efficient by LEVIATHAN's unique tree structure based stream generation. LEVIATHAN achieves around 11 cycles per byte on a Pentium II processor.
LEVIATHAN is considered broken due to distinguishing attacks which require 236 bytes of output and comparable effort.
↑ Crowley, P.; Lucks, S. (April 2001). "Bias in the LEVIATHAN stream cipher". Fast Software Encryption: 8th International Workshop (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Yokohama, Japan: Springer-Verlag. Retrieved 2006-11-13.
The story is set on a massive ocean liner (the Leviathan of the title) which has been transported to some sort of parallel world with no land or landmarks. The story appeared in ten parts followed by three stand alone "Tales of the Leviathan" which expanded on the history of the ship as well as featuring new characters.
Detective Sergeant Aurelius Lament, a police officer who is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. His wife, Mary, died in child birth five years earlier, the result of the ship's doctor being drunk.
William Ashbless, the boat's designer.
Sky Baker, a "Mace", one of the unofficial police who maintain order in Steerage class. Her mother was killed by the Stokers about six months before the story starts.
Hastur, the demon controlling/powering the ship who appears to be under control of Ashbless. His servants, known as Stokers, kill their victims by flaying them with their long tongues.
... Arc Tour – which will also feature special guest band Periphery ... The band celebrated the 20-year anniversary of its album “Leviathan” and the 15-year anniversary of its album “Crack the Skye” in 2024.
The songs on Leviathan came together while the band was on an early tour with Clutch, as guitarist Bill Kelliher explained, “The songs weren’t even recorded yet, but we played them on the way out there at the shows with Clutch.
Altman has been heard talking of building five to seven of these leviathans. Bloomberg, usually a driver of the Net Zero band wagon, has reluctantly admitted that there’s not enough clean energy – ...
Altman has been heard talking of building five to seven of these leviathans. Bloomberg, usually a driver of the Net Zero band wagon, has reluctantly admitted that there’s not enough clean energy – ...
The band delivered a set focused entirely on 2004’s “Leviathan,” a stone-cold metal classic that — 20 years after the album’s release — still sounds so adventurous and forward-thinking.
The metal band Mastodon is celebrating the 20th anniversary of "Leviathan," its concept album based on the epic Herman Melville novel "Moby Dick" that's been named one of the best of all time ... .
And make my band real nervous ... As for the future, Owens says KK’s Priest definitely “takes precedence” among his other project and bands (which also include the LeviathanProject and Charred Walls of the Damned).
Both bands had things to celebrate, as the tour was pegged to the 20th anniversaries of Mastodon’s Leviathan and Lamb Of God’s Ashes Of The Wake... The two bands recorded the song together at ...
Twenty years ago this Saturday, the Atlanta metal band Mastodon released Leviathan, their second full-length ... Listening to Leviathan now, you can immediately hear what a big swing it was for the band.
There's a reason Alternative Press chose PaperFoxes for a list of 50 unsigned bands from 50 states for what the magazine labeled a musical road trip across the country in 2020 ... Both bands will perform their respective albums in full.
But the band’s upcoming tour, marking 20 years since “Leviathan,” their seminal concept album based loosely around “Moby-Dick,” was released is a different story.
The Advocate
16 Feb 2024
The Advocate
16 Feb 2024