#eric richter

Evanescence‘ın 29 Mart 2021’de çıkan albümü “The Bitter Truth”tan “Yeah Right” adlı şarkısının grubun “Latin America Tour 2023” konserlerinden düzenlenen video klibi yayınlandı. Yapımcılığını Nick Raskulinecz’in yaptığı şarkının sözleri Amy Lee ve Will Hunt’e ait. Klibin yönetmenliğini ve kurgusunu Eric Richter üstlendi. Albümden daha önce; “Better Without You”, “Use My Voice”, “The Game Is Over”…

Band: SpiteSong: “Dedication to Flesh”Director: Eric RichterAlbum: Dedication to FleshRelease Date: August 19th, 2022Label: Rise Records Frontman Darius Tehrani shares: “‘Dedication to Flesh’ is our foot print as a band. We are here not only to stay but to conquer. Leave something personal and undeniable that people can’t look away from.” Pre-order: All options

Band: Nonpoint Song: “Fix This” Director: Eric Richter Album: X Release Date: August 24th, 2018 Label: Spinefarm Records

Vocalist Elias Soriano said:

“There are two sides of everything that’s broken. One side lives in the world of destruction and the other in the world of repair. The song ‘Fix This’ dives into what it feels like to be on both sides of the fight.”

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Band: Nonpoint Song: “Chaos And Earthquakes” Director: Eric Richter Album: X Release Date: August 24th, 2018 Label: Spinefarm Records

Vocalist Elias Soriano said of the clip:

“We’ve had our moments in videos before when we capture the vision, or attitude and even the energy of our live shows. But this video is the closest I’ve ever seen us get to capturing all of them in one so well. The director

Boston, MA experimental metal/hardcore unit Vein have debuted a music video for their new song “Virus://Vibrance”, it was directed by Eric Richter. The track is the lead single of their new full-length Errorzone. The effort was engineered Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio and is set for release on June 22nd through Closed Casket Activities. Pre-orders are available now via All In Merch and iTu…

I’ve never thought of Eric Richter—he of Christie Front Drive, Antarctica, the 101 and Golden City – as a dude concerned with chops, or fidelity. It sounds like a knock, but it’s not: in the case of Christie Front Drive, easily my favorite mid/late-nineties emo band, the rudimentary approach taken by Richter and the other guys in the band transcended their technical ability. They managed to write perfect, gorgeous and, yes, emotional songs with limited technical ability, punk in the best in truest sense: “if we can do this, you can do this.” Production was meh, adding further fuel to that particular DiY fire: inspirational because they did the best they could with what they had and not only pulled it off, but excelled.

 Since CFD, the thread connecting Richter’s subsequent bands –the moody gloom of Antarctica, and the more straightforward pop of the 101 and Golden City – has been Richter’s vocals, which are  comfortable and evocative without every resorting to sap or histrionics. His lyrics, which are vague at best, provide a perfect backdrop for his wistful, aching delivery. He’s progressed as a player, certainly, since the early days of his career, but his approach has remained no-frills throughout.

 With all this said, there have been times when I’ve wondered what Richter’s stuff would sound like if there were some extra flourishes thrown in. Yeah, I love CFD, but man, some the early stuff would benefit from a better mix[1].  As was the case when Raw Power was remastered a few years back to include bass, though, it’s often better to wonder than to hear the ultimately disappointing changes.

 Thank goodness, then, that “Hold,” the debut by Richter’s new band Highness, manages to integrate Richter’s strengths with some of the stylistic elements  absent in his earlier stuff. The band is something of a supergroup – cats from spazzy acts like City of Catepillar and Pg. 99 are here – and with the different influences come snaky guitar lines and heavy, punctuating drums: more punk, more metal, more loud. If I was a skeptic or a hater I might refer to these as frills, but the thing is that everything works – while Richter’s past stuff has felt contained and compressed, this band finds (or perhaps allows) the space for elements atypical  to Richter’s ouevre do excellent work. Even in songs like “Stitched Together,” heavier than typical Richter fare with its more shouted/less sung vocals, the simple rhythms –and, later, an atmospheric solo of the sort that was predominant in Antarctica’s EP and later double CD--  are there, making the connection to the past material obvious.

 But it’s more than just that. Highness is a band –and a good one at that-- and their cohesive, dynamic approach to their material makes me forget past bands and family trees and pedigree and instead be in the moment.

    1. Yeah, I ordered the CFD repress – we’ll see how it sounds.

Michael T. Fournier

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