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Abney Park (band)
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Abney Park is a Gothic/Industrial band based in Seattle. The band mixes elements of industrial dance, and world music influences in their work.
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Abney Park was formed in 1997, and has performed all over North America, playing festivals like Dragon*Con, Saturnilla, Utah Dark Arts, Bats Day, Convergence, and Mask and Veil.[citation needed]
- Robert Brown - Vocals, Songs, Darbuka
- Magdalene Veen - Vocals
- Kristina Erickson - Keyboards, vocals
- Nathaniel Johnstone - Guitar, violin
- Daniel - Bass
Abney Park was formed by Robert Brown in 1997. In 1998 they released their first full-length album Abney Park, and in 1999 they released Return to the Fire. Tracks from these two albums as well as a couple of new ones formed their third release, titled Cemetery Number 1. In the early years of Abney Park, the band featured a gothic musical and visual style.
In 2005, the band released Taxidermy, which is a collection of new versions of songs from past albums, three live tracks and two covers. In the same year, they started to change their visual style, from goth/industrial to a form of steampunk. In 2006 they released the album The Death of Tragedy. After the release, their line-up changed as well, with the departure of Traci Nemeth, Krysztof Nemeth and Rob Hazelton, replaced by Magdalene Veen, Jean-Paul Mayden and Nathaniel Johnstone. Shortly after Jean-Paul departed the band to be replaced by Daniel C. As part of their transformation, Abney Park invented fictional identities of themselves, complete with a background story that describes the fictional history of the band as the crew of an airship named the Ophelia.
- Abney Park (1998)
- Return to the Fire (1999)
- Cemetery Number 1 (2000)
- From Dreams Or Angels (2001)
- Taxidermy
- The Death of Tragedy (2005)
The band's music has also been featured in many compilation CDs, including Cleopatra Records' The Unquiet Grave vol. III, Annihilation and Seduction, Eighteen, and in several movie soundtracks, including Insomnis Amour, Goth, and Lord of the Vampires.[citation needed]