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Peculate (band)

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Origin
  
United States

Labels
  
Independent

Members
  
Ben Norton

Record label
  
Peculate Records

Years active
  
2012—present

Website
  
Peculate.co

Active from
  
2012

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Albums
  
There Are No Angels, In Two (a), Anti-Christ(Mas)

Genres
  
Avant-garde metal, Progressive metal, Progressive rock

Similar
  
Kayo Dot, The Contortionist, Tesseract

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Peculate is an American avant-garde metal and progressive metal band, formed in 2012. Peculate "combines metal, djent, jazz, contemporary classical, avant-garde, electronic, and experimental music together to create progressive music with punk sensibilities." Much of Peculate's music is composed using the 12-tone technique. Metal blog Invisible Oranges describes the hallmarks of the band's sound as the "utilization of twelve-tone technique, the Zappa jazz fusion tangents, and the Devin Townsend-esque attention to production details."

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Peculate is a project of composer and musician Ben Norton. Norton releases all of Peculate's material for free on the band's Bandcamp website.

"This Sick Beat™"

Peculate generated controversy for a song it released on 31 January 2015 titled "This Sick Beat™." Norton says he wrote the song in protest of Taylor Swift's application to trademark phrases such as "This Sick Beat." The lyrics of the song consist almost exclusively of the phrase "this sick beat."

In the description on the video he uploaded of the song, Norton wrote "Trademarks of common idioms such as this are a direct attack on one of the most fundamental and inalienable rights of all: our freedom of speech. If you give the bourgeoisie an inch, they will take a mile... and everything else you have in the process. They have already privatized land, water, and words. After language, they will next try to privatize air. But, although the rich can try, they will never truly own the words we use and the language we speak."

The song was featured in Billboard, TIME, NME, Yahoo! Music, The Independent, and more.

Ben Norton published an official statement about the song on his website, detailing what exactly his intentions were with the song and how he believe the media misrepresented it.

Studio albums

  • There Are No Angels (December 2015)
  • The Chain Industry (July 2014)
  • In Two (A) (March 2014)
  • Anti-Christ(mas) (December 2013)
  • Fiscal Cliffs (September 2013)

    • EPs

  • Mines in the Sand (July 2015)
  • Bouazizi (December 2014)
  • The Anarchist Prince (Tracks 1 and 2, July 2013; tracks 3-5, November 2013)
  • Pax Tecum (July 2013)
  • The Great Gesticulator (May 2013)
  • Collateral Damage, Pt. I (March 2013)

    • Singles

  • A Lesson in Mortality (April 2015)
  • Love Is a Bourgeois Construct (March 2015), which Norton describes as a "very loose arrangement (ahem, derangement) of Pet Shop Boys' 'Love Is a Bourgeois Construct'" with counterpoint "based on this material and the theme of Pachelbel's Canon"
  • This Sick Beat™ (January 2015)
  • Hot Air (February 2014)
  • Get Engaged (November 2013), what Norton calls a progressive metal "derangement" of the [Bridal Chorus] from Wagner's Lohengrin
  • PARTY! (October 2013)
  • Skinner Box Mortgage (August 2013)

    • Videography

  • A Lesson in Mortality (April 2015)
  • Love Is a Bourgeois Construct (March 2015)
  • This Sick Beat™ (January 2015)
  • Middle of the Railroad (May 2014)
  • PARTY! (October 2013)
  • Cut! Cut! Cut! (September 2013)
  • Skinner Box Mortgage (August 2013)

    • Songs

    Cut! Cut! Cut!Fiscal Cliffs · 2013
    Wrong Place - Wrong TimeCollateral Damage - Pt I · 2013
    Extra Varnish PleaseIn Two (a) · 2014

    References

    Peculate (band) Wikipedia
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