Shiv-r

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
/wiki/Shiv-rcreator

Shiv-r (pronounced the same as 'shiver') are an Australian industrial band from Sydney. Comprised of founding members Lee Bulig, Pete Crane and Pete's wife, Wendy, Shiv-r have been slowly gaining popularity due to tours with bands such as Hanzel und Gretyl, Combichrist and Hocico. Their music is dark, rough and insanely catchy, blending industrial and rock to create a chaotic result of musical craziness.

See also The Crystalline Effect.

Members:

  • Kong (Lee Bulig)- theremins, chaos, melodies
  • Virul3nt (Pete Crane)- beats, vocals, lyrics and more chaos
  • Straylight (Wendy Crane)- keyboards, live backing vocals
  • M4RC- live drums
Discography:
EPs
  • Parasite (2008)
  • Incision (2010)
  • Shadow Between Worlds (2013)
  • Eye Of The Needle (2015)
  • Benjamin'sPlague Featuring Shiv-R - Elated (2016)
  • Cheshire Grin (2017)
  • Extize* Feat. Shiv-R - Assimilate (2018)
  • Interlace (2019)
Albums
  • Hold My Hand (2010)
  • This World Erase (2011)
  • Wax Wings Will Burn (2014)
  • On Blackened Wings (2015)
  • Requiem For The Hyperreal (2017)
Shiv-r provides examples of the following tropes:
  • Accidental Innuendo: From “Hollow Mask”: “Every day I lose myself/I wish I could believe/that I’m really somebody else/when I’m down on my knees”. Wait, what?
  • A Good Name for a Rock Band: The name has been explained as their wanting to make music that would make people shiver (and shake them out of their stupor).
  • Album Title Drop: Hold My Hand is a line from “The End Part 1” (“Hold my hand, scar my skin, broken as we wait for the end”).
  • Anti-Love Song: “Taste”
  • Non Sequitur Scene: The intro to “Open My Vein” has a rather vicious revenge speech that has absolutely no context and has nothing to do with the song.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Pete tends to break them out live.
  • Country Matters: Lee had a very amusing one with his review of the SPL Kultube.

Lee: I thought the name was pronounced similar to ‘kull-tube’ [...] Anyway, the first friend I talked to about this unit was Thai. For Thai’s (though, I’m no expert), “L” sounds are sometimes interchangeable with “N”, so via a combination of that and my mispronunciation, it became something more like “Cunt-Tube”. I like it, and henceforth I will refer to this baby as my Cunt-Tube for the remainder of this review. How can you resist phrases like “the Cunt’s hot sticky tube adds an extra layer of thick cream to the mix’?

  • Creator Couple
  • Darker and Edgier: The Parasite EP mainly songs that were slower and less aggressive than Hold My Hand.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Lee has a crazy sense of humour, Pete's a very friendly person, and Wendy is incredibly nice and welcoming.
    • Shiv-r as a whole compared to The Crystalline Effect. One is industrial, the other electronic. Comparing the two, it's a little hard to believe that the same person could have done most of the music for both.
  • Dye Hard
  • Executive Meddling: Shadows Between Worlds has been delayed by their label because some of the bands they were working with haven’t yet completed their parts.
  • Gorn: The video for “The End Part 1”.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: It’s probably too hard to tell under the piercings and hairstyle, but Pete and Wendy were in Angelspit’s video for “Vena Cava”.
  • Impossibly Cool Clothes: The skirt Pete wears live.
  • Lyrics Video Mismatch: All of them.
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor: Onstage, Pete is loud, aggressive, energetic and forceful. Offstage, he’s quiet, laconic, thoughtful and very, very nice.
  • Mind Screw: The video for “This Fix”
  • New Sound Album: Hold My Hand was industrial rock, whereas This World Erase was more industrial pop-rock.
  • Refrain From Assuming: “Arise” is not called “Breathe”, no matter how many times Pete intones it. (It doesn’t help that ‘arise’ is only said once and is easy to miss).
  • Signature Song: Either “The End Part 1” or “Pharmaceutical Grade”.
  • Singing Voice Dissonance: Pete’s voice alternates from fairly high and clear (“Blood Spatter”, “Suffer”) to low and husky (“Arise”, “This Fix”) and occasionally alternates between them (“Pharmaceutical Grade”, “Hollow Mask”). Neither is anything like his speaking voice.
  • Sir Swearsalot: Lee.
  • Squick: The video for “The End Part 1” (Warning: can be triggering).
  • Stage Names: Kong (Lee), Virul3nt (Pete) and Straylight (Wendy).
  • Surreal Music Video: "This Fix".
  • Take That: “Alpha Omega”, to religion in general.
  • Xtreme Kool Letterz: The band’s name itself (it’s just pronounced like ‘shiver’) and Pete’s stage name, Virul3nt.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Shiv-r?oldid=1842986"