Razed in Black

Razed in Black
Origin	'Ewa Beach, Hawai'i, United States
Genres	Electro-industrial, Electronica, Futurepop, Trance, Gothic rock[1]
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Cleopatra Records, Hypnotic
Website	razedinblack.net
Members	Romell Regulacion

Razed in Black (RiB) is a gothic electronic music act created by Romell Regulacion (vocals, keyboards, guitars) and is supported in live performances by band members Chris Nelson and Raj Kapololu.^[2] The band was formed in Hawaii in 1994 and signed to Cleopatra Records in the following year.^[3] RiB's music combines elements of industrial, synthpop, dark wave, gothic rock, and hardcore techno. Mostly an underground act, RiB have had songs featured on television shows like Homicide: Life on the Street, in movies, and in videogames.^[3]

Regulacion has also released material under the names DJ R<I>B, DJ Skooby,^[3] and Transmutator. Transmutator incorporates more techno and hard electro/beat elements in its musical style, while Razed in Black has more lyrically-based songs with a darker tone and a heavier pop/rock influence.

Discography

Albums

• Shrieks, Laments, and Anguished Cries (1996)
• Overflow (1997)
• Funky Disco EP (1997) (as Transmutator)
• Take Over (1997) (as Transmutator)
• The Colony of Sluts (1999) (as Transmutator)
• Sacrificed (1999)
• Oh My Goth! EP (2001)
• Damaged (2003)
• Share This Poison - Retrospective (2012)

Compilations and remixes

Compilation appearances 

• Covered in Black—An Industrial Tribute to the Kings of High Voltage AC/DC (1997) (song: "Hell's Bells")
• The Blackest Album: An Industrial Tribute to Metallica (1998) (song: "The Thing That Should Not Be")
• 100 Tears—A Tribute to The Cure (1999) (song: "Disintegration")
• Covered In Nails: A Tribute to Nine Inch Nails (2000) (song: "Starfuckers, Inc.")
• Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna (Volume 2) (2000) (song: "Erotica" by Razed in Black vs. Transmutator)
• Don't Blow Your Cover: A Tribute to KMFDM (2000) (song: "A Drug Against War")
• The Blackest Album 3: An Industrial Tribute to Metallica (2001) (song: "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)")
• A Tribute to New Order (2001) (song: "Everything's Gone Green")
• A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins (2001) (song: "Cherub Rock")
• A Tribute to Nine Inch Nails: Re-Covered in Nails (2001) (song: "Sin")
• Dig It—Hymns of the Worlock: A Tribute to Skinny Puppy (2003) (song: "Assimilate")
• Electrocured—An Electro Tribute to The Cure (2004) (song: "Disintegration")
• Dark Trance vs. Neogoth Vol. 1 (2005) (song: "Blush V.2"
• Apocalypse Now 1 (EuroMedia SPV 088-38752) (song: "Metamorphosis")
• Cyberl@b (Nuclear Blast NB 27361-63132) (song: "Overflow")
• Cyberl@b Version 2 (alpha Matrix EFA 23205) (song: "Never Meant")
• Cyberl@b Version 3 (Matrix Cube TRI 042 cd) (song: "Oh My Goth!" (trance mix))
• Cryonica Tanz v.1 (Cryonica CRY CD 001) (song: "Nightmare")
• Cryonica Tanz v.2 (Cryonica CRY CD 003) (song: "Share This Poison")
• Elektro-Industrial Sounds of the Northwest (CLEO 9593-2) (song: "Metamorphosis")
• Elektrauma Vol. 4 (TRITON RECORDS (Europe) 13 CD) (song: "Master" (Painful edit))
• Future Wave (CLP 0199-2) (song: "I've Suffered Long Enough")
• Gothic Vampires/Covered in Goth (CLP 0957-2) (song: "Disintegration")
• Graver's Paradise (Hot Topic compilation) (song: "Blush")
• Hypnotic State (CLP 0111) (song: "Cyberium" (Mutation mix))
• I Hear Ya! (Caroline 1996) (song: "Cyberium" (On Speed mix))
• I Hear Ya! 1999 (Caroline 1999) (song: "Master")
• Industrial Revolution 3 (Cleopatra CLP 9732-2) (song: "What's Fair?" (Agony mix))
• Industrial Revolution: The Very Best of Industrial Revolution (Cleopatra CLP 0838-2) (song: "What's Fair?" (Agony mix))
• Industrial Madness Massive 4-CD set (CLP 0045) (song: "What's Fair?" (Frustration mix))
• New Dark Noise (Cleopatra/Hot Topic) (song: "Better Off")
• Signal to Noise (Cleo 1147-2) (songs: "Come to Daddy", "More Human")
• Soundline Sampler #3 (Sideline magazine SIDELINE 003) (song: "Cyberium" (On Speed mix))
• Taste of Sin (Cleopatra CLP 1167-2) (song: "Oh My Goth!")
• This Is Goth (Cleopatra CLP 0845-2) (song: "Oh My Goth!")
• This Is Industrial (Cleopatra CLP 0691-2) (song: "Master")
• Trancespotting IV (Hypnotic CLP 1158) (song: "Oh My Goth!" (trance mix))
• Wired Injections (Cleopatra CLEO 9675-2) (song: "Cyberium (On Speed mix))

Remixes for other artists 

• Aiboforcen: "Not Unique (Razed In Black remix)" psychosomeatically unique: Alfa-Matrix am3005-DJ
• Afterchain: "Corporate Reality (Razed In Black remix)"
• Ayria: "Disease (Razed In Black remix)" Square Matrix v.4: Alfa-Matrix am1039
• Berlin: "Pleasure Victim (Razed In Black remix)" The Greatest Hits Remixed: Cleopatra CLP 0760-2
• Birmingham 6: "Policestate (Razed In Black remix)" To Protect and to Serve: Cleopatra CLEO 9659-2
• Birmingham 6: "Accept Reality! (Razed In Black remix)" Mixed Judgements (US): Zoth Ommog CD Zot 229
• Bow Wow Wow: "I Want Candy (Razed In Black remix)" Wild in the U.S.A.: Cleopatra CLP 0424-2
• Celldweller: "Frozen (DJ RiB Remix)" Frozen/Goodbye Remixes
• Crüxshadows: "Cassandra (Razed In Black remix)" Fortress In Flames: Dancing Ferret Records 724
• Cheap Trick: "Dream Police (Razed In Black f/Kelly Hanson of Hurricane A Tribute to ...: Cleopatra CLP 0786-2
• The Damned: "Shadow to Fall (Razed In Black Mix)" Testify: Cleopatra CLP9899-2
• Digi Wni: "No Future" (and 4 other tracks) EP: Dolphin Entertainment JAPAN: BLCK - 85984
• Digi Wni: "No Future" (and 10 other tracks) LP: Dolphin Entertainment JAPAN: BLCK - 86015
• Diverje: "To Hell (Razed In Black remix)" Digital 6 Focus A: DSBP Productions DSBP 1014 Existence-Program Remix: DSBP Productions DSBP 1019
• Electric Hellfire Club: "Prince Of Darkness (Razed In Black remix)" Unholy Roller: Cleopatra CLP 0235-6
• Gene Loves Jezebel: "Always a Flame (Razed IN Black remix) Desire: Cleopatra CLP 0377-2
• Genitorturers: "4 Walls Black (Razed In Black remix)" Machine Love: Cleopatra CLP 0735-2
• Emergence: "BluMuse (Razed In Black remix)" Romell produced their debut EP as well. Scarred EP: Self Released
• Implant: "Engine No. 9 (Razed In Black remix)" Komputer: Triton Records (Europe)
• Implant: "Too Many Puppies (Razed In Black remix)" Self-Inflicted: Alfa-Matrix am 7252
• Inertia: "Angel (Razed In Black remix)" Positive Angel: Cryonica Records (Europe) nightCD035
• Information Society: "Going, Going ... Gone! (Razed In Black remix)" Insoc Recombinant: Cleopatra CLP 0490-2
• Internal: "Information (Razed In Black remix)" Information: Sideline Records (Europe)
• Jim Morrison: "Tresspass (Razed In Black remix)" Electronic Proclamations of a Wild Child: Morpheus Ozit C00070 (Europe)
• Matthew Grim: "Electric Avenue (Razed In Black remix)" Epic 98: Epic Records Epic 9
• Missing Persons: "Walking in LA (Razed In Black remix)" Remixed Hits: Cleopatra CLP 0609-2
• MMTM: "ESP (Razed In Black remix)" Binary Sex: Underground, Inc.:UN1077
• Mnemonic: "Labyrinth (Razed In Black remix)" Alfa-Matrix: Limited Edition Packaging - Indentistorüng
• Neotek: "Suicide (Razed In Black remix)" Brain Over Muscle ~ Deluxe: Zoth Ommog/Cleopatra clp 1375-2
• Neikka RPM: "Bound by Sympathy (Razed In Black remix)" Square Matrix 03: Alfa-Matrix Records
• New Mind: "Lightning Zone (Razed In Black remix)" The Zone: Out of Line Records
• Pygmy Children: "Intensify (Razed In Black remix)" Industrial Mix Machine: Cleopatra CLP 9969
• Razed In A New Division Of Agony: "Shadowplay (Razed In Black Remix)" - Joy Division cover
• Regenerator: "Blink (Razed In Black remix)" Regenerated X: WTII Records
• Shunt: "White Skin (Razed In Black remix)" Romell also appears on this album as a guest guitarist Profane Groove: 21st Circuitry 21C 39
• Soil & Eclipse: "Fields of Stone (Razed In Black remix)" This album also produced by Romell Necromancy: Cop Int'l Records- COPCD 033
• Soil & Eclipse: "Poetry of Angels (Razed In Black remix)" Archetype: Cop Int'l Records- COPCD 055
• Soil & Eclipse: "Sentence Me (Razed In Black remix)" Purity: Cop Int'l Records- COPCD
• Sonic Adventure Remix "Open Your Heart" (Transmutator vs. Razed in Black) (1998)
• Sonic The Hedgehog: Remix Adventure Contains Razed In Black collaboration with Corey Glover of Living Color Toshiba/EMI TOCP-65024
• Switchblade Symphony: "Clown (Razed In Black remix)" Drool: Cleopatra CLP 0042-2
• Warrant: "Down Boys (Razed In Black remix)" Greatest & Latest: Deadline Records CLP 0694-2
• UV: "Dementia (Razed In Black remix)" Album also Mastered by Romell: BLC Productions

Appearances in movies, television, and video games

• The Rage: Carrie 2 features "What's Fair?" by RiB & "My Wonderful Friend" by Transmutator during the movie but was not included on the official soundtrack.^[4]
• Ginger Snaps features "Overflow", not included on official soundtrack^[5]
• The independent film Strange Life: The Breech features "I've Suffered Long Enough"
• The WB's Mission Hill features music by Razed In Black
• NBC's Homicide: Life on the Streets features music by Razed In Black
• "Pursuit," "Future Unknown," "Power", and "Cyberium (Endurance Mix)", from Shrieks, Laments and Anguished Cries, appear in the 1997 THQ fighting video game Vs.
• The first episode of the television series Hellcats features their cover of Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy".^[6]
• "A Fifth Of Beethoven" by Transmutator is featured in Mystery Men

References

1. "Razed in Black | Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
2. allmusic Razed In Black Biography
3. "Basic Black, The last stop on an album tour brings an isle musician home", Jason Genegabus, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, December 11, 2003
4. The Rage:Carrie 2 IMDB Soundtrack Page
5. Ginger Snaps IMDB Soundtrack Page
6. Hellcats: A World Full of Strangers Trivia and Quotes on TV.com

External links

• Official website