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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Tim Sköld |
| Also known as | Tim Skold, Tim Tim, Skold |
| Born | December 14, 1966 Skövde, Sweden |
| Occupations | Musician, producer |
| Instruments | Bass, guitar, synthesizer, vocals, accordion, programming |
| Years active | 1988 – present |
| Labels | Relativity, Wax Trax!, Interscope |
| Associated acts | Kingpin, Shotgun Messiah, KMFDM, MDFMK, ohGr, Marilyn Manson, The Newlydeads, 16volt |
| Website | Official website |
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| Gibson Firebird | |
Tim Skold (born Tim Sköld[1] on December 14, 1966, in Skövde, Sweden) is a multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to producing solo work, has also collaborated with multiple musical groups including KMFDM and Marilyn Manson.
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Biography
Early life
Tim Sköld was born on December 14, 1966 in Skövde, a small city in Västergötland, Sweden, but grew up in Timmersdala, some 21 kilometers north-west of Skövde. He has a sister named Linda. Tim grew up in a very liberal setting as the son of a 15 year old mother and a father trying to get by as a semi-professional drummer.
At age 11, Tim was motivated to get in a playback band. Tim's band would play for people at school meetings with Kiss, Bowie and Sweet songs playing on a cassette player.
Tim first rented a bass by the month at age 12 and by the time he was 13, he was playing and singing in his first real band. Tim later met guitarist Harry Cody at a New Year's Eve party and they formed a creative partnership which would last for many years to come. Their dream was to go to the U.S.A. to be rock stars. At age 17 after 2 years of studying Process Engineering at a boarding school, Tim moved into his own apartment and took a factory job making military equipment. A half year later he was drafted into the army. He brought his bass to the base and snuck into the shower stalls to practice after everyone went to sleep. Tim also kept rehearsing with Harry Cody on the weekends and once out of the army, took on many odd jobs including library assistant and gardener at a bathhouse.
At 19, Tim and Harry talked a Swedish record company into allowing them to make a record which they could use as a demo to reach the American market. Starting off as Shylock, their determination soon paid off in the form of Kingpin.
Kingpin
During the early 80's, bassist Tim Tim and guitarist Harry Cody formed the glam metal band Kingpin in their native Skövde, Sweden, inspired by the flamboyant hard rock bands flowing out of Los Angeles and UK acts such as Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Zodiac Mindwarp.
The band kicked off their career with a 7" single titled "Shout It Out" (which hit #1 in Sweden) in 1987 after drafting vocalist Zinny J. Zan and drummer Stixx Galore a short time later. Kingpin released their only Swedish album, Welcome To Bop City, the following year, later moving to Los Angeles.
Shotgun Messiah
Signed by Cliff Cultreri at Relativity Records, Kingpin changed their name to Shotgun Messiah (due to a San Francisco-based band holding the rights to the name Kingpin), remixed and re-packaged Welcome To Bop City as a self-titled album, releasing it as their international debut in 1989.
After having MTV smash hits such as "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" and "Shout It Out" whilst the band was in progress of making a follow up to their debut self-titled album, Zan was let go. They hired a new bassist, Bobby Lycon, from New York, and on Harry Cody's suggestion Tim Tim switched to the lead vocals. At this time, Tim Tim, whose role was now frontman, went by the name Tim Skold, dropping the umlaut. They released Second Coming in 1991, which was enthusiastically received by the media, and was their most successful album to date. Two singles were released from that album, "Heartbreak Blvd." and "Living Without You".
Shortly after, the band followed up with an E.P. entitled I Want More which contained some punk covers along with re-recorded songs from their previous album "I Want More", 'Babylon' and an acoustic version of "Nobody's Home". Soon after this release, Shotgun Messiah were down to two original members, Skold and Cody, seeing the departure of Stixx and Lycon.
Still under contract with Relativity Records, Skold and Cody decided to go back to Sweden for the recording of the third Shotgun Messiah album, Violent New Breed, which leaned towards the industrial end of heavy metal . The album was released in 1993 and is now considered a cult classic due to the 'before its time' incorporation of industrial influences. However, at the time of release it received mixed reviews and continued public indifference, which eventually convinced the two to call it a day, leading Tim to embark on his solo project, Skold.
Skold
After the break-up of Shotgun Messiah, Tim went on to pursue a solo career. Writing all songs and playing all instruments himself, his self-titled debut album, Skold, was released in 1996 by RCA (co-produced with Scott Humphrey).
Promoting his debut album, Tim and the rest of the live Skold band went on a short tour with (and in part as support for) Genitorturers. Some of the songs on the Skold album were used in movies like Disturbing Behavior ("Hail Mary"), Universal Soldier: The Return ("Chaos") and PlayStation game, Twisted Metal 4 ("Chaos"). During his solo career, Tim also did remixes for several bands such as Prong, Nature and Drown. He also met KMFDM frontman Sascha Konietzko during his time in the studio.
Around 2002, Tim Skold recorded a follow up to his 1996 self-titled album. These songs have never been officially released, but the demo tapes were rumored to have been stolen off of Skold's tour bus in 2002. This resulted in six songs entering file sharing programs, the songs have since been referred to by fans as the Dead God E.P. As of today there are four songs that have not yet been heard by fans.
KMFDM & MDFMK
After a short-lived solo career, Skold joined KMFDM in 1997. His first involvement with KMFDM was on the album Symbols, writing and singing on the song "Anarchy", which became a hit in clubs and spawned subsequent remixes of the track done by Skold himself . His next album with KMFDM, Adios, was released in 1999, with Skold taking a more prominent role in the band -- not only as co-vocalist, co-writer, and bassist, but also as producer, engineer, and programmer alongside KMFDM's founder Sascha Konietzko. Due to turmoil within the band, Konietzko and Skold departed and closed down KMFDM in 1999, re-starting as MDFMK the following year. They released just one album: MDFMK (2000, Universal Records). The band, with Lucia Cifarelli (formerly of Drill), took on a more "futuristic" sound, which contained less of the four on the floor KMFDM was known for and added a mix of drum & bass, trance and europop, primarily in a production style leaning towards "electronica". MDFMK featured all three members sharing vocal duties. Their song "Missing Time" was used in the animated movie Heavy Metal 2000.
A couple of years later the trio reformed KMFDM and released Attak. Afterwards, Skold departed the band. Due to a commitment to produce Marilyn Manson's album The Golden Age of Grotesque, Skold was unable to join KMFDM's 2002 Sturm & Drang tour; he did, however, make two guest appearances at shows on the 4th and 5th of June that year.
Newlydeads & Ohgr
Skold performed a show with Taime Downe's The Newlydeads on December 13, 2000 at the Pretty Ugly Club in Los Angeles. Skold, on bass, joined Ohgr, a project of Skinny Puppy vocalist Nivek Ogre, for the tour in support of its first album, Welt, in 2001.
Marilyn Manson
Skold's involvement with Marilyn Manson began as producer for the single "Tainted Love" which is featured in the 2001 teen comedy/parody movie, Not Another Teen Movie, as well as the soundtrack. Manson and Skold went on to score the movie Resident Evil, released in 2002. Several tracks are featured on the Resident Evil Movie Soundtrack.
Skold officially joined Marilyn Manson in 2002 after the departure of bassist Twiggy Ramirez. At this time, not only was Tim the bassist for the band, but he was also producing, editing, doing artwork, electronics, drum programming and beats, also playing guitar, keyboards, accordion and synthesizer bass for the Marilyn Manson 2003 release, The Golden Age of Grotesque.
He is described by Manson as, "the power that attitude brings to an album". On the band's 2004 release, Lest We Forget: The Best Of, Skold produced, played lead guitar, and sang backup vocals on the cover version of "Personal Jesus", which was also released as a single. Coinciding with the release of The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D in October 2006, Manson and Skold contributed a cover of "This Is Halloween" to The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, with Skold taking care of the music while Manson provided the vocals.
This time also saw the start of work on Marilyn Manson’s sixth studio album entitled Eat Me, Drink Me. The album was released worldwide on June 5th, 2007.
Skold played guitar on the band's 2007 world tour, Rape Of The World, with Rob Holliday (formerly guitarist/bassist for Curve, Gary Numan, the Mission and the Prodigy) taking over bass duties.
On January 9, 2008 Marilyn Manson posted a bulletin on MySpace which reported that Skold had left the band and former bassist Twiggy Ramirez had taken his place.
Recent Work
On December 16, 2008, it was announced on the KMFDM website that Tim Skold and Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM would be releasing an album together, titled Skold vs. KMFDM. The album was released on February 24, 2009, featuring 22 tracks, consisting of over 70 minutes of new music.
Skold did production and instrumentation work on KMFDM's latest album, Blitz, released March 24th, 2009.
Skold has contributed to 16volt's new album, American Porn Songs, due out September 8th, 2009.[2]
In November 2009 it was announced on his official website that Skold will release his second solo album in early 2010. The album is set to feature the songs 'I Will Not Forget', 'A Dark Star', and 'Bullets Ricochet'.[citation needed]
Musical equipment
Throughout his career Skold has played several different instruments and used equipment from different manufacturers, here is a list of notable equipment.[3][4]
Guitars and basses
- Gibson Les Paul - Black finish
- Gibson Firebird V - Cream white finish
- Gibson Firebird VII - Red finish
- Roland G-707 Guitar Synthesizer
- Gretsch Broadkaster G6119B bass - Black finish
- King doublebass - White with black flames
- D'Addario XL Strings
- Dunlop Tortex Picks
Effects
- Dunlop Cry Baby Bass Wah Wah
- Dunlop MXR M-103 Blue Box
- BOSS GT-6
- BOSS GT-6B Multi-Effects Units
- Dunlop MXR Smart Gate Pedal
- Dunlop MXR 10 Band EQ
Amplification
Discography
Kingpin
- "Shout It Out" (1987)
- Welcome To Bop City (1988)
Shotgun Messiah
- Shotgun Messiah (September 12, 1989)
- "Shout It Out" (1989)
- "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" (1990)
- Second Coming (October 22, 1991)
- "Heartbreak Blvd." (1991)
- "Red Hot" (1991)
- "Living Without You" (1992)
- I Want More (November 17, 1992)
- Violent New Breed (September 28, 1993)
- "Enemy In Me" (1993)
- "Violent New Breed" (1993)
Skold
KMFDM
- Symbols (September 23, 1997)
- "MDFMK" (January 27, 1998)
- Adios (April 20, 1999)
- "Boots" (February 5, 2002)
- Attak (March 19, 2002)
- Blitz (March 24, 2009)
MDFMK
- MDFMK (March 28, 2000)
Marilyn Manson
- "Tainted Love" (2001)
- Resident Evil Soundtrack (2002)
- The Golden Age of Grotesque (May 13, 2003)
- Lest We Forget: The Best of (September 28, 2004)
- Eat Me, Drink Me (June 4, 2007)
Skold vs. KMFDM
- Skold vs. KMFDM (February 24, 2009)
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tim Sköld |
- Official website
- The Sychophant
- Tim Skold's page on the Marilyn Manson Wiki
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