Greg Anderson (guitarist)

Greg Anderson (born 1970) is an American musician, a co-founder of Southern Lord Records.

Greg Anderson
Anderson performing with Sunn O))) in 2005
Background information
Born	1970 (age 54–55)
Origin	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genres	Doom metal, avant-garde metal, hardcore punk
Instrument(s)	Guitar, bass
Years active	1980s–present
Labels	Southern Lord Records
Website	www.southernlord.com

Anderson is the guitarist of stoner doom band Goatsnake,^[1] but is also well known for his collaborations with Stephen O'Malley. Together, the duo participated in projects such as the short-lived death/doom metal band Thorr's Hammer, the extreme doom metal band Burning Witch (although Anderson left before the band could record an album), as well as the drone metal bands Sunn O))) and Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine.

Career

Earlier in his career, Anderson was involved with the straight edge hardcore punk bands False Liberty, Brotherhood, Amenity, Statement, Galleon's Lap, and the Revelation Records and indie rock/hardcore punk band Engine Kid.

Around 1994 and 1995 while still playing with Engine Kid, he met Stephen O'Malley, and they joined the Seattle death-doom band Thorr's Hammer. Their singer Runhild Gammelsæter was a Norwegian exchange student studying at the University of Washington. The band split after she went back to Norway, but Anderson and O'Malley still played with drummer Jamie Sykes to form Burning Witch.^[2]

Wino had left The Obsessed and the rhythm section were still looking for someone to play with. They saw Engine Kid in Los Angeles and decided they wanted to jam with me. My taste in music was getting heavier over time. We did a ton of experimenting with different dynamics, hardcore, and just wanting to play in a metallic direction.^[3]

Both Brotherhood and Galleon's Lap featured future Foo Fighters and Sunny Day Real Estate bass player Nate Mendel. In 2007, Greg joined Attila Csihar and Oren Ambarchi in a new drone-doom project called Burial Chamber Trio, as well as Ascend, a current project/record with Gentry Densley, the former singer-guitarist of Revelation Records band Iceburn.

In April 1998, Anderson and O'Malley founded the independent, underground label Southern Lord Records, based in Los Angeles, California. The company has been specializing in doom, sludge, drone, experimental metal, left-field black metal, and crust punk.^[4] Anderson has been serving as the label's music curator.^[1]

While working with Sunn O))), Anderson sometimes credited himself as "The Lord", and under the same pseudonym recorded two benefit tracks; "We Who Walk In Light" (2021) with Alice in Chains' vocalist William Duvall raising funds for "Jail Guitar Doors", and "Needle Cast" with Big Brave's Robin Wattie benefiting "The Native Women Shelter of Montreal". Around the same time, he was involved in a production of a score for an anthology of found-footage horror stories called "V/H/S 94".^[1][5][6]

In 2022, Anderson released his solo debut Forest Nocturne under the name "The Lord", drawing inspiration from "hikes in the woodlands of the Pacific Northwest" and the notion about trees as "perhaps the last known connection that we have to an ancient world". Attila Csihar provided guest vocals on the album. "Triumph of the Oak" was released as the first single.^[1][7]

Discography

With False Liberty

• The Zoo Is Free (Demo 1986)
• Silence Is Consent... 7" (EP 1986)

With Brotherhood

• Brotherhood of Friends (1988)
• Words Run... As Thick As Blood (1989)

With Amenity

• Chula Vista (Demo 1989)

With Statement

• Don't Sacrifice Me 7" (EP 1989)

With Galleons Lap

• Themes And Variations (1991)

With Engine Kid

• Engine Kid (EP 1992)
• Astronaut (EP 1993)
• Bear Catching Fish (CD and LP 1993)
• The Little Drummer Boy/In The Bleak Midwinter (split with Silkworm 1993)
• Three On The Tree (split with Wreck 1994)
• Iceburn/Engine Kid (split CD with Iceburn 1994)
• Angel Wings (CD 1995)
• Troubleman Unlimited (EP 1995)

With Thorr's Hammer

• Sannhet i Blodet (Demo 1995)
• Dommedagsnatt (Cassette 1996, CD 1998, CD Reissue 2004, Picture Disc 2004)

With Goatsnake

• IV 7" (EP 1998)
• Man Of Light 7" (EP 1998)
• Goatsnake Vol. 1 (CD 1999)
• Goatsnake/Burning Witch (split with Burning Witch) (CD 2000)
• Dog Days (CD 2000)
• Flower of Disease (2000)
• Trampled Under Hoof (CD 2004)
• 1 + Dog Days (CD 2004)
• "Black Age Blues" (CD 2016)

With Sunn O)))

• The Grimmrobe Demos (demo 1998, CD 2000, 2xPLP 2003, 2xLP 2004)
• ØØ Void (2000)
• Flight of the Behemoth (2002)
• White1 (2003)
• White2 (2004)
• Black One (2005)
• Altar (Collaboration with Boris, CD 2006)
• Oracle (2007)
• Dømkirke (live 2xLP 2008)
• Monoliths & Dimensions (2009)
• Terrestrials (collaboration with Ulver, February 2014)
• Soused (collaboration with Scott Walker, October 2014)
• Kannon (2015)
• Life Metal (2019)
• Pyroclasts (2019)

With Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine

• Rampton (2002)

With Burial Chamber Trio

• Burial Chamber Trio (LP 2007)
• WVRM 10" (Live EP 2008)

With Ascend

• Ample Fire Within (2008)

With Pentemple

• Sunn O))) Presents… (Live album, 2008)

With The Lord

• Forest Nocturne (2022)
• Devotional (collaboration with Petra Haden, 2022)
• Worship: Bernard Herrmann Tribute LP (2024)

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