Kevin Hufnagel

Summary

Kevin Hufnagel is an American musician, based in NYC. He is known for his solo guitar works, for forming the progressive instrumental rock/metal band Dysrhythmia,[1] and for being a member of Gorguts,[2][3] Vaura, Sabbath Assembly, Veldune, and Byla. He also is a full time guitar instructor, teaching both in-person and virtually.

Kevin Hufnagel
Birth nameKevin Hufnagel
GenresProgressive rock, Technical metal, Classical, Avant-garde, Experimental, Ambient, Rock/Pop
Occupation(s)Musician, producer
Instrument(s)electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone ukulele
Years active1994-present
Labels
  • Burning Witches
  • Coup Sur Coup
  • Handmade Birds
  • Nightfloat
  • Nostalgium Directive
  • Profound Lore
  • Relapse Records
  • Season of Mist
  • Svart
  • Translation Loss
  • Wierd Records
Member ofByla, Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Sabbath Assembly, Vaura, Veldune
Websitekevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com/

Performance discography edit

Byla edit

  • 2005: Byla (Translation Loss Records)
  • 2007: Byla + Jarboe - Viscera (Translation Loss Records)
  • 2009 : Francesco Brunotti/Various Artists - Nocturne (Persistencebit Records) (contributes the track "Bloodrush")

Dysrhythmia edit

  • 2000: Contradiction (self-released)
  • 2001: No Interference (self-released)
  • 2001: split 10-inch w/ xthoughtstreamsx (Rice Control Records)
  • 2002: split 7-inch w/ Technician (Tranquility Base Records)
  • 2003: Pretest (Relapse Records)
  • 2004: Live from the Relapse Contamination Festival (Relapse Records)
  • 2005: No Interference - reissue with bonus tracks (Translation Loss Records)
  • 2006: Barriers and Passages (Relapse Records)
  • 2007: Fractures - split CD w/ Rothko (Acerbic Noise Development Records)
  • 2009: Psychic Maps (Relapse Records)
  • 2012: Test of Submission (Profound Lore Records)
  • 2016: The Veil of Control (Profound Lore Records)
  • 2019: Terminal Threshold (Translation Loss Records)

Gorguts edit

Grey Division Blue edit

  • 1994: Departure (self-released)

Kevin Hufnagel edit

  • 1997: While I Wait (self-released)
  • 2009: Songs for the Disappeared (Nightfloat Recordings)
  • 2011: Transparencies (Nightfloat Recordings)
  • 2012: Polar Night (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
  • 2013: From the 23rd Floor (Abandoned 4-track demos 1996 - 1998 + Live in Baltimore 2008) (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
  • 2013: Ashland (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette)
  • 2014: The Murderer's Tracks/The Weather Was Wrong (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
  • 2015: Kleines Biest (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Handmade Birds-cassette)
  • 2015: V/A - And Suddenly Everything, Absolutely Everything, Was There (bandcamp) (contributes the track "Hallucination II")
  • 2016: Backwards Through the Maze (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Nostalgium Directive-cassette)
  • 2017: The Protected Shards (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette)
  • 2017: Halloween EP 2017 (bandcamp)
  • 2017: V/A - Coup Sûr: An Introduction To Coup Sur Coup Records (Coup Sur Coup Records) (contributes the tracks "Ancestral Instinct" and "Ashland")
  • 2018: Messages to the Past (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Translation Loss Records-LP)
  • 2018: Halloween EP 2018 (bandcamp)
  • 2018: V/A - Feedback Through A Magnifying Glass Volume I (Coup Sur Coup Records) (contributes the track "Final Dawn")
  • 2022: Polar Night II (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette)
  • 2023: Liaison Dawn (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)

Invisible Traces edit

  • 2020: Invisible Traces (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)

Sabbath Assembly edit

  • 2012: Ye Are Gods (Anja Offensive/Svart) (guitar on "We Come From The One")
  • 2013: The Four Horsemen 7-inch (Svart)
  • 2014: Quaternity (Svart)
  • 2014: Eno Ot Derotser cassette (Svart)
  • 2015: Sabbath Assembly (Svart)
  • 2017: Rites of Passage (Svart)
  • 2017: Various Artists - Communion of Saints (Brave Mysteries) (contributes the track "And It Was Dead, Having No Motion (St Peter)")
  • 2018: Exsanguinata (original soundtrack) (bandcamp)
  • 2019: A Letter of Red (Svart)

Vaura edit

  • 2012: Selenelion (Wierd Records)
  • 2013: The Missing (Profound Lore Records)
  • 2019: Sables (Profound Lore Records)
  • 2022: Vista of Deviant Anatomies (Primal Architecture Records)

Veldune edit

  • 2022: Veldune (Nightfloat Recordings)

Guest appearances edit

Aseitas edit

  • 2018: Aseitas (bandcamp) (guitar solo on "City of Stone")

The Brazilian Gentleman edit

  • 2019: s/t (Lazy Thinking) (baritone ukulele on "Sweep Back Those Leaves (C.A. Mix)")
  • 2020: 808 Hymns (Internet and Weed)

Costanza edit

  • 2008: Sonic Diary (Zerokilled Music) (guitar on "I Am Ready")

Didkovsky / Hufnagel / Ulrich / Smith edit

  • 2015: Petromyzontiformes Vol 1 (bandcamp) (guitar on "III, for Electric Guitars")

Doctor Nerve edit

  • 2020: Loud (Punos Music) (guitar solo on "Meta 04 (bonus CD only)")

Empty Flowers edit

  • 2014: The Air You Found (Translation Loss) (remix/guitar on "Call A Priest")

Fear Falls Burning edit

  • 2007: Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects (Tonefloat) (guitar on "Fear Falls Burning vs Byla")

Feast of the Epiphany edit

  • 2023: Significance (Strategy of Tension) (guitar on "Love Dream")

Hathenter edit

  • 2017: Hathenter Ouija (Hathenter)

H O N E Y B L O O M edit

  • 2020: Blooming (Troll Sounds) (guitar solo on "Selfless Warrior")

Horror God edit

  • 2019: Cursed Seeds (Lavadome Productions) (guitar solo on "They Were Behind Barbed Wire")

Howling Sycamore edit

  • 2018: Howling Sycamore (Prosthetic Records) (guitar solos on "Upended" and "Midway")
  • 2019: Seven Pathways to Annihilation (Prosthetic Records) (guitar solos on "Mastering Fire" and "Initiation")

Jarboe edit

  • 2008: Mahakali (The End Records)
  • 2018: The Cut of the Warrior (Translation Loss Records) (guitar on "Karuna" (Byla mix))

The Mirror and The Shadow edit

  • 2017: Various Artists - Communion of Saints (Brave Mysteries) (contributes the track "Vox Sanguinis (St Ursula)")

Moral Collapse edit

  • 2021: s/t (Subcontinental Records) (guitar solo on "Suspension of Belief")

Sanity Obscure edit

  • 2012: Subterranean Constellation (self-released) (guitar solo on "Doublethink")

Sculptured edit

  • 2021: The Liminal Phase (BMG Records) (trade-off guitar solos on "State of Exception")

Svengahli edit

  • 2020: Nightmares of Our Own Design (self-released) (guitars on "Nightmares of Our Own Design II (Adrift)")

Theta International edit

  • 2020: Continual Activation Theory (bandcamp) (guitar solo and additional rhythm guitar on "Sons of Hydra")

Wake edit

  • 2022: Thought Form Decent (Metal Blade Records) (guitar solo on "Observer to Master", additional guitar on "Pareidolia")

Warforged edit

  • 2019: I: Voice (The Artisan Era) (guitar solo on "Eat Them While They Sleep")

Yellow6 edit

  • 2010: Close/r (Editions6)

Soundtracks edit

  • 2019: Kevin Hufnagel & Natasha Kermani Imitation Girl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Burning Witches Records)

References edit

  1. ^ "Dance". The New Yorker. September 7, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
  2. ^ "Kayo Dot, Lichens, Fielded & Psychic Steel shows & stuff". Brooklyn Vegan. August 23, 2010. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
  3. ^ Black Bubblegum Brooklyn Vegan. "Gorguts is back" (Statement from Luc Lemay), 2009-03-16

External links edit

  • Official page on Bandcamp
  • Kevin Hufnagel Interview for La Hoja de Arena (in Spanish)