Danny Lohner
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Daniel Patrick Lohner (born December 13, 1970 in Corpus Christi, Texas), most commonly known as Danny Lohner, is a rock musician who plays bass guitar, guitar and keyboards. He has worked with Trent Reznor on numerous occasions, both with Nine Inch Nails and on the defunct Tapeworm project. He has also played for Killing Joke, Methods of Mayhem and in the past was one of the founding members of the now defunct industrial-thrash outlet Skrew as well as one of the members of the Texas thrash metal band Angkor Wat.
He also was featured on Marilyn Manson's breakthrough album Antichrist Superstar, as did most of Nine Inch Nails due to Trent Reznor's relationship with Manson, acting as his mentor in the world of music. Lohner can be heard playing the acoustic guitar on the track "The Reflecting God".
Lohner can frequently be found contributing to movie scores with fellow Nothing Records alumni Charlie Clouser and Clint Mansell. Additionally, he does remixes for various artists under the pseudonym Renholdër ("re:d.lohner" backwards.) This began when as a result of the song of the same title, which appeared on A Perfect Circle's debut album Mer de Noms. Contrary to popular belief, Lohner did not work on this song, but was later told by guitarist Billy Howerdel that the song was about him. He has appeared in all of A Perfect Circle's albums to date in one form or another, and has also appeared on stage with them.
He is currently a studio member of Puscifer, helping with engineering and filling in for instruments and vocals as necessary. In early 2003, Danny was one of the select few musicians to audition for Metallica's open bass player position and can be briefly seen playing with the band in their documentary Some Kind of Monster.
In early 2003, A Perfect Circle's official website announced that "Renholder" would be replacing Troy Van Leeuwen as the band's second guitarist. While Lohner did receive production credit on the band's second release, Thirteenth Step, he had other obligations by the time touring began, and ex-Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha stepped in to fill the void. The most notable reason for Lohner's departure was his obligation to produce the soundtrack for the movie Underworld. This soundtrack was a collection mostly consisting of tracks written, produced, remixed and performed by Lohner and his friends in the industry, including David Bowie, TRUSTcompany, Maynard James Keenan, Johnette Napolitano and others. Lohner worked with Richard Patrick of Filter, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit and Black Light Burns, and Josh Freese of A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails, in a project called The Damning Well. A total of 14 songs were recorded, but only one of these made the soundtrack. So far, there have been no plans to release the rest of the songs.
In November of 2004, Lohner contributed heavily to eMOTIVe, the third full length album by A Perfect Circle. This album was mostly a collection of cover songs, but also included Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums, a remix of Pet from the band's second album, Thirteenth Step. In addition, there was an original work, titled Passive, which is the final version of a song originally composed for the Tapeworm Project. This track subsequently appeared on the soundtrack to the film Constantine, and Lohner appeared in the video for this track, alongside Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese and former Zwan and A Perfect Circle member, Paz Lenchantin. A sister to eMOTIVe, 2004 also saw the release of aMOTION, a 2-disc collection including a CD of the band's remixes and a DVD of music videos and live material. The remix CD included Lohner's remixes of 3 Libras, Judith, Weak and Powerless, and The Outsider. Though these remixes had previously been available on various soundtracks and CD singles, 3 Libras had been reworked slightly from its original release, and Judith now featured censored lyrics. On both eMOTIVe and aMOTION, Lohner was credited as a band member.
In 2005 and 2006, Lohner was involved further with Wes Borland in a project called Black Light Burns, taking on the role of producer as well as playing guitar, bass, synth, programming, etc. The project is somewhat of a successor to The Damning Well, as it involved most of its members, as well as certain portions of material from The Damning Well. Other members include Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv and Josh Freese. The album was released on June 5th, 2007, to be followed by a tour which Lohner will not be able to participate in due to his current activities.
He also worked with the popular Japanese rock artist HYDE in 2005-06, recording bass tracks along with Craig Adams on Hyde's album Faith. He was also involved with former blink-182 member Tom Delonge and his new band Angels & Airwaves in producing and programming on their track "Distraction" from their We Don't Need to Whisper album.
Lohner co-produced the album Keep Telling Myself It's Alright with his old band mate Billy Howerdel for Howerdel's solo project ASHES dIVIDE.
In March 2008, it was announced he will help produce the debut album of Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer's solo project titled Fear and the Nervous System.
Lohner is currently producing blues artist Foxxglove
[edit] Songs By Renholdër
| Song | Length | Soundtrack | Track |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Now I Know" | 0:57 | Underworld (2003) | 5 |
| "Down In the Lab" | 1:46 | Underworld (2003) | 8 |
| "Falling Through the Sky" | 1:01 | Underworld (2003) | 13 |
| "Death Dealer's Desent" | 0:55 | Underworld (2003) | 17 |
| "Kill With Me (Website theme)" | 3:54 | "Untraceable" (2008) | 12 |
| "The List" | 3:58 | "Pathology" (2008) | 1 |
[edit] External links
- Danny Lohner at the Internet Movie Database
- Cruel Melody - Black Light Burns Fansite
- [1] Danny Lohner's official Myspace page.
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