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As a solo artist, prolific Swedish producer and singer/songwriter Tim Skold issues his corrosive industrial metal under the moniker Skold. Although he made his debut in the '80s as frontman of Swedish glam metal outfit <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> (fka Kingpin), he found his dark calling in the mid-'90s as a rebranded solo artist bent on moving the body as much as disturbing the mind. Skold's self-titled debut featured nihilistic anthems that veered close to contemporaries like <a href="spotify:artist:3V3ChkwvlWDJtMFuOKfYiB">Gravity Kills</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6fJTyAeSgv4A1LR9LamLnY">Chemlab</a>, as well as early-era <a href="spotify:artist:0X380XXQSNBYuleKzav5UO">Nine Inch Nails</a>. Through the decades -- bouncing between solo efforts like Anomie (2011), The Undoing (2016), and Seven Heads (2023), and collaborative stints with like-minded acts such as <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>/<a href="spotify:artist:42rBYWqiCzxYUFQM0iKWwM">MDFMK</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2VYQTNDsvvKN9wmU5W7xpj">Marilyn Manson</a> -- he maintained his solo artistic trajectory while also producing and performing with <a href="spotify:artist:15u5WLGbBRRcjBomnLf7LS">Newlydeads</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:00DSeUAdyYqUyGFqeySG68">Ohgr</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3I4Q1KMAExEwzpEm84LIJB">Doctor Midnight & the Mercy Cult</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6MwPCCR936cYfM1dLsGVnl">Motionless in White</a>.
Born Thim Sköld in Skövde, Sweden, he grew up in an open family environment and spent his younger years inspired by <a href="spotify:artist:07XSN3sPlIlB2L2XNcTwJw">Kiss</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0oSGxfWSnnOXhD2fKuz2Gy">David Bowie</a>, and learning bass guitar. Skold met future bandmate Harry Cody during his teen years; the pair went on to form the glam metal band Kingpin in the late '80s. After releasing their debut, they changed their name to <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> and issued an additional three albums, including 1989's eponymous effort that included their most prominent single, "Shout It Out." Bowing out with their final LP, Violent New Breed, <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> ended and Skold struck out as a solo artist.
Already dabbling in industrial by the end of the <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> years, Skold plunged into this full rebranding on his 1996 debut, Skold (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a>). A harsh blend of <a href="spotify:artist:3V3ChkwvlWDJtMFuOKfYiB">Gravity Kills</a> and Broken-era <a href="spotify:artist:0X380XXQSNBYuleKzav5UO">NIN</a>, Skold included the single "Chaos" and was produced by Scott Humphrey (<a href="spotify:artist:3HVdAiMNjYrQIKlOGxoGh5">Rob Zombie</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5imUS9dQyCbAjUEJJ9QyWC">Powerman 5000</a>). During promotion of the album, Skold met Sascha Konietzko, frontman of <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>. Focus soon switched from a burgeoning solo career to an official role with the industrial dance outfit as, just a year later, Skold had joined the band and contributed to their tenth album, Symbols. Skold remained with the group into the early 2000s, co-writing and co-producing Adios, Attak, and the transitional offshoot, MDFMK.
While with <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>, Skold assisted <a href="spotify:artist:2VYQTNDsvvKN9wmU5W7xpj">Marilyn Manson</a> with his 2001 cover of "Tainted Love." The following year, that partnership flowered into an official position in Manson's band, with Skold replacing <a href="spotify:artist:6dH1EFk5XXM2orJBljsTr9">Twiggy Ramirez</a> on bass and joining as producer. Now with a new band, Skold plunged headlong into Manson's world, putting his stamp on 2002's The Golden Age of Grotesque; 2004's cover of "Personal Jesus"; a 2006 reimagining of "This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas; and 2007's Eat Me, Drink Me. In 2008, <a href="spotify:artist:6dH1EFk5XXM2orJBljsTr9">Ramirez</a> was back in the band and Skold returned to <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>. In his absence, Konietzko and co. had issued a trio of albums, but the partnership returned with vigor in 2009 on two albums released just a month apart: Skold vs. KMFDM and Blitz. And just as quickly as Skold rejoined <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>, he was back on his own.
Although he had continued writing solo material during his time with Manson -- 2002's scrapped "Disrupting the Orderly Routine of the Institution" recordings became a popular fan bootleg, exchanged online as the Dead God EP and often erroneously attributed to <a href="spotify:artist:2VYQTNDsvvKN9wmU5W7xpj">Marilyn Manson</a> due to sonic similarities -- Skold wouldn't release an official sophomore effort until 2011, 15 years after his solo debut. Anomie included the single "Suck." Within a month, Skold unveiled yet another project, <a href="spotify:artist:3I4Q1KMAExEwzpEm84LIJB">Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult</a>. The supergroup featured members of <a href="spotify:artist:191rVxQbbZ05wcICUSvLkz">Turbonegro</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3jXKuyWNGa8hUPsnrblyl7">Cadaver</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3OHbToMuJihWhRcqzKjpBd">Apoptygma Berzerk</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3A6RBkFY3kND3Z5kXM3Cz3">Extol</a> and peddled a sleazy mixture of sludge rock and industrial metal which was heard on their debut, I Declare: Treason (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Season+of+Mist%22">Season of Mist</a>).
By 2014, Skold had entered the studio to record another solo effort, which didn't arrive until 2016. His third LP, The Undoing (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Metropolis%22">Metropolis</a>) landed at an ideal time, when younger bands such as <a href="spotify:artist:15VmPRQCJEZWaZWgHEroj0">Youth Code</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:4GHi4xklo0FT0l2CNuLFh2">3Teeth</a> were doing their best to bolster an industrial revival.
Three decades after his debut, Skold released his electro-industrial-leaning fourth solo effort, Never Is Now, in April 2019, with the more metallic Dies Irae arriving in 2021. Two years later, he unveiled the hard-hitting Seven Heads, a heavy groove-driven set of apocalyptic industrial metal. ~ Neil Z. Yeung, Rovi
Born Thim Sköld in Skövde, Sweden, he grew up in an open family environment and spent his younger years inspired by <a href="spotify:artist:07XSN3sPlIlB2L2XNcTwJw">Kiss</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0oSGxfWSnnOXhD2fKuz2Gy">David Bowie</a>, and learning bass guitar. Skold met future bandmate Harry Cody during his teen years; the pair went on to form the glam metal band Kingpin in the late '80s. After releasing their debut, they changed their name to <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> and issued an additional three albums, including 1989's eponymous effort that included their most prominent single, "Shout It Out." Bowing out with their final LP, Violent New Breed, <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> ended and Skold struck out as a solo artist.
Already dabbling in industrial by the end of the <a href="spotify:artist:08rXQbq2f7z8o6PRcsmtJJ">Shotgun Messiah</a> years, Skold plunged into this full rebranding on his 1996 debut, Skold (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a>). A harsh blend of <a href="spotify:artist:3V3ChkwvlWDJtMFuOKfYiB">Gravity Kills</a> and Broken-era <a href="spotify:artist:0X380XXQSNBYuleKzav5UO">NIN</a>, Skold included the single "Chaos" and was produced by Scott Humphrey (<a href="spotify:artist:3HVdAiMNjYrQIKlOGxoGh5">Rob Zombie</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5imUS9dQyCbAjUEJJ9QyWC">Powerman 5000</a>). During promotion of the album, Skold met Sascha Konietzko, frontman of <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>. Focus soon switched from a burgeoning solo career to an official role with the industrial dance outfit as, just a year later, Skold had joined the band and contributed to their tenth album, Symbols. Skold remained with the group into the early 2000s, co-writing and co-producing Adios, Attak, and the transitional offshoot, MDFMK.
While with <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>, Skold assisted <a href="spotify:artist:2VYQTNDsvvKN9wmU5W7xpj">Marilyn Manson</a> with his 2001 cover of "Tainted Love." The following year, that partnership flowered into an official position in Manson's band, with Skold replacing <a href="spotify:artist:6dH1EFk5XXM2orJBljsTr9">Twiggy Ramirez</a> on bass and joining as producer. Now with a new band, Skold plunged headlong into Manson's world, putting his stamp on 2002's The Golden Age of Grotesque; 2004's cover of "Personal Jesus"; a 2006 reimagining of "This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas; and 2007's Eat Me, Drink Me. In 2008, <a href="spotify:artist:6dH1EFk5XXM2orJBljsTr9">Ramirez</a> was back in the band and Skold returned to <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>. In his absence, Konietzko and co. had issued a trio of albums, but the partnership returned with vigor in 2009 on two albums released just a month apart: Skold vs. KMFDM and Blitz. And just as quickly as Skold rejoined <a href="spotify:artist:3V4IvzRQYP5mzuVtkcHgVa">KMFDM</a>, he was back on his own.
Although he had continued writing solo material during his time with Manson -- 2002's scrapped "Disrupting the Orderly Routine of the Institution" recordings became a popular fan bootleg, exchanged online as the Dead God EP and often erroneously attributed to <a href="spotify:artist:2VYQTNDsvvKN9wmU5W7xpj">Marilyn Manson</a> due to sonic similarities -- Skold wouldn't release an official sophomore effort until 2011, 15 years after his solo debut. Anomie included the single "Suck." Within a month, Skold unveiled yet another project, <a href="spotify:artist:3I4Q1KMAExEwzpEm84LIJB">Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult</a>. The supergroup featured members of <a href="spotify:artist:191rVxQbbZ05wcICUSvLkz">Turbonegro</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3jXKuyWNGa8hUPsnrblyl7">Cadaver</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3OHbToMuJihWhRcqzKjpBd">Apoptygma Berzerk</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3A6RBkFY3kND3Z5kXM3Cz3">Extol</a> and peddled a sleazy mixture of sludge rock and industrial metal which was heard on their debut, I Declare: Treason (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Season+of+Mist%22">Season of Mist</a>).
By 2014, Skold had entered the studio to record another solo effort, which didn't arrive until 2016. His third LP, The Undoing (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Metropolis%22">Metropolis</a>) landed at an ideal time, when younger bands such as <a href="spotify:artist:15VmPRQCJEZWaZWgHEroj0">Youth Code</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:4GHi4xklo0FT0l2CNuLFh2">3Teeth</a> were doing their best to bolster an industrial revival.
Three decades after his debut, Skold released his electro-industrial-leaning fourth solo effort, Never Is Now, in April 2019, with the more metallic Dies Irae arriving in 2021. Two years later, he unveiled the hard-hitting Seven Heads, a heavy groove-driven set of apocalyptic industrial metal. ~ Neil Z. Yeung, Rovi