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<th style="vertical-align:top">Herkunft
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<th style="vertical-align:top"><a href="Genre#Musik" title="Genre">Genre(s)</a>
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<td><a href="Progressive_Metal" title="Progressive Metal">Progressive Metal</a>
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<th>Gründung
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<td>1991
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<td><div class="hintergrundfarbe5"><a href="Gesang" title="Gesang">Gesang</a>, <a href="Keyboard" title="Keyboard">Keyboard</a>, <a href="Gitarre" title="Gitarre">Gitarre</a></div></td>
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<td><div class="hintergrundfarbe5">Gesang, <a href="E-Bass" title="E-Bass">E-Bass</a></div></td>
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<td><div class="hintergrundfarbe5">Gesang, Keyboard, Gitarre</div></td>
<td>Damon Fox
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<td><a href="Mike_Portnoy" title="Mike Portnoy">Mike Portnoy</a>
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<p><b>Bigelf</b> ist eine <a href="Progressive_Metal" title="Progressive Metal">Progressive-Metal</a>-Band aus <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> in <a href="Kalifornien" title="Kalifornien">Kalifornien</a>, <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">USA</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bandgeschichte">Bandgeschichte</h2></div>
<p>Gegründet wurde die Band 1991 von Damon Fox und Richard Anton als <a href="Psychedelic_Rock" title="Psychedelic Rock">Psychedelic-Rock</a>-Band in Los Angeles, Kalifornien. 1995 erschien ihre erste <a href="Extended_Play" title="Extended Play">EP</a> <i>Closer to Doom</i>. Nach einem Start als Quartett schrumpfte die Band mit Fox (Gesang, Keyboard, Gitarre), A.H.M. Butler-Jones (Gesang, Gitarre) und Steve Frothingham (Schlagzeug) zu einem Trio. 1997 wurde das Debütalbum <i>Money Machine</i> aufgenommen, jedoch fand sich kein Label, das das Album veröffentlichen wollte. 2000 nahm sich das schwedische <a href="Independent-Label" title="Independent-Label">Independent-Label</a> Record Heaven des Albums an. Der schwedische <a href="E-Bass" title="E-Bass">Bassist</a> Duffy Snowhill trat der Band nach einer Europatournee bei. 2001 ersetzte Ace Mark Butler-Jones. Kurz darauf erlangte die Band einen Plattenvertrag bei einer schwedischen Filiale des <a href="Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner-Konzerns</a> und veröffentlichte dort 2002 das Album <i>Hex</i>. 2008 wechselte die Band wieder zu einem kleineren Label, Custard Record. Dort erschien 2008 das Album <i>Cheat the Gallows</i>. 2009 waren sie zusammen mit <a href="Opeth" title="Opeth">Opeth</a> und <a href="Unexpect" title="Unexpect">Unexpect</a> Vorgruppe von <a href="Dream_Theater" title="Dream Theater">Dream Theater</a>, während ihrer <i>Progressive-Nation-2009</i>-Tour.<sup id="cite_ref-rox_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rox-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Am 31. Dezember 2009 starb Gründungsmitglied A.H.M. Butler-Jones an den Folgen einer <a href="Lungenentz%C3%BCndung" title="Lungenentzündung">Lungenentzündung</a> in <a href="Knoxville_(Tennessee)" title="Knoxville (Tennessee)">Knoxville</a>, <a href="Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In den darauffolgenden Spannungen verließ Gitarrist Ace Mark die Band im Sommer 2011.
</p><p>Nach einigen Jahren Funkstille wurde am 3. April 2013 <a href="Mike_Portnoy" title="Mike Portnoy">Mike Portnoy</a> als neuer Schlagzeuger vorgestellt. Zeitgleich unterschrieb die Band einen weltweiten Vertrag mit dem deutschen Rocklabel <a href="InsideOut_Music" title="InsideOut Music">InsideOut Music</a>. Das vierte Studioalbum <i>Into the Maelstrom</i> erschien am 3. März 2014. Während der Vorbereitungen zum vierten Studioalbum wurde Luis Carlos Maldonado als neuer Gitarrist vorgestellt.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stil">Stil</h2></div>
<p>Die Band spielt eine Mischung aus <a href="Glam_Rock" title="Glam Rock">Glam</a>, <a href="Hard_Rock" title="Hard Rock">Hard</a> und <a href="Psychedelic_Rock" title="Psychedelic Rock">Psychedelic Rock</a>, für den die Musikbezeichnung Psychedelic Doom erfunden wurde. Als Einflüsse bezeichnet die Band vor allem Bands aus den 1960ern und 1970ern wie <a href="Black_Sabbath" title="Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a>, <a href="T._Rex" title="T. Rex">T. Rex</a>, <a href="Mott_the_Hoople" title="Mott the Hoople">Mott the Hoople</a>, <a href="Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a>, <a href="Queen_(Band)" title="Queen (Band)">Queen</a> und die <a href="The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">Beatles</a>. Auch Einflüsse von <a href="The_Move" title="The Move">The Move</a>, <a href="Roy_Wood" title="Roy Wood">Roy Wood</a> und dem <a href="Electric_Light_Orchestra" title="Electric Light Orchestra">Electric Light Orchestra</a> kann man auf späteren Alben finden.<sup id="cite_ref-rox_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rox-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskografie">Diskografie</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alben">Alben</h3></div>
<ul><li>2000: <i>Money Machine</i> (Record Heaven Music)</li>
<li>2003: <i>Hex</i> (Warner Music Sweden)</li>
<li>2008: <i>Cheat the Gallows</i> (Back on Black)</li>
<li>2014: <i>Into the Maelstrom</i> (InsideOut Records)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EPs/Singles"><span id="EPs.2FSingles"></span>EPs/Singles</h3></div>
<ul><li>1996: <i>Closer to Doom</i> (<a href="Extended_Play" title="Extended Play">EP</a>, Third Hole Records)</li>
<li>2000: <i>(Another) Nervous Breakdown</i> (Single, Record Heaven Music)</li>
<li>2001: <i>Goatbridge Palace</i> (EP, Record Heaven Music)</li>
<li>2003: <i>The Madhatter</i> (EP, Warner Music Sweden)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bigelf.com/">Offizielle Website</a> von Bigelf</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.myspace.com/bigelf">Bigelf auf MySpace</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/Bigelf">Bigelf</a> bei <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-DEcharts-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-DEcharts_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-238128">Chartdiskografie Deutschland</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-rox-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rox_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rox_2-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r261891140">
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">blogs.myspace.com: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120701/http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=51606424&blogId=524757192"><i>A.H.M. Butler-Jones R.I.P.</i></a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 1. Juli 2012 im Webarchiv <i><a href="Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a></i>)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000793345">Cheat the Gallows</a> bei <a href="AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> (englisch). Abgerufen am 21. Mai 2013.</span>
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