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Cloudkicker

Cloudkicker is an American post-rock/post-metal musical project based in Columbus, Ohio, created by guitarist Ben Sharp. Sharp, a commercial airline pilot, does not pursue Cloudkicker as a full-time project; he releases his music as "pay what you want" under the Creative Commons license through Bandcamp.

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Cloudkicker
OriginColumbus, Ohio, U.S.
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Years active2005 (2005)–present
LabelsIndependent releases, Century Media
MembersBen Sharp

Cloudkicker is an American post-rock/post-metal2 musical project based in Columbus, Ohio,2 created by guitarist Ben Sharp.23 Sharp, a commercial airline pilot,4 does not pursue Cloudkicker as a full-time project; he releases his music as "pay what you want" under the Creative Commons license5 through Bandcamp.

Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge

Sharp composes, records and engineers all his music by himself;3 while he originally intended a studio-only project due to his distaste for touring,67 Sharp performed a short tour in 2014 with Intronaut (who acted as his backing band)8 and Tesseract.9

Sharp announced a new side project with Gospel's Vinny Roseboom named The Supervoid Choral Ensemble in 2023.10

Discography

Albums

  • 2005: myspace.com/musicistight (Compilation)
  • 2008: The Discovery
  • 2010: Beacons
  • 2011: Let Yourself Be Huge
  • 2011: Loop
  • 2012: Fade
  • 2013: Subsume
  • 2014: Live with Intronaut (Century Media)
  • 2015: Woum
  • 2019: Unending1112
  • 2020: Loop (2020)
  • 2020: Solitude

EPs & Singles

  • 2008: The Map Is Not the Territory
  • 2009: Portmanteau
  • 2009: ]]][[[
  • 2010: A New Heavenly Body (]]][[[ remixed and remastered)
  • 2013: Hello
  • 2014: Little Histories
  • 2025: Things You Can't Change
Music Videos
  • Subsume Part 1 (Live with Intronaut) (2014)
  • "Seriosity (Live with Intronaut)" (2014)
  • "Push it way up! (Live with Intronaut) " (2014)
References

References

  1. Tagat, Anurag (October 3, 2013). "Q&A: Ben Sharp aka Cloudkicker". Rolling Stone India. Retrieved June 1, 2023.
  2. Greg (October 17, 2012). "Exclusive Interview: Ben Sharp from Cloudkicker". OurStage. Amazing Media Group. Archived from the original on December 9, 2015. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  3. Tagat, Anurag (October 3, 2013). "Q&A: Ben Sharp aka Cloudkicker". Rolling Stone India. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  4. "r/progmetal – Comment by u/BenSharp on "Hi, my name is Ben Sharp and I do Cloudkicker. What would you like to talk about? (AMA)"". reddit. July 17, 2014.
  5. Kennelty, Greg (April 15, 2014). "Label Prints CLOUDKICKER Vinyls Without Consent From Artist and It's Totally Legal". Metal Injection. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  6. "Ben Sharp: 'Music Has Become A Kind Of Diary For Me'". Ultimate-Guitar.com. August 21, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  7. Metal Injection (May 8, 2014). "CLOUDKICKER Exclusive Interview | Metal Injection". YouTube. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  8. Andy Downing. "Locals: Cloudkicker makes a statement without saying a word". Columbus Alive.
  9. Rosenberg, Axl (January 23, 2014). "TesseracT, Intronaut, and Cloudkicker: Tour Dates Officially Announced!". MetalSucks. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  10. Kennelty, Greg (April 7, 2023). "CLOUDKICKER's BEN SHARP Debuts New Band THE SUPERVOID CHORAL ENSEMBLE". Metal Injection.
  11. Kennelty, Greg (August 15, 2019). "Surprise! CLOUDKICKER Releases First New Album in Four Years Unending". Metal Injection. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  12. Schafer, Joseph; Hickman, Langdon (August 29, 2019). "Mining Metal: Agenda, Cloudkicker, Lord Gore, Orm, Polemicist, Restless Ghosts, Sleep Terror, Swordwielder". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved May 18, 2020.