| Anarchy Club | |
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| Origin | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Genres | Alternative rock, electronica, experimental rock, electronica |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Independent |
| Associated acts | Splashdown, C60, Giant Target |
| Website | anarchyclub.com |
| Members | |
| Keith Smith Adam von Buhler |
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Anarchy Club is a hard rock/electronica duo from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Keith Smith, who is a former member of the band C60, and Adam von Buhler, who plays guitar (including all solos), bass, drums, and other instruments, and is a former member of the band Splashdown.
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Friends Adam von Buhler and Keith Smith formed the band in the winter of 2004.
Their debut album was entitled The Way and Its Power. The song "Behind the Mask" appeared in the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero as a bonus track. Smith was an employee of Harmonix Music Systems until 2010, and Buhler's former bandmate, Kasson Crooker, is its audio director.
"Collide" (from their 2007 release, A Single Drop of Red) is a bonus track for Guitar Hero II. Of the 24 bonus tracks in the game, GameSpy named "Collide" as one of the five best.[1]
"Blood Doll" is an unlockable track from the MTV/Harmonix game Rock Band.
During Keith's time in C60, the band won 6 Boston music awards (5 of them in one year) and shared stages with bands such as Kiss, Run DMC, Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine and others. Some of their songs were also featured in the TV shows Dawson's Creek and The Shield.
Meanwhile, Adam worked with the band Splashdown, and recorded an unreleased album with producer Glen Ballard. During his time signed to Capitol Records, he toured the country with Splashdown and had several songs in movies (Titan A.E. and others) and television shows (Charmed, Angel and many more).
Anarchy Club released their second CD, A Single Drop of Red, in December 2007. The record was an EP featuring 5 new tracks (including "Collide", not previously available on CD), and 6 remixes of fan favorites from "The Way and its Power". The song "Blood Doll" from this CD additionally appeared as a bonus track in Harmonix's music video game Rock Band which came out later that year. In the PS2 version of the game, Keith and Adam appear as characters on stage during the performance of "Blood Doll".
A new Anarchy Club song, "Get Clean", was included in the new MTV/Harmonix game Rock Band 2, in the "impossible" section.
The duo released their second full-length CD (and third overall), The Art of War, in October 2009. At the same time, two Anarchy Club songs, "Blood Doll" and "Get Clean", appeared as DLC in the iPhone and iPad versions of the official Rock Band game.
Caleb Wheeler and Daniel Chace are also members of the band Giant Target.
| Release date | Title | Record label |
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| August 12, 2005 | The Way and Its Power | Independent |
| December 20, 2007 | A Single Drop of Red | Independent |
| October 24, 2009 | The Art of War | Independent |
| June 30, 2011 | Yin Against Yang | Independent |
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