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During the early 80's, bassist Tim Tim (changing his name from Tim Sköld ) and guitarist Harry Cody formed the glam rock band Kingpin in their native Skövde, Sweden, inspired by the flamboyant hard rock bands flowing out of L.A. and UK acts such as [[Sigue Sigue Sputnik]] and [[Zodiac Mindwarp]].
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During the early 80's, bassist Tim Tim (changing his name from Tim Sköld) and guitarist Harry Cody formed the glam rock band Kingpin in their native Skövde, Sweden, inspired by the flamboyant hard rock bands flowing out of L.A. and UK acts such as Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Zodiac Mindwarp.
  
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The band kicked off their career with a 7" single titled "[[Shout It Out (Kingpin single)|Shout It Out]]" (which hit #1 in Sweden) in 1987 after drafting vocalist [[Zinny J. San]] and drummer [[Stixx Galore]] a short time later. Kingpin released their only Swedish album, ''[[Welcome To Bop City]]'', the following year, later moving to L.A..
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The band kicked off their career with a 7" single titled "Shout It Out" (which hit #1 in Sweden) in 1987 after drafting vocalist Zinny J. San and drummer Stixx Galore a short time later. Kingpin released their only Swedish album, ''Welcome To Bop City'', the following year, later moving to L.A..
  
 
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Revision as of 00:49, 8 July 2007

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Tim Skold in 2004

Tim Skold (born Thim Sköld on December 14, 1966, in Skövde, Sweden) is a well known multi-instrumentalist and currently the bassist and studio guitarist of Marilyn Manson. He is currently married to a woman named Erin.

Biography

Early life

Tim Skold was born on December 14, 1966 in Skövde, a small city in Västergötland, Sweden. The 5'10" blonde has just one sibling, a sister named Linda. Tim grew up in a very liberal setting as the son of a 15 year old mother and a father trying to get by as a semi-professional drummer.

At age 11, Tim was motivated to get in a playback band. Tim's band would play for people at school meetings with Kiss, David Bowie and Sweet songs playing on a cassette player.

Tim first rented a bass by the month at age 12 and by the time he was 13, he was playing and singing in his first real band. Tim later met guitarist Harry Cody at a New Year's Eve party and they formed a creative partnership which would last for many years to come. Their dream was to go to the U.S. to be rock stars. At age 17 after 2 years of studying Process Engineering at a boarding school, Tim moved into his own apartment and took a factory job making military equipment. A half year later he was drafted into the army. He brought his bass to the base and sneaked into the shower stalls to practice after everyone went to sleep. Tim also kept rehearsing with Harry on the weekends and once out of the army, took on many odd jobs including library assistant and gardener at a bathhouse.

At 19, Tim and Harry talked a Swedish record company into allowing them to make a record which they could use as a demo to reach the American market. Starting off as Shylock, their determination soon paid off in the form of Kingpin.

Kingpin

During the early 80's, bassist Tim Tim (changing his name from Tim Sköld) and guitarist Harry Cody formed the glam rock band Kingpin in their native Skövde, Sweden, inspired by the flamboyant hard rock bands flowing out of L.A. and UK acts such as Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Zodiac Mindwarp.

The band kicked off their career with a 7" single titled "Shout It Out" (which hit #1 in Sweden) in 1987 after drafting vocalist Zinny J. San and drummer Stixx Galore a short time later. Kingpin released their only Swedish album, Welcome To Bop City, the following year, later moving to L.A..

Shotgun Messiah

Signed by Cliff Cultreri at Relativity Records, Kingpin changed their name to Shotgun Messiah (due to a San Francisco-based band holding the rights to the name Kingpin), remixed and re-packaged Welcome To Bop City as a self-titled album, releasing it as their international debut in 1989.

After having MTV smash hits such as "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" and "Shout It Out" whilst the band was in progress of making a follow up to their debut self-titled album, Zan was let go. They hired a new bassist, Bobby Lycon, from New York, and on Harry Cody's suggestion Tim Tim switched to the lead vocals. At this time, Tim Tim, whose role was now frontman, went by the name Tim Skold, dropping the umlaut. They released Second Coming in 1992, which was enthusiastically received by the media,Template:Fact and was their most successful album to date. Two singles were released from that album, "Heartbreak Blvd." and "Living Without You".

Shortly after, the band followed up with an E.P. entitled I Want More which contained some punk covers along with re-recorded songs from their previous album "I Want More", 'Babylon' and an acoustic version of "Nobody's Home". Soon after this release, Shotgun Messiah were down to two original members, Skold and Cody, seeing the departure of Stixx and Lycon.

Still under contract with Relativity Records, Skold and Cody decided to go back to Sweden for the recording of the third Shotgun Messiah album, Violent New Breed, which leaned towards the industrial end of heavy metal . The album was released in 1993 and is now considered a cult classic due to the 'before its time' incorporation of industrial influences.Template:Fact However, at the time of release it received mixed reviews and continued public indifference, which eventually convinced the two to call it a day, leading Tim to embark on his solo project, Skold.

Skold

After the break-up of Shotgun Messiah, Tim went on to pursue a solo career. Writing all songs and playing all instruments himself, his self-titled debut album, Skold, was released in 1996 by RCA (co-produced with Scott Humphrey).

Promoting his debut album, SKOLD went on a short tour with (and in part as support for) Genitorturers. Some of the songs on the SKOLD album were used in movies like Disturbing Behavior ("Hail Mary"), Universal Soldier: The Return ("Chaos") and Playstation game, Twisted Metal ("Chaos"). During his solo career, Skold also did remixes for several bands such as Prong, Nature and Drown. He also met KMFDM frontman Sascha Konietzko during his time in the studio.

KMFDM

After a short-lived solo career, Skold joined KMFDM in 1997. His first involvement with KMFDM was on the album, Symbols, contributing the song "Anarchy"—a hit in clubs—which he wrote and sang on. His next album with KMFDM, Adios, was released in 1999, with Skold taking on a bigger role in the band—not just as vocalist, writer, and bassist, but also as producer, engineer, and programmer alongside Konietzko.

Following the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre incident (which happened the same day Adios was released) and the stigma of the shooters being avid KMFDM fans, the band went on a short hiatus, starting the side-project mdfmk in 2000. Formed by Sascha Konietzko and Skold, they released just one album: mdfmk (2000, Universal Records). The band, with Lucia Cifarelli (formerly of the band Drill), took on a more futuristic sound, which also contained hints of trance and europop, primarily in the style of production, leaning towards, what is now commonly referred to as 'electronica'. MDFMK featured all three sharing vocal duties. Their song "Missing Time" was used in the animated movie, Heavy Metal 2000.

A couple of years later, KMFDM reformed, bringing Cifarelli of mdfmk with them, and released Skold's last album with KMFDM entitled Attak.

Due to a commitment to produce Marilyn Manson's 2003 album, The Golden Age of Grotesque, Skold was unable to join KMFDM's 2002 Sturm & Drang tour; he did, however, make two guest appearances on June 4th and 5th.

ohGr

Skold, on bass, joined ohGr, a project of Skinny Puppy vocalist Nivek Ogre, for the tour in support of its first album, Welt, in 2001.

Marilyn Manson

Skold's involvement with Marilyn Manson began as producer for the single "Tainted Love" which featured in the 2001 teen comedy/parody movie, Not Another Teen Movie, as well as the soundtrack. Manson and Skold went on to score the movie Resident Evil, released in 2002. Several tracks are featured on the Resident Evil Movie Soundtrack.

Skold officially joined Marilyn Manson in 2002 after the departure of bassist Twiggy Ramirez. At this time, not only was Tim the bassist for the band, but he was also producing, editing, doing artwork, electronics, drum programming and beats, also playing guitar, keyboards, accordion and synthesizer bass for the Marilyn Manson 2003 release, The Golden Age of Grotesque.

He is described by Manson as, "the power that attitude brings to an album".Template:Fact On the band's 2004 release, Lest We Forget: The Best Of, Skold produced, played lead guitar, and sang backup vocals on the cover version of "Personal Jesus", which was also released as a single. Coinciding with the release of The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D in October 2006, Manson and Skold contributed a cover of "This Is Halloween" to The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, with Skold doing the music and Manson singing.

This time also saw the start of work on Marilyn Manson’s sixth studio album entitled Eat Me, Drink Me. The album was released worldwide on June 5th, 2007.

Skold is currently playing guitar on the bands 2007 world tour, Rape Of The World, with Rob Holliday (formerly guitarist/bassist for Curve, Gary Numan, the Mission and the Prodigy) taking over bass duties.

Discography

Kingpin

Shotgun Messiah

Skold

  • [1996] Neverland (EP)
  • [1996] Skold (Album) – all instruments and vocals, producer
  • [2002] Dead God (Album) – A follow-up to his first solo album that was never officially released

KMFDM

mdfmk

Marilyn Manson

External links

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