![]() ![]() Their national success has allowed them to travel across the country and build a solid fan base of listeners and supporters. As a group, PB has performed alongside hip-hop legends such as Rakim, KRS-1, Outkast and Mobb Deep. ![]() As artists, they all have distinctive lyrical styles and deliveries reminiscent of classic hip-hop groups like Wu-Tang & Boot Camp. Their recordings are a reflection of their experiences growing up in the impoverished neighborhood. All members were raised in Toronto, Ontario's infamous Regent Park - North America's Oldest Social Housing Project. Comprised of 6 emcees and one in house producer - Imperial, Trouble, Stump, Kidd, RPD, Jackal and Pikihed - share a common goal and vision to be the voice of youth growing up in the inner city. We hope we didn`tĤ)One of Canada's most recognized groups in hip-hop, Point Blank continue to make long strides in the music industry. We don’t have changes in the band and we don’t plan to do that because we’re great together…We understand and respect each other very much, and besides that, we’re friends like a 100 years. It all started after that… Recording studios, radio and TV shows, Festivals, Tours… The band members are: Blagoja Gigov – Guitar Metodija Atanasovski – Guitar Damjan Mitrevski – Vocals Dimitri Trickovski – Bass Vladimir Mitrevski – Drums All five of us are together in the band since day one. So the time for our first gig came…Our first gig went the way every new band wanted, crowded, claustrophobic, and very hot. We were, and still are convinced that live acts are the most important thing that builds the band character, despite the recording sessions. We simply wanted to be ready before our first performance. When we started playing, we were like 2 and a half years locked up in our garage making music and searching for our own sound. Everyone in the band had experience with other bands before we started playing, but nothing like this. At that point we’ve realized that POINT BLANK was no more some adolescent joke. Everybody started to behave more serious and more dedicated. We started to make more complex and more melodic rock/metal songs, and the atmosphere in the band changed. No one was talking about changes but our telepathy worked. But soon we’ve realized that simply hardcore was not us, although we liked the energy that playing hardcore produces. Everyone was playing hardcore, and so were we. We started playing somewhere in the end of 1999, under the influence of the hardcore wave that Macedonia was in. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Houston's South Park neighborhood.īlowin' Up Tha Scene (1996) While other songs received airplay and charted, this was the only time Point Blank placed a record inside the top 40, and thus the band are remembered by some as a one-hit wonder.Ģ) Point Blank The Bull, a Houston, TX based rapper who is a member of the South Park Coalition (S.P.C.) and Wreckless Klan. Subsequently, Nicole was also released as a 45 RPM single and peaked inside the Top 40 at #39 on Billboard's Hot 100. ![]() With strong air-play on AOR radio stations the track reached #20 on Billboard Magazine's Rock Tracks chart. In 1982 Point Blank released their fourth album, American Exce$$ which included the song Nicole. For die-hard fans and Southern rock fanatics only. It's not the worst album in the Point Blank catalog, but it certainly isn't the best. As a result, there really isn't much improvement over the first album (save for the removal of the cheesy, pun-infected cover art, replaced by the lads in the band taking it easy in the backyard, complete with yellow sunlit soft-focus photography). But rather than rearrange or pepper things up a bit in the recording process, Point Blank pretty much stayed the same as they did for their first record: a five-piece (they ditched the keyboardist) writing songs around crunchy blues guitar riffs that resemble a hybrid of British hard rock (Zeppelin, Deep Purple) and Southern rock. With the success of their eponymous debut recording, Point Blank had a reasonable amount of momentum heading into the studio to record Second Season. On their album 'Second Season' (imge provided). Garnering occasional airplay on AOR radio stations, the band is best known for their 1981 hit single Nicole. The band formed in 1974 and recorded six albums between 19. Melodic punk-rock band from South Central, New Jerseyġ) Point Blank is an American rock and roll band hailing from Texas. Point Blank (Actually Point.Blank) is a Belgian Dubstep duo formed by 'Vyron' and 'Matar'ġ3. An alias of Belgian techno producer Jeroen Verheijġ1. There are multiple artists with this name:Ħ. ![]()
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