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Aaron Kilroy in 2023

Aaron Kilroy is an American Writer and Musician. Aaron Usually releases music in the Noise and Folk genres while experimenting with other genres such as Industrial music and Ambient music. His first releases were under the name, B8, with his debut EP, The Death Of... and his second EP, Meet The.... The first release under the stage name, Aaron Kilroy, was Powerlines which was originally released under the B8 name before it was changed. Aaron Kilroy released 3 albums of original content which are Aaron Kilroy, Aaron Kilroy 2, and Pornography. He released two EPs which were Product For Dogs! and 0OoPEN. He released 6 singles which were Project 001: The Aliens Have Arrived, Project 002: Music From The Pimple, Project 003: What A Wonderful Concert, a cover of Swans' God Damn the Sun, Famous, and finally a cover of Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Aaron released 3 remix projects which were the previously mentioned Powerlines, Broken By The Pretty Hate Machine While Going Down The Downward Spiral, and Aaron Kilroy VS Merzbow. Aaron has released two compilations of unreleased material. One of them compiles old covers he created called Ruined: A Compilation Of Horrible Covers By A Horrible Musician and another that compiles his old original folk demos when he was starting out called FILTH: A Compilation Album Of Early Folk Recordings. The titles make it clear he hates his old work and covers. Aaron Kilroy has stated that he is his biggest critic and hates most of the music he puts out. Besides for his debut album, Pornography, and Meet The... He wishes he never made most of the projects he released. Aaron Kilroy has stated his worst projects are 0Oopen, the 3 singles in the project trilogy, and Product For Dogs! On January 6th, 2024, he released The Death Of Aaron Kilroy and announced the ending of music releases under the Aaron Kilroy name. He is currently writing books and writing songs for his band, House Party, who has only put out their demo tape which are folk covers of songs from Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Current 93, and Nine Inch Nails. Aaron Kilroy created a project called Physical Sphere. The band is a parody of artists in the Power Electronics and Goregrind genre. The songs parody how Aaron thinks a lot of the lyrics detail gross and illegal content and how a lot of it sounds only like noise to him with the screaming and how the instrumental sounds. The project only put out one EP which is the Right Up Your Ass! EP Aaron Kilroy usually uses Soundcloud to put out music but his first 3 releases were released on YouTube under the name, Fruitz Records which his own record label, and his debut album isn't available on the internet. Reception on his music have ranged from mixed to negative. His lowest rated project is Project 002: Music From The Pimple with a 0 out of 100 on Album Of The Year and his highest rated being his debut album with an 81 out of 100 on the same website. Aaron Kilroy hasn't released any of his books yet.

History and personnel

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Aaron Kilroy was born on January 12th, 2007. Aaron's first introduction to music was when he played a game from the Just Dance video game series. He didn't get into music fully until 2020. He was more interested in art and filmmaking. The comic he had all of focus on a series of comic strips called, Aaron's World. The series would follow 3 teens, Aaron, Anthony, and John, and their day to day life in a comedic story. He eventually became burnt out with the series and turned to filmmaking. None of his self made films were never finished or released besides for a fan film based off of the Scream film series. During the 2020 pandemic, Aaron got back into music. His favorite music from 2020 to 2023 would be industrial music from Nine Inch Nails, Daughters, Coil, and Throbbing Gristle. He soon found the albums, Pulse Demon by Merzbow, and An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by The Caretaker. This album would inspire Aaron to start making his own music. He would start working on his own releases in 2024 by using modified instruments from GarageBand. He would take up the stage name, B8, and release his debut EP, The Death Of... on April 19th, 2024. The EP was poorly received with Aaron Kilroy saying "It's a really horrible EP. I don't know how I thought it was good." Only a few days later, Aaron would release his next EP. Meet The... was released on April 22nd, 2024. The EP was better received than The Death Of... Aaron would take put out a Merzbow remix album called Powerlines but he would put all of his focus on his first album. On May 22nd, 2024, Aaron would release his self titled debut album. The album would receive positive ratings and Aaron would call it his second favorite project that he made under the Aaron Kilroy name.

Aaron would take a break from releasing any new projects until September when he planned on releasing 3 singles every day but the project would only last one day. The songs would be Project 001: The Aliens Have Arrived, Project 002: Music From The Pimple, Project 003: What A Wonderful Concert. The reception to these songs would be extremely poor and Project 003 would be rated as the worst project Aaron Kilroy would put out. Aaron would then release the only project under the Inside And Out, Product For Dogs! The EP was released on September 22nd, 2024, and it would be poorly received once again. Aaron's second remix album, Broken By The Pretty Hate Machine While Going Down The Downward Spiral, which contains remixed tracks from Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, and The Downward Spiral. He would release a cover of Swans' song, God Damn The Sun, from their 1989 album, The Burning World, on October 17th, 2024. 11 days later, he would preform the song in his first live show at the Rockology Music Academy in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The recording would be released on the same night as well as his second album, Aaron Kilroy 2. The album would positive scores. On November 19th, Aaron would release two compilations. Ruined: A Compilation Of Horrible Covers By A Horrible Musician is a compilation of demos which would cover tracks from Big Black, Coil, and Ween. FILTH: A Compilation Album Of Early Folk Recordings is the second compilation that contains folk demos from before he listened to Pulse Demon. On November 22nd, 2024, Aaron release 0OoPEN which were unused tracks from Product For Dogs! Aaron would release his third album on November 28th, 2024. The album would be named, Pornography, and it would be created after his disgust on how live action pornographic websites contains videos of rape disguised as consensual sex. "The harsh noise on the album is how my anger and disgust towards how these websites would allow this type of shit" Aaron Kilroy would say about the album. Aaron Kilroy would start to feel burnt out with all the noise projects he was making. On the day after the album released, he would release the single, Famous. To end off the year, Aaron Kilroy would release The 2024 Collection. The collection has everything that Aaron released over the year. Aaron Kilroy would start to get into reading and writing and would start writing his first novel. He started moving away from experimenting with music and started focusing on writing full time. At the beginning of 2025, he would release his third remix album, Aaron Kilroy VS Merzbow. Aaron would release a cover of Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's door. Aaron would release his final recording on January 7th, 2025. The Death Of Aaron Kilroy is a recording of Aaron playing a detuned 12 string guitar.

Discography

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Aaron Kilroy (2024) Aaron Kilroy 2 (2024) Pornography (2024)

References

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https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/340188-aaron-kilroy/

https://soundcloud.com/aaron-grimm-151253245?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&si=8896edaacf3e4aacb1c18e8a5732c23e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing