Aaron Turner
| Aaron Turner | |
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Turner performing live with Isis in Stuttgart, in 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Aaron Bradford Turner |
| Born |
November 5, 1977 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States |
| Origin | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Genres | Post-metal, post-rock, progressive metal, sludge metal, black metal, doom metal, avant-garde metal, ambient, drone, electroacoustic |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Hydra Head, Ipecac, Neurot, SIGE |
| Associated acts | Isis, Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters, House of Low Culture, Twilight, Unionsuit, Mamiffer, Jodis, Greymachine, Split Cranium, Sumac |
| Website | AaronBTurner.blogspot.com |
Aaron Turner (born November 5, 1977) is an American musician, singer, graphic artist, and founder of label Hydra Head Records. He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist for the post-metal band Isis, while also participating in several other bands and projects such as Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters and Split Cranium, a collaboration with Jussi Lehtisalo of Finnish band Circle who toured with Isis in 2009.
Though raised in New Mexico, Turner moved to the Boston area where he attended school and formed Isis and Hydra Head. In June 2003, Turner moved operations of both the band and label to Los Angeles, California.
In addition to musical projects and Hydra Head, Turner is one of the owners of Vacation Vinyl, an independent record store based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Inspired by a local comic book store named Secret Headquarters, Turner set up Vacation – named after the 1983 movie – with Mark Thompson, David Ritchie and David Pifer in late February 2009.
In partnership with his wife Faith Coloccia, Turner founded another record label, SIGE, in March 2011. It has gone on to distribute material from his musical collaboration with Coloccia, Mamiffer.
Turner was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on November 5, 1977. At an early age, his family moved to New Mexico, where he was raised. His mother was a teacher "who taught a progressive curriculum" and his father an author, "mainly [of] non-fiction". Turner describes his upbringing, surrounded by his parents' writer, artist and photographer friends, as "creatively nurturing". At 12 years old, he began to smoke marijuana, as "in New Mexico, there wasn't a lot for kids to get involved in". At age 17, he started a company that sold rare punk rock records via mail-order. He later moved to Boston to attend art school at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1995 began releasing music. By 1997, the Hydra Head label was becoming a respectable small record label. Turner describes his early industriousness as being motivated in part by boredom:
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