Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, Last Step, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for the Blood of Heroes project.
Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow, and they have released three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015), they were joined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
Balázs started a electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album "Sound of Hell" was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and Jamie Saft, and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and Trevor Dunn). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.
Discography
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| 2017 | Darkness Comes in Two's | Svart Lava |
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| 2010 | Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna, 2010/05/18 | Dry Lungs |
| 2011 | Ducks: Live in NYC | Ohm Resistance |
| 2012 | Katowice | Instant Classic |
| 2016 | Live at FAC251 | Cold Spring |
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| 2016 | An Untroublesome Defencelessness | RareNoise |
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| 2013 | Cuts | RareNoise |
| 2015 | Live in Tabačka 13/04/12 | Tabačka |
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| 2015 | Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper | RareNoise |
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| 2012 | Metallic Taste of Blood | RareNoise |
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| 2011 | Obake | RareNoise |
| 2014 | Mutations | RareNoise |
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| 2013 | One | RareNoise |
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| 2013 | Black Aces | RareNoise |
| 2015 | Pole Axe | RareNoise |
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| 2014 | Red Hill | RareNoise |
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| 2009 | Diffusion de la rue de la Double Identité | Karl Schmidt Verlag |
| 2009 | Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought) |
| 2009 | Discoteca Festival |
| 2011 | The Honey Fox in Hare's Longing |
| 2012 | Disunion Strips |
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| 2016 | Strength & Power | RareNoise |
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| 2014 | Tar & Feathers | Gusstaff |
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| 2011 | Sound of Hell | Ad Noiseam |
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| 2007 | Venetian Snares | Pink + Green | Planet Mu |
| 2008 | Last Step | 1961 | Planet Mu |
| 2010 | The Blood of Heroes | The Blood of Heroes | Ohm Resistance |
| 2011 | Submerged | Before Fire I Was Against Other People | Ohm Resistance |
| 2011 | Enduser | Even Weight | Ad Noiseam |
| 2011 | Imaginary Forces | Uppstigande | Ad Noiseam |
| 2012 | The Blood of Heroes | The Waking Nightmare | Ohm Resistance |
| 2012 | Loops Haunt | Zenith | Black Acre |
| 2013 | To Live and Shave in L.A. | The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply | Monotype |
| 2013 | Highness | Hold | Magic Bullet |
| 2013 | Les Rhinocéros | Les Rhinocéros II | Tzadik |
| 2014 | Loops Haunt | Exits | Black Acre |
