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{{Short description|Rock/metal band}}

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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->

| Name name = Head Control System

| Img image = HeadControlSystem2.jpg

| Img_capt caption = Head Control System

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| Aliasorigin = [[Portugal]] and = [[Norway]]

| Genre genre = [[Hard rock]], [[Alternative metal]]<ref name="All Music GuideAllmusic entry">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p{{Allmusic|class=amg&sqlartist|id=11:fvfuxqysld0ep767472|pure_url=yes}}|title=All Music GuideAllmusic entry}}</ref>

| Origin = [[Portugal]] and [[Norway]]

| years_active = 2003&ndash;present

| Genre = [[Hard rock]], [[Alternative metal]]<ref name="All Music Guide entry">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fvfuxqysld0e|title=All Music Guide entry}}</ref>

| Years_activelabel = [[2003The End Records]]&ndash;present<br/>V.M.E.

| associated_acts =

| Label = [[The End Records]]<br/>V.M.E.

| Associated_actswebsite =

| Current_members current_members = [[Daniel Cardoso]]<br/>[[Kristoffer Rygg]]

| URL past_members =

| Current_members = [[Daniel Cardoso]]<br/>[[Kristoffer Rygg]]

| Past_members =

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'''Head Control System''' is a cross-national groove rock/metal band featuring Portuguese [[Daniel Cardoso]] (ex-[[Sirius (band)|Sirius]] and ex-[[Re:aktor]]) and Norwegian [[Kristoffer Rygg]] (of [[Ulver]] and ex-[[Arcturus (band)|Arcturus]] and ex-[[Borknagar]]). Head Control System is currently part of North-American [[The End Records]]' roster along with bands such as [[Voivod (band)|Voivod]], [[The Gathering (band)|The Gathering]], [[Sleepytime Gorilla Museum]] and [[Ulver]]. The band's debut album, ''Murder Nature'', was released on April 4th4, 2006.

==Concept==

===Lyrical===

Initially, the band was named SinDRomE. Its first release was the EP "Severe Damage on Reason and Equilibrium" — the acronym identical to the capital letters of the band logo. While Daniel himself never wrote a single lyric, he did, however, realizeimplement his visionideas for the E.P.EP in collaboration with André Vasconcelos, a friend and writer. Daniel performed and recorded all of the instrumentation for the E.PEP.

Upon Kristoffer's joining of the band, Daniel and Kris agreed to change the name of the band to Head Control System. The lyricallyrics content ofon Murder Nature waswere influenced by Kris's fascination with [[automatic writing]], in a stream of conscious style. ItThey also contain includesmany wordplays and references to politics, film, literature, among many other things.

===Musical===

Being influenced by the likes of [[Meshuggah]] and the work of [[Fredrik Thordendal]] himself, [[Daniel Cardoso]] uses rhythms and cycles in a melodic style of rock, bearing some resemblance to [[Tool (band)|Tool]], [[Faith No More]] or [[A Perfect Circle]]. The music also includes subtle, repeating, [[consonance and dissonance|dissonant]] cycles in the background.

==Discography==

#*''[[Severe Damage on Reason and Equilibrium]]'' (as SinDRomE) - [[2003]], EP, Ins@ne Prod.

#*''[[Murder Nature]]'' - [[2006]], full-length, The End Records ([[U.S.]])/ V.M.E. ([[Europe]])

==Line-Up==

*[[Daniel Cardoso]]<br/> : [[Music]], [[AudioRecord Productionproducer|Production]]

*[[Kristoffer Rygg]]<br/> : [[Vocals]], [[Lyrics]]

==References==

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==External links==

*[http://www.headcontrolsystemmyspace.com/spiralsektor Official WebsiteMySpace site]</br> (link is dead now)

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070501191249/http://www.myspacetheendrecords.com/spiralsektorlabel/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=38 Official MySpacelabel site]</br>

*[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p767472|pure_url=yes}}|title=Allmusic entry] Allmusic entry

*[http://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=38 Official label site]

*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fvfuxqysld0e|title=All Music Guide entry] All Music Guide entry

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[[Category:Multinational musical groups]]

[[Category:Modern rock groups]]

[[Category:Alternative metal musical groups]]

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