Dale Thompson

Dale Thompson (born 1963) is an American singer, musician and songwriter. In 1983, along with his younger brother Troy, Dale formed the band Matrix and began writing original material. In 1986, Matrix was signed to a record deal and changed their name to Bride. Between 1986 and 2013, Thompson released 14 studio albums with Bride, along with five solo albums, before disbanding the group, with the brothers remaining the only two original members throughout Bride's career. A lyric tenor in Bride's early days, Thompson was known for his powerful and stratospheric voice, as is evidenced on such early Bride songs as "Evil That Men Do", "Hell No" and "Here Comes the Bride".[2]

Dale Thompson
Birth namePhilip Dale Thompson
BornDecember 13, 1963
West Point (Kentucky)
OriginUnited States
GenresChristian metal
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
InstrumentsVocals
Years active1983–present
Associated acts
  • Bride
  • The World Will Burn
  • Dabster Gentlemen
  • Haunted no More
  • Perpetual Paranoia[1]
Websitebridepub.com

Thompson was into boxing and weightlifting, and currently holds two Kentucky bench press records. He has the title as the "Strongest Man in Kentucky."

Thompson and his brother retired Bride in 2013, after releasing the band's 14th and final album, Incorruptible.[3]

Thompson currently lives in New Zealand and has a new musical project, "The World Will Burn", with Kentucky-based multi-instrumentalist Alan Zaring. The duo has released their debut album, Severity.[4] He also formed a new band called "N.O.G.", meaning "No Other God". The band are currently finishing recording their first album for a 2018 release.[5]

In 2018, Thompson announced a new project with Tiago James De Souza of Hand of Fire, called Perpetual Paranoia.[1] They have describe their style as heavy, but not thrash metal.

In December 2018 Thompson joined Myles Barfield in "Dabster Gentlemen", originally an instrumental band who builds their music with an acoustic foundation. While in this band Thompson was able to explore Jazz, Blues, Folk, Country, R&B, Soul as well as a number of various styles of music he likely never would have been able to do. While in Dabster Gentlemen, Thompson recorded daily for a year, developing a catalog of albums that would be released yearly over the next ten years. In mid-2019 Thompson began a second concept project with Myles called "Haunted no More". The duo's goal was to work deep into emotions, pain and tragedy. They wanted to create music that made people think, and take the listener on a journey ending in hope. As with Dabster Gentlemen, the band worked tirelessly recording enough songs to release an album a year for at least six years. In both of these bands, Thompson performed all vocals as well as wrote all lyrics showing a side of himself that was open and unhindered, revealing a vulnerable honesty in each song as never before.

Presidential candidate nomination

Thompson was seeking the Constitution Party nomination in the 2008 campaign for President of the United States.[6][7] He dropped out around March 19, 2007, but stating "If the Lord wills maybe we can seriously look at 2012."[8]

Personal beliefs

Thompson considers himself a committed Christian and universalist[9] and according to Scott Waters of Ultimatum, Thompson's lyrical approach of universalism has been featured most prominently in "This is it" and "Skin for Skin."[10] In the album Skin for Skin, Thompson's lyrics claim a greater Universalist view than previous releases, most notably in the song "End of Days", where the lyrics contain what is considered Thompson's most outward implication of Universalism with the lyrics, "Every man, women and child followed Adam to the grave. Your flesh he will destroy that your spirit will be saved...concluded them all in unbelief, he'll have mercy on everyone, by His grace and peace the Spirit and the Bride say come".[10]

Despite his Universalism and several accusations that he is no longer a Christian, Thompson has stated that he is a devout Christian and does believe in a Hell, though he has not staked a clear position on other doctrinal issues such as speaking in tongues, divine healing, foot washing, and the rapture, as he believes the teachings of Christ are the most important areas of Christian Faith.[11] He argues that the Bible does not require anything other than Believing in Christ's teachings.[12] Thompson is often critical of many Christian churches and denominations, particularly fundamentalism, as they often refer to Christian Universalist beliefs as heresy.[11]

Criticism of Cornerstone Festival

Thompson was critical of Cornerstone Festival, stating "the Cornerstone staff was easily freaked out by us. They would have some bizarre goth band play or some punk band that said crazy things and put on weird shows and invite them back year after year... while we preached boldly from the stage and basically was blacklisted from the festival. Sorry state of affairs."[12]

Discography

With Bride

Studio albums

Compilations and other releases

  • Heavy Righteous Metal (1988)
  • The Axemen (1988)
  • Heavy Righteous Metal II (1989)
  • End of the Age (1990)
  • Metal Meltdown (1990)
  • Skate Arise (1991)
  • God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You (1993)
  • Lost Reels I (1994)
  • Lost Reels II (1994)
  • I Predict a Clone a tribute to Steve Taylor – various artists (1994)
  • Shotgun Wedding: 11 No. 1 Hits and Mrs. (1995)
  • Lost Reels III (1997)
  • Bride Live! Volume I (1999)
  • Bride Live Volume II Acoustic (2000)
  • Best of Bride (2000)
  • Live at Cornerstone 2001 (2001)
  • The Matrix Years / Lost Reels (2001)
  • MP3 Major Releases (2001)
  • MP3 Independent Releases (2001)
  • The Organic Years (2002)
  • Raw 7-track demo (2003)

Solo albums
  • Speak into the Machine (1994)
  • Dale Thompson and the Religious Overtones (1995)
  • Testimony – Dale Thompson and The Kentucky Cadillacs (1998)
  • Acoustic Daylight (1998)
  • Unbridled (2002)

With The World Will Burn
  • Severity (2016)
  • RuiNation (2017)

With Perpetual Paranoia
  • The Reapers (2018)
  • Between the Altar and the Cross (2019)

With Dabster Gentlemen
  • Death or Life (2018)
  • Answers (2020—scheduled)

With No Other God
  • Take it By Storm (2019)

With Haunted no More
  • Vol. I (2019)
gollark: Living standards have still consistently increased for pretty much everyone for ages, governments are the ones going to war and covertly operating and you can't really get around this given the existence of scarcity, worldwide extreme poverty is declining and literacy is increasing, etc.
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gollark: What about the cost? You didn't answer "even xy cryoapiocognitopyroform".

References
  1. "'Perpetual Paranoia' – An International Collaboration Between 'Dale Thompson' (Bride) & 'Tiago James De Souza' (Hand of Fire), Dabster Gentlemen, Haunted no More". The Metal Resource. January 24, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  2. Bride Interview. Imperiumi.net (Finnish)
  3. Bride is saying goodbye: A letter from frontman Dale Thompson. mauce.nl
  4. http://www.theworldwillburn.com/bio Biography at theworldwillburn.com
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Christian Rocker Seeking Constitution Party Presidential Nomination at Third Party Watch – URL. Retrieved March 4, 2007
  7. Thompson's MySpace page announcing his candidacy – URL. Retrieved March 4, 2007
  8. "Dale Thompson 4 President???". Classicgod.com. January 1, 1990. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  9. "Open Letter from Dale Thompson of the Christian Metal Band Bride". Christianmusic.about.com. July 13, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  10. "No Life 'til Metal – CD Gallery – Bride". Nolifetilmetal.com. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  11. "Letter from Thompson". Christianmusic.about.com. July 13, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  12. "Religious Beliefs". Libertynjustice.net. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
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