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Oliver Edward Ackermann (born November 22, 1976) is an American rock musician, who is the founder of the Brooklyn-based effects pedal company Death By Audio and is guitarist and vocalist for A Place to Bury Strangers, a rock band hailed as "the loudest band in New York".
Nobody exemplifies the embracing of this lifestyle better than Oliver Ackermann. First making a name for himself with the band Skywave, he soon after founded Death By Audio, a homegrown effects pedal company that was on the leading edge of the boutique effects boom.
Jan 18, 2022 · New York City noise explorers A Place To Bury Strangers release their sixth album, See Through You, via frontman Oliver Ackermann's Dedstrange label in February, riding the band's trademark tidal wave of post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia and avant-garde music higher, further, louder, more powerful, whilst also maintaining a core of kick-ass catchy rock & roll.
Death By Audio handmakes effect pedals in an underground warehouse in Queens, NYC. Founded in 2002 by A Place To Bury Strangers singer-guitarist Oliver Ackermann, Death By Audio’s inaugural years were spent warehouse-jumping from Virginia to Brooklyn, eventually pending nine years in the infamous Williamsburg Death By Audio effects pedal factory, venue, recording studio, and live-work space.
Oct 19, 2009 · It’s taken Oliver Ackermann a long time to arrive at the point where music is everything — fifteen years of constant touring and tinkering and flying just under the radar, to be exact. But now he’s getting somewhere. Fresh off a European summer tour, he and his band, A Place to Bury Strangers, have just […]
Feb 10, 2011 · Tricked into living in our worst neighborhoods, they find themselves sliding into debt, awaking to slashed tires and stolen vans, all the while chasing a naïve dream that somebody somewhere might actually give a damn about their arty noise-rock band. Death By Audio pedalsmith, Oliver Ackermann. Or, at least, that’s how the Death by Audio ...
Nov 28, 2014 · Oliver Ackermann, one of the founders of Death by Audio, with one of his cats recently. D.B.A., as the Williamsburg club is known, closed down on the morning of Nov. 23.
