# gybe.org (full text)

> Unofficial, non-commercial fan archive for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, maintained by Eray Endes. Not affiliated with the band, Constellation, Kranky, or any rights holder. No lyrics are hosted.

Generated from the site data. Live dates last checked: 2026-10-15. Short index: https://gybe.org/llms.txt

## About the band

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GY!BE) is an instrumental post-rock collective from Montreal, Canada, formed in 1994 by Efrim Menuck, Mike Moya, and Mauro Pezzente. The band went on hiatus in 2003, returned in 2010, and releases its records through Constellation.

The name comes from Mitsuo Yanagimachi's 1976 Japanese documentary God Speed You! Black Emperor, about a Bosozoku motorcycle gang.

More: https://gybe.org/about/

## Discography

### All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (1994)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/all-lights-fucked-on-the-hairy-amp-drooling/
- Type: cassette / archival release
- Label: self-released; later official Bandcamp release
- Summary: The long-mythologized 33-copy cassette, confirmed by the band and officially released digitally in 2022.
- Tracks: Drifting Intro Open; Shot Thru Tubes; Three Three Three; When All The Furnaces Exploded; Beep; Hush; Son Of A Diplomat, Daughter Of A Politician; Glencairn 14; $13.13; Loose The Idiot Dogs; Diminishing Shine; Random Luvly Moncton Blue(s); Dadmomdaddy
- Note: Early, lo-fi material from before the large ensemble sound took shape.
- Note: Included here as archival history rather than as a standard studio-album entry.
- Link (bandcamp): https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/pages/artist/godspeed-you-black-emperor

### F♯ A♯ ∞ (1997)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/f-a/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation / Kranky
- Summary: The first widely released full-length: field recordings, drones, long crescendos, and a devastated cinematic atmosphere.
- Tracks: The Dead Flag Blues; East Hastings; Providence
- Note: The original Constellation LP and later Kranky CD editions use different sequencing and track divisions.
- Note: The record established many of the textures now associated with the band's early period: monologues, trains, drones, and slow ensemble escalation.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-f-a-1995-1997

### Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (1999)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/slow-riot-for-new-zero-kanada/
- Type: EP
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: A two-track EP that sharpened the band's political intensity, devotional pacing, and live-scale dynamics.
- Tracks: Moya; Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
- Note: Both pieces became central to the mythology of the early band.
- Note: The EP's compact structure makes it one of the cleanest entry points into the first-era GY!BE sound.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-slow-riot-for-new-zero-kanada

### Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation / Kranky
- Summary: A double album of orchestral build, found sound, memorial fragments, and ecstatic collapse.
- Tracks: Storm; Static; Sleep; Like Antennas to Heaven...
- Note: Often treated as the central entry point for the band's classic-era sound.
- Note: The four long movements are divided internally into smaller named sections, but this archive lists the main track titles.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven

### Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/yanqui-u-x-o/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: A more severe and stripped record, released in the shadow of early-2000s war politics and industry critique.
- Tracks: 09-15-00; Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls; Motherfucker=Redeemer
- Note: The final studio album before the group's long hiatus.
- Note: Steve Albini recorded the sessions; the record is notably drier and less collage-heavy than the previous albums.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-yanqui-u-x-o

### 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/allelujah-dont-bend-ascend/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: The return record: two massive live-tested compositions and two drone pieces, released after the hiatus ended.
- Tracks: Mladic; Their Helicopters' Sing; We Drift Like Worried Fire; Strung Like Lights at Thee Printemps Erable
- Note: Winner of the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.
- Note: The album announced the post-reunion era without softening the band's politics, scale, or preference for long-form composition.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-allelujah-dont-bend-ascend

### Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/asunder-sweet-and-other-distress/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: A single live-tested suite shaped into a concise studio record, moving between heavy riff sections and scorched drones.
- Tracks: Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'; Lambs' Breath; Asunder, Sweet; Piss Crowns Are Trebled
- Note: Known live in earlier forms as Behemoth.
- Note: The album is unusually compact for GY!BE, but still structured as one continuous arc.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-asunder-sweet-and-other-distress

### Luciferian Towers (2017)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/luciferian-towers/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: A brighter post-reunion document built around stated political demands, collapsing towers, and a refusal of despair.
- Tracks: Undoing a Luciferian Towers; Bosses Hang; Fam/Famine; Anthem for No State
- Note: The album's handwritten visual language is part of the record's identity.
- Note: Compared with Asunder, it opens the arrangement outward again, with more room for brass-like fanfare, strings, and uplift.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-luciferian-towers

### G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (2021)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/g_ds-pee-at-states-end/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: A pandemic-era record of radio fragments, elegiac themes, and the band's familiar scale of dread and tenderness.
- Tracks: A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind); Fire at Static Valley; Government Came; Our Side Has to Win (for D.H.)
- Note: The cover's paired forms give this era a particularly stark visual identity.
- Note: The record frames four long pieces through radio frequencies, political ruin, and a final insistence on survival.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/godspeed-you-black-emperor-g_d-s-pee-at-state-s-end

### NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (2024)

- URL: https://gybe.org/disco/no-title-as-of-13-february-2024-28-340-dead/
- Type: studio album
- Label: Constellation
- Summary: The band's 2024 full-length, titled around the reported Gaza death toll on 13 February 2024.
- Tracks: Sun Is a Hole Sun Is Vapors; Babys in a Thundercloud; Raindrops Cast in Lead; Broken Spires at Dead Kapital; Pale Spectator Takes Photographs; Grey Rubble - Green Shoots
- Note: Constellation describes it as the band's fifth post-reunion album and ninth overall.
- Note: The title and release context make the record one of the band's most direct gestures toward the catastrophe in Gaza.
- Link (constellation): https://cstrecords.com/en-int/products/cst183


## Members

### Current members

- Efrim Menuck (electric guitars, keyboards, tape loops; 1994-2003, 2010-present): Founding member and one of the central musical and ideological voices around GY!BE and Hotel2Tango. Related projects: Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire to Flames. https://gybe.org/members/efrim-menuck/
- Mauro Pezzente (electric bass; 1994-2003, 2010-present): Founding bassist and a constant figure in the band's long collective history. https://gybe.org/members/mauro-pezzente/
- Mike Moya (electric guitars; 1994-1998, 2010-present): Founding guitarist whose related work extends into several Montreal experimental projects. Related projects: Hrsta, Set Fire to Flames. https://gybe.org/members/mike-moya/
- Thierry Amar (electric bass, upright bass; 1997-2003, 2010-present): A key low-end and orchestral presence in GY!BE's expanded ensemble sound. Related projects: Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar. https://gybe.org/members/thierry-amar/
- David Bryant (electric guitars, tape loops, synthesizer; 1997-2003, 2010-present): Guitarist and tape-loop contributor associated with the band's atmospheric architecture. Related projects: Set Fire to Flames, Hiss Tracts. https://gybe.org/members/david-bryant/
- Aidan Girt (drums, percussion; 1997-2003, 2010-present): Percussionist whose related work also moves through electronic and experimental forms. Related projects: Exhaust, 1-Speed Bike. https://gybe.org/members/aidan-girt/
- Sophie Trudeau (violins, organ; 1997-2003, 2010-present): Violinist whose melodic lines are central to the band's chamber-rock force. Related projects: Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire to Flames. https://gybe.org/members/sophie-trudeau/
- Karl Lemieux (16mm projections; 2010-present): Projection artist contributing to the 16mm visual world of post-reunion performances. Related projects: Jerusalem In My Heart. https://gybe.org/members/karl-lemieux/
- Timothy Herzog (drums, glockenspiel; 2012-present): Drummer adding another layer to the post-reunion live rhythm section. https://gybe.org/members/timothy-herzog/
- Philippe Leonard (16mm projections; 2015-present): Projection artist extending the band's live image practice. https://gybe.org/members/philippe-leonard/

### Former members

- Thea Pratt (french horn; 1995-1997): Early horn contributor during the formative ensemble years. https://gybe.org/members/thea-pratt/
- Dano LeBlanc (drums; 1995): Early drummer from the first exploratory period of the group. https://gybe.org/members/dano-leblanc/
- Jesse Pratt (violin; before 1997): Early violin contributor before the better-documented late-1990s lineup. https://gybe.org/members/jesse-pratt/
- Bruce Cawdron (drums, percussion; 1997-2003, 2010-2012): Percussionist linked to the band's classic era and several related projects. Related projects: Esmerine, Set Fire to Flames. https://gybe.org/members/bruce-cawdron/
- Norsola Johnson (cello; 1997-2003): Cellist whose playing helped define the early orchestral weight of the group. https://gybe.org/members/norsola-johnson/
- Grayson Walker (accordion; 1997): Short-term accordion contributor from the early collective period. https://gybe.org/members/grayson-walker/
- Christophe Comte (violin; 1997): Early violin contributor during the 1997 expansion. https://gybe.org/members/christophe-comte/
- Roger Tellier-Craig (guitar; 1998-2003): Guitarist and experimental musician tied closely to the broader Constellation/Montreal network. Related projects: Fly Pan Am. https://gybe.org/members/roger-tellier-craig/
- Flux Lux (film projections; 1996-1997): Early projection duo credited in the band's live visual history. https://gybe.org/members/flux-lux/
- Lee Schnaiberg (film projections; 1997-1998): Projection contributor from the late-1990s live period. https://gybe.org/members/lee-schnaiberg/
- Mark Littlefair (film projections; 1998-2000): Early projection contributor to the band's live visual language. https://gybe.org/members/mark-littlefair/
- Jean-Sebastian Truchy (film projections; 2000-2002): Projection contributor during the pre-hiatus live period. https://gybe.org/members/jean-sebastian-truchy/
- Fluffy Erskine (film projections; 2003): Projection contributor during the pre-hiatus years. https://gybe.org/members/fluffy-erskine/


## Upcoming shows (source: Constellation Live, https://cstrecords.com/pages/live)

- 2026-11-21: Buenos Aires, Argentina at C Art Media. Tickets/source: https://www.passline.com/eventos/godspeed-you-black-emperor-c-art-media
- 2026-11-23: São Paulo, Brazil at Audio (sold out). Tickets/source: https://ingresse.com/godspeed-sp
- 2026-11-24: São Paulo, Brazil at Audio. Tickets/source: https://ingresse.com/godspeed-spextra/
- 2026-11-26: Santiago, Chile at Fauna Primavera Festival. Tickets/source: https://www.puntoticket.com/faunaprimavera
- 2027-02-20: Quebec City, Canada at Théâtre Capitole (Phoque Off). Tickets/source: https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/31006547EE7BB476
- 2027-02-21: Quebec City, Canada at Théâtre Capitole (Phoque Off). Tickets/source: https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/3100652471741B58?lang=fr-ca
- 2027-02-26: Toronto, Canada at Danforth Music Hall. Tickets/source: https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10006531D84B5297
- 2027-02-27: Toronto, Canada at Danforth Music Hall. Tickets/source: https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10006521D6E96D34

## Crossing paths (side projects and related artists)

### Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/thee-silver-mt-zion-memorial-orchestra/
- Connection: Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau, Thierry Amar and others
- Summary: The most visible GY!BE-adjacent project: more vocal, more openly wounded, and still built from communal crescendos.
- Records: He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... (2000); Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward (2001); This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing (2003); Horses in the Sky (2005); 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (2008); Kollaps Tradixionales (2010); Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (2014)

### Set Fire to Flames

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/set-fire-to-flames/
- Connection: GY!BE and Montreal collective members
- Summary: A loose, haunted recording project built from room tone, fragments, and collective improvisation.
- Records: Sings Reign Rebuilder (2001); Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static (2003); barn levitate (2016)

### Esmerine

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/esmerine/
- Connection: Bruce Cawdron and Rebecca Foon
- Summary: A chamber-oriented project connected to the same Montreal experimental network.
- Records: If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come Be True (2003); Aurora (2005); La Lechuza (2011); Dalmak (2013); Lost Voices (2015); Mechanics of Dominion (2017)

### Black Ox Orkestar

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/black-ox-orkestar/
- Connection: Thierry Amar
- Summary: A project drawing from Yiddish, folk, and chamber traditions within the Constellation orbit.
- Records: Ver Tanzt? (2004); Nisht Azoy (2006); Everything Returns (2022)

### Hrsta

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/hrsta/
- Connection: Mike Moya
- Summary: Mike Moya's project, moving through experimental rock, drone, and intimate song forms.
- Records: L'Eclat du Ciel Etait Insoutenable (2001); Stem Stem in Electro (2005); Ghosts Will Come and Kiss Our Eyes (2007)

### Fly Pan Am

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/fly-pan-am/
- Connection: Roger Tellier-Craig
- Summary: An experimental rock group with a sharper, more fragmented rhythmic vocabulary.
- Records: Fly Pan Am (1999); Sedatif en frequences et sillons (2001); Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (2002); N'Ecoutez Pas (2004); C'est ca (2019); Frontera (2021)

### Hangedup

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/hangedup/
- Connection: Constellation / Montreal experimental network
- Summary: A viola-and-percussion duo tied to Constellation's heavier chamber-experimental side.
- Records: Hangedup (2001); Kicker in Tow (2002); Clatter for Control (2005); Transit of Venus (2012)

### 1-Speed Bike

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/1-speed-bike/
- Connection: Aidan Girt
- Summary: Aidan Girt's electronic and percussion-driven solo project.
- Records: Droopy Butt Begone! (2000); Klootzak Keizer (2001); El Gallito (2004); Pashto Translator Wanted (2008)

### Sackville

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/sackville/
- Connection: Thierry Amar / Montreal scene
- Summary: A Montreal folk-rock node from the same 1990s independent music map.
- Records: These Last Songs (1998); The Principles of Science (2001)

### Lhasa de Sela

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/lhasa-de-sela/
- Connection: Montreal scene
- Summary: A Montreal-based songwriter whose work crossed the same independent music map.
- Records: La Llorona (1997); The Living Road (2003); Lhasa (2009)

### Triple Burner

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/triple-burner/
- Connection: Eric Craven and Harris Newman
- Summary: A small acoustic project where folk instrumentation meets minimalist and experimental guitar language.
- Records: Triple Burner (2006); Helsinki (2008)

### Saltland

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/saltland/
- Connection: Rebecca Foon / Silver Mt. Zion and Esmerine network
- Summary: Rebecca Foon's solo project, built from cello, voice, electronics, and ecological grief.
- Records: I Thought It Was Us But It Was All of Us (2013); A Common Truth (2017)

### Hiss Tracts

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/hiss-tracts/
- Connection: David Bryant
- Summary: A soundscape-oriented project linked to David Bryant's post-GY!BE work.
- Records: Shortwave Nights (2014)

### Exhaust

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/exhaust/
- Connection: Aidan Girt
- Summary: A raw experimental trio connected through Aidan Girt and the Montreal underground.
- Records: Exhaust (1998); Enregistreur (2002)

### Vic Chesnutt

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/vic-chesnutt/
- Connection: Constellation collaboration context
- Summary: A songwriter whose late recordings brought Silver Mt. Zion and GY!BE-adjacent musicians into his orbit.
- Records: North Star Deserter (2007); At the Cut (2009); Skitter on Take-Off (2009)

### Jerusalem In My Heart

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/jerusalem-in-my-heart/
- Connection: Karl Lemieux / Constellation and Montreal audiovisual network
- Summary: A multisensory project from the wider Constellation orbit, led by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.
- Records: Mo7it Al-Mo7it (2013); If He Dies, If If If If If If (2015); Daqa'iq Tudaiq (2018); Qalaq (2021)

### Clues

- URL: https://gybe.org/crossing-paths/clues/
- Connection: Constellation / Montreal indie network
- Summary: A short-lived Montreal indie-rock group from the wider Constellation map.
- Records: Clues (2009)