Lightning Bolt discography

Brian Gibson and Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt.

Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. The group's discography consists of seven full-length studio albums and a number of 7-inch singles and splits. Lightning Bolt have also appeared on numerous compilations, starred in the 2003 tour-DVD The Power of Salad, and performed in DVD compilations such as Pick a Winner (Load Records, 2004) and Sleep When You are Dead by performance artists Mighty Robot (Contact Records, 2007).

Albums

Year Details
1999 Lightning Bolt
  • Label: Load (Load #26)
  • Limited edition vinyl of 750 pressings.
  • 50-minute companion cassette titled "Zone" also released.
  • Re-issued on CD with "Zone" included.
2001 Ride the Skies
  • Label: Load (Load #31)
  • Released: February 28, 2001
2003 Wonderful Rainbow
  • Label: Load Records (Load #41)
  • Released: March 4, 2003
2005 Hypermagic Mountain
  • Label: Load (Load #78)
  • Released: October 18, 2005
2009 Earthly Delights
  • Label: Load (Load #126)
  • Released: October 13, 2009
2015 Fantasy Empire
2019 Sonic Citadel

Collaborative albums

Year Details
2026 The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral

Extended plays

Year Details
2012 Oblivion Hunter
  • Label: Load (Load#142)
  • Released: September 25, 2012

7-inch records

Year Release details
1997 Split
2000 Conan
  • Label: Load Records (Load #29)
  • Also known as Tour 7"
2006 Ultra Cross Vol. 1

Collaborative extended plays

Year Title Track(s) Label Other
2011 The Flaming Lips 2011 #7: The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt (4-song 12" vinyl EP) 4-songs co-written and performed with The Flaming Lips Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death

Singles

Year Details
2013 "Barbarian Boy"

DVD / video

Year Video details
2003 The Power of Salad
  • Label: Load Records (Load #40)
  • Directed by Peter Glantz and Nick Noe

Appearances on compilations

Year Title Track(s) Label Other
1996 Repopulation Program "Revenge" Load Records
1999 Fruited Other Surfaces "LB.3.K6K3GU3.GO" Vermiform Records
You're Soaking in It "Diet of Grapes and Nuts" Load Records
2000 Bad Music for Bad People "Rotata-ville" Trash Art!
Mish Mash Mush Mega Mix Vol. 3 "Race Back to Earth" Fort Thunder
2001 U.S. Pop Life Vol. 7: Random Access Music Machine "Untitled" Contact Records
U.S Pop Life Vol. 12: Tribute to Fort Thunder "Pee Filled Longstockings" Contact Records
  • Early version of "Longstockings" on Wonderful Rainbow
KFJC Live from the Devil's Triangle Vol. III "Untitled" KFJC
  • First 2 minutes of Wee Ones Parade, but is a live recording
Real Slow Radio "Jam at the Parlor" Fort Thunder
  • Early version of "2 Towers" on Wonderful Rainbow
Old Tyme Lemonade "Swarm" Hospital Productions
Troubleman Mix-Tape "Waiting for the Snake Assassin" Troubleman Unlimited Records
  • Song eventually became "Assassins" on Wonderful Rainbow
Mish Mash Mush Vol. 7 "Luxery Tomb" Fort Thunder
2002 Don't Shoot the Toy Piano Player "13 Monsters" WFMU
If The Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist,
It Would Be Necessary To Invent It		 "Ride The Friendly Skies" 5RC
U.S. Pop Life Vol. 12: Random Slice of
Life at Ft. Thunder – Bands Who Played At		 "Untitled" Contact Records
2004 Pick a Winner (DVD and CD) Live performance Load Records
2005 I Love Guitar Wolf...Very Much "Planet of the Wolves" Narnack Records
A Benefit For Our Friends
(DMBQ Tribute CD)		 "Excitebike" none
2006 Rough Trade Shops: Rock and Roll 1 "Riffwraiths" V2 Records
2007 Ex Drummer "2 Morro Morro Land" Play It Again Sam
The Supermassive Selection CD by Muse "Magic Mountain" New Musical Express
  • CD accompanying NME Magazine, June 16, 2007.
Sleep When You are Dead
by Mighty Robot (DVD)		 Live performance Contact Records
Cue the Bugle Turbulent
(The 2007 Believer Music Issue CD)		 "Deceiver" The Believer

Music videos

Title Year Director(s)
"The Metal East" 2015
"Blow To The Head" 2019 Caleb Wood

See also

References

General
Specific
  1. 1 2 "Lightning Bolt". Load Records. Archived from the original on February 25, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
  2. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Lightning Bolt - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
  3. ↑ Monroe, Jazz (January 21, 2026). "Lightning Bolt and OOIOO Join Forces for Split LP". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 25, 2026.
  4. ↑ Stosuy, Brandon (December 5, 2006). "Interview: Brian Chippendale". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
  5. ↑ "Lightning Bolt - Biography". Gold Star Public Relations. Archived from the original on November 8, 2007. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Paul (May 31, 2007). "Liars, Lightning Bolt, Oneida on Mighty Robot DVD". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
  7. ↑ Stosuy, Brandon. "Cue the Bugle Turbulent". The Believer. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
  8. ↑ Thrill Jockey Records (April 7, 2015), Lightning Bolt - The Metal East (Official Music Video), archived from the original on December 21, 2021, retrieved May 8, 2019