Mob Research

In 2007, Raven began work together with Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission, Peter Murphy) in Los Angeles on a new musical project called Mob Research. Warrior Soul frontman Kory Clarke, and ex-Queens of the Stone Age and Peter Murphy band drummer Nick Lucero completed the line-up.[http://www.reflectionsofdarkness.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4798&Itemid=44 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715170416/http://www.reflectionsofdarkness.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4798&Itemid=44 |date=July 15, 2011 }}

Raven died of an apparent heart attack in his sleep on October 20, 2007 while recording with Treponem Pal in Geneva, Switzerland.{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Chris|date=October 21, 2007|title=Ministry/ Killing Joke Bassist Paul Raven Dead At 46|url=http://vmu.vh1.com/artists/news/1572403/20071021/ministry.jhtml|url-status=dead|accessdate=May 16, 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901170532/http://vmu.vh1.com/artists/news/1572403/20071021/ministry.jhtml|archivedate=September 1, 2011}} At the time of his death, he was also recording with Mob Research on their debut album, Holy City Zoo.{{cite web|url=http://fabryka.darknation.eu/php-files_en/articles.php?article_id=298 |title=FABRYKA MUSIC MAGAZINE - Mob Research, The Mission (Mark Gemini Thwaite) - interview (2009) |publisher=Fabryka.darknation.eu |date= |accessdate=2014-08-25}} The core of the music for the album had already been recorded at the time of his death, with all of Raven's contributions already recorded, and four songs had also been completed with vocals by Kory Clarke at the time of Raven's death. The completion and subsequent commercial release of Holy City Zoo was delayed considerably as the remaining band members came to terms with Paul Raven's death and Clarke attempted to complete the remaining songs for the unreleased album.[http://thealternativecommunity.com/component/k2/item/13-mgt ]{{dead link|date=August 2014}} Work was completed in 2008 and the album was partly mixed by noted producer Tim Palmer and released in June 2009 on Echozone / Sony Music in Europe.{{cite web |url=http://www.bob-media.com/cms_echo/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=37&Itemid=68 |title=Nicht verfügbar |publisher=Bob-media.com |accessdate=2014-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114520/http://www.bob-media.com/cms_echo/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=37&Itemid=68 |archivedate=2014-08-26 }} The band's subsequent self-produced video for Tribe - partly composed as a homage to Raven - was included on the Klangrausch - Schmerzmittel DVD {{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Klangrausch-Schmerzmittel/release/2610955 |title=Various - Klangrausch - Schmerzmittel (CD) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date=2010-12-02 |accessdate=2014-08-25}} release by Echozone in December 2010.{{cite web|author=|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9rLVwzYwY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Oo9rLVwzYwY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=MOB RESEARCH - Tribe (Tim Palmer Mix from Holy City Zoo) |publisher=YouTube |date=2010-10-20 |accessdate=2014-08-25}}{{cbignore}}

In 2012, founder member and guitarist Mark Thwaite collaborated with vocalist Kory Clarke, on their first new material in three years since the Holy City Zoo album released in 2009, after being approached by record label Echozone to come up with a new Mob Research remix for a forthcoming EP.

The Motormouth, EP was released on limited edition gate-fold digipak CD and digital download on Echozone on May 18, 2012. The CD featured several new songs by Clarke/Thwaite - their first compositions since the death of Paul Raven in 2007 - including new songs "Motormouth", "Another Dead Day in Paradise" and an exclusive version of "In The Atmosphere" featuring Franz Treichler of The Young Gods on vocals. The original music "Atmosphere" was featured as an instrumental, lamenting the death of Raven on the Holy City Zoo album. The nine track CD and digital release also included bonus remixes by MarkGT, Aesthetic Perfection, de:ad:libel, Imperative Reaction, Hannibal and Inertia (featuring Reza of Killing Joke).

• Holy City Zoo (2009){{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Mob-Research-Holy-City-Zoo/release/1768848 |title=Mob Research - Holy City Zoo (CD, Album) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date=2009-05-22 |accessdate=2014-08-25}}
• Echozone:Correlation (2010) - Wambulance{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Echozone-Correlation/release/2204490 |title=Various - Echozone - Correlation (CD) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=2014-08-25}}
• Gothic Visions II (2010) - New Paradigm{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Gothic-Visions-II/release/2552922 |title=Various - Gothic Visions II (CD) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date=2010-11-05 |accessdate=2014-08-25}}
• Plasmatic Mutation - Various (August 2010) - Wambulance{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Plasmatic-Mutation/release/2875340 |title=Various - Plasmatic Mutation (CD) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date=2010-08-27 |accessdate=2014-08-25}}
• Klangrausch - Schmerzmittel DVD (December 2010) - Tribe video
• Motormouth EP (2012).

• Paul Raven
• Mark Thwaite
• Kory Clarke
• Nick Lucero
• Franz Treichler of The Young Gods.

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• [http://www.mobresearchinc.com Official website]

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Category:American rock music groups