Kevin Hufnagel is an American musician, based in New York City. He is known for his solo guitar works, for forming the progressive instrumental rock/metal band Dysrhythmia, and for being a member of Gorguts, Vaura, Sabbath Assembly, Veldune, and Byla. He also is a full time guitar instructor, teaching both in-person and virtually.
Performance discography
Byla 2005: Byla (Translation Loss Records) 2007: Byla + Jarboe - Viscera (Translation Loss Records) 2009 : Francesco Brunotti/Various Artists - Nocturne (Persistencebit Records) (contributes the track "Bloodrush")
Dysrhythmia 2000: Contradiction (self-released) 2001: No Interference (self-released) 2001: split 10-inch w/ xthoughtstreamsx (Rice Control Records) 2002: split 7-inch w/ Technician (Tranquility Base Records) 2003: Pretest (Relapse Records) 2004: Live from the Relapse Contamination Festival (Relapse Records) 2005: No Interference - reissue with bonus tracks (Translation Loss Records) 2006: Barriers and Passages (Relapse Records) 2007: Fractures - split CD w/ Rothko (Acerbic Noise Development Records) 2009: Psychic Maps (Relapse Records) 2012: Test of Submission (Profound Lore Records) 2016: The Veil of Control (Profound Lore Records) 2019: Terminal Threshold (Translation Loss Records) 2024: Coffin of Conviction (Nightfloat Recordings)
Gorguts 2013: Colored Sands (Season of Mist) 2016: Pleiades' Dust (Season of Mist)
Grey Division Blue 1994: Departure (self-released)
Kevin Hufnagel 1997: While I Wait (self-released) 2009: Songs for the Disappeared (Nightfloat Recordings) 2011: Transparencies (Nightfloat Recordings) 2012: Polar Night (Nightfloat Recordings-digital) 2013: From the 23rd Floor (Abandoned 4-track demos 1996 - 1998 + Live in Baltimore 2008) (Nightfloat Recordings-digital) 2013: Ashland (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette) 2014: The Murderer's Tracks/The Weather Was Wrong (Nightfloat Recordings-digital) 2015: Kleines Biest (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Handmade Birds-cassette) 2015: V/A - And Suddenly Everything, Absolutely Everything, Was There (bandcamp) (contributes the track "Hallucination II") 2016: Backwards Through the Maze (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Nostalgium Directive-cassette) 2017: The Protected Shards (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette) 2017: Halloween EP 2017 (bandcamp) 2017: V/A - Coup Sûr: An Introduction To Coup Sur Coup Records (Coup Sur Coup Records) (contributes the tracks "Ancestral Instinct" and "Ashland") 2018: Messages to the Past (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Translation Loss Records-LP) 2018: Halloween EP 2018 (bandcamp) 2018: V/A - Feedback Through A Magnifying Glass Volume I (Coup Sur Coup Records) (contributes the track "Final Dawn") 2022: Polar Night II (Nightfloat Recordings-digital/Coup sur Coup-cassette) 2023: Liaison Dawn (Nightfloat Recordings-digital) 2024: Dusting For My Fingerprints (Nightfloat Recordings)
Invisible Traces 2020: Invisible Traces (Nightfloat Recordings-digital)
Sabbath Assembly 2012: Ye Are Gods (Anja Offensive/Svart) (guitar on "We Come From The One") 2013: The Four Horsemen 7-inch (Svart) 2014: Quaternity (Svart) 2014: Eno Ot Derotser cassette (Svart) 2015: Sabbath Assembly (Svart) 2017: Rites of Passage (Svart) 2017: Various Artists - Communion of Saints (Brave Mysteries) (contributes the track "And It Was Dead, Having No Motion (St Peter)") 2018: Exsanguinata (original soundtrack) (bandcamp) 2019: A Letter of Red (Svart)
Vaura 2012: Selenelion (Wierd Records) 2013: The Missing (Profound Lore Records) 2019: Sables (Profound Lore Records) 2022: Vista of Deviant Anatomies (Primal Architecture Records/Virtues)
Veldune 2022: Veldune (Nightfloat Recordings)
Guest appearances
Anabiosis 2018: Submerged Into Scattered Patterns (bandcamp) (additional guitar on "Approaching the Void", "Shore", "Absolute Zero")
Aseitas 2018: Aseitas (bandcamp) (guitar solo on "City of Stone")
The Brazilian Gentleman 2019: s/t (Lazy Thinking) (baritone ukulele on "Sweep Back Those Leaves (C.A. Mix)") 2020: 808 Hymns (Internet and Weed)
Costanza 2008: Sonic Diary (Zerokilled Music) (guitar on "I Am Ready")
Didkovsky / Hufnagel / Ulrich / Smith 2015: Petromyzontiformes Vol 1 (bandcamp) (guitar on "III, for Electric Guitars")
Doctor Nerve 2020: Loud (Punos Music) (guitar solo on "Meta 04 (bonus CD only)")
Empty Flowers 2014: The Air You Found (Translation Loss) (remix/guitar on "Call A Priest")
Fear Falls Burning 2007: Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects (Tonefloat) (guitar on "Fear Falls Burning vs Byla")
Feast of the Epiphany 2023: Significance (Strategy of Tension) (guitar on "Love Dream")
Hathenter 2017: Hathenter Ouija (Hathenter)
Honeybloom 2020: Blooming (Troll Sounds) (guitar solo on "Selfless Warrior")
Horror God 2019: Cursed Seeds (Lavadome Productions) (guitar solo on "They Were Behind Barbed Wire")
Howling Sycamore 2018: Howling Sycamore (Prosthetic Records) (guitar solos on "Upended" and "Midway") 2019: Seven Pathways to Annihilation (Prosthetic Records) (guitar solos on "Mastering Fire" and "Initiation")
Jarboe 2008: Mahakali (The End Records) 2018: The Cut of the Warrior (Translation Loss Records) (guitar on "Karuna" (Byla mix))
The Mirror and The Shadow 2017: Various Artists - Communion of Saints (Brave Mysteries) (contributes the track "Vox Sanguinis (St Ursula)")
Monovoth 2026: To Live in the Breath of Worship (self-released) (Ebow guitar on "Crimson Red Wound")
Moral Collapse 2021: s/t (Subcontinental Records) (guitar solo on "Suspension of Belief")
Sanity Obscure 2012: Subterranean Constellation (self-released) (guitar solo on "Doublethink")
Sculptured 2021: The Liminal Phase (BMG Records) (trade-off guitar solos on "State of Exception")
Svengahli 2020: Nightmares of Our Own Design (self-released) (guitars on "Nightmares of Our Own Design II (Adrift)")
Theta International 2020: Continual Activation Theory (bandcamp) (guitar solo and additional rhythm guitar on "Sons of Hydra")
Wake 2022: Thought Form Decent (Metal Blade Records) (guitar solo on "Observer to Master", additional guitar on "Pareidolia")
Warforged 2019: I: Voice (The Artisan Era) (guitar solo on "Eat Them While They Sleep")
Yellow6 2010: Close/r (Editions6)
Soundtracks 2019: Kevin Hufnagel & Natasha Kermani Imitation Girl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Burning Witches Records)
References
External links
Kevin Hufnagel Interview for La Hoja de Arena (in Spanish)