History Music / Shivr

* RefrainFromAssuming: “Arise” is not called “Breathe”, no matter how many times Pete intones it. (It doesn’t help that ‘arise’ is only said once and is easy to miss).

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: After hearing Music/KanyeWest's album ''Yeezus'', they decided to take influences from rap (specifically, the production involved) for ''Wax Wings Will Burn''.

* OppositesAttract: Pete and Wendy, [[http://www.mechanicalnation.com/2012/06/behind-the-scenes-with-pete-crane-of-shiv-r/ apparently]].

* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Hold My Hand'' is a line from “The End Part 1” (“Hold my hand, scar my skin, broken as we wait for the end”).

* AntiLoveSong: “Taste”.
* BerserkButton: Pete does not want to see anyone comparing ''Wax Wings Will Burn'' to Combichrist.

* ClusterFBomb: Pete tends to break them out live.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Lee has a crazy sense of humour, Pete's a very friendly person, and Wendy is incredibly nice and sociable.

* {{Gorn}}: The video for “The End Part 1”.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: The skirt Pete wears live.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: All of them.
* MindScrew: The video for “This Fix”.

* SirSwearsALot: Ben.

* StageNames: Kong (Ben), [=Virul3nt (Pete)=] and Straylight (Wendy).

* SurrealMusicVideo: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4957pCkBws This Fix]]".
* TakeThat: “Alpha Omega”, to religion in general.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Onstage, Pete is loud, aggressive, energetic and forceful. Offstage, he’s quiet, laconic, thoughtful and very, very nice.

* ''Requiem Of The Hyperreal'' (to be released in 2017)

* ''Requiem Of The Hyperreal (to be released in 2017)''

* ShoutOut: The stage names: 'Kong' is a shout out to Film/KingKong, and 'Virul3nt' is a shout out to the debut album of trance band Die My Darling.

* StageNames: Kong (Ben), Virul3nt (Pete) and Straylight (Wendy).

* Virul3nt (Pete Crane)- beats, vocals, lyrics and more chaos

!! Tropes used by Shiv-r include:

* BerserkButton: Pete does not want to see anyone comparing the new album to Combichrist.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Hold My Hand'' was industrial rock, whereas ''This World Erase'' was more industrial pop-rock.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: After hearing Music/KanyeWest's album ''Yeezus'', they've decided to take influences from rap (specifically, the production involved) for the next album.

* XtremeKoolLetterz: The band’s name itself (it’s just pronounced like ‘shiver’) and Pete’s stage name, Virul3nt.

** Their requirements for playing Kinetik were completely ordinary excepting a sharp note stating that should they be followed by a DJ, said DJ could not play anything by TheProdigy as their first song (on the grounds that nobody sounds good next to the Prodigy).

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Their requirements for playing Kinetik were completely ordinary excepting a sharp note stating that should they be followed by a DJ, said DJ could not play anything by TheProdigy as their first song (on the grounds that nobody sounds good next to the Prodigy).
** When asked who he'd want to collaborate with if he had the chance, Pete said that he wouldn't want to collaborate with some of his favourite bands, like {{IAMX}}, because trying to possess something beautiful instead of just admiring it is like [[TooMuchInformation coming in someone's face... it ruins the magic.]]

See also TheCrystallineEffect.

** Shiv-r as a whole compared to TheCrystallineEffect. One is industrial, the other electronic. Comparing the two, it's a little hard to believe that the same person could have done most of the music for both.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: After hearing KanyeWest's album ''Yeezus'', they've decided to take influences from rap (specifically, the production involved) for the next album.

* IdenticalStranger: Inverted- Pete once described {{deadmau5}} as being him, but a version of him who took the opposite choice in every decision Pete ever made.

* ShoutOut: The stage names: 'Kong' is a shout out to KingKong, and 'Virul3nt' is a shout out to the debut album of trance band Die My Darling.

* CreatorCouple

* DyeHard: Both Pete and Wendy, though the colour tends to vary.

* HeyItsThatGuy: It’s probably too hard to tell under the piercings and hairstyle, but Pete and Wendy were in {{Angelspit}}’s video for “Vena Cava”.

* OneOfUs: Pete has read this page and made references to it on Twitter.
** He once listed his main influences as {{Deadmau5}} and {{IAMX}}, and quite likes {{Claymore}} too.
** All of them like LadyGaga (though they probably won't admit it).
** Pete loves ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', ''Series/BreakingBad'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', and his favourite movie is ''Film/BladeRunner''.
** When one fan asked Pete 'What is the answer?', his reply was [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 'Two and forty']] in German.
** When a fan asked about anyone in the band having a degree, Pete said he was [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim the Archmage of Winterhold.]]

* AccidentalInnuendo: From “Hollow Mask”: “Every day I lose myself/I wish I could believe/that I’m really somebody else/when I’m down on my knees”. Wait, ''what?''

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The intro to “Open My Vein” has a rather vicious revenge speech that has absolutely no context and has nothing to do with the song.

* ExecutiveMeddling: ''Shadows Between Worlds'' was been delayed by their label for a while before being released.
* GeniusBonus: The random Japanese words in "Taste" are from {{Claymore}}.

* SignatureSong: Either “The End Part 1” or “Pharmaceutical Grade”.

* {{Squick}}: The video for “[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbK_Pd6Qz0 The End Part 1]]”

* ''Wax Wings Will Burn'' (due out September 26 2014)

!! Tropes used by Shiv-r include (YMMV tropes found [[YMMV/{{Shiv-r}} here]]):

* Third album is currently in the works, and will be released at some point in 2014.