There are at least 2 artists using the name Cognition 1. A rap/hip hop group active during an unknown period of time 2. A Metal band active from 2005-present BIOGRAPHY FOR THE RAP/HIP HOP GROUP According to the dictionary, cognition is the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment or that which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge. It took me a long time to settle on a name that best represents me, flows well off the tongue and looks good to the inquiring mind. The word cognition fits like a glove around my musical identity as a whole and the persona you hear on tracks because having grown up in the suburbs of New Jersey I had to study hip-hop and be perceptive to begin my own process of learning how to partake in making the music myself. I’m not one of these elitist musician types who takes all the credit for his own music. I have not gotten to this point simply by my own creativity and brainpower. Many, many things have inspired me and helped me along the super highway that is creating music. Sitting down to write about yourself, the progression of your music and your own creative process is more difficult than one would think. I began by trying to define what my music conveys to the listener and two words came to mind; emotion and conviction. My music often leaves me naked to the elements of the world and some may even say I get too personal in my songs. To that statement I confidently rebuttal: "What other way should your music be?" I like to wear my heart on my sleeve, openly show my emotions to the world, hold steady to my convictions and the issues pertinent to my life and the lives of those around me. Fear, obsession, addiction, accomplishment, politics, epiphanies, philosophy, abstraction, dreams, rants, nightmares, and nonsense all intertwined over many different types of hip-hop production. My roots are firmly planted within hip-hop, and although I do rap over beats, my music is my music. I do not try to fit myself into the framework of what a rapper should be. I like to consider myself a writer and a thinker more than a rapper. I simply write from the heart and hope that others will feel it and will be able to relate to it. It just so happens that the medium I choose is music, and the music I choose is hip-hop influenced. I suppose I just don’t like the assumptions and stereotypes that come along with the tag "hip-hop" or "rap" BIOGRPAHY FOR THE METAL GROUP: Cognition was started in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, in 2005. The music was laregely a mixture of industrial influences and Metal. 2 EP/Demos were released over the next few years, and saw the band merging old school Metal ifnluences with modern industrial elements. In 2010, on Cognition's five year anniversary, the debut album, "Omnipotent" was released, a 12 track album showcasing material varying from crushing modern melodic thrash metal to in your face rock oriented metal. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.