Lazarus Blackstar are a 5 piece doom metal/sludge outfit hailing from Bradford, UK. In the process of writing Khang's 2nd LP the music was getting darker, doomier, and more intense. At this point the singer, Bryan Outlaw, disliked the direction that the music was going (too slow, too heavy) and quit the band. The others decided to carry on regardless and recorded the album (music only) during the summer of 2004.
Channel Zero is a Belgian metal band. Franky DSVD (current project: Skitsoy), Xavier Carion (current project: Sons of Jonathas), Tino DeMartino and Phil B. came together in Brussels (Belgium) in 1990. They started 'Channel Zero', inspired on the 'Public Enemy' song 'She Watch Channel Zero'. In August 1997 Channel Zero anounced the split of the band. Meanwhile they had produced five albums: Channel Zero (1992), Stigmatized... (1993), Unsafe (1994), Black Fuel (1997) and a live album Channel Zero Live (1997) which contained a recording of their gig at Marktrock Leuven in 1997.
Lord Dying come from Portland, Oregon, a place over abundant with purveyors of the heavy riff. A region where the inhabitants are plagued with nerve and joint damage due to lack of sunlight. In a time where everyone is trying to out-sludge or out-doom each other Lord Dying gives something less than a fuck. They are a metal band with members of Black Elk , Portals, Le Force, and Cremains, who in their short, one years time as a band have shared the stage with Unsane, Red Fang, Yob, Valient Thorr, and others locally.
Hesper Payne is a death doom band from Newcastle upon Tyne on the north east coast of England.
Hesper take their lyrical inspiriation from the works of H.P. lovecraft et al and northern english mythology and folklore, weaving elements of both together to create a unique world of their own. Formed in 2004 by Vocalist / Guitarist Brooke Johnson and Bassist Ian Fenwick, Hesper have released a number of EP’s though struggling to find a full lineup has kept live activities to a minimum. Every aspect of recording and art is self produced.
Blood Duster are a five piece grind/death/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia, known for their fast and heavy musical style. The band are currently enjoying some semi-mainstream success after their self-titled Blood Duster album and an appearance at the annual Big Day Out festival. The band's first offering, Yeest, was a straightforward grindcore album. The follow up album, Str8 Outta Northcote was a southern-flavored stoner rock album. The band's third album, Cunt was a more intense and true-to-its-roots offering, with rhythmic bluesy metal guitars and heavy drumwork.
Wizard's Beard are a group of filthy sludge merchants hailing from the Leeds, England. After releasing their debut album 'Pure Filth' through psycheDOOMelic, Wizard's Beard followed this up by hitting the studio again a mere 8 months later and then departing on a UK & European tour. The restuls of that 2nd trip in to the studio were released as 'Four Tired Undertakers' on Feb 10th 2012 through Altsphere productions, a european tour will follow in the summer. 'Four Tired Undertakers' was featured as Roadburns album of the day:
The Body (1): Sludge metal band 1999-. (2): Finnish hard rock band 1996-. (3): Christian hip-hop group. (4): 70s progressive rock group. (1) The best-known The Body is a two-piece sludge metal band based in Providence, Rhode Island, United States (formed in 1999), with heavy, low riffs, high-pitched screaming vocals, and occasional samples. They have released two full length records, a collaborative album with Braveyoung, an EP, splits with Get Killed and Whitehorse, a demo, and an anthology of their EPs, 7 inches, demos, ect.
1) A Japanese Sludge/Hardcore punk band who are best known to western audiences as having done a split with Boris 2) An acappella folk / gospel group based in WV formerly known as the Missing Person Soup Kitchen Gospel Quartet whose albums include "Put Your Loving Arms All Around Me", "Bare There Were They" and "Stirring It Up" 3) A Christian Hard Rock band from United States fronted by Barren Cross's Mike Lee.
There is more than one band with the name Hands: [1] Shane Ochsner, Josh Silbernagel, Chris Schwartz and Jerik Hendrickson are collectively Hands, a band that combines circling atmospheric guitars punctuated with hard hitting progressions. They are a band in which rock and roll meets ambient hardcore and warm silvery singing rivals hardcore screams. The warmth of their songs is in strong contrast to the raw biting North Dakota weather that surrounds them.
SardoniS are a two man aural demolition crew from Belgium whose musical output encompass the pure, unadulterated brutality of High On Fire, the atmosphere of 5ive and the vintage swing n' groove of early Black Sabbath. A throwback to stoney, blown-speaker Doom of that golden Man's Ruin Records era but with a magic all their own. Started in the summer of '06, recorded a demo in February of ‘08 and a 4 song EP two months later at Studio Jonathas together with riffmeister Xavier Carion (formerly Cyclone...