SKINLESS exploded onto the metal scene in 1992. Despite a variety of lineup changes, the songwriting team of Noah Carpenter (guitars) and Sherwood Webber (vocals) has remained constant since 1994. After adding the talents of Bob Beaulac (drums) and Joe Keyser (bass) SKINLESS established a solid, ...
The Pharmacy is a psychedelic/indie punk band from Seattle, Washington, consisting of three members: Scott Yoder (guitar, lead vocals), Brendhan Bowers (drums, backing vocals), and Stefan Rubicz (keyboards, backing vocals). They also have been known to record with a wide array of other instrument...
Ladyhawk awakens in a trash-filled, "morning after" apartment in East Vancouver, British Columbia. Duffy, Darcy, Sean, and Ryan arise, pick up their instruments and head out into the heathen city, singing songs about life and love. They are rockers and dreamers -- still trapped in their...
gay against you (also GvsY) are an enthusiastic, messy and very friendly duo, consisting of Lachlann Rattray and Joe Howe. They are influenced by Minutemen, Magma, Mae Shi and other bands beginning with an M. Regardless of these influences, they sound a bit like "a council estate Butthole Su...
Ed Patrick, the mind behind one-man-band Kid Carpet, is famed for using Casio keyboards, Fisher Price guitars and the innards of other toys to compose his music. He also used to use a Furby for the backing vocals of the song 'Your Love' - but that was stolen at a gig.
Two versions of his debu...
Tom Brosseau is a performing songwriter who grew up on the wide-open prairies of the Red River Valley of North Dakota, in a family steeped in traditional music and culture. Citing influences as diverse as Nick Drake, Cole Porter, and Woody Guthrie, Brosseau composes poetic new Dylan-esque folk i...
The Constantines are an indie rock band from Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
The band was formed by Steve Lambke, Bryan Webb, Doug MacGregor, and Dallas Wehrle in 1999, following in the wake of the emotional hardcore band Shoulder. Their style has been described as "art-punk," and they have...
One of a growing number of bands making hardcore fun again, PRE are a London five-piece (vocals, guitar, bass, bass and drums). They released their debut album Epic Fits, fourteen tracks recorded live straight to tape in one day and mixed the next, back in September after becoming the first ever ...
Our Brother The Native are two young Americans; Josh Bertram and Chaz Knapp, who have been working together as a unit since 2005, and whom FatCat stumbled upon towards the end of 2005. Having checked out a link to their site on Myspace.com, and instantly liking what was heard, they got in touch w...
Watain, a Swedish Black Metal band, was formed in Uppsala in 1998. The name is taken from a recording by the American black metal group Von. Their first release was the 7" EP The Essence of Black Purity on Swedish Grimrune productions, recorded in Necromorbus Studios 1999. The French black m...
Castanets is an experimental one-man band from San Diego composed of Raymond Raposa and any number of session musicians brought on for his albums and performances. The music has been described as gothic country, avant-garde indie, psychedelic neo-folk, and a slew of other labels. Fundamentally, t...
Biography: USURPER formed in1993 and released their first demo in 1994. Since then, USURPER have recorded 5 full length albums, 1 mini album, 1 rarities CD and toured 16 different countries around the world.
USURPER'S blend of 80's inspired thrash metal, classic heavy metal anthems, over-the...
A modern version of the sound championed by The Stooges, MC5 and other 60's American Garage Rock bands, with a dash of The Doors style psychedelic keyboards.
David Karsten Daniels is a songwriter/composer/performer who has lived in too many places to really be from anywhere. He currently resides in Ashland, Oregon with his lovely wife and schizophrenic pet rabbit. He's spending this winter film scoring, snow shoeing and writing songs (about rabbits) f...
Pulling Teeth is a metallic hardcore band from Baltimore, MD. The band was formed as a side project between members of Slumlords and The Spark. The band draws heavy influences from Integrity and Left For Dead. Their music bounces between heavy intros, fast verses, and hard mosh parts, with sol...
It must have been around 1988 when LÄRM called its quits and Paul,Olav, Jos and Menno decided to call their new band SEEIN'RED. Menno did not stay long in SEEIN'RED because he moved to Amsterdam to complete his lawstudy and another reason to quit the band was the fact that he felt that belonging ...
CHOPS (1): US hip hop solo artist and producer from Philly (???? -)
CHOPS (2): UK avant-wonk-pop group from Leeds (2007 -)
(1) CHOPS, from the Philly-based group the Mountain Brothers, has become a successful solo artist and producer. His album Virtuosity featured Kanye West, Raekwon, Ras Kas...
Nick Castro has had three periods now of his brand of acoustic-based musics. Firstly as a solo artist, then with recording ensemble The Poison Tree and currently with touring band The Young Elders. He has toured internationally and recorded with many of young folk bands which have emerged in the ...
z'ev (born Stefan Weiser) straddles the nearly unbridgeable and highly volatile gulf between the art world and the music industry. Acclaimed as one of the world's best and most original percussionists, Weiser began recording in the late '60s in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late '70s, h...
Radio Eris is a psychedelic poetry-rock band from Philadelphia, PA. They were founded by Matt Stevenson and Lora Bloom in 1999 and have released 6 albums of spoken word, ambient sounds, space rock and mind-bending noise. The band currently includes guitarist Dan "Redbeard" Baker, drum...
There are five bands called Dirge.
Dirge was born in Paris, France in 1994. The original core was formed by Marc T. (guitar, programming) and by ex-Damage Done, Laurent P. (voice, programming). In the industrial-metal genre of bands like Godflesh or Pitchshifter, the music generated by the d...
THE MICRAGIRLS (from Kuopio, Finland) is a guitar-organ-drums-combo (all three singing). Dressed in their exclusive, handmade Micra-outfits and white circusboots they perform their music with an honest enthusiasm which is remarkable. So it has never been hard for the band to win over the crowd. T...
Aguynguerran was raised in 1999 by Nguaroth (vocals, guitars) and Berdunnor (bass). The early years resulted in some demo-work of which the Christreign Annihilation-tape was widely appreciated. The founding members are still the driving force behind the band today, assisted by Jeroenymous (also k...
There are two bands named Black to Comm:
1. Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. Richter creates his music using scratchy shellac and vinyl records, field recordings, a so called "kitchen gamelan," and more traditional instruments like o...
The extreme Dutch doom metal band Bunkur was formed in Tilburg in 2001. Band members are reportedly also active with Flesh Made Sin, Planet AIDS and Sauron. Influenced by bands such as Winter, Sleep and Abruptum, the band is not exactly known for making short songs and some of them last over an h...
Tank 86 is an heavy instrumetal 4-piece hauling from the south of the Netherlands. They started in late 2004, with heavy riffs, psychedelic grooves and unpredictable dynamics. In 2005 Tank 86 recorded a convincing CD that established their reputation a heavy rocking force to be reckoned with.
In...
Out of the ashes of Turn The Screw a new band arose. They’re called VOGUE and they made us excited like it was 2004 all over again. They recruited Bounce as their frontman. The man’s a true phenomenon and most notorious for his… craziness. A true relief with all those wankers fronting hardcore ba...