Misery

There are multiple artists with this name:

1) Misery is a band that formed in 1987 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For a city that was known for bands such a The Replacements and Husker Du, this was a whole new take on the Minneapolis sound. Misery brought heavy, grinding, crust punk into a town full of college-friendly bar bands. They are are known for political, peace punk, crust music.

2) Misery are a UK Black Metal band, recently releasing their debut EP through Thirty Days of Night records and having 3 tours in the pipeline, Strongly influenced by Emperor, Immortal and the likes. www.miserymetal.co.uk

3) Misery are a legendary Australian act that spans two decades. Playing epic doom-laced Death Metal they are one of Australia's most crushing acts.

4) Misery are a Canadian Metallica tribute band.

5) Misery are a Spanish band that released their first album, "Space", in 2005. They sound similar to Placebo, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins.

6) Misery →Ｍｉｓｅｒｙ are a Japanese rock/visual-kei band acted in 2000-2002. They released 2 demotapes and contributed songs to 3 omnibus albums from Anarchist Records.

7) Misery Russian noise band from Moskwa.

8) Misery Dutch Electronic/goth-rock band.
Two men behind their synthesizers and one stunning woman behind her mic, enjoying every second on stage. That's what you see when you see Misery live. What you hear? Dark beats, emotive melodies and a beautiful voice telling you about love, life and the misery that comes with it.

Alain is the one who started it all. He founded Misery, with his brother Bert singing and his friend Edwin on guitars. A lot has changed since. Bert was joined by female vocalist Lis. The group made some promo's. As Misery grew into a band with a very distinctive sound, started to land more gigs, Bert wasn't able to keep up and left.

Lis, Alain and Edwin recorded Misery's first album: Nexus. The songs on Nexus consisted of Alain's electronic symphonies combined with Lis' voice, that had room to expand to it's potential now that it was standing alone. All of this was framed by Edwin's power chords and old school solo's.

After Nexus was released, Misery played at festivals like Summer Darkness and Terra Gotha and did shows with bands like XP8, Angels & Agony and Welle:Erdball. Alain's wanting to let electronics get the upper hand in his music coincides with Edwin's decision to move to Germany. He gets replaced by Maarten.

Still performing regularly, Alain starts to write new material for a new album. Maarten joins in. Together they write eleven songs that are more sophisticated than before, explore greater depths, incredible highs and overwhelming lows. Both literally as figuratively, that is. 'Obscurus and Lux' is born.

9) Misery Swiss old school death/doom metal band.

10)Misery Hong Kong based Visual rock band. Visit them at: http://www.myspace.com/hkmisery