Biography from Last.fm
Born from a basic desire to have an excuse to hang out more often with close friends Ted Maul guitarist Luca G-Drax invited ex-band mate, drummer Hellhog (currently of Pure Negative, ex-Labrat bass wizard Adam Da Rat, and the toxic duo of River Freshney's Lee4 (guitar) and Wez4 (vocals) to start jamming.
Dripback recorded their debut EP 'Inahling The Ashes' in a 48 hour gap in December 2010 with extreme metal wonder-producer 'Russ Russell'. The EP was released June 2011 via Siege Of Amida Records. Read more on Last.fm
Is deathcore still a dirty word? Thy Art Is Murder might prefer to call themselves “modern extreme metal”, but whatever label you want to try to pigeonhole them in, seeing them sellout Upstairs at the Garage was a sweaty and violent way to spend a Tuesday night. Hugh Platt went down to handle the words; Ben Gibson risked life, limb, and camera equipment to go down the front and take photos.
6 things we learned watching Thy Art Is Murder in London…
Is there anything better than a Thrash Hits Festival Splash Page? Yeah, loads of things but you won’t find the best online festival coverage on any of them. You’ll find that right here. All our work from Bloodstock Open 2012 is going be linked to from this page (eventually), so give it a bookmark or just don’t close it, because it’s all you’re going to need. Interviews, photos, setlists, rumours, and who knows? – maybe even some tiny reviews – it’s all here. [Read more →]
They might’ve started as a doss-about band for various members of a whole host of noisy London-based bands of bastards, but DripBack meant serious business at Bloodstock Open Air 2012. With a new album due before the end of the year, and at least one of the band finding the energy to keep drinking until 5am on Saturday, DripBack are looking more and more like they’ve got the legs to turn into a tasty long-term prospect.
Well, he survived – and here’s the final proof. In the last of his three reports from Hammerfest IV, David Keevill pretends he didn’t have a permanent hangover, and reviews Oaf, Cerebral Bore, Mortad, DripBack, Hell, Amon Amarth, and – of course – Saturday night’s headliners, the almighty Skindred.
This time next week, our intrepid representatives at Hammerfest IV – The Hammer of Thor, will be slowly trying to recover from a weekend where the level of attention paid to the many heavy metal bands playing is directly (and inversely) proportional to the levels of booze being imbibed by them. How do we know they’ll be getting smashed rather than getting their mosh on? Well, because even if you headline your event with Anthrax and Skindred, we know for a fact that whenever more than one Thrash Hits contributor ends up in the same room at Pontin’s in Prestatyn, someone ends up puking. That’s not us trying to sound like a bunch of lads-on-tour kerrrrayyyzzzyy drunks either – that’s the raw statistics of Hammerfest talking.
In any case, we figured we’d put together a Hammerfest-themed Spotify Slaylist to start getting them in the mood nice and early.
Well, we were just sent the new Dripback video. ‘Kick Out Time’ is two minutes and forty-one seconds of five angry men in a dirty room interspersed with stolen news footage of those ruddy riots. You know Dripback stole the footage though. You know they did. We asked bassist, Adam Da Rat what it was all about…
Whose garage was this filmed in?
“Actually, it was filmed at a squat in South London hence the Sons Of Anarchy style backdrop. Everyone should go to more squat gigs.”
IT’S CHRISTMASSS. Well, it’s December. That means that Christmas is just 24 days away or whatever. Kicking off our annual round of shitty band interviews, is Dripback. We asked their star bassist, Adam Da Rat loads of stupid stuff and he threatens sexual assault. Our kinda guy.
Is there anything better than a Thrash Hits Festival Splash Page? Yeah, loads of things but you won’t find the best online festival coverage on any of them. You’ll find that right here. All our work from Bloodstock Open 2011 is going be linked to from this page (eventually), so give it a bookmark or just don’t close it, because it’s all you’re going to need. Interviews, photos, setlists, rumours, and who knows? – maybe even some tiny reviews – it’s all here. [Read more →]
Yeah baby! The Thrash Hits Download Festival splash page is back! All of our Download Festival 2011 coverage from the weekend is going be linked to from this here page, so give it a bookmark or just don’t close it, because it’s all you’re going to need. Individual band coverage (interviews, photos, setlists and some tiny reviews), rumours and gossip, drinking games, stage times, dodgy photos of as many sexy ladies in various states of safe-for-work undress as we can legitimately get away with? It’s all here.
It just wouldn’t be Download without Hugh getting bummed by/bumming a band. Instead of bumming Pepper Keenan, this time it’s his turn to be bummed, byAdam Da Rat, bassist for superb London grindcore lot, DripBack. Mmm, bumming. Mmm, sandwich.