Tim Stevenson and Sundance Martin have been friends since the late 80's sharing both an over-the-top (and often over the line) sense of humor and of course an intense love for music. They began playing guitar together in the early 90's and quickly found that the genres of the day were too narrow for the music that they wanted to create. Bands like Rush, King's X, and Primus found themselves alongside bands such as Slayer, Entombed, and Pantera. Their first band, W.L.A. (a mysterious acronym that has baffled, disturbed and confused many over the years), was formed during the end of their high school days and you could find them playing anywhere they could get on the bill. Their sound was raw and stage presence non existent, but the music was not what you would expect from your ordinary high school garage band. A musical apocalypse then descended and it's two headed Avatar, grunge and gangsta' rap, devoured the airwaves. It was during this time that W.L.A. split, with Tim moving to Boston to attend Berklee and Sundance moving on to other projects. Unlike many partings, this one bore no true sorrow. Tim always stayed in touch and upon returning home for vacations would produce songs and even albums for Sundance's other bands. Sundance stayed active forming first Bobby's Bag, a band best known for its enlightened view of the vegetarian lifestyle, and then DAMD, a collaborative work with Tim that marked the beginning of what would become Tandjent. - (Read more)

The Monolith Deathcult holds the conviction that death metal has reached a ceiling in terms of speed. It doesn’t really get any faster than Cryptopsy and any more brutal than Hate Eternal without flurrying away in one great big cacophony*). This is why The Monolith Deathcult has decided to broaden the genre by inserting previously ‘not done’ elements into the style, adding to the brutality and speed. The Monolith Deathcult realizes all to well that music is a form of entertainment, and that music is made not only for our own pleasure, but also for the audience. The audience wants to be entertained and wants to be captivated by what the band offers. The Monolith Deathcult makes music ‘for the masses’ without losing their identity by making easy-listening rock tunes. The Monolith Deathcult doesn’t make artist-centred music and won’t gorge on technicalities only trained ears will hear and appreciate. If people want to see virtuoso techniques they can go out and rent a Steve Vai DVD. The Monolith Deathcult sees the audience banging their heads on the primeval forces of the pounding 4/4 beat., and have set themselves the goal to broaden their extreme (death) metal with influences from techno/dance and industrial music, completed with Wagnerian classical pomposity. All this is topped with an image of irony, black humour and bad taste, in combination with a morbid fascination for everything that is ‘wrong’. - (Read more)

The Unravelling is a dark, progressive rock/metal band from Canada with music ranging from the acoustic and intimate to the psychotically aggressive. All music on their website is FREE to members of the site (also free). Currently 9 songs are being given away. - (Read more)

Thinline rose from the ashes of the legendary Columbia, Missouri metal band Surpace. The name thinline represents the very fine border between many things, such as love and hate, war and peace, and our musical styles. Thinline's first show was at Eastside Live on December 28th, 2001. We released a 7-song self titled album on June 6th, 2003 after a year's worth of recording. Currently thinline is focused on performing as many shows as possible in the Columbia and surrounding area, building a solid local fan base, and recording new material. Recently, thinline has opened for Century Media artists Shadows Fall, Electra Records artists Sworn Enemy, and Relapse records' Dysrythmia. Future projects include touring and promotional materials such as stickers and wearables. The current lineup for thinline includes Phil Smyser on guitars, Lane Kilgore on vocals, Cully Meier on drums, and bassist Wesley Hutto, whom we politely orrowed from our friends in Slugtrail. (B.C. from Slugtrail says that we are "Siamese bands - conjoined at the Wesley.") The three founding members of thinline - Phil, Lane, and Cully - were in Surpace, a straightforward, powerful band that had a very strong fan base in the Columbia area, and featured the legendary Big D on bass. In the years since Surpace's demise, Phil, Cully, and Lane have been honing skills and broadening horizons. In short, Surpace has grown up and evolved into a more diverse and even more powerful and emotional band. And, starting fresh, the Surpace name and all the ideas that went with it were dropped. - (Read more)

In late 2003, I was jamming with 2 guys at this big shed that I had rented out in the industrial/commercial parts of the suburb of Westcourt in Cairns. A few weeks into the lease though the 2 of them had informed me they no longer wished to jam. I was in a really tough spot because I had organised 2 other bands to join us in renting out this shed (at $440 per month) and now I was without a band. My younger brother Michael had been speaking with Tom Campbell (now Tormented's ex lead guitarist) who had expressed an interest in starting up a thrash metal band with Michael and another mate from school who played Drums.....Ned Gulliford. I was of course extremely keen at the time to start up a thrash metal band, so I asked Michael if he would mind if i called Tom. The next day I talked with Tom and explained to him the dilema I was in and that I needed to find a band right away. Tom was immediately keen and we organised a jam at the shed so that I could meet Ned and we could all have a jam. I explained to them at the time that I had already written some original material which I wanted the band to perform, and in return I was willinging to perform any additional material they wished to do. After a few jams we invited a friend of ours by the name of Ashley Martin, to join the band and forfill the role of bass guitarist. Unfortunately after a few jams Ashley told us that he was not keen to join the band........its still unclear to us as to whether or not refer to Ashley as an ex band member. We don't even know if he ever actually "joined" the band. Not to long after, we invited Gene Waltham, another friend of ours to join the band and play bass guitar. And thats how the line-up was formed. We began rehearsing 2-3 times per week, playing the 5 original songs I had put together as well as a range of cover songs including Die by the Sword (Slayer), Paranoid (Black Sabbath), Dirty Deeds (AC/DC) as well as some Judas Priest and Anthrax. - (Read more)