North

This page represents several different artists/bands using the name North/NORTH. NORTH is the moniker of the Arizona based atmospheric sludge metal quintet. Formed by drummer Zachary Hansen, bassist Evan Leek, and guitarist Ty Engle as an instrumental trio in 2005, NORTH added guitarist Matthew Mutterperl and self released their EP "Siberia" in the Summer of 2006, followed by extensive touring. In 2007 the group released their follow up EP "Ruins". After adding keyboardist Peter Ridgeway and vocalist Kyle Hardy, the critically acclaimed album "What You Were" was released in July 2008 by Toledo, Ohio based Cavity Records. That was followed by two years of touring the U.S. After guitarist Ty Engle left the band, writing for the next full length began in January 2010, with plans for release in the fall along with more US tours and a trip to Europe in the future.. More info can be found at www.northband.net North (from Poland) is a black metal band with pagan influences. 2006 the relesed they 4th album " Na Polach Bitew" via Pagan Records. One of the oldest Polish black metal band. Started with such bands like Behemoth, Graveland and others. A band by the name of North also existed for a short time in the 90's and recorded only one 7" EP for the Mindwalk record label. They were part of the post-punk music scene in Philadelphia and little is known about who its members were. NORTH are also four local musicians from Melbourne, Australia - Alf, Beau, Joel and Thanh - doing their own thing in the music business. The original NORTH is a four-piece Industrial Metal band from Chicago that was formed in 1993 by producer/engineer, drummer, and keyboardist Brian Eaton. North uses technology to the hilt, giving the band its industrial strength rock sound, but there’s more hiding below the surface. North’s vocalist Don Grillo manipulates his voice in unearthly ways, scowling and screaming, drifting into harmonies then laying his soul bare. Bassist Nick Sanzeri knocks the listener flat with intricate bass lines coming up from the depths. Classically trained, Sanzeri is the perfect compliment to Eaton’s rhythmic base. Jon Studtmann has the duty of filling in the high parts with searing guitar work. Equal parts of metal and rock mixed with a style all his own, Studtmann uses his guitar as an emotional Richter scale, reversing the feel of a tune with the changing of a note. Eaton’s samples provide an overall gothic feel to the band’s debut disc, Genocidal World.