<left to right> Mick Morley :: beat pounding/ Adam B. Metal :: lungs / Scott Lang :: riffage / Tim Miedecke :: ass shaking groove / Aaron Butler :: riffage and leads

THE STORY OF THE 'BOK
(AS TOLD BY SIMON THREADGATE; this is not the official bio)

Summer 1997. While I was just coming out of my 'Hootie and the Blowfish' phase, Aaron Butler (fresh from Death Metal mecca Florida) and Adam 'Hutch' Glynn decided to create a band to beat the shit out of all other bands. Taking Aarons desire to play along to a drum machine cranked to its capacity, and mixing it with Hutch's Mike Patton insipred lunacy, the band took shape as Frankenbok! (For the story behind the name, listen to this MP3 from and interview with Azzbok) Sometime after the band began its life, Tim Miedeckie and Scott Lang jumped ship from Zombanol to join the soon to be unstopable metal machine that is Frankenbok!

In August 1999, a man-machine drummer named Mick Morley stepped out of obscurity to fill the seat behind the kit, propelling Frankenbok to their now legendary status as Kings Of The Taco Metal, and one of the countries bloody good live acts!

For the next few years the band spent their time playing to every cunt that would listen, and supporting a shitload of international bands including Skinlab, twice landing the Slipknot support slots for two cancelled tours, the support for a cancelled Kittie tour, and a bunch of other bands who don't think they are too good to tour this wide brown land of ours. They even opened for SLAYER! Suck that every band who hasn't done that!

2002 started promisingly for the band, landing the Melbourne support slot for darlings of the faux-metal crowd System Of A Down (who I actually think are a great band, if only you could kill every one who starts to scream uncontrollably when they play Chop Seuy!), and taking a short jaunt across the country with god-damn awesome and sadly defunct Sydney thrashers Psi-Kore (though Daysend are a great band too!). In November , Adam 'Hutch' Glynn decided that the rest of the boys could go fuck 'em selves, and quit the band. The band resolved to carry on...

After a nation wide search (with an Australian Idol style audition, except without a bunch of pretty boys and dumb-as-fuck skank whores.), the band drafted Adam B. Metal from Warnambool's Negative Hold to hit the frontlines with the new and improved Frankenbok! Already back in the thick of it, they recently supported US metallers Skinlab and Swedish melodic metal band Soilwork. Blood Oath, the new Frankenbok opus, is in stores now and is already kicking the shit out of all other albums on the rack, and taking their beer and women as well!.