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History of the Band
Pentagrae
was formed by Hingo and Willy in early 1999, with Hingo shredding out
some awesome riffs, and Willy providing Rhythm Guitar and Vocals.
With the addition of Dave whacking stuff it provided a more noisy
loud feel to the songs. The next addition to the band was Andrew in
late 1999, on the red thing with the strings that makes a lower
noise than the other ones. This depth in the band allowed harder
more complex songs like smells like teen spirit and killing in the
name of to be performed.
After
many long hours in an old apple shed, the
band emerged with songs that were much better that the older ones.
Then we introduce Bug, who became a second vocalist, and the new
lead vocalist when Willy went to Germany.
Bugs
raw Max Cavelera type looks and Britney Spears voice made him an
ideal replacement.
Then
for 2 years we jammed nearly every weekend and wrote some new songs
which we would usually forget by the next jam session. Our first
songs were rather crap with a song called "Ask Anyone"
being out main song which was a pathetic sounding rap-core piece of
crap which we played way too much. Video Hits would have been proud.
Even before that we had an even crappier song without a name. We
forgot about it and later while listening to the radio Andrew and
myself heard the main riff of our song replicated nearly exactly by
oz metal band Mark of Cain. They can have the riff, it sucked
anyway.
Anyway,
after that boring crap of doing nothing, Bug set us up with a party
gig out at Mullion Creek (Nashville anyone?). We played a set
featuring System of a Down, Deftones, RATM, KoRn and a few
originals. Bug sang a bit but left us to play alone in front a bunch
of "Shootin' tootin' Drinkin' for fun" yokels. Although
even without Bug we still played much to the annoyance of the party
guests. I guess rednecks don't even like Nu Metal.
We
jammed a few more times with Bug but his working commitments made
him too busy to turn up to most of our jams. However Andrew set us up
with a gig with about 9 other bands including Sydney metal band
"Anxiety Whispers", a band from Dubbo and the rest from
Orange and Bathurst.
The
band found itself without a singer for this gig so I quickly called
upon Zac to fill in for the singing role. With this we also got
another party gig on the night of the other gig. 2 gigs in one day!
Anyway, new songs have been written and we are now following a Death
Metal style sound crossed with New
Metal.
The
Second Popping the Cherry gig was a great success for Pentagrae as
we played very well and there were no real screw ups, except for
Andy tuning his bass while playing. Our setlist was different from
the first one, this time we decided to make it all heavy shit and it
worked!
The
third Popping the Cherry gig is approaching this year, 2002, and we
will be playing once again.
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