Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Superjoint Ritual
Artist: Superjoint Ritual
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Metal
Discography:
A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Use Once and Destroy
Year:
Tracks: 18
The early 21st century power saw Pantera isaac M. Singer Phil Anselmo launch several side projects, including Necrophagia, Viking Crown, Christ Inversion, Southern Isolation, and Superjoint Ritual. The latter grouping is comprised of guitarists Jim Bower and Kevin Bond, drummer Joseph Fazzio, with none other than Hank Williams III on bass voice (Anselmo handled both vocal and bass duties for the group's recordings, simply opted to condense only on vocals for the group's live shows). According to Bower, the members of Superjoint Ritual approached the writing and recording of their debut with "the perfect 15-year-old mentality of having everything loud, everything on 10, getting ladened, and rental whatever happens, bechance." Recorded at a rehearsal place turned recording studio apartment in Anselmo's backyard, the roger Huntington Sessions were produced by previous Ugly Kid Joe appendage Dave Fortman (world Health Organization has turned into quite an a producer of radical heavy bands - Eyehategod, Soilent Green, etc.). May of 2002 saw the release of the quintet's debut, Use Once and Destroy, an album that reflected such influences as Black Flag, Righteous Pigs, Celtic Frost, and Voivod, among others. Superjoint Ritual supported the record album with a summertime enlistment the same year.
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