Hexham Head were the first on a three band line up this tuesday at LeBrie, with Kissing Cousin in the middle, and the Monolators headlining.
With two guitarists a bassist and a drummer, Hexham Head built a menacing atmosphere, a heavy curtain of dark riffs and a scary fog that suddenly weighs a tons on your shoulders leaving little hope in sight.
When a band chooses its name after a weird story like that of the English Hexam Heads, you can expect that sort of mysterious gloomish ambiance. If you are like me and have no idea what was the story, google it you will learn that in 1972, an eleven-year-old boy and his young brother dug out two small carved stone heads, very heavy in weight, in their parents’ garden in Hexham, England. Then, after the boys had taken the heads into their house, a number of paranormal incidents occurred in the house…. By choosing such a name they make the google experience more difficult but they obviously want to cultivate the chilling and the macabre.
The guitars are distorted and mean, they reverb a lot or sometimes surf the darkness, they can even slow down the time a little bit on some songs, or shake it like a fury on other ones, before ending like a car crash, and producing so much distortion it rip your gut apart.
At times they remind some horror punk bands, with creepy female screams (they even did a Cramps’ cover), at other times they play a mean and tenebrous rock with heavy drumbeats and aggressive riffs, a little bit between Sonic Youth, Queens of the Stone Age and the Pixies or some gothic band.
I haven’t found a lot about them on the web, but Melissa Pleckham plays bass and Ken Ramos is on vocals and guitar, where as I thought the other guitar player bore a spooky resemblance to Eminem.
When a band chooses its name after a weird story like that of the English Hexam Heads, you can expect that sort of mysterious gloomish ambiance. If you are like me and have no idea what was the story, google it you will learn that in 1972, an eleven-year-old boy and his young brother dug out two small carved stone heads, very heavy in weight, in their parents’ garden in Hexham, England. Then, after the boys had taken the heads into their house, a number of paranormal incidents occurred in the house…. By choosing such a name they make the google experience more difficult but they obviously want to cultivate the chilling and the macabre.
The guitars are distorted and mean, they reverb a lot or sometimes surf the darkness, they can even slow down the time a little bit on some songs, or shake it like a fury on other ones, before ending like a car crash, and producing so much distortion it rip your gut apart.
At times they remind some horror punk bands, with creepy female screams (they even did a Cramps’ cover), at other times they play a mean and tenebrous rock with heavy drumbeats and aggressive riffs, a little bit between Sonic Youth, Queens of the Stone Age and the Pixies or some gothic band.
I haven’t found a lot about them on the web, but Melissa Pleckham plays bass and Ken Ramos is on vocals and guitar, where as I thought the other guitar player bore a spooky resemblance to Eminem.