Black Tusk, Zoroaster, Dark Castle, Il Malocchio, Drain the Sky

Black Tusk is a sludge band from Savannah, Georgia, United States formed in 2005. In 2008, they put out their first full-length album, Passage Through Purgatory, mastered by Scott Hull.

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Zoroaster was formed in the summer of 2003 by Brent Anderson (bass guitar, vocal), Will Fiore (guitar, vocal), and Rod Fiore (drums), three former colleagues in the defunct group Terminal Doom Explosion who rediscovered their mutual interests in primal, concrete sludge-doom.

Zoroaster, based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States has been rampaging the East Coast for the past years and has shared the stage with acts such as Gojira, Withered, Tualatin, Dove, Cream Abdul Babar, I/O, and many more.

Their influences include Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Sleep, Venom, and Godflesh. Their sludgy style of music has been described as menacing and unrelenting.

http://www.myspace.com/thezoroaster

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Drain the Sky formed during September 2005, in Oakland, CA. Memphis and Bay Area hardcore/punk veterans collaborate to create visceral, atmospheric, threatening music that seeks to collapse (musical and other) boundaries.

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Dark Castle is an American sludge / doom metal two-piece band from St. Augustine, Florida, United States formed in 2005.

They first appeared in 2008 with an elaborately packaged self-released demo (Flight of the Pegasus) that garned a good deal of favorable attention from the metal press and other bands (including Relapse Records' Minsk). It is easy to see why this unsigned band turned so many heads, as there are several obvious elements that separate them from their peers. In an extreme rarity in metal genres, most of the guitar and vocal work is handled by a woman, Stevie Floyd. Also, the band has the distinction of having no bass player (nor bass in any of their recordings), which is strikingly ballsy in a genre that is so intimately associated with low-frequency amplifier worship.

They released their first full-length album, Spirited Migration, in 2009.

The original lineup :

Stevie Floyd - guitars, vocal ;
Rob Shaffer - drums, vocal.

http://www.myspace.com/darkcastlemetal

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