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In their short career the band managed to play around 300 hundred shows across the UK and Europe touring with the likes of Raging Speedhorn, Will Haven, LostProphets, Napalm Death, Earthtone9, Stampin' Ground, Therapy? and Megadeth to mention a few. Career highlights included The bands shows at 2001's Reading and Leeds Carling Festival as well as opening the Wembley Arena leg of the 2001 'Tattoo The Planet tour' The line-up also boasted such acts as Cradle of Filth, Biohazard and Slayer. European redirects here. ... Raging Speedhorn is a British metal band from Corby in Northamptonshire. ... Will Haven is a metal band from Sacramento, California, USA. // Members Current Members Grady Avenell - vocals Mike Martin - bass guitar Mitch Wheeler - drums Jeff Irwin - guitar Cayle Hunter - guitar (as of 2005) Previous Members Wayne Morse - drums (1995-2000) Dave Hulse - drums (2000-2001) Chris Robeyn - drums (2000) History In... Lostprophets are a Welsh rock band formed in 1997. ... Napalm Death is a grindcore/death metal band formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, England in 1982 by Nicholas Bullen and Miles Ratledge. ... earthtone9 was an alternative metal band hailing from Nottingham, UK. Their line up on most of their major releases was Karl Middleton on vocals, Owen Oz Packard and Joe Roberts on guitar, Graeme Watts on bass and Simon Hutchby on drums (the latter was replaced for their final EP Omega... Therapy? are a heavy metal rock band from Northern Ireland. ... Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder, frontman, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ... Wembley Arena at Night (Taken at a live WWE Show). ... Cradle of Filth is a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ... Biological hazard. ... Slayer is an American thrash metal band, founded in Huntington Park, California, in 1982[1] by Kerry King (guitars), Tom Araya (bass and vocals), Jeff Hanneman (guitars) and Dave Lombardo (drums). ...

Throughout 2000 and 2001 the band became regulars in the British music media with reviews and features appearing in magazines such as Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Rock sound, NME, Revolver and Q as well as being played on Mary Anne Hobbs radio 1 show and the legendary John Peel show. The band also recorded live sessions for Radio 1 and London based Total Rock Radio. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Kerrang! is a weekly music magazine published in the United Kingdom since June 1981. ... // Magazine History Metalhammer (sometimes MetalHammer) is a monthly heavy metal magazine in the UK, and in Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland and Serbia And Montenegro by a different publisher. ... Rock Sound magazine launched in the UK in 1999 and has built up a great reputation for championing new music. ... For other uses, see NME (disambiguation). ... Mary Anne Hobbs (born May 15) is a British DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. ... Autobiography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ...

The band made brief appearences on TV with their 'Stitch' and 'Away or Dead' videos being rotated on MTV2 and Kerrang Tv. They were also the subject of a MTV2 documentary that followed the band around as they embarked on a short tour of schools and Universities - The first Metal band to do so.

They were fronted by female singer Gen Tasker and completed by Jamie Thompson on guitar, Scott Warner (bass), Rob Reeves (guitar) and Kieran Brain (drums). Former members include Stuart Bruce (Drums 1999-2000), Stacey Maher (Drums 2000 - 2002) & Ben Gordelier (Drums 2002). Jamie Thompson has since joined Raging Speedhorn as well as taking on full time guitar duties in his brothers band The Scurge. Gen Tasker has gone on to become lead singer of a new band called(Thracia) Raging Speedhorn is a British metal band from Corby in Northamptonshire. ...

Scott Warner and Robert Reeves have formed a new band together Gunning For Goliath whilst Kieran Brain has joined ex-Raging Speedhorn frontman Frank Reagen in forming an old skool rock band Motorcity Daredevils Raging Speedhorn is a British metal band from Corby in Northamptonshire. ...

The band's first two albums were released on Dreamcatcher Records (Spitfire Records in the USA) Their split E.p was released on Snapper Records and Their final release, the mini-album For Us It Ends When We Drown was released on Rising Records.

Releases

• "One Inch God" (2001)
• "Year Of The Slug" (2002) (split EP with Scurge)
• "Ray Zero" (2003)
• "For Us it Ends When We Drown" (2004) (mini-album)