Member Since: 8/17/2006
Band Members: Billy Ritchie - Vocalist Nazz - Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals Hideo Noda - Bass/Backing Vocals Drums - Kev WalkerNoted other members: Steven Athwal - Drums and Drugs Jason Sweeney (Now in V9) - Bass/Backing Vocals Robin Paterson - Rhythm Guitar
Influences: Billy here ... songwriting-wise i am influenced by Killing Joke,The Clash and The Stranglers. I like Killing Joke´s clever but powerful lyrics and when i play guitar i play a bit like those bands above. You can hear the Killing joke influence in the main three songs i contributed guitar parts too ... AngelFish,System Addict and one that i´ll add later called Flycatcher. Nazz´s influences were mainly Black Sabbath,The Damned and a bit of Wasp. I think he sounds like a cross between Jimmy Page and Randy Rhoads,his heavy classic blazing Marshall sound and ability is too good to be classed as a punk type player in my opinion. Kevin is just a great drummer end of .... Hideo liked a bit of funk in his play and his ability,look and sound once again was second to none in my humble opinion. I spent a few years dragging the bands sound into a more current vein,i was impressed with Stone Temple Pilots and now bands like Queens of the Stone Age,i feel the band would have developed into a pretty special act sonically and i feel the songs were only getting stronger. You can see the massive difference between AngelFish,System Addict and the very early Temple of Dreams .. the first song i ever properly sang on in a studio! The future? .... who knows .... i have some very strong ideas for songs that i will hopefully record in the near future.Addition from Nazz ... My biggest influences were Brian May - brought up on Queen during long car journeys (although I never emulated him). Once I started playing I was into SLF, The Exploited (Big John - machine gun guitar chugging) Sex Pistols, Stranglers, early Adam and the Ants etc. As I improved I started to crave more technical ability and diverted into HM via Anti Nowhere League, Iron Maiden and ultimately Ozzy (not Black Sabbath)- Randy Rhoads was dead by then but I think he was the main driving force for my 'style'. Michael Schenker,Jake E Lee, Gary Moore and eventually Zakk Wylde.
Sounds Like: A very heavy punk rock band.
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Type of Label: Major