***NOTE: All songs uploaded are single-track live recording demos only and not yet available for download. Whorelocke has yet to release their debut album. Thank you for patiently waiting.
WHORELOCKE AT GODS OF METAL 5th YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Coming very soon... Keep posted here for the gig updates.
SLIPKNOT ALL HOPE IS GONE
ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY @ Mayric's Espana
OCTOBER 4, 2008 (SATURDAY)
With live performances by: SIN, COG, INTOLERANT, PENTAVIA, WHORELOCKE, HAMPASLUPA, BADBURN
CDs will be given away on the event
entrance: 120php with beer
SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Brought to you by Warner Music Philippines, Pulp Magazine, RJ Slaughterhouse, HELLMET PRODUCTIONS
---Biography---
About the Whorelocke logo:
THE COSMIC EGG
It used to be a common idea that the primeval universe--or the Great Mother who created it--took the form of an egg. There are myths like that of Leto, who hatched the sun and moon (Apollo and Artemis) out of an egg; and Hathor, who hatched the "golden egg" of the sun at the beginning of the world. Petronius described a zodiacal table with an egg-shaped Goddess at its hub:
"Mother Earth lives in the world's midst rounded like an egg and all blessings are there inside her as in a honeycomb."
The Cosmic Egg of mystical iconography carried all arabic numerals and alphabetical letters combined within an ellipse, to show that everything that can be numbered or named is contained within one form at the beginning. The Cosmic Egg thus becomes a substitute for the Logus, and an expression of the Primum Mobile where deities are created by human symbols.
According to the Egyptian Ritual, the whole universe is
"the egg conceived in the hour of the Great One."
About the band name:
Whorelocke - derived from the words, "whore" and "warlock" on which:
Warlock is a term Wiccans presently use to refer to one who has been banished from a coven, either for revealing secrets, or for breaking coven laws; and
Whore as the “great whore†on the biblical book of Revelation:
"...and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
--- Revelation 17:5 ---
Whorelocke gives birth to a new fine approach to modern metal music merging thrash, melodic death, gothic, and a catchy songwriting delivery. The band's concept combines a little of the dark poetry incantations with a straightforward innocence of feminine angst, love, vulnerability and dignity.
The band was conceived by a girl (Cassie) driven to shout out female life's little tragedies through art --- her poetry, the lyrics, and chugging angstcore music which made extraordinary by an extreme vocal range from deep guttural growls to aggressive deadly screams and mournful melodic tune. She started with the name, and collaborated with her godfather Southcore band, SIN, on year 2002, featuring on one of SIN's songs while looking for her members.
She later on hooked up with the former bassgurl, Faith, on late December 2002, met her coming from her former band, Fall From Grace. The two girls together sought out for potential members and finally came across their drummer, Hun, who was in a band before with SIN's present vocalist, Charles. The search for a guitarist had been a bit hard, for they wanted a sound which is distinctive and quite refined from the others. Hun later brought in Tochi, former guitarist of Pedros Cannabis, Camote Chunks, and was also tugged by Stagnant, another Southcore brood. Tochi thereon, immediately teamed-up with Ivan, who was the former guitarist and one of the founding members of Stagnant, and within 3 months (January to March 2003), the band already finished four vocal-abusive, riff grinding, and sampler-free songs which they proudly play on frequenting gigs up to now.
By the end of May 2003, due to her unresolved lack of commitment to the band, they replaced the dropped bassist Faith with another she, another whore-rifying female bassbabe who now also plays for her husband's metal band Sacrilegion. Her name is Leda Angela and she finally came out with them early on June 2003, introducing together with the song, FALLEN DISGRACE, which most certainly opened up the transition of Whorelocke's evolving sound.
Before the beginning of year 2004, the band started progressing from small bar gigs to major concert events playing with mainstream acts and started recording their first self-produced, raw demo CD titled, "Tamed Angel" with four of their songs. By May 2004, they started distributing it to producers of local big tour events including Urge Super X-treme Games and the Red Horse Muziklaban 2004 Rock Challenge which took them surviving till the semi-finals from Batangas to Lucena City. Unfortunately, their guitarist, Ivan, had been too busy with personal matters at home that he had to pass the previous events up to which the band had decided to stick to four-piece. This made the remaining 4 (FOUR) members much more focused on writing new songs of their own without losing Whorelocke's distinctive style.
September 2004 proved their latest achievement at the Ultra being a part of the very first Rockista event, which gave them their biggest break so far playing with over 20 mainstream acts including Pepe Smith who played his longest version of "Ang Himig Natin" using Tochi's Les Paul which marked the guitar a precious, sacred idol for these 4 inspired newbies, leading them with a much solid perspective to push through with their creations...
Ending year 2005, the band decided to take a break to finish their college and post-graduate studies for more than 2 years, leaving a remarkable song, "DECEIVER" which they played live at 6 UNDERGROUND in Makati being the very first underground metal act to play at the bar and was chosen to be included on 6UG's compilation album "Live & Raw" released on 2006, lining up alongside The Dawn, Rivermaya, Kjwan, Pepe Smith and Skychurch. July 2008 they finally fired up a comeback to continue playing and creating metal music, contributing a diverse sound that is distinctively WHORELOCKE."
6UG Live & Raw Album featuring Whorelocke's song "DECEIVER"
now available at Odyssey record stores.
Visit 6 Underground website here for more info:
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