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About Me

Riphead was formed in late 2001 by drummer Kevin Kraft and guitarist Dan Gates. After playing together for 8 years in their previous band Ton, Kevin and Dan wanted to continue creating extremely heavy music. In early 2002 long time friend and bassist Scott Aul joined the band. With the addition of Scott Riphead were able to begin playing live and recording. Releasing a 4 song demo brought positive response locally and throughout the underground. During the winter of 2003 Riphead recorded tracks for the split cd with Drogheda. The Riphead/Drogheda split cd was released on Extreme Millennium Entertainment during the fall of 2004. Vocalist Andrew Parrish joined forces with Riphead during the summer of 2004. Andrews punishing vocal style added a new dimension to the band. A new full length cd is on the way for 2006. We are currently looking for a label for this release. Playing many shows throughout Ohio and other states, Riphead strive to create extreme and unique music...

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Member Since: 1/1/2005
Band Website: riphead.net
Band Members: Kevin Kraft - Drums / Dan Gates - Guitars / Brian Bertram - Guitars / Jeff Shepler - Bass / ? - Vocals
Influences: All that is METAL!
Sounds Like: Some heavy shit!!!
Record Label: Yours?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

RIPHEAD IS DEAD!

Well we’ve come along way ! We have our new lineup in place with our newest addition on vocals, Brian’s cousin and long time friend of our’s Mike Mozzochi. Everything is fallin...
Posted by Riphead on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:08:00 PST

DROPPING LIKE FLIES!

Well we lost another one. Andrew our vocalist quit the band.We won't go in to details,if you need to know why you can ask him ,he knows better than we do. We're still not sure what happened! If ...
Posted by Riphead on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:06:00 PST

NEW NAME CHANGE

Since the departure of Scott and the arrival of Brian and Jeff,we've decided to change the name of the band,that is as soon as we come up with something we all like! We don't want to act like mo...
Posted by Riphead on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:24:00 PST

STUDIO MAYHEM

We just finished recording 6 new songs in the studio with our old friend bobby from NDE for a demo/possible future album.More details in the near future.....
Posted by Riphead on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:54:00 PST

Our lineup is complete!

We are reunited with our old friend jeff shepler! Jeff played bass with me and Dan in our old band TON. He is also playing guitar in the ultra technical death metal band FULLY CONSUMED. All I can say ...
Posted by Riphead on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:24:00 PST

RIPHEAD SHOWS

All you Canton/Akron metalheads, check out our current shows. You can visit www.riphead.net to get flyers for each show, which you can "right click and save" to your computer for all your printi...
Posted by Riphead on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:26:00 PST