Riphead's Profile |
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Combining death,thrash and grind |
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| Location: | CANTON, Ohio |
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| Last Login: | Mar 16, 2008 (621 days back) |
About Me |
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| 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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Music:Member Since: 1/1/2005Band 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 |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Death Metal / Metal / Grindcore) |
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RIPHEAD IS DEAD! |
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| 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 |
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DROPPING LIKE FLIES! |
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| 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 |
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NEW NAME CHANGE |
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| 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 |
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STUDIO MAYHEM |
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| 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 |
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Our lineup is complete! |
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| 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 |
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RIPHEAD SHOWS |
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| 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 |
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My Friends |
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