Prepare to worship at the altar of the heavy riff. We are very pleased to be able to present the split album with the sludge metal band A VERY OLD GHOST BEHIND THE FARM (from Toulouse), the follow up release from WHEELFALL to last year thud rock very-well-received "Interzone" album. Turn it up and melt into the pavement.
Formed in 2009 in Nancy, France, the original WHEELFALL lineup included Fabien W. Furter on guitar and vocals, Niko El Moche on bass, Cactus Flo on guitar and Quentin Vega on drums with their first recorded appearance being on 2010’s “From the Blazing Sky at Dusk” Ep, DIY self-released EP which made a splash in the stoner/desert rock international scene. Right after, in mid-2010, the band replaced Quentin with drummer Niko Elbow Giraud, who used to attend the loud, pounding and noisy WHEELFALL gigs.
In 2012, the new line-up cranked out the highly-celebrated “Interzone” LP, quickly followed by a split EP the month after and keep touring, managing to severely deafen metal fanatics. These three early releases defined the basis of the WHEELFALL’s style – a loud, massive and sick metal/stoner/doom mixing of thundering guitars, roaring bass, huge and heavy drums, deep gritty vocals, which each tune seeming slower than the one before it. Giving as much importance to its music than its lyrical themes, each WHEELFALL’s song is part of one and only pessimistic and speculative fiction exploring the reaction of individuals and society confronted to issues caused by its technological evolution, which trap ruthlessly the listener in the band’s world. The band is never stuck into one musical genre and its motto could be "Move forward or die like a dinosaur", so don't expect anything from the band but only what they want to do. Hymns like “Holy Sky”, “It comes from the Mist” or the 22 minutes behemoth “Interzone” are perfect examples of how wide the WHEELFALL’s musical spectrum is, and the band became instantaneously one of the driving forces of the stoner rock/metal French scene.
In 2013-2014, WHEELFALL will be steamrolling their way across France and Europe. We hope for their own sake that the Europeans are familiar with the concept of earplugs.
Tracklist "Split" (total playing time : 40'):
WHEELFALL - "Induction"
WHEELFALL - "Hangman's Laugh"
WHEELFALL - "Hundred Blank Stares"
(Bonus) WHEELFALL - "Snivlem" (Melvins cover)
AVOGBTF - "Stuffed with Straw"
AVOGBTF - "Back to the Skull River"
AVOGBTF - "Navigating on the Seas of Dementia"
http://wheelfall.bandcamp.com
WHEELFALL is :
Fabien W. Furter – vocals, guitar
Niko Elbow Giraud – drums
Niko El Moche – bass
Cactus Flo – guitar
