The nature of "Hemlock" is rooted, so to speak, in the idea of something both gentle and healing but at the same time deadly. Our music posesses the same duality. The spelling merely allowed an easy .com acquisition!

We have played throughout Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts and are seeking to further expand our performance base. Playing live allows us the chance to make our songs more of an experience; we've utilized a light/laser show and exotic dancers to assist in creating a visual experience to rival the audio journey we offer.

Playing live is vital to this band; the songs mature and naturally become more powerful with audience connection.

Our fondest live moments would probably include winning a Battle of the Bands monetary prize that enabled us to master and release our self-produced CD, and a recent performance with light show and dancers to a packed fetish club. A new meaning to the phrase "captive" audience, if you like.

The internet allows for an immediate connection for the listener who may not be as likely to investigate us live, and also allows direct communication to the artist. That's never really existed to the extent it does now; there's a big difference between a quarterly fan club newsletter and a live chat session!!

People can invetigate music more immediately and more selectively without making a $20 investment in a CD they've never heard before. And that benefits everybody.

Absolutely. Our music is individualistic and unique enough that any interest in signing us would acknowledge that they'd want us to deliver and promote more of the goods we're perfectly happy creating. And we can.

Formed about two years ago by George (bass/guitar/vocals) and John (Guitar/devices/bow) Hemlok's lineup is rounded out by Zach (drums/percussion) and Rebekah (Vocals. Also bearing mention in a studio (and occasionally live) capacity is Dave (Piano/Organ/analogue synth). They are a tight live unit that has prided itself on creating atmospheric music that encompasses moments both haunting and immediate. Creating music in both studio and stage, Hemlok continues to chart it's progress at its website www.hemlok.com

Influences include Alice In Chains, Tool, King Crimson, VAST, Peter Hammill/Van Der Graaf Generator, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, A Perfect Circle, Soundgarden, Sigur Ros and others.

Hmm, we'd all have to take a band vote on that one.....we're a climate-diverse bunch!

We have a strange fascination with all things analog, the guitar effects include Electro-Harmonix devices and assorted fuzzboxes. Keyboards include distorted Hammond organs and mellotrons completmenting vintage Moogs and piano.
Additionally, swaths of bowed guitar create doomy preludes or cutting leads, depending on the song.