Reth
Technical grind death metal from Burnley, Leeds and Bradford.
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Sowing The Poisoned Hubris 2005
Rational Actor/Definitive Host
Profits
A practice room version of this track. vocals are a bit low, but we used one mic to pick up all noise in a tiny room, so i kinda got drowned out.
Reek Of Destitution (EP version)
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We love technical grindcore!Band/artist history
The name reth comes from the word for king in the Shilluk tongue, a dialect of West Africa.
RETHOGRAPHY
Reth were formed in August 2000 by school-mates Matthew 'Jim' Bentley (Guitar) and Elliot Smith (Drums). Over the course of the following 6 years that brings us up to the present, there has been many different members enter the Reth fold, (old school-mates Nathan 'Speckers' Robinson (Guitar), Patrick Walton (Vocals), Phil 'Toz' Torriero (Bass), David Wells (replaced Toz on bass for a while), Dan Shaw (ex-Super Agonizer, then with the now defunct Beecher, who stepped in on a July 2003 UK tour after Speckers suffered a badly broken hand just a week before going out on the road), and Paul Priest (Bass - ex-Canvas, Narcosis & Tangaroa) who joined in Summer 2005). A second guitarist has now just been added to the ranks in the form of Matt Wells (Wellsy Jnr.) to add a massive beef to the overall sound and discordancy.
The current solid line up reads as follows:-
Matthew 'Jim' Bentley (Guitar).
Elliot Smith (Drums).
Patrick Walton (Vocals).
Paul Priest (Bass).
Matthew Wells (Guitar).
With a mixture of laziness, commitment difficulties, university and general life, the first 5 years of Reth and their gigging experience has been somewhat slow, having played around 40 gigs in that time, (including supports for D.R.I., Skindred, My War & Strife), and playing with a host of the cream of the UK underground extreme scene, (amongst others, Narcosis, Labrat, Tangaroa, Johnny Mental, Art of Burning Water, Charger), but recently since the return of bass into their sound, a decision from all the long-term men in the band that the Reth time has now come, and confidence and happiness with the technical ability of their playing, the gigs have started to happen more frequently. In the last 18 months, Reth have had supports to The Assailant, Cephalic Carnage/Blood Duster/Crowpath, Severe Torture, Melt Banana/Khanate, Deranged, The Red Chord, Slit, Suicide Silence, Genghis Tron (twice) & The Berzerker and also have shared the stage with more of the UK's current crop of diverse favourites, proving their own ability to be placed on any bill; Soulfracture, Raise The Dead, Bloodstream, Mel Gimpsuit, Errander, Microsleeper, Postmortem Promises, Whores Whores Whores, Amputated, Mistress, BossK, RSJ, Madman is Absolute & Rolo Tomassi. Reth duly continue to improve, tighten and intensify their tech-grind-sludge-groove hybrid, and now as 2006 winds itself up, the next steps after their mini UK jaunt in November is to work on and record the first full length album hopefully ready for Spring 2007 when more gigs and mini tours will be undertaken.Have you performed in front of an audience?UPCOMING GIGS
06 Apr 2007, Leeds Packhorse - w/ Castor Troy, Rainbow of Death, Esclavage
14 Apr 2007, Mansfield The Mill - Endurance Festival - w/ Chaos Blood, Patient Zero, Ghost/Bastard, Mel Gimpsuit + more
06 May 2007, Leeds Fenton - w/ Soulfracture, Carrion of Vigrid, Plagues, Waking Theo + more
Your musical influences
agoraphobic nosebleed, ale, art, as the sun sets, assuck, beatdowns, beer, behold... the arctopus, black metal, blastbeats, botch, brandy, brie brie brie, brutal, brutal truth, carcass, cathedral, cephalic carnage, charles bronson, chug, circle of dead children, coalesce, cock and ball torture, corrupted, cryptopsy, dark, daughters, dave witte, death metal, devourment, dillinger escape plan, discordance axis, ed gein, electric wizard, ephel duath, exhumed, eyehategod, fast, fuck... i'm dead, gorgasm, gorguts, grief, grim, grind, grindcore, grooves, guttural vocals, harsh music, his hero is gone, horrible grind, human remains, impaled, ion dissonance, king crimsom, meshuggah, mincing fury, mosh, necrophagist, neurosis, origin, pig destroyer, prostitute disfigurement, psyopus, riffs, shikari, slam, smash, smoke, soilent green, suffocation, sweep picking, tech, today is the day, weird, weird harmoniesREAD MORE
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Comments (13)
What about the new new lineup!!
Cant see that happening to soon....
yo, get this page updated with the new line up ya buggers!!!!
BOOOOOOOM!!!
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Cool! Keep up the heavy sh*t!
MC HAMMER remix on the widdlonia site!!! ..and also, bishop('roa) sings a song about papa rimagio on the widdlonia site.. haha!!!
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