Continuing in their all-consuming search for twisted riffs and rhythms, UK based End of Level Boss return to the Roadburn festival for the first time since their debut appearance in 2006. Joining original vocalist / guitarist Harry Armstrong (ex-Hangnail / Decomposed) this updated line up of the retro-progressive riff worshipers features Peter Theobalds (ex-Akercocke / Gonga) on bass, Neil Grant (ex-RAAR) on drums, and ex-Sloth guitarist Roland Scriver on lead guitars and ever expanding effects. This coming together of styles has made EOLB an angrier, dirtier beast, as shown on their latest album Eklectric – recorded live to tape across 4 short winter days at the end of 2010.
Formed in 2003, End of Level Boss was created to explore a need for off-kilter riffs and mishapen rhythms, forced into a headnodding, footstomping marriage with burned out, unhinged groove. This incarnation of the band have uncovered a mutual need to blend the familiar with the bizzare, resulting in the first EOLB album to be written collectively, through intensive jam sessions, by the entire band.
Previously described as “Kyuss meets King Crimson”, EOLB have taken that recipe and dragged it, kicking and screaming, into an all new, cold and raw direction. Realising this natural progression resulted in the band attacking their latest recording with a deliberate desire to capture the live, punkier elements of Motorhead and Voivod – a band worshiped by all members of EOLB, making their appearance at 2012′s Voivod curated Au-delà du Réel on Friday, April 13th a monumental occasion for these British sound shifters.
Tags: Au-delà du Réel, End of Level Boss, EOLB, Exile on Mainstream Records, Roadburn, Roadburn 2012, Roadburn Festival, Roadburn Festival 2012, voivod
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To the deaf!