Featured Band: Hemoptysis
Here at Hook In Mouth I’m always trying to find ways to grow. It’s been a pretty rough first year for this blog with motivational problems and shitty servers. 2010 has been a great new beginning for the blog and things are picking up. Something new that should have been tried a long time ago is a “featured band”. Going forward I’m going to try more of these and I honestly don’t know why I haven’t tried this before.
The first band to be featured is Phoenix, Arizona’s Hemoptysis (hence the logo and name plastered all over the blog). Let me quote myself from my review of their Who Needs A Shepard Ep:
Formed in 2007 by frontman and guitarist Masaki Murashita and drummer Travis Thune, Hemoptysis (the medical term for coughing up blood) mixes a sound of old school thrash and death metal with a modern feel to it. Hemoptysis self produced Ep, Who Needs A Shepherd?, was recorded by Steve Conley from F5.
Since reviewing this Ep, the band has been busy touring and writing their new, full length record, which they are currently in the studio recording right now. The new album will be produced by Ryan Greene, who has also produced for Alice Cooper, Mr. Big and Megadeth. Hemoptysis is Masaki Murashita is the vocalist and guitarist, Ryan Miller on Lead Guitar, Sunao Arai on Bass and Travis Thune on the drums. They are currently unsigned but hold various endorsements from the likes of Jackson guitars, EMG pickups, Peavey and Krank Amps.
They have made a full length video from their re-recorded single “Shadow Of Death” that Ryan Greene produced and it came out great. When I first made contact with Masaki, I was impressed enough to ask if they had submitted their Ep to any labels. He clearly stated that the band wasn’t rushing in to things and that they wanted to establish themselves before pursuing a label. A year later and they were in the “No Label Needed” contest sponsored by Scion, up against many other great bands.
Now I can’t sit here and say that I know everything about Hemoptysis. Fortunately, we’re going to learn plenty about them as over the next couple of weeks I conduct an interview in both type and skype, as well as holding a contest for some cool Hemoptysis prizes and Masaki Murashita is even going to write some blogs about whatever he wants to. I’m excited and look forward to learning about and hopefully promoting a worthy band in a sea of worthless bands.
In the meantime, you can check out Hemoptysis Myspace and listen to some of their tracks of off the Who Needs A Shepard Ep in the sidebar. Stay tuned for more!
If you would like your band [that doesn't suck] to be featured, please use the Contact Page and we’ll see about setting you up for future features.
