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Minneapolis, United States (1997 – 2009, 2011 – present)

American Head Charge, the Minneapolis-based / band, which had its genesis when Cameron Heacock and Chad Hanks crossed paths in a Minnesota rehab facility in 1997, has up to now been known primarily for the radically dysfunctional behavior of the band members.

“We were definitely out of control on our first tour, Ozzfest 2001,” Mr. Banks admits. “It wasn’t enough to just play our music; we also had to fire shotguns on stage and throw pigheads at the crowd. Chalk it up to a desperate bid for attention. ” The Head Charge rap sheet - which also includes getting into bloody brawls with their fans, smashing equipment they couldn’t afford to replace, reacquainting themselves with hard drugs and occasionally being locked up by the enraged fuzz - has served to obscure the fact that these free spirits play the shit out of their instruments and make brutally powerful music of uncommon distinction.

But this distorted (though hardly inaccurate) perception of the band will likely change with the release of The Feeding, a seething mass of avant metal, nightmare grindcore and moshpit rock that alternates between pummeling ferocity and passages of all-out grandeur. It’s a stunning display of primally extreme music that’s guaranteed to scare the hell out of your parents.

The album had its genesis during the limbo in which AHC found themselves after touring intensively behind their acclaimed 2001 debut, The War of Art, two years of prolonged exile from the road and ongoing internal tumult that found several band members in a virtual death match with their personal demons.
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  • Echoplex92

    Sugars of someday is shit =/ pretty disapointed tbh.

    last week

  • HAWK-666

    good music

    last week

  • piscesean85

    @Leighdobson... they need to fucking tour to generate money to produce an album.

    14 days ago

  • zabersuv

    really excited to see this band back together loving the new song

    14 days ago

  • Cabezamachine

    FUCK. Sugars of Someday lives up to my expectations, imo.

    16 days ago

  • MindLiberation

    Can't wait for whatever new material they will create.

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  • Andrey_Evil

    ахуенный бэнд

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  • leighdobson

    Stop touring and make a new album. Right NAO!!

    February 2012
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