Artist description Croatan might sound like 10 heavyweight thugs kicking their instruments down the stairs, but is actually the product of just two individuals named Mark and Jenny from Cincinnati. How the two of them manage to create such a venomous racket isn't clear, but you know they aren't messing around. One part genius, nine parts insanity.

Music Style Loud

Musical Influences Butthole Surfers, Melvins, 8 Eyed Spy, Tragic Mulatto, Nausea

Artist History After playing a zillion shows and putting out records with fine people like Man's Ruin, Eerie Records, Satan's Pimp, Center of the World, Coolidge, and GOD Inc., Croatan finally have put a page here. Come to our show when we're in town.

Group Members Jenny - guitar, vocalsMark - drums

Instruments guitars, lots of amps, drums

Albums Curse of the Red Queen comes out 2-27-01, Violent Passion Surrogate is still available, both from Man's Ruin.

Press Reviews Sludgy, noise and angst filled prog-metal from Cincinnati OH. Drummer Mark's wild bashing and guitarist-singer Jenny's throaty hollering and minor-key riffery slightly resembles that of Babes In Toyland, only scarier. - FLAGPOLEPure metal, baby-grindy mean and EVIL! It's really hard to describe them, just when I think I have it, something happens and the metal shows, or the grindcore, or the Babes In Toyland obnoxiousness. I think they'd scare any non-believer who saw them live or heard the album. - FLIPSIDE, Miss Sarah A. StierchWhat is raw production is also raw energy which makes for raw listening. This one is like really chapped lips; hurts like hell but fun to pick at. Girl vocals vs. gritty guitars make this record an uneasy listen, barely tolerable unless you're in one of those hurt small animals moods, in which Croatan make music to commit heinous acts by. 19 tracks in all from this Cincinnati duo. Made my ears bleed in a good sorta way. - FLIPSIDE, Zack NegativeTake the best Bikini Kill track you can think of ripped apart, painfully experimented on, then partly reformed and aggitated. Add Earth + Suicide atmospheres and change the speed a lot......oh and top off with metallic thumpings and feedback guitars!!! "Violent Passion..." is music for our selfish 90's, for playing in the dark at full tilt with the neighbours hammering on the walls whilst you're hiding in the corner, pissed and snivelling! A joy...!!! - HERE BE MONSTERSMan, Croatan sounds old. Not in the broad-based way that, say, Sloan sounds like 1971 all over again, but in a specifically time-locked way, when late 70's no wave collided with pre-cross over american hardcore - we're talking '82 or '83 here. Sounding like a band that might have shared the stage with 8 Eyed Spy at CBGB's back in the day, Croatan take mainlined Black Sabbath-Flag riffs, clattering death march drums, squalling feedback, and vocals that sound like the lovechild of Geddy Lee and Lydia Lunch and compress them into one bleak and dirty record - a highly enjoyable and thoroughly endorsed spiral of violence. - THR FRITZ, Nathan T. Birk

Location Cincinnati, OH - USA

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