Artist description Ranging from the otherworldly, noise/collage weirdness of "Testamony to the Link (Marx = Satan)" (and its dub version), to more streamlined, Big Blackish riffmonsters like "Dark" and "Fast" (heard here in their instrumental demo forms, as vocals/lyrics were never finalized), Rawhead searched for searing surrealism in sound.

Music Style Dark and experimental noise-rock

Musical Influences Big Black, Bauhaus, Foetus, Chrome, Sisters of Mercy, Butthole Surfers, Einsturzende Neubauten

Similar Artists Big Black, Bauhaus, Chrome, Sisters of Mercy, Butthole Surfers

Artist History When NYC dark-rockers Burning Rome imploded in spring 1986, guitarist Greg (The Naked and the Dead) Fasolino invested in a drum machine and began this more experimental and quasi-industrial project known simply as Rawhead. Bassist Lorianne Oakley (also formerly of The Naked and the Dead and Burning Rome) was a mainstay. However, a revolving door of additional sonic guests came and went until the project ended in June 1987, among them vocalists Robert Mailhouse (later drummer for Keanu Reeves' Dogstar), Jetta Bara (of Richard Kern infamy), and Thomas Truax; and two former members of Concrete Witchdoctors, Joe Average (bass, metal percussion, and "rap") and Ed Rapacki (metal percussion and synthesizer). During the Rawhead period Fasolino also recorded with the other two ex-Concrete Witchdoctors, Frank Nestola and Michael Grimes, in the bizarre one-off experiment known as Goatblood Sacrifice, and with Oakley, Nestola, Grimes, and Rapacki in Pump. Fasolino joined Wrench in late 1987, and later, with Average and Rapacki, formed Sea of Fur in 1989. Fasolino also played in They Eat Their Gods, Lusting for the Cheetah, The Sea Beasts, and The Deno Blues Gang. In 2002 Fasolino reformed The Naked and the Dead, now defunct again; he is currently working on a a new band with former Naked and the Dead bassist Christopher Bollman. (A bit of trivia: the metal percussion heard on these Rawhead tracks included a large tire rim salvaged from the stage set of Einsturzende Neubauten's May 1986 fiery spectacle at Palladium.)

Group Members Greg Fasolino: guitar, vocals, metal percussion, drum program

Instruments Guitar, bass, drum machine, metal percussion

Location Huntington, NY - USA

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