Artist description "Maiden Mine is a 5 member hard rock band from Portland, OR. The band is tight and the music hard driving, with hip grinding grooves and female vocals that range from a soft, sensuous kiss behind the ear to almost biting it off."

Music Style Alternative Metal

Artist History Originating in 1995 with four members, Maiden Mine has perfected their sound and stage show at local venues such as Satyricon, The Roseland Theater, The Mt. Tabor Pub, The Cobalt Lounge and the Pine Street Theater. Combining influences of metal, jazz, funk, and industrial rock with a sexy show that turns up the heat has made Maiden Mine one of the most recognized names in the Portland hard rock music scene.

Group Members ayers Mary Elizabeth ~ Vocals Brian Goodwater ~ Guitar John Vaughn ~ Bass Guitar Joel Vaughn ~ Percussion and Keyboard Jimmy Bass ~ Drums

Instruments guitar, bass, drums, vocals, keyboard, percussion

Albums BREATHE

Press Reviews Portland- the left coast version- is host to all manner of down tuned weirdness. They go crazy from all the cold and rain too, you know, they just don't do it as publicly as the dope fiends in Seattle do. Maiden Mine aren't guilty of all that subsonic Melvins rumble or the faux sincerity of the post grunge alt rockers, but they are fucking weird. All the guys in the band wear duct tape on their mouths when they play, and Mary Elizabeth, their lead singer, wears some kind of leather strap S&M mask. It makes her look like Green Lantern. Sexy, in a straight jacket kind of way. Musically speaking, they're a metal band that takes tangential runs into other, spacier avenues, like a hip tourist getting lost on purpose in a new city. Threads of industro-rattle and barroom funk and even a little druggy jazz swims in and out of the melodic metal mix. When they dip into slower, moodier numbers, Mary sounds like a cabaret singer that's been dragged into the aftermath of an all night Wrestlemania party, keeping a graceful composure when all around her there are blood stains and empty bottles, and when the band is cooking, it's somewhere between the power prog of Dream Theater and the estrogen powered flash metal of Vixen - Iron Maiden Mine, if you will. Schizophrenic but resourceful, these muzzled cats and masked kitten are both familiar and alien all at once, like some one night stand you forgot but owe money to. Pay up, sinner.

Additional Info buy Maiden Mine merchandise at our online store! http://mp3.cafepress.com/maidenmine

Location Portland, OR - USA

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