Artist description Leech Woman have been destroying musical boundaries since their incarnation. Never following the obvious route through the industrial underground, picking up influences as diverse as Foetus, Test Dept, Neurosis and Discharge. Electronic beats and tribal rhythms merge under a barbed wire bass and shredding guitar producing a dark and sinister back drop for the snarling vocal attack. Always on the edge and never fitting neatly into any scene. This unorthodox quartet have graced the same bills as Foetus, Unsane, Godflesh, Ultraviolence, Cubanate and Die Krupps amongst many others.

Music Style Industrial

Musical Influences Discharge, The Cardiacs, Frank Zappa, Foetus, Motorhead, einstürzende neubauten

Similar Artists einstürzende neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Test Department

Artist History The debut album 33 Degrees was released on Invisible Records / Alternative Tentacles to much critical acclaim (5/5 Metal Hammer, 4/5 Terrorizer). The second release Shit, Piss and Industrial Waste, a selection of new material and remixes released on the bands own label Quai Loh Records, also received great enthusiasm (9/10 Metal Hammer, 4/5 Rock Sound, 8.5/10 Terrorizer). Now teaming up with 2nd Gens Wajid Yassen they are about to unleash the long awaited Three 3Zero.

Group Members On stage the band is made up of P. Rise (guitar, vocals and live drums), Rog (metal percussion) and Alex B. (bass and vocals), with Raye completing the line-up behind the scenes with live sound, sampling and programming. amongst many others.

Albums 33o, Shit Piss and Industrial Waste, Three 3Zero

Press Reviews THERE can be few bands on the industrial scene more dedicated, more focussed than Leechwoman. The London-based outfit have spent years honing their unique sound without once making a concession to the pernicious gods of fashion or commerce, and with Three 3Zero , they finally have an album that comes close to replicating their live intensity. Leechwoman s sound is based round the mechanoid Kodo drumming of Rog, a percussive brain-pummelling assault on a kit made of old gas cylinders and washing-machine drums, filled out with abrasive guitar grind and distorted vox. Their debut album was hamstrung by extremely muddy production, but this time round it s crystal-clear, allowing the raw, pared-down style of the band to shine through. It s easy to forget that industrial music was essentially invented in the UK by Throbbing Gristle because this country hasn t produced a lot since then, but Three 3Zero stakes the claim once more. Mindblowing.

Additional Info Leech Womans brooding track Breaker has backed the BBCs Top Gears Porche 911 feature as well as unsettling audiences on the soundtrack to The American Nightmare, a feature length documentary on the Vietnam war and its relation with the work of American horror film directors including, George Romero, John Carpenter, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg.

Location London, London - United Kingdom

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