Artist description "Maharahj is a synthesis of 5 unique intellects coming together. They create a maelstrom of personal psychosis and physical brutality through their aural assault. Using the best of their older and newer metal influences (Carcass, In Flames, At The Gates, Slayer) and their few hardcore influences (Zao, Converge, Creation Is Crucifixion, Dillinger Escape Plan) they manage to weave an indescribable sound that they can call their own. Compared to Carcass and Slayer among others they have been making people have nightmares after witnessing their live shows for the last 1.5 years across North America, often sited as "maniacs" and "bloodthirsty". Maharahj is not an act; it’s a personal catharsis that they indulge in whenever they play. Battered, bloody and broken members are not uncommon for this maniacal quintet. Which is why, among other reason, they adopted the name Maharahj. It seems to carry both shadowy and bold undertones in the way it rolls of ones' tongue an unrecognizable word to most people’s vocabulary. Except for those who know what sheer and brutally technical metal is. Watch out for Maharahj's next recording which is sure to be an onslaught.

Music Style Metalcore

Musical Influences in flames, slayer, carcass, at the gates, bolt thrower, cryptopsy, and broken hope.

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Artist History Signed To Now Or Never Records

Group Members garren - vox, clay - guitar, colin - guitar, dave - drums, ??? - bass

Albums CHAPTER ONE THE DESCENT

Press Reviews Metal Maniacs – September 2000 Maharahj Chapter One: The Descent Now or Never From the label that originally unleashed Dillinger Escape Plan on an unsuspecting planet comes five psychopaths from Canada who are undoubtedly dead set on one sole purpose. No matter how you end up spelling or saying it's name, the good ship Maharahj has landed and all the scabbed over sores left by every truly unforgiving noisecore band since the mid-to-late Nineties's are about to be torn off with merciless abandon. Like most evil geniuses, this bunch are diabolical little bastards too. Converge and the much missed Kiss It Goodbye sure know a thing or two when it comes to well-honed nods to VoiVod, but Maharahj makes no bones about taking plenty of capably-integrated cues from, say, Carcass and even prime-period Eighties/Nineties deathmetal in creating some critically dangerous pain-by-sound. I might joke around in reviews and use a lot of imagery concentrated around injury to describe a group's ache potential, but shit, apparently these kids quite literally have the broken/missing teeth and battle scars themselves to really get me looking like a wuss behind the word processor. So make room, make friggin room, the bludgeon-adoring-on- paper-but-fragile-in-reality Rutherford needs to go back by the far wall while some real men get down to biz'ness. From "Alchemy And Binary"'s reedy opening bait into total start/stop grindscrape Chapter One: The Descent drops like a ton of old-school- versus-new-school bricks. Think Brutal Truth's Need To Control butting heads with Coalesce and stare wide eyed as Earth Crisis gets eaten alive by Necroticism Descanting The Insalubrious on the awesomely-manicured "Becoming The Hunt". Talk about beginnings, huh? But lest you think Maharahj are mere mad scientists hellbent on late night schemes between extreme subgenres, because guitarists Clayton and Neil especially have worked well into the wee hours at something entirely more sinister. Together - as if nihilistic hardcore's gone and spawned a Morbid Angel or Meshuggah-type six-string killsquad - they let fly with some awfully malicious fretboard incineration. Not necessarily "solos" mind you, but similar sounding, singe-worthy neckwork reeking with a sense of diabolically warped technical vertigo. Suffice it to say, finding much a kin to "The Masses" or "The Living End" among Maharahj's contemporary up and comers could take awhile, ya dig? Toss in a provocative lyrical edge as well as a shadowy, scratchy mid-album instrumental that somehow speaks even louder about that very subject-matter and things hardly ever take a turn for the worse. ...That is until Chapter One: The Final Descent's untitled closing track. Keep feeding the machines and that horrific, four-and-a-half minute swan song will ultimately end up becoming humanity's funeral hymn. Unrestrained – Issue # 12MAHARAHJ - Chapter One: The Descent (Now Or Never) Doom and gloom have never had such a ripping affect on these speakers. Loud, abrasive and completely out of control, Suburban upstarts Maharahj are currently proud of their ability to give parents and children the same fiendish nightmares with their brand of screeching, booming and speedy death metal. Comparable (and better than) most current monster metal bands current kife, "Chapter One: The Descent" is the soundtrack to your own personal Hell. Relish it, peon. 9/10 (Keith Carman) Impact Press MAHARAHJ - Chapter One: The Descent (Now Or Never)The guitar work on this hardcore-metal album is awesome -- it soars, it throbs, it grinds. Each track drives forward with a killer intensity and intricate sound --layers of music throughout each song. If you're looking for something fierce, but you want something creative, skillful and definitely not the same old thing -- bang your head to this.

Location Oakville, Ontario - Canada

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