The band have a great deal of influences from over the years ranging from the likes of Budgie, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep and UFO to Metallica, Godsmack, Pantera and Black Label Society.
Formed in April 2004, 15 Times Dead take their speed, power and melody from some of the major rock and metal bands of the seventies, eighties and nineties.
The self-proclaimed "Godfathers of Girth Metal" arrived onto the local metal scene after reaching the Scottish Final of the global Emergenza Battle of the Bands at the start of 2005, playing to a packed O2 Academy in Glasgow with the judges calling them “A powerful act with a very distinct style and a lot of energy on stage”. Their performance on the night culminated in Andy winning the best bass player on the night out of the 30 bands performing.
From their first gig at the 4th Rat Arsed Biker Rally in Oct 2004 the band cemented their place as one of the stalwarts of Glasgow metal, priding themselves on their explosive and entertaining live performances.
The band continued to grow in 2006 producing a four track demo, Gathering of Skulls (tracks of which are playing on the player above), while also taking their first trip outwith Scotland to play at the Godless Festival in Stoke, sharing the stage with other unsigned bands from across the UK.
Godless Festival 2006
In 2007 the band parted company with original drummer Davie Scott and brought in Dave Reeves, to bring an exciting and wholly new dynamic to their sound.
Terrorizer listed them as one of the new wave of thrash bands to look out for in 2007/8 and the year culminated with the self produced digital single - Ride the Pain.
2008 continued the band's local success with key support slots with Panic Cell, Blitzkrieg and Blaze Bayley while also appearing as the main headline unsigned band at the inaugural Monsterz of Rock & Metal Festival in Dundee.
The band also won their way through to the UK Finals of Bloodstock Unsigned before calling it a day in July 2008 due to musical differences.
Almost a year later, after Andy and Tam had parted company with Jarrett's Skinkarver project the brothers sat down with Scotti and Dave and once again decided that 15 Times Dead had unfinished business to attend to and the local scene was ready once again to hear the sounds of Girth Metal!
yes lads!!! thanks a million fir droppin by, fuckin glad ye lik the tunes, diggin the girth of yez fuckers too...if we get our arses back over there te the sister land, it'd be mighty te get a gig and few brews with yez!!!keep the riffs coming!!!! yer bros in ireland, SC
HEY...its not always about diamond rings.... kings OR queens...or flashing the money to every girl OR guy! some times...all we need....is love?!
look forward to feeling a bit of GIRTH metal!... emm...we are playing over in that cosmopol in clyde bank on friday 21st Aug! You should give them a shout to see if u can get on the bill as well!
Yeah, should be a good night, we were offered the Metallica cover slot first but our drummers away, then I noticed you guys doing the Pantera one n thought...why not ;-). It's just nice to have the gigs coming in again, it's been too long.
ta very much, its good to hear feedback on our music cause as you can prolly guess, we're brand new on the glasgow scene. first gig at ivory blacks on the 11th july!
You guys rock btw, it's good to hear the classic rock/metal kinda sound making a comeback,#
Described as: 'like Soulfly if Trent Reznor were part of the band,' their debut album "There's No Profit in Truth", album mixes the pent up frustration of acts such as Rage Against The Machine with the raging, highly charged riffs of classic Machine Head. Good, honest, politically aware and highly charged Metal at its best...
yeah glad to see you guys back at it again!! I was gonna e mail you earlier in the year to sort out a tour for this summer up your neck of the woods!! Could have got back together a bit earlier!!! lol.
Hey guys, cheers for the add. Aye the thrash gig was class fun! Real sham CoF couldn't make it in the end but we'll get 'em back through again I'm sure :D
Well, hello there. Just dropping by to welcome you to our way of metal. I'm usually round new folks a bit quicker, but it's been kinda wild round these parts, so I've been distracted. Hope you're digging our tunes and vids so far. We've been promising people we're gonna pull our fingers out for a while now, but as they say 'the best plans of mice and men...' Anyway, thanks for having our sorry asses, stay safe and stay heavy!!!
Yo cheers for the add fellas. Yeah we played Glasgow with COT last October. Looking forward to gettin up the Scotland again! You should come down... there's a big surprise heading that way!
hey guys! glad you liked it! yeah, hope to come back again next year when touring with our upcoming album! Cathouse was definantly one of our favorite gigs in the UK - awesome venue! :)
