***Ghandi-Vo-Kills***
***Will.Kill-Guitar***
***Larry Canary-Drums***
***Dreamy Steve -Bass***
***King James-Guitar/Vox***
For booking info email olscratchband@gmail.com
JAMES VS THE HAND GRENADE (Bourbon St Kookybidniss)
"Wizard Smoke" @ The Velvet Lounge!
"Ode to Heavy" @ Hollywood Alley, Mesa AZ 10/13/08
Influences
BLACK FUCKING SABBATH!! Vitus, Spirit Caravan, Pentagram, Eyehategod, Sourvein, Melvins, Goatsnake, Electric Wizard, Sleep, C.O.C., Weedeater, Clutch, YOB....
Sounds Like
the rumbling gurgle in the bowels of the creator before the big bang released his intestinal pressures.
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BIO: Ol' Scratch is a five piece sludge juggernaut hailing from the D.C. area. With meager garage beginnings in 2003, and after many lineup changes the band now features former members of Lord, Black Canary, and VOG they are definitely influenced by the areas abundance of traditional doom. The dual guitar attack from James and Will brings a definite southern metal edge to their music. Add in a thunderous rythm section featuring Steve on bass and Larry on drums, and Andy, a frontman with a rare vocal range for the genre, and its truely a lineup to behold. Throw it all in a van with a wall of Sunn amplifiers and Ol' Scratch is a touring machine, playing shows from Maine to Florida and from D.C. to L.A. they've toured and played with doom legends such as Trouble, Weedeater, Sourvein, Alabama Thunderpussy, and Kylesa.
Currently recording their debut full length album entitled "The Sunless Citadel", the band has seen many EP and split releases such as 2005's "Blood Puddin'", 2006's "Lord/Ol' Scratch Split" , 2007's "In Nex Illic Est Vita", and 2008's "The Polar Bear Sessions". Ol' Scratch is also slated to release a split with North Carolina's Sourvein during 2009. They have spent the last five years touring as much as possible, including such high visibility festivals such as The Maine Stoner Fest 2, Stoner Hands of Doom 8, The Twenty Buck Spin 3, Cabin of Doom 1 & 2, and the Cleavage of Doom benefit; with many upcoming tours and local area shows already booked. For fans of everything from Eyehategod to Pentagram, Ol' Scratch brings it every night, and chances are they'll be in your neck of the woods soon.....whether you like it or not
REVIEWS:
"Relentless, gut punching sludgefuck torture rock from a buncha hill dwelling hairballs from Virginia...It is music for dynamite fishing and fire eating, the call of backwoods savages to the great feast of fear and terror"
-Sleazegrinder
"damn heavy and mindblowing... like old High On Fire mixed with Clutch and Melvins...really dirty and filthy... for sure a CD I will listen to more than once.
-Daredevil
"Obviously a live band....Solace like riffing over a hoarse bark vocals"
-Stonerrock.com
"There is more than a hint of the DC doom... with a bit of Weedeater...and a bit of COC Southern groove. Lyrically, Ol’ Scratch is all about the darker side of existence. Not the anxiety and depression fueled by loss and despair, but the anxiety and depression fueled by drug deals gone bad, bad drugs, and bad vagina on drugs"
-Hellride
"I don't care what anybody says about Virginia bein sorta cosmopolitan in spots. I'm telling you, the place produces monsters. Like this motley crew of yellow eyed doom-punks. In Nex Illic Est Vita (say the whole album title out loud and it conjures up weed-dealing demons) is a festering gutpile of sleazy Sabbath fuzz. Go ahead and dig in.
-Classic Rock Magazine 11/07
"Evidently, Virginia is the most evil and wicked state of them all. Sure, that Tom Jefferson guy was a Virginian, but it's the state that spawned PENTAGRAM; therefore it must be populated with more witchy women and drug-addled freaks than any other state in the union. These days, about an hour northwest of PENTAGRAM-land, the shy and retiring sounds of OL' SCRATCH can be found annihilating the silence.
This latest and mysteriously-titled EP is a tempting purchase for any fan of doom or sludge because every song has at least one fantastic riff. "Wizard Smoke" putts along on a tight bassline and subsonic rumbles a la EARTHRIDE. "Infernal Judgement" crawls like an earthmover, harmonized guitars weaving in and out of tandem around a crude, nasty chug. "Bottom Basement" sounds like a BONGZILLA tribute, complete with the mandatory spoken anti-weed samples. The only thing we can complain about is the disc's brevity at four songs, so take a break from the Relapse website and look these guys up before their girlfriends put a hex on your ass.
rating: 3.5/5 -Peacedogman.com
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NOT-LIABLE NOW SIGNED ON TO TWISTED HILLBILLY RECORDS, NEW MUSIC NOW ON SITE,BACK ON THE ROAD THIS FRIDAY AT KC MUSIC ALLEY/ FREDRICKSBURG,VA FEATURING NEW DRUMMER CHRIS SIMON WITH Shinguh, Vitreous, and Not Liable FREDRICKSBURG,VA JULY 17,09..
G'day Fellas! Looking forward to seeing you w/ Admiral Browning in Philly! If you're free on July 10th, join us at Krug's for the CD Release Of Disease Within's "Killing Time". Support your local & visiting bands! Cheers! LB
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