A Band of Orcs is a fantasy themed American heavy metal band formed in Santa Cruz, California, in 2007. The current band line up includes five members known only as: Gogog Bloodthroat, Cretos Filthgrinder, Hulg ElfRipper, Oog Skullbasher and Gronk!. The band claims to be a tribe of Orc warriors sent to Earth by "The Gruesome Grimp" to "bring forth the Domination" They provide a very theatrical live show and always appear wearing very detailed silicone masks. They have played with notable acts such as 3 Inches of Blood, Deicide, Master and ArnoCorps among others.
Their debut EP, "Warchiefs of the Apocalypse" was released on August 15, 2007. On November 23, 2007, Iron Maiden front-man Bruce Dickinson played the track "Bring Out Your Dead” on The Bruce Dickinson Rock Show broadcasted on the BBC. Currently, they are signed to Itchy Metal Entertainment (IME)/Heavy Metal-World en.wikipedia
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In December of 2006, a
group of young nerds playing Dungeons & Dragons inadvertently
summoned the monstrous oRcs into your realm by rolling dice on a "Random
Encounter Table.” Unfortunately for them, they encountered A Band of
Orcs, who reacted with all of the inappropriate violence that you might
expect from such savage warriors. The oRc’s world changed forever,
though, when they heard the demonic sounds of Slayer coming from
downstairs. Enchanted with this new form of noise they forced the
amateur guitarist they unearthed there to teach them how they could
generate such sounds. They spared his life, and he gave them the
materials they needed to make metal into magic.
The band spent a
few months learning how to play guitar, bass and drums. During this
brutal time the rhythm guitarist Hulg ElfR.I.Per experienced a most
(un)fortunate electrocution, in a battle over chords fought with lead
guitarist Cretos Filthgrinder. Hulg has since been reanimated into an
oRc zombie Master of Crushing Rhythms. So it goes. Studio sorcery began
in May 2007, when A Band of Orcs converted and liaised with metal music
veterans producer Scott Sargeant and engineer Juan Urteaga to cut their
debut EP "WarChiefs of the Apocalypse.” Nary a more savage piece of
sorcery-laden death metal has your world ever seen!
On November
23, 2007, heavy metal legend and Iron Maiden front-man Bruce Dickinson
played the track "Bring Out Your Dead” on The Bruce Dickinson Rock Show
broadcasted on the BBC. Bruce knows brutally fantastic music when he
hears it! A Band of Orcs had no label representation, nor were they yet
civilized enough to play a single show, but Bruce knew he’d found
something transdimensional.
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Since then, I, in my role as Chaos Manager,
have spent many hours training the oRcs out of their belief that flash
photography was a sorcerer’s lightning bolt attack. A few unfortunate
photographers’ heads had already rolled beneath the oRcs’ axes, and it
was obvious that behavior modification exercises were called for. By
2008, the oRcs were ready for limited interaction with you puny humans.
In
May of 2008, another magical opportunity arose. Hollywood producer
Courtney Gains (best known as an actor for his role as Malachi in
"Children of the Corn” and most recently as Lloyd on the hit show "My
Name is Earl”) assembled a fantastic film crew to create the oRcs’ first
video, "Into the Maelstrom.” Extremely talented, up-and-coming maestro
Jess Bryden stood at the director’s helm, resulting in a CGI
extravaganza that set even some ILM animators’ mouths watering
(according to the rumors in the aether).
November 2008: Fuse TV
chose the "Into the Maelstrom” video to help launch their On-Demand
service in November of 2008. Fuse-TV aired it all throughout November
–in HD—so you lowly humans could behold the oRcs in all their heavy
metal ferocity.
Ø By October (oRctober, as we like to say in oRc
ToweR) 2008, A Band of Orcs had been sufficiently domesticated to appear
before their human devotees (who are legion). They appeared before the
adoring masses on October 18, 2008, with the ballsy Bay Area hardcore
legends ArnoCorps. This, their first musical raid on human ear-drums,
was followed shortly thereafter by another assault with deathly metal:
on October 27, A Band of Orcs performed in San Francisco with metal
icons Master.
On January 10th, 2009, A Band of Orcs headlined
their first show in Santa Cruz to a ravenous crowd of hometown
headbangers, who simply do not get enough metal in these parts. They
screamed, head-banged, and moshed in cathartic rage, while their heroes A
Band of Orcs administered the metal beatings. Four days later, on
January 14th, the oRcs took the stage with metal warriors 3 Inches of
Blood in the Santa Cruz Catalyst Atrium to a crowd that sold out a mere 5
minutes after the savages began to beat the war-drums. The club had to
turn away droves of additional crest-fallen metal-heads and others who
desired to be enslaved by the Domination. The harbingers of
interdimensional metal, A Band of Orcs, have arrived.
(taken from http://www.myspace.com/abandoforcs) __________________________________
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