Eat Skull

With a maxed-out and skuzzy lo-fi sound that could qualify them as part of the arbitrarily named "shitgaze" genre -- along with likeminded bands Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit -- Eat Skull incorporated more of a hardcore approach to the noise formula than their contemporaries when they started out in 2006, founded by Rob Enbom (Hospitals, Hole Class, and Hale Zukas) and Rod Meyer (also a member of Hospitals, as well as the '80s hardcore bands Necromancy and Puppet Show). The two paired up with bassist Scott Simmons and drummer Beren Ekine-Huett in Portland, OR, and with only a limited amount of practice under their belts, the bandmembers recorded two 7" records and a cassette EP, and started playing shows in town. Tom Lax of Siltbreeze signed them to his label after the song "Dead Families" caught his attention, and the band'sfirst official full-length, Sick to Death, followed in June of 2008. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi...

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