Hammers of Misfortune

Originally known with the name Unholy Cadaver, San Francisco’s Hammers of Misfortune play what may be referred to as Celtic power metal. Their design mixes together Slim Lizzy/Iron Maiden-style dual-guitar harmonies, operatic vocals, Celtic-tinged classical guitar interludes, and components of Scandinavian dark metal (musically, not really lyrically). The quartet is certainly led by guitarist/vocalist John Cobbett, who, along with fellow guitarist/vocalist Mike Scalzi, can be a member from the music group Slough Feg. Hammers of Misfortune’s lineup was originally curved out by bassist/vocalist Janis Tanaka (who in addition has used L7, Rock Fox, and Fireball Ministry) and drummer Chewy Marzolo. Their preliminary demonstration, the plainly entitled Demonstration #1, was documented during 1996 and 1997 and released beneath the Unholy Cadaver name. Hammers of Misfortune’s 1st official launch, a deluxe-packaged, three-act idea album entitled The Bastard, finally arrived in 2001 and was accompanied by the likewise well-appointed and ambitious The August Engine in 2003. Nevertheless, the latter have been documented mainly by Cobbett and Chewy, with small insight from Scalzi or Tanaka, and its own liner records officially announced the latter’s leave after the classes’ conclusion, to become changed by bassist/vocalist Jamie Myers and pianist/organist Sigrid Sheie. This lineup embarked on the rare tour over the U.S. in the summertime of 2004, but was idle for a lot of the following 12 months while Cobbett and Scalzi centered on documenting and advertising Slough Feg’s Atavism recording. By enough time Hammers of Misfortune’s third opus, The Locust Years, finally surfaced in 2006, even more personnel changes had been coming, and it had been announced at year’s end that both Myers (pregnant with her 1st kid) and Scalzi (as well busy to cope with both Slough Feg and Hammers) experienced selected to depart. Their substitutes had been Patrick Goodwin (Dirty Power), overtaking male vocals and acoustic guitar, and Jesse Quattro (Key Chiefs 3, Carniceria), managing bass and feminine vocals. A dual idea album, Areas/Chapel of Broken Cup, fallen in 2008, and in 2011 the music group issued their extremely acclaimed fifth studio room long-player, 17th Road, that was the 1st HOM outing for fresh frontman Joe Hutton. 2016’s Deceased Revolution noticed the group heading both heavier and darker, using the skills of manufacturer Nick Dumitriu (Vhol, Ritual Chamber), who controlled from an antique Trident plank using minimal digital digesting, leading to the band’s warmest sounding discharge to date.