Biography
Located in Raleigh, NC, Leadfoot is really a southern-influenced hard rock and roll/weighty steel band which includes two ex-members from the influential thrash steel/hardcore punk outfit Corrosion of Conformity (COC): singer Karl Agell and bassist Phil Swisher. COC offers experienced its talk about of personnel adjustments over time, and some of these occurred in 1993, when Agell experienced a falling out in clumps with other users of COC and was terminated. Swisher remaining COC aswell that 12 months, and each of them quickly formed Leadfoot. A significant departure from your thrash metallic and hardcore punk that COC is well known for, Leadfoot offers favored a very much slower, groove-oriented, gritty design of weighty metal/hard rock and roll that frequently underscores its fondness of southern rock and roll. Leadfoot’s first recording arrived in 1997, when Roadrunner released TAKE IT On in European countries. The band finished up signing using the Music Cartel, which place TAKE IT On out in the U.S. and released its second recording, TAKE A PEEK, in 1999. Like COC, Leadfoot has truly gone through its talk about of personnel adjustments; in 1999, Leadfoot’s lineup included Agell, Swisher, drummer Tim Haisman and guitarists Graham Fry and Scott Small.