Nullset

Widening rap-metal’s most powerful handling, motivated by the task of bands such as for example Rage Against the device and Powerman 5000, Nullset produced in Beantown, Massachusetts, in 1997. Comprising vocalist Ken Smith, guitarists Jim Foster and Chris Fitzgerald, bassist Jim Shippey, and drummer Mick Palmesano, the quintet initial resolved on the designation Gangsta Bitch Barbie. Delivering their first record in 1998, the self-released EP THIS ISN’T a Check, the Boston group expressed their desire to deliver solid steel grooves from the beginning. It had been after that that their function begun to detonate over the regional music picture and on the web, where their monitors were constantly getting downloaded on some sites. Before putting your signature on a cope with the Grand Royal label, they chose it was time and energy to transformation their name to Nullset because of possible potential dilemmas, specifically with major plaything business Mattel. Recruiting P.O.D.’s maker Howard Benson later on that yr, the squad after that started to focus on their debut full-length. The EP Smokewood strike record shops in Apr 2001.