- Backbiter
Backbiter is a protopunk band from Los Angeles. They played their first show October 23, 1991, at the Shamrock Bar (now a strip club) in
Los Angeles , CA on a bill with Dicktit, the Jack Brewer Band andThe Drills (whose organist,Jeff Muendel , later joined Backbiter for a few years and one album). Singer/guitarist Jonathan Hall had been playing in Texorcist and theAngry Samoans with and bassist Heath Seifert. They jammed with drummerBob Lee (one of theDevo Bob drummers) and the power trio came together, playing local clubs such as the notable post-punk hangout, Rajis'.The band released their first CD, Get Together in 1994. A second effort in 2001, a split-CD with Swedish band Elope on Man’s Ruin Records (MR-2015) featured Muendel on
Hammond B3 organ. Hall doesn’t sing about warlocks and unicorns, nor does the group sludge it up in an overtlyBlack Sabbath fashion, but the association with Man’s Ruin has associated them with theStoner rock movement. That release is arguably their heaviest.The band released a third album in 2006, once again as power trio sans the organ. The band continues to play live shows throughout California.They received
LA Weekly 's Heavy Metal Band of the Year award, which was presented to them by musicianRonnie James Dio .References
* [http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/backbiter-sells-out/4357/ L.A. Weekly band review and history]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.