Black Tooth

Infobox musical artist
Name = Black Tooth


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Origin = Flagicon|Turkey Ankara, Turkey
Genre = Southern Metal, Sludge Core
Current_members = Tuna Vural (Vocals) Deniz Karadoğan (Bass Guitars) Orcan Kolankaya (Lead Guitars) Utku Arslan (Drums)
Years_active = 2004 to date
Label = Raven Records (2007)
Associated_acts = Jail (2005), Bad Obsession (1996)
URL = [http://www.blacktoothmusic.com www.blacktoothmusic.com] [http://forum.blacktoothmusic.com forum.blacktoothmusic.com] [http://www.myspace.com/blacktoothmusictr Black Tooth in Myspace]
Past_members = Bilgehan Çatal (Bass Guitars) Onur Karakurt (Rhythm guitars)

Black Tooth is currently the only Turkish music band which creates Southern Metal, Sludge Core, Groove based metal material. The band is from Ankara, Turkey and was formed in 2004. Black Tooth is influenced by metal bands such as Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Disarray, Hellyeah, Black Label Society, Rebel Meets Rebel, Brand New Sin, Alabama Thunderpussy, Exhorder as much as they are fans of Jacksonville, Florida classics like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet.

The Black Tooth Story

Black Tooth was actually formed back in 1996 with Tuna and Deniz starting up an amateur Post-thrash , Hardcore band named 'Bad Obsession'. The band didn't have any commercial purposes then, and was in a stage of a weekend practice band. As years passed on, Tuna and Deniz decided to move the band to a more serious status, like; start giving concerts. But with the other members' lack of attention the band came to an end.

After 2001, Tuna and Deniz reunited and started searching for new members for their new plan. After a long search they hooked up with Bilgehan as a Bass guitar player. In the summer of 2003, Tuna met with Utku near their summer resort while toasting drinks. After returning back to Ankara, they started practicing and the band got to a better stage with Deniz aiding the band with 2nd Vocals and Samples.

The band had various guitarist problems and after trying out about 12 guitar players, they coincidentally found Onur with the help of friends calling other people they knew. The band started seriously the day they tried out Onur in Downtown, Ankara. In fact, their first song "Clit Hanger" was written that day. Onur automatically brought the name "Black Tooth" with him to his new band. The name Black Tooth was given to directly resemble Pantera's official drink, after years and years of disease-like watching & listening of Pantera and their homevideos.

After a year of successful shows around the city, the band was forced to take a 11 month hiatus due to Utku's concern in his side-projects. In addition, Bilgehan had passed his Military Medical Faculty exams and was assigned to Izmir, Western Turkey as a Field Medic/surgeon.Deniz replaced Bilgehan as the Bass Guitar player, and the trio gave a decision to start up a Stoner metal band named 'Jail', with Tuna's high school buddy Emre Pala on the drums.

About 8 months passed, and 'Jail' was kicked aside with the Blacktooth trio again meeting Orcan with total coincidence while drinking outside a bar in Ankara. Orcan joined the band and shared his natural gifted talent of fabulous high end guitar soloing. Utku returned to the band just after meeting Orcan. In a month Black Tooth had already started doing gigs in various locations like; in-studio parties, indoor concert halls, pubs and bars and recently open-air festivals.

Black Tooth currently has 3 songs professionally recorded, and is getting ready to record an album with Raven Records, a Turkish Record Label. They are giving concerts in plenty of other cities as well as their home town. With the chance of getting to meet with Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott's girlfriend Rita Haney, Black Tooth will play this summer (2007) in Arlington, TX, the hometown of Southern, Groove metal for the tribute organization; [http://www.ridefordime.com Ride For Dime] .

Blacktooth is sponsored by [http://www.carlsberg.com.tr/ Carlsberg Beer-Turkey] , [http://www.etniesturkey.com Etnies] , [http://www.hdc-turkiye.org Harley-Davidson Club Türkiye] and [http://www.ravenrecords.net Raven Records]

Band members

* Tuna Vural (Vocals)
* Deniz Karadoğan (Bass Guitars)
* Orcan Kolankaya (Lead Guitars)
* Utku Arslan (Drums)

Former members

*Bilgehan Çatal (Bass Guitars)
*Onur Karakurt (Rhythm guitars)

Music

ingles

* "Why Waiting" (2006)
* "Ironclad" (2006)
* "Goddamn It All" (2007)

Gear

Dean ML guitars Washburn Dimebag Signature guitars Washburn Dimebag Signature basses Marshall Amplifiers & Cabinets MXR Equalizers Ampeg Bass Amplifiers Hartke Bass Amplifiers & Cabinets Shure Microphones Pearl Drums Tama Drum Accessories & Pedals Masterwork cymbals Istanbul cymbals

References

* [http://blacktoothmusic.com/band.html Official website band info]
* [http://www.ridefordime.com/info2007.htm Ride For Dime info]

External links

* [http://www.blacktoothmusic.com Official website.]
* [http://www.myspace.com/blacktoothmusictr Official Myspace page.]
* [http://www.carlsberg.com.tr/ Carlsberg Beer - Turkey]
* [http://forum.blacktoothmusic.com Official band Forum page.]
* [http://www.ridefordime.com Official Ride For Dime Tribute ride/concert page.]
* [http://www.etniesturkey.com Etnies]
* [http://www.hdc-turkiye.org Harley-Davidson Club Türkiye]
* [http://www.ravenrecords.net Raven Records]