Tuesday 15 March 2011

Withdrawn - Seeds Of Inhumanity (1998)



Sadly it has turned out to be nigh on impossible to track down any pictures of Withdrawn, let alone much information on them. That is why you get a flier rather any sort of exciting live picture. ( edit : changed) As far as this goes, I had this Household Name Records comp back in 1998/99 that opened my eyes to a lot of good stuff. Out of everything on it, Withdrawn stood out the most. Nasty, straight edge, vegan inspired metal. Hardcore in attitude but not in sound. Sort of like crossing Carcass, Integrity, Merauder and Slayer into this angry, militant ball of fury. They even got Leckie from Voorhees to lend his bark as full time vocalist. Most of the songs deal with the popular issues of the time such as drugs, smoking, animal rights and the sort. Now, this attitude wasn't for everybody. I know my old guitarist got into a fight with Leckie when they played together on some all-dayer once. Alongside a lot of the H8000 lot in Europe I always found it funny that they managed to create music that was way more metal than a lot of the "real" metal labels where putting out.



After this album they got a different vocalist and changed names to Evanesce. Sadly some other bigger band with the same name took offence and they had to change it again. Leckie carried on with Voorhees and the rest have done time in Walk The Plank, SSS and numerous other bands. If you hunt out you can find this massively convoluted family tree that stretches across the country and nearly every band that was kicking around in the late 90's.

6 comments:

  1. Didn't know about this band, thanks for posting.

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  2. Your welcome boss. Enjoying your blog as well. Some of that stuff I have been hunting for.

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  3. I've got a few photos from the old days floating around my FB page. Will send you some if you like, and if you have any questions about the band then let me know. Thanks for the mention,

    Onion

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  4. Cheers fella. I used to listen to this album all the time. A corner stone of my youth.

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  5. Oli, i have the demo tape here - if i can find a way to upload it i will. I've also got the Evanesce stuff, if you're interested?

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  6. Danny you little devil. That would be banging if you could.

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