HEADHAUNTER BIO
Hailing from the oldest city of Holland, Dordrecht (Netherlands) comes the five-headed hellspawn that is known as the metalband Headhaunter. In their ten years of existence they've grown up and completed their musical evolution. Starting out as young thrash metal friends they have matured and their tunes with them. Still inspired by their love for Slayer and Sepultura, Headhaunter has fleshed out their sound. Five different people with different musical preferences blended their own taste and love for extreme music into an original kind of metal. Thrash metal guitar riffs layered with rock 'n roll and stonerrock are accompanied by hardcore-fashioned beatdowns and gang vocals.
Their DIY ethic, ranging from creating and furnishing their own rehearsal studio, recording and mastering their own songs, booking the shows, promoting them, has done them good. Apart from playing countless shows in the Netherlands they have toured from the farthest corners of Poland in the east, all the way across to the English towns in the west. Headhaunter played shows with Agnostic Front, Benediction, Holy Moses and Hatesphere and appeared at the Dynamo Band Battle (where victory was claimed), the Aardschok Metal Bash , the Pylger Metal festival and Batmanfest 2.0.
The predecessor of the 2010 'The Basement Barrage EP' was the critically acclaimed 'Fueled by Chaos' (2007) but as a warming up for the 2010 release the band recorded the 'Countdown to Chaos' single in 2009. Mixed and mastered by Igor Wouters (Backfire, Born From Pain), the song served as a teaser to the metal/hardcore barrage Headhaunter released on the ears of their fans in the spring of 2010.
On the newest release, in little over fifteen minutes of metal, Headhaunter delivers four brand metal songs. Starting out by showing their love for the guitar solo with 'Warriors', Headhaunter manages to amaze their listeners once more. While hearing the beatdowns in 'Pay with your Life' is not hard to see an entire venue full of flailing arms and legs of moshing people. The chorus in 'Brace for Impact' proves they haven't strayed far from their thrashing roots and with the finale 'My World grows Colder' they manage to keep the listener interested until the climatic end. Although the four songs are quite different, on 'The Basement Barrage EP' Headhaunter sounds quite cohesive and is ready to thrash again.
