SPREADING THE DISEASE – BIOGRAPHY.

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The band was born in 2015, birth child of Steve Saunders, ex bassist of “Hair of the dog”, “The Self titled” and “Avoidance of doubt” to name a few. The rest of the band consisted of Martin Osborne, guitar, Julian Riquelme, guitars, Edd Saunders on drums, Adam May lead vocals and Steve Saunders on bass duties.

The band had barely been together a few months when they recorded the bands first EP “Viral”, that secured them a KKKK! Kerrang review along with many other great reviews and the band went out on the road pretty much constantly from one end of the nation to the other.

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By 2017 the band had managed to spread the brand across the UK significantly when it was decided to go back into the studio to record the bands full length album “Insurrection” a belter of an album consisting of 11 killer tracks that again secured dozens of great reviews from the likes of Metal Hammer ,Kerrang !, Powerplay magazine, Devolution magazine etc; By the time the album was being recorded the line up had changed bringing in “Jack Greenwood“ on drums and “Connor Snyder” on lead vocals.

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The band went back out on the road playing dozens of venues across the UK including supporting bands like Raging Speedhorn, Sulpher, Diamond head among others. The band managed to get their video single “Greed” played on rotation on the now defunct TV show “Scuzz TV”. By late 2018 / 2019 the band re visited the studio to record their next EP, this album was a sophisticated mature album again taking the band on a slightly different musical journey. The album mixes perfectly the brilliant “Voices” video with all the bands artwork creating a shining light on mental health issues.

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Just as the band had began to promote the new album “Mindcell” the band fell foul of interior problems resulting in Steve forming a new line up, however soon after the official release “Brexit” and “Covid” landed closing down the world, the release and all tour dates. Post Covid Steve got to work looking to put the band back together again, finding new musicians, writing new songs and going on a small tour in the spring of 2021. Things did not go well with further internal problems becoming the demise of that particular line up consisting of “Ashley Cleland” on guitar, “Steve Saunders” on bass, “Jack la Haye” on drums and “Samuel Ragnarsson” on lead vocals, it took a good two years after this in 2023 to re invent the bands line up having had a fair few temporary band members pass through that never worked out before  Mister “Peter Swindley” walk through the doors, a fine drummer, “Cedryk Guyenot” on guitar, ”Steve Saunders” on bass, “Jon the viking” on lead vocals and “”Chris Schonning” on guitar transforming the band into one hell of a line up. Still the band felt unsettled with more musicians having to be replaced.

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Mid 2023 the band welcomed aboard Mister Thorsten Giertsch on guitar,  Mister Donal McGee (The Doc) on drums and Mister Daniel Stevenson on guitar joining Steve and Jonny P to form the current and killer line up. The band has been playing across the whole of the UK and Scotland throughout 2024, continuing to record the songs while Mister James Shaffer the bands US manager and producer taking the songs to be mixed/mastered in New York . James has worked with such amazing acts as “Metallica, Motorhead, Guns and roses, Lizzy Hale and many more as FOH and Monitor engineer,  he also has his own recording studio where he has worked with some of the biggest stars on the planet, the new songs sound incredible.

The band has recently released the new track and video for “Addicted” and “Fissure” from the forthcoming EP “Purgatory Carnival with more to be released in 2025/2026. More great news is on the way …watch this space !.

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