Band Line Up 2014

We four miscreants have little time for anything other than toiling in a war torn old bunker, a relic from darker times, to create our own blend of heavy, fuzzy doom. Once described as a “feral beast spits out sludgy riffs that would make an Iron Monkey recoil with horror” , Byzanthian Neckbeard eviscerate your very being with a crushing wall of fuzz stained, doom laden horror.

Dragging itself into existence on a dark January in 2013 the lumbering beast; Taz Etasse

(drums), Dano Robilliard (bass), Jon Langlois (guitar) and Phil Skyrme (guitar and vocals) has

torn through live performances while concocting new sonic doom ready to grace their debut

album “From the Clutches of Oblivion”. One reporter is quoted as saying “They launched into a

set of some of the most crushing riffs Guernsey has ever seen” adding “groove mixed in with

the vicious vocals to create a sound heavier than any other in Guernsey today”

The gods and beasts took pity on four weary doom merchants as they emerged from their hole

and in September 2013 sound was committed to the ages, in the shack known as The Tardis.

This was not some gleaming shrine to sound, but merely a room and a sofa. Guided by James

Le Hurey, Dave Wratten and Ben Pearce, “From The Clutches of Oblivion” hauled its wretched

mass into the world

Do not judge us for our backwards ways but commend our spirit, hail the sordid church of

Byzanthian and Praise the beard of the diabolical!

“Well what can we say. It’s a privilege to have been chosen as the winners of the inaugural Metal 2 the Masses event for the Channel Islands. We’ve had amazing support from our local scene ever since our first gig and to be the representatives of the Islands at Bloodstock is a massive honour. We can’t wait to get on stage and show everyone what metal from the Channel Islands is all about!”