Volition

Biography

Chapter I – the dim past...
Hailing from the mystic and oft-forgotten land of Furness, a wild and ravaged spit of Lakeland and declining industry, these ardent minstrels of morbidity baptised themselves Volition. They set about amassing sky scraper amps and powerful drums, ready to terrorise the sensibilities of the weak and commercial tastes of their redundant local area. These rancid mongers of doomfuckery released a live CD-R in early 2006, and the oily sonic miasma of decrepitude and depression that these hirsute Northern peasants belched out soon started to gnaw at the attentions of the influential. Cue Israeli based label Total Rust, and a two album deal.

At the label's request Volition released a demo CD-R in early 2007, and made further inroads into the underground. Volition's serotonin-sapping masterpiece of gloom, the eponymously titled debut album, was recorded in June 2007 at the near-legendary Studio 1in12 in Bradford, Yorkshire, by Bri Doom of Lazarus Blackstar. 'Volition' features eight monolithic dolmen stones of bleak and oppressive doom sludge that hammer pessimistic horror deep into the psyche; bleeding black bile into the frail body of desperate humankind; shitting pure nihilism over the coffee-table of mediocrity.

Chapter II – looking forward to death...
Volition have doggedly ploughed a stinking seam of grizzled doom and hate-soaked post-hardcore sludge since their inception in the early 21st century. With a determination borne of adversity, they have risen above the rotting ruins of the North to continue in a quest to record their harsh and uncompromising sound.

Read on doomfucks...Volition have the reworked album track 'Pathogen' (with backing vocals supplied by Eric Wood of Bastard Noise) featured on 'Our Earth's Blood IV'; the five CD set released by insane LA based experimentalist Bastard Noise (put out by Cathartic Process). Also, the now sold out savage split 7" with New York's Unearthly Trance, a tribute to legendary NYC doom outfit Winter was released on Dutch label Wolfsbane at the start of 2010.

However, the icy winds of change were to blow through the ranks of Volition– main screamer Hodge decided to quit the band after their appearance at Leeds Deathfest in May 2010, all was not lost though as during the same month, a new member of the vile Volition brood is spawned - vocalist Paul Gibson. He played his first gig in August 2010 and has consequently become an integral member of the band.

Volition are Mark Burns on bass and vocals; Mark Burnett and Jas Murray on guitars; James Doyle on drums; and Paul Gibson on vocals. Drawing deep on the misery of life in a raped and left-for-dead town, the future shines out black light for Volition, a band so beautifully pure and grim that they invigorate the honest amongst us and damn the idiots and liars to an eternity of mobile phone warehouses and vile celebrity makeovers...

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• www.volitiondoom.co.uk
• www.myspace.com/volition666

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