Will Haven

Will Haven is a group of alternative Rock (more precisely of Sludgecore) of origin California.

Members

Grady Avenell (song, texts 1995-2003/2005-2007)
Jeff Jaworski (song 2007-?)
Jeff Irwin (guitars)
Lance Jackman (2nd guitarist 2007-?)
Mike Martin (low)
Mitch Wheeler (battery)

Wayne Morse (ex-beater 1995-2000)
Cayle Hunter (ex-2nd guitarist, 2006)

History

It is in 1995 that four friends of Sacramento, also cradle of the Deftones, at the head put themselves to form a group. The group takes a name randomly, without real reflection: it will be William Haven . Will Haven was thus born with Grady Avenell with the song, Jeff Irwin with the guitar, Mike Martin with low and Wayne Morse with the battery.

The group, with some compositions out of pocket, starts a long round along the southern part of the California. They connect the first parts of the concerts of groups as various as the Beastie Boys or Earth Crisis inter alia.

In 1996, they leave their first EP, simply entitled Will Haven , made up of seven pieces. It will be sold by it a few thousands by mail or after the shows. Enough quickly, the group is pointed out by the label Revelation which signs them and allows them to enter in studio in April of the following year in order to compose their first true album.

El Diablo leaves on November 14th 1997 and marks the beginning of the recognition for Will Haven. Recording and production were carried out by Eric Stenman. Dithyrambic criticisms rain on their subject, as well on behalf of max Cavalera (ex- Sepultura, Soulfly) as of their friend Chino Moreno (Deftones, TEAM Sleep). Indeed, the group is distinguished very clearly from the scene metal/hardcore from the time (even if it one is still far from the numetal…) by its song always shouted but nevertheless melody and its compos with the hypotonic structures based on the repetition D `a front.

In very little time, El Diablo reaches the first place of many classifications of radios or magazines dedicated to metal, punk or hardcore. Moreover they significantly thickened their address book while turning with Deftones, of course, but also Limp Bizkit and Vision off Disorder. They ensure even the first part of Cubanate and Fear Factory the Elysium Montmartre (Paris) on November 6th, 1999. They had turned before between the 14 and on February 21st, 1996 with Deftones passing by Marseilles, Lyon, Nantes, Paris, Strasbourg and Lille.

After an estival round in the United States in company of Soulfly, Will Haven thus moves towards Europe in autumn 1999.

But meanwhile, on August 30th, 1999, almost two years day for day after El Diablo, leaves WHVN with always Eric Stenman to the orders. Realized in Enharmonik Studios and mixed and masterized by Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Will, Stuck Mojo) in Backstage Studios in England, remains in the line of its predecessor. Despite everything it will appear slightly in-on this side El Diablo from the point of view of the originality.

Third album, two years later: Carpe Diem (benefits from each Latin moment) leaves on November 5th, 2001. It should be noted that between time, the group changed beater and found its new martelor of barrels in the person of Mitch Wheeler coming from the group Oddman.

Much regards it as the best album of the group, which is sufficiently rare to be announced when one speaks about the third album of a group! Perhaps slightly more accessible, the rates/rhythms much binary and are syncopated.

The success of this album opens the door with Grady and its band with a round this time world with stopovers in Japan and in Australia.

And then the new one falls: Grady Avenell decides to leave the group after a last show with the Capital Garage of Sacramento on January 24th, 2003. The members remaining will decide thereafter to form Ghostride in company of Rey Osburn (ex- Tinfed) in the song and Cayle Hunter with the second guitar (ensuring the battery at Oddman previously).

At the end of 2003, on October 6th leaves Foreign Films, the DVD postmortem of the group. On this occasion, the first EP of the group is republished.

However, time passing, Jeff Irwin becomes aware of the lack that because Split de Will Haven and will find the singer, Grady Avenell, to reform the group. This one accepts; the group is reformed with the arrival of a second guitarist, ex-Ghostride. A round is started at the beginning of 2006 in England, and a new album is profiled… (new song, Handle Bars To Freedom, available on their myspace page)

Discography

demonstration , (1995)
Will Haven EP , (1996)
El Diablo , (1997)
WHVN , (1999)
Carpus Diem , (2001)
The Hierophant , (2007)

Bonds

alphamale (site of fan)

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