Out of sheer frustration over the lack of drummers in the local Massachusetts area, Scott Hull and friends formed Agoraphobic Nosebleed with the help of a drum machine in late 1994. Many artists, such as GODFLESH and MINISTRY, have utilized drum machines effectively in the slower-paced industrial realm, but relatively few bands have ever attempted the 100,000 bpm "hailstorm of drums" approach to programming that head honcho Scott Hull has not only attempted, but achieved!! Agoraphobic Nosebleed crushes all who dare listen with drum beats that baffle the human mind!! An Agoraphobic Nosebleed recording is like passing through a hailstorm of runaway steamhammers with only a puny cocktail umbrella for protection. Like flatulence in a wind tunnel, the listener must simply submit to being decimated.
Since 1994, ANb has gone through various line-ups that have included members of ULCER, ENEMY SOIL, THUG and SUPPRESSION, but finally coalesced into the duo of Scott ‘Hullhammer’ Hull (guitars, bass, drum programming) and madman vocalist Jay Randall. To date, ANb has released various EP’s and all variety of vinyl with many respected scene veterans including CATTLEPRESS and LACERATION.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed then unleashed their debut Relapse recording featuring 26 tracks of unbelievably manic grindcore. "Honkey Reduction" grilled up 26 prime cuts marbled with beefy riffs guaranteed to sizzle your flesh and tenderize your mind... grindcore fans the world over were chewing the fat! Mac-daddy Hull made guitar strings swarm like pissed off hornets while his torrential drum programming, sounding as if it were conceived by a quantum physics professor, rained down on the listener like AK-47 rounds guttin’ a pumpkin. Militantly hateful vocal angst kicked those who were down. The response to "Honkey..." was immense as fans and critics marveled at the unrelenting extremity that da’ Nosebleed kicked down. After a slew of blistering 7" EP’s and splits, Agoraphobic Nosebleed took the power to the people...and stuffed it up their collective ass sideways.
In 1999, Agoraphobic unleashed "PCP Tornado" (Hydra Head), a scathing barrage of derangement nicely done up as a six-inch slab o’ wax. Take cover or be destroyed!! With The Poacher Diaries, Agoraphobic Nosebleed have aligned themselves with Boston’s CONVERGE to deliver a split CD of massive proportions. The vicious grindcore behemoths deliver 9 blazing new molotov cocktails sure to light a fire under the lumber regions of caffeine-addled velocity junkies the world over! Akin to being dissected in a glass tornado, subjecting oneself to ANb’s monomaniacal bombardment of hypersonic fury will result in auditory warfare of the most elevated order. Strong-arm man Hull’s dexterous guitar warfare fuses with decimating drum programming and voracious vocal vortexes (provided by both Randall and J.R. Hayes {PIG DESTROYER}) to animate this grinding slaughter-machine!! A split 7" with fellow Relapse masticators BENUMB will follow shortly, as well as Agoraphobic Nosebleed's long-awaited full-length follow up to Honkey Reduction, the obscenely-titled "Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope". DIE AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!
Source: http://www.relapse.com/high/relapse/agor/biography.html
