Kingdom of Sorrow

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Kingdom of Sorrow, sometimes abbreviated to KoS, is an American sludge metal^[1] band formed in February 2005^[1] as a side project. It features Kirk Windstein of Crowbar and Down and Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed.

History

Kingdom of Sorrow was founded over a decade ago when the Hatebreed front man Jamey Jasta introduced himself to Down/Crowbar guitarist Kirk Windstein at a show at Pearl Street in Northampton, Massachusetts. A short time later Jasta, who actively booked shows throughout New England in the early nineties, put up the cash for a Napalm Death/Crowbar show in order that Hatebreed could play with one of his favorite bands. Ever since, the two have remained in close contact and become the best of friends over the subsequent decade.

Jasta and Hatebreed invited Crowbar out for a UK run of dates in March 2005. It was there that the two friends decided to combine forces on a band based on their mutual affinity for the hallmarks of the genre (Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Pantera) and their history of writing some of the heaviest hitting metal of the past fifteen years.

The duo holed-up in Silver Bullet Studios in Connecticut in May 2005 and once again when Kirk relocated post-Katrina to write and assemble what would become the very first Kingdom of Sorrow album. The first taste of the untitled project surfaced in the form of the track “Buried in Black” on Roadrunner Records,’MTV2 Headbangers Ball: The Revenge’ compilation (released April 2006). It wasn’t long before “Buried in Black” appeared on metal radio shows the world over and became a staple on Sirius’ “Hard Attack”.

While the writing flowed fast, progress was slow due to the pair’s commitments to their main bands that wrote, released, and toured extensively, on new records through 2006 and 2007. Songs were deconstructed, reconstructed, written and recorded again in Planet Z Studios with Zeuss until the duo was completely satisfied with the outcome. Jasta commented on the writing process, “It really was probably the best time I've ever had in the studio. As far as creatively...it was such a liberating thing. We felt like, "It's a new band. It doesn't matter what anybody thinks." We're just doing it because we want to do it. So it was a totally genuine and pure creative process."

Kingdom of Sorrow inked a deal with Relapse Records in fall 2007 and began plans to unveil the record they had spent the better part of two years creating.

On August 5th and 6th, 2008, Kingdom of Sorrow played at the First Annual Mayhem Festival on the Jagermeister Stage at the Comcast Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, Massachusetts and the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York, respectively.

According to Jamey Jasta's personal myspace page the next Kingdom of Sorrow album should be out summer 2010.

Debut Release

Kingdom of Sorrow's self-titled album debuted at #131 on the U.S. Billboard charts and sold 6,000 records in its first week of release.

Band members

• Jamey Jasta - vocals
• Kirk Windstein - Guitar, vocals
• Steve Gibb - Guitar
• Matthew Brunson - Bass
• Derek Kerswill - drums

Discography

References

External links

• Kingdom of Sorrow MySpace