Haji's Kitchen
Haji 's Kitchen (often abbreviated as the Haji ) is a band from the U.S. Lewisville, which Progressive Metal mixed with progressive rock.
The idea for the name came about after guitarist Eddie Head had after a band rehearsal Indian food there and then- drummer Clint Barlow said: " It smells so how in Haji kitchen ".
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History
Foundation
The band was founded by guitarists Eddie Head and Brett Stine, bassist Derek Blakley and drummer Clint Barlow 1993. In Eddie Ellis, the band found shortly after a suitable singer. After the still unnamed band had already been booked for first appearances, it was after a band rehearsal Indian food because Eddie Head big fan of this was. As a drummer Clint Barlow perceived the smell of the food, he said: " It smells so how in Haji kitchen ", as a result, they agreed on the name of Haji 's Kitchen. Then Clint Barlow left the band and was replaced by Rob Stankiewicz.
In 1996 with Haji 's Kitchen, the self - titled debut album by the band on the run by Mike Varney record label Shrapnel Records, which was published in an edition of 5,000 copies. Then the band played a tour of the surrounding area in order to promote the album. After the band had been made aware of their fans that no copies of the album were more available, the band asked their label to produce more CDs, but what this rejected, as the risk of financial loss from their perspective was too large. This was followed by the exit of guitarist Brett Stine, since the latter was in turn to the jazz music. His position was taken by his older brother Scott. Then the brothers Stine and Rob Stankiewicz their other band Eniac Requiem, with which they released their first and only album Space Eternal Void 1998 dedicated. The vocals took over the musician Derek Taylor, in which the band had already in 1994 helped out musically with his solo album Dystrophy.
Release of Sucker Punch
While the band split from their record label, Shrapnel Records, due to the complications that had to singer Eddie Ellis left the band and was replaced by Vincent Mullins after Ellis had not appeared at a gig in the Texas city of Lubbock. There followed in 2001 the second album by the band under the name of Sucker Punch, which was released over the coming from the region independent label M Records.
In the re-release of the movie Dragon Ball Z - The Movie: The Legendary Super Saiyan, the eighth part of the film series for the anime series Dragon Ball Z, the songs Lost and Day After Day appeared as background music. 2004 circulated rumors that the band had changed its name to Haji. However, this assumption has denied the band in a later interview in which it was said that there had never been considerations to shorten the band's name. 2005 gave Rob Stankiewicz and Derek Blakley known, with guitarist Michael Harris, the keyboardist of the band Threshold Richard West and Ted Leonard, singer of the band Enchant to have founded a designed for progressive metal supergroup under the name Thought Chamber in 2007 album Angular Perceptions about the German record label Inside Out published.
Latest developments and publication of Twenty Twelve
In early 2010, the band was back after Brett Stine had returned to the band, to publish with the intention nor the end of the year an EP with six songs that were written between the foundation and the second album on their own, but until today never appeared. In addition, the band called on to apply as a singer for the band, as Vincent Mullins had left the band. In September 2010, announced the band to have the perfect singer found in Daniel Tompkins, the former member of the band TesseracT after they had discovered this about the video portal YouTube and contacted him via the social network Facebook.
The end of 2011 the band released their first music video for the song Define the Line. In June 2012, the third studio album by the band was released with Twenty Twelve. In contrast to the previous two albums, the band decided to publish, regardless of record companies to distribute CD Baby about the musicians on specialized unsigned online retailers. In six of the fourteen songs the voice of Daniel Tompkins was heard, whose songs were also included as a version without vocals on the album. The lyrics came still partly by the former singer Vincent Mullins, however, Tompkins wrote a few songs for his own lyrics, which he dealt with topics such as the Maya people.
Style
Characteristic of the style of the band are reoccurring oriental sounds that usually are generated by using isolated perceptible guitar riffs.