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HUNG Live in Boston AGAIN this month! This time with our friends Graveyard BBQ!
Get ready Boston, if you missed HUNG at the beginning of the month, here is your chance to redeem yourselves! We're proud to announce we'll be performing with good friends and vastly entertaining ro…
Started by HUNG Mar. 18, 2009.
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF HUNG - Metalsucks.net Live Review
To say that Hung is back and better than ever would be an understatement. After nearly 10 months without a drummer, the New York progressive metal outfit absolutely killed it at the Ace of Clubs in d…
Tagged: metalsucks, live, review, show, city
Started by HUNG Jul. 30, 2008.
HUNG returns with new album and new drummer
April 23, 2008 For Immediate Release HUNG returns with new album and new drummer NYC progressive metal band HUNG have announced their return to the stage July 25th, 2008 after an absence of 10 mon…
Started by HUNG Apr. 23, 2008.
Progeny Review on Thrashocore.com
thrashocore.com I don’t know what they are smoking in local American post offices, but something tells me that it must make holes in the memory: I was waiting since the beginning of January and the…
Started by HUNG Apr. 17, 2008.
Progeny Review on Metalinside.it
metalinside.it Reviewer: Max 8 / 10 points Directly from New York comes a debut demo from Hung, a band whose musical style is a mixture of death melodic metal and progressive sounds. Even if it see…
Started by HUNG Apr. 17, 2008.
Progeny Review on Burnyourears.de
www.burnyourears.de Reviewer: chris March 28, 2008 Violins in death metal are an unusual thing and other than MY DYING BRIDE or old EISREGEN I don’t know of too many other bands outside of the folk…
Started by HUNG Apr. 17, 2008.
Progeny Review on Bloodchamber.de
www.bloodchamber.de by Thomas Schönbeck 8.5 / 10 Points The progressive angels of death HUNG are back and promise to have gotten better since their last EP. Simply from a technical perspective, t…
Started by HUNG Apr. 17, 2008.
Progeny Review on METALREVIEW.COM
Rating Scale: 1-6 Production 5.0 Songwriting 5.0 Musicianship 5.5 by Erik Thomas Synopsis: Yet another stunning unsigned act that will probably go unsigned for some unknown reason… Review: Desp…
Tagged: progeny, press, review, hung, metal
Started by HUNG Apr. 1, 2008.
Progeny Review on MetalRage.com
I’ve often been complaining about the metal scene nowadays ‘cause I’m a lover of classics. Maiden, Dio, Sabbath, TNT, W.A.S.P., you name it. I have the nasty tendency to compare newcomer bands to the…
Started by HUNG Mar. 10, 2008.
Welcome To The Official Website of HUNG
HUNG is a melodic/progressive death metal band based in New York City that transcends even its own musical definitions. Right off the bat, with its unusual line-up of electric violin and guitar switching off on leads, HUNG challenges the norm. Their music, epic in scope, moves fluently between brutal, aggressive riffs to eerily beautiful melodies to daredevil, virtuosic passages, all while maintaining its own distinct and cohesive sound.
Lyris Hung, the electric violinist, founded the band with guitarist Evil Jon and bassist Sam Roon, the two of whom had worked together previously in Masque of the Red Death. Moscow-born growler Dmitry Kostitsyn takes the frontman position, and Kenny Grohowski is on drums.
Though the members of HUNG share a love of metal, they each come from a wide array of influences, ranging from classical to jazz and rock. They brought these musical experiences together, creating a sound that is at once paying homage to the masters of European death metal and strikingly different. Evil Jon, as the band’s primary songwriter, helps shape HUNG’s sound with a combination of melodic intricacy and technical fireworks.
HUNG has shared the stage with bands such as Full Blown Chaos, God Forbid, Macabre, Soilwork, Darkest Hour, Warblade and others. They have played the Milwaukee Metalfest and regularly tour New England and the NY/NJ/PA tri-state areas. In addition, they continue to actively vitalize the New York metal scene with HUNG Productions, their own event/show production company, and their partner site NYCMetal.com co-founded by bassist Sam Roon. HUNG proudly endorses Coffin Case, Cocaine Energy Drink and Ed Stone Clothing.
HUNG's second album, Progeny, was recorded by Eric Rachel (God Forbid, Symphony X, Black Dahlia Murder) and mastered by the legendary Alan Douches. With five tracks and a running time of almost 35 minutes, Progeny is at once concise in its storytelling and immense and dynamic in its range. From the opening title track, a piece which demonstrates the band's ability to weave intricate melodies and harmonies, to the Desert of Sad and Maria, a pair of dark and driven death metal anthems, to the twistedly militaristic Wishing Scar and the brutally epic finale Sediment of War, HUNG makes its mark on the metal scene – and it is a lasting one.
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273 13th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215
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148 Grove St.
Worcester, MA 01605
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