Ringworm (band)

Ringworm is an American hardcore punk band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1989.[2] Their name was derived from a Vincent Price movie.[3] The band has toured extensively in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has released four albums on Victory Records. In 2013, the band announced they had signed with Relapse Records and that their next album would be released through them. Vocalist Human Furnace currently plays in the Cleveland metal band Gluttons, and solo project Holyghost.

Ringworm
OriginCleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Genres
Years active1989–1994, 1999–present
LabelsRelapse
Associated actsIntegrity, Hatebreed, Terror, Gehenna, Cold as Life, Gluttons
Members
  • James "Human Furnace" Bulloch
  • Matt Sorg
  • Mike Lare
  • Ryan Steigerwald
  • Ed Stephens

Musical style

According to frontman Human Furnace, while being interviewed by Davin Deblat in 2019 he mentions the bands sound and style as well as their association in both the metal and hardcore scene:

"If you look at the songs that we play, and what we’re about, 70–80 percent of our songs are mostly just thrash. Very fast, very thrashy, and then you got some breakdowns. When you play a hardcore gig, everyone just stares at you for your whole set and they just wait for that one riff so they can spin around in circles and crowd-kill. And I’m not really about that. So when you play a metal show and you play thrash riffs and headbanging riffs, then metalheads respond to that and it’s a fun thing. I definitely relate more to that scene because that’s what I am. I grew up a punk rock kid, a metal kid, so I have a lot more in common with that scene… these days, anyway."[4]

Members

Discography
  • 1991 - Ringworm (self-released demo), later released by Overkill Records
  • 1993 - The Promise (Incision Records), later reissued on CD by Deathwish Inc and vinyl by A389 Recordings
  • 1994 - Split 7" with Boiling Point (Lost and Found Records)
  • 1995 - Flatline (demo from 1991 which became bonus tracks on subsequent re-release of The Promise) (Lost and Found Records)
  • 1999 - Madness of War (self-released demo)
  • 2000 - Hollow Soul (Split with Godbelow) (Surface Records)
  • 2001 - Split 7" with Cold as Life (Stillborn Records)
  • 2001 - Birth is Pain (Victory Records)
  • 2003 - Splitseveninch (Split with Terror) (Deathwish Inc.)
  • 2005 - Justice Replaced by Revenge (Victory Records)
  • 2007 - The Venomous Grand Design (Victory Records)
  • 2011 - Scars (Victory Records)
  • 2011 - Your Soul Belongs to Us... (Split with Mindsnare) (A389 Recordings)
  • 2012 - Stigmatas in the Flesh (live album) (A389 Recordings)
  • 2013 - Bleed (EP) (Relapse Records)
  • 2014 - Hammer of the Witch (Relapse Records)[5]
  • 2016 - Snake Church (Relapse Records)
  • 2019 - Death Becomes My Voice (Relapse Records)

Videography
  • "Justice Replaced by Revenge" (2005)
  • "The Ninth Circle" (2007)
  • "Used Up, Spit Out" (2011)
  • "Snake Church" (2016)
  • "Shades of Blue" (2016)

References
  1. O'Connor, Andy. "Ringworm: Hammer of the Witch". Pitchfork. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. "Ringworm reviews, music, news". Sputnikmusic.com. 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  3. "Loudside". Loudside.com. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  4. Deblat, Davin. "Interview: Ringworm Singer Human Furnace on the Band's History, Record Labels, Show Etiquette + More". www.noecho.net. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. "Ringworm – Hammer of the Witch". Metalbase.in. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
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