The River is a doom metal band from Croydon, UK. The River plays a traditional form of doom metal, but they have soon forged their own brand of Doom Metal by incorporating downtuned heavy riffing and female vocals.

[edit] Biography

The River formed in 1999, starting life as an Epic Doom Metal band. As the years & line-ups have progressed so has the sound into something more individual yet still retaining the traditions of the Doom Metal genre. The core of the band's sound is the crushing guitars mixed with the soulful vocals & melodic song structures, never shying away from their roots yet always individual in approach. Having recorded 4 demos, the most recent two "Oneiric Dirges in Mono" 2003 & "Different Ways to be Haunted" 2005 having sold thousands of copies between them, the band have also played gigs with the likes of Warning, Slough Feg, Reverend Bizarre, Brocas Helm & Esoteric amongst others as well as playing at Doom Shall Rise 3. The band's debut cd 'Drawing Down The Sun' is available now via Retribute records & a recently recorded 10" for The Church Within records should be available in the near future. They have now been signed to The Miskatonic Foundation for their second full length album which was released in November 2009.

[edit] members

• Vicky - Vocals
• Stephen - Bass
• Christian - Guitar
• Jason Ludwig - Drums

[edit] Discography

• The River demo, 2001
• Oneiric Dirges in Mono EP, 2003 (Foreshadow Productions)
• Quercus/The River/Oktor 3-way split, 2005 (Foreshadow Productions)
• Different Ways to be Haunted demo, 2005
• Drawing Down the Sun CD, 2006 (Retribute Records)
• In Situ CD, 2009 (The Miskatonic Foundation)

[edit] External links

The River official site: http://www.doomriver.co.uk The River Myspace site:myspace/doomriver Record labels sites :Retribue RecordsThe Miskatonic Foundation