Doghouse Gallows formed somewhere in the haze of 2008.
Comprised of a crew that since then never changed with Mike Ferguson on guitar,
Patrick Velis on bassguitar, George Oosthoek on drums and the throat of Jorre Jansen.
Hailing from the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands and built from the remnants of many other bands, known
and unknown, Doghouse Gallows set sail without further ado. In 2009 they released their debut album
entitled ‘Dodgy Deals’. Recorded in mere days it immediatly revealed the band’s none too subtle approach
towards metal in heaviness and groove. The album was well received in the Dutch underground
as well as abroad and resulted in gigs throughout the country.
In between shows the band kept writing and refining their material which with the years slowly shifted
to an altogether more sombre and darker course. So was laid the keel for the second album,
‘That Which No Canvas Could Withstand’, a title harking back to the old Beaufort scale
describing hurricane force. And what a stormpounded moloch it has become.
This time abandoning their hasty ways of old, the band spent nearly two years on writing,
rewriting and subsequent recording.
A sea-sickening opus of sludge metal in which you can hear the timbers creak.
Aficionados of the riff, heave to.
