Taking their name from a Sunrise song off their 'Child Of Eternity' record, London's Last Hours Of Torment formed sometime in 1999 and played their very first show on 24th February 2000. The majority of the band were straight edge, but I don't think they collectively identified as sxe. There's also a lot of religious imagery within the lyrics and a few mentions of Jesus Christ in the thank you list - can anyone confirm whether they were a spirit-filled band? Their influences were mostly from Scandinavia with a predominantly melodic death metal sound with some black metal touches here and there (the photos in the booklet were actually taken in Norway). Think of a mix between Withdrawn, Carcass and Dissesction.
Much like their Burial Records labelemates Seventh Judgement, LHOT didn't release an awful lot. Sometime in early 2002, they self-released a CDr demo titled 'Throne Of Decay' which featured two demo tracks which would be re-recorded for their MCD. One of those demos also featured on the Burial Records 'Burning Their Lies' sampler, which I'm sure I will do a separate post on at some point. During November 2002, they released the mighty 'Downfall Of Man' MCD on Burial and John Peel even played one of these tracks on his BBC Radio show. They would then release a single demo track in 2003/2004 (which I actually found on MySpace) and that was that.
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| Photographer unknown. Taken at Mill Hill's Studio 4. |
They did have a whole batch of songs to be recorded, but after the Yabrifa brothers left, the band tried to plough on with an altered lineup. Sam and Simon were still in the band, with the addition of Dan Knight and a couple others. Unfortunately though, this eventually fizzled out and the band fractured by 2004. It's a real shame as that final demo track was excellent and I can imagine how good a full LP would have been.
The original band members didn't seem to do much within hardcore - Peter and John would both become professional photographers. Sam played guitar in Taking Names (a post for another day I'm sure), but I have no idea what happened to Simon. There seemed to be a revolving door of bassists and second guitarists, so I can't say for certain whether they were in other bands or not, aside from Dan who was in Seventh Judgement and Tenfold Truth etc. Only interesting bit of trivia I can provide on this one, is that the great John Hannon (RIP) of Understand recorded and mixed the MCD.
I'm also looking for their elusive t-shirt, of which only 100 were apparently printed! The likelihood of ever finding this is slim, but I would literally take any size just to have it in the collection.
Vocals - Peter Yabrifa
Vocals - Simon Sorga
Guitar - Sam Chin
Guitar - Adam Knight
Bass - James Garstang
Drums - John Yabrifa
Vocals - Peter Yabrifa
Vocals - Simon Sorga
Guitar - Sam Chin
Guitar - Adam Knight
Bass - James Garstang
Drums - John Yabrifa
Last Hours Of Torment - Habitation Of Devils (2003)Vocals - Simon Sorga
Guitar - Sam Chin
Guitar - Dan Knight
Bass - James Garstang
Drums - Gavin Ward
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