Heavy Lord is a Doom/Sludge metal band from the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, Hellevoetsluis

Hellevoetsluis

Hellevoetsluis is a small city and municipality on Voorne-Putten Island in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland...

Overview

Heavy Lord formed in 2003 and after a serial of gigs they recorded their first album The Holy Grail in 2004 at the Yellow Tape studio in Belgium. Following this release the band had many gigs across the Netherlands. In 2005 they recorded their second album From cosmos to chaos at Het Pand in Vlaardingen and released it themselves. After Belgium they made their debut in Germany, supporting Crowbar and High on Fire

High on Fire

High on Fire is a stoner metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, previously played guitar for the influential stoner doom band Sleep.-History:...

, and did their first tour with Belgian doom band Mose

Mose

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. In 2006 Heavy Lord was signed by the Russian label Solitude Productions and played as a support act for the French metal band Gojira

Gojira

Gojira is a heavy metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France. The band was known as Godzilla until 2001. Gojira is composed of Joe Duplantier on vocals and guitar, his brother Mario Duplantier on drums, Christian Andreu on guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass...

. They also played at Doom Shall Rise

Doom Shall Rise

Doom Shall Rise is the world's biggest doom metal festival. It is held annually at the Chapel in Göppingen, Germany since 2003.-2003 lineup:*Dawn of Winter*Doomshine*Dreaming*Forsaken*Revelation*Reverend Bizarre*Semlah*Mirror of Deception*Subversion...

 in Germany the same year.

In 2007 Heavy Lord supported Officium Triste

Officium Triste

Officium Triste is a doom metal band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They refer to their style often as Rotterdoom. It is largely inspired by bands like My Dying Bride and early Anathema, but the last album is slower and more melodic. The vocals are mostly intelligible death grunts but with...

 and did a tour through Belgium and France following another support show with Nebula

Nebula

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 and some loose gigs in Germany and France. At the end of 2007 the band recorded their third album Chained to the world at The Void.

In 2008, "Chained to the world" was released on vinyl to promote the album. Heavy Lord played with several bands including Amen Ra and Weedeater and the band re-released The Holy Grail, touring through Germany and Austria with Toner Low. In 2009 Heavy Lord headlined the Burn Out festival in Milan, Italy and toured France and Belgium once again. After a little break Steve opened his own studio and the band announced a new album coming in 2010.

After the recording of their new album, they toured through Germany at the end of 2010.
Wouter decided to quit the band and was replaced by Reign of War drummer JW.
In May 2011, their third album "Balls To All" was released.
They played several gigs in Holland and Belgium, and supported Eye Hate God and Church of Misery.
In august 2011 Wouter decided to return to the band.

Members

Steve - vocals and bass guitar

Wes-Lee - vocals and guitars

Jeff - guitars

Wout - drums