Mind over Four was an American

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 heavy metal music

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 group based out of Los Angeles, California

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. BNR Metal Pages describes them as "occupy[ing] that gray area between metal and uncommercial hard rock, but with a quirkiness in the songwriting that makes them difficult to describe or categorize".

The band dissolved shortly after the release of their 1995 album, Empty Hands.

On the back cover photo of the Pantera

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 album Vulgar Display of Power

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, Phil Anselmo

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 can be seen wearing one of the band's T-shirts.

At the time of the split

• Spike Xavier - vocals
• Mike Jenson - guitar
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• Mark Fullerton - drums
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Previous members

• Jeff Koegel - bass
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• Dave Hamilton - bass
• Rich Castillo - bass
• Dean R - drums
• "Dan" - drums
• Steve Crow - guitar (Desperate Expression - Self release '83)
• Lou Gaez - drums (Desperate Expression - Self release '83)
• Dan Colburn
  Dan Colburn
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   - bass

Discography

• Desperate Expression (1983) (self-released)
• Out Here (1987) (XXX records)
• Mind Over Four (1989) (Destiny Records)
• The Goddess (1990) (Caroline)
• Half Way Down (1993) (Restless)
• Empty Hands (1995) (Fierce)

External links

• Mind Over Four at the BNR Metal Pages
• Mind Over Four at Encyclopaedia Metallum
• [ Mind Over Four at Allmusic]