Slunt is an American alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band that formed in New York City

New York City

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 in 2002. Comprising lead singer and rhythm guitarist Abby Gennet

Abby Gennet

Abby Gennet is the lead singer of the New York band Slunt, and currently plays guitar for Los Angeles based all-female hard rock band Riot Brides....

, lead guitarist Pat Harrington, bassist Ilse Baca and drummer Charles Ruggiero, the band has released two albums: Get a Load of This in 2005 and One Night Stand in 2006.

Guitarist and vocalist Gennet began writing songs in 2000, hiring drummer Charles Ruggiero and bassist Adam Small

Adam Small

Adam Small is an American composer, producer and instrumentalist. He attended Manhattan School of Music in New York City where he majored in jazz performance...

 – both musicians from a "jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

/funk

Funk

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" background – to form Slunt in 2002. As Gennet moved focus to vocal duty, the band enlisted lead guitarist Pat Harrington after Gennet saw him with his previous band, Gaggle of Cocks; Jenny Gunns replaced bassist Small shortly after. The band later changed their bassist again, when Ilse Baca was hired after a week of "Slunt boot camp" which ended in "her final audition" – a concert "in front of a bunch of screaming Brits". She was temporarily replaced for the majority of 2006 by bassist/backing vocalist Jhen Kobran formerly of Halfcocked

Halfcocked

Halfcocked was an American hard rock band. Influenced by 1970s hard rock and punk rock, along with 1980s glam metal, they started out in Boston in 1997 and signed with independent label Curve of the Earth Records...

 for the band's next album One Night Stand

One Night Stand

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 and all live performances/touring for that year. Baca returned for touring in 2007.

Discography

Studio albums

• Get a Load of This (2005)
• One Night Stand (2006)

Extended plays

• Slunt
  Slunt (EP)
  -Personnel:Slunt*Abby Gennet – vocals, rhythm guitar*Pat Harrington – lead guitar*Jenny Gunns – bass, backing vocals*Charles Ruggiero – drumsAdditional personnel*Rob Caggiano – production, mixing...
  
  (2004)

Band members

• Abby Gennet
  Abby Gennet
  Abby Gennet is the lead singer of the New York band Slunt, and currently plays guitar for Los Angeles based all-female hard rock band Riot Brides....
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  
• Pat Harrington – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  
• Ilse Baca – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
   (2006–present)
• Charles Ruggiero – drums
  Drum kit
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Former members

• Jenny Gunns – bass, backing vocals (2003–2006)
• Adam Small
  Adam Small
  Adam Small is an American composer, producer and instrumentalist. He attended Manhattan School of Music in New York City where he majored in jazz performance...
  
   – bass (2002–2003)
• Jhen Kobran – bass, backing vocals (all of 2006)