Dreadnaught

Dreadnaught assembled as a five-piece unit in Tasmania and later moved operations to mainland Australia, setting the project in motion during 1992 and staging its earliest concerts toward the close of 1994. In 1995 the group attempted to circulate its Flowers demo yet ultimately handled the independent release of both the 1996 album Body, Blood, Skin, Mind and the 1998 EP Idiosincrasy before securing a deal with the Australian indie label Dark Carnival. Featuring singer Greg Trull, guitarists Richie Poate and Damon Alcock, bassist Andy Livingston-Squires, and drummer Aaren Suttil, the band cultivated a modest but devoted audience through its bottom-heavy alternative metal and ferocious stage presence. Although Down to Zero reached Australian listeners in 1999, the album did not appear in the United States until 2001 on the Music Cartel, by which point Dreadnaught had already issued the Australia-only EP One Piece Missing, a release that included a cover of the Thin Lizzy staple “Cold Sweat.”