Lungfeast
Lungfeast was formed in 1991 by Greg Broadmore (bass, vocals), Graham Woods (guitars) and an Amiga 500 (drums, samples, synths, etc), which was generally credited as a member of the group.
Later that year Broadmore added a new vocalist, Tristan Murdoch, freeing Broadmore to focus on writing, programming and bass-playing. They were initially very heavily influenced by deathmetal bands such as Carcass. However the project's industrial, ambient and electronic influences became increasingly dominant over a relatively short period of time.
Finding little if any likeminded souls in Hamilton during the early '90s, the band had been more successful at Auckland events such as Technohell 1 in 1991 (at which Hamilton's Love and Violence also appeared). Here they played alongside Auckland's Sawchain and Palmerston North's Froithead; both bands merging the influence of heavier guitar-based music with experimental electronic and industrial elements.
Broadmore, Murdoch and Amiga 500 moved to Auckland in 1992 leaving Woods behind, and recruited guitarist Dion Workman from Sawchain to replace him. The sound resulting from Broadmore and Workman's collaborations was compared to early Fear Factory, Godflesh, Voivod, Pitchshifter, Scorn and others of the ambient/industrial/metal crossover set.
Lungfeast released an EP on cassette titled Inside in 1992, and appeared to have disbanded in around 1993 when Workman became a member of the seminal improvised rock trio Thela.
Founding member Greg Broadmore returned to Hamilton where in the mid-'90s his project Nihil effectively picked up where work with Lungfeast had left off, and during roughly the same timeframe was also one of three founding members of Ghidrah. He has achieved considerable success both nationally and on the world stage as a visual artist (see Greg Broadmore), and has been based in Wellington for several years.
The Amiga 500 is believed to have retired when he was gradually usurped by a Dr Rhythm DR-660 in Nihil.
