Lungfeast
Lungfeast was formed in 1991 by Greg Broadmore (bass, vocals), Graham Woods (guitars) and an Amiga 500 who, performing drums, samples, synths etc was generally credited as a member of the group. Later that year Broadmore added a new vocalist Tristam Murdoch; freeing himself up to focus on the writing, programming and bass-playing side of things. 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(which Hamilton's Love and Violence also appeared at). 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 a five song cassette titled Inside in 1992 and appear to have disbanded in around 1993 when Dion Workman moved on to become a member of the seminal improvised rock trio Thela. His later innovations in electronica alongside former Thela bandmate Rosy Parlane, along with his development of digital music software and a large volume of published essays on underground innovations within the music industry to empower the independent artist were all highly influential worldwide during the late 1990s and turn of the millennium, and he has subsequently achieved international acclaim as a neo-minimalist visual artist, among other things.
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. Like Dion Workman, he has also 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 now.
The Amiga 500 is believed to have retired when he was gradually usurped by a Dr Rhythm DR-660 in Nihil. The subsequent creative activities of original guitarist Graham Woods and vocalist Tristam Murdoch are not known.
