House of Thumbs
Band members
- Linden Audino (vocals)
- Nick Lord (guitar)
- Jake Mormile (guitar)
- Nick Rackham (bass)
- Tom Rossell (drums)
Website
Formed
Melbourne, VIC, 2007
Band information
Since forming in 2007 from the ashes of other metal bands Isolar and Leechseed, House of Thumbs has become a fixture of the Melbourne metal scene.
Upon the termination of Isolar's vocalist, House of Thumbs reformed several months later upon the introduction of Linden Audino on vocals, previously of Leechseed, whom the band came into contact through Sheri-Jesse Tantawy of Black Like Vengeance.
The band combines death and thrash metal techniques and vocals with the polyrhythmic patterns and discordant melodies associated with technical death metal, math metal and experimental metal. 2008 saw House of Thumbs release its debut EP, "Strangle Fiction" to some acclaim and on the back of this they toured throughout regional Victoria. It was on these shows that House of Thumbs developed a reputation for unusual merchandise, unveiling a line of plaster thumb ornaments called the "anti-dice" (and also, the "thumbchuckers").
The band's debut release Crossing the Rubicon was released in March 2010 to a sell-out crowd at the East Brunswick Club in Melbourne. According to critics, the album represented a big step forward for the band in terms of songwriting and production. It was recorded in its entirety by the band, and was mixed and mastered by Ren Reich of Melbourne/Reich Records. The album has been met with positive reviews and press to this point and the band spent the months immediately following its release playing a string of well-attended gigs throughout Melbourne before touring Canberra and Wagga in May 2010. Crossing the Rubicon recently came in at number 5 in MetalObsession.net's top 10 Australian releases of 2010, and at number 1 in MeatPieEye's top 10 albums of 2010, on Canadian metal blog Angrychairs Redux.
2011 sees House of Thumbs continuing to work on their second release, yet untitled, while continuing a regular gigging schedule around Australia.
Discography
Album:
| 2009 | Crossing the Rubicon | self release |
EP:
| 2008 | Strangle Fiction | self release |