Severed Hand

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Severed Hand is a metal band out of Asbury Park, New Jersey. Their influences include a wide range of artists from metal and classic rock genres. Sounds of Third Eye Blind, Jewel, Iced Earth, old Pantera, Manowar, and recent Godsmack echo among their unique brand of modern day Heavy Metal.

1 Biography
2 Current Line-Up
3 Former members
4 Discography
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Biography

Severed Hand has been a prominent act in the New Jersey Heavy Metal scene since 2000. The band features offspring of three of New Jersey's most important and influential staples of the music industry - Sebastian Bach, Bob Burger and Paul Christian Sr.. Severed Hand has made a considerable impact worldwide with their debut album selling a notable amount in Germany and receiving rave reviews in Heavy Magazine - one of Germany's biggest heavy metal magazines. The band's drummer has also gained notable attention from Japanese music forums, due to his being the son of a famous vocalist. Paris's mother allegedly spent some time working at a strip club in Canada as a dancer.

In 2006, the band parted with lead vocalist Walter Figueroa after a fight between Christian and the singer when their bus, which Figueroa provided for the band's U.S. tour, broke down in Texas. The band blamed Figueroa for the mishap and since then, guitarist and original vocalist David Keelan has resumed vocal duties.

A strange, mysterious man by the name of "Kevin B." once auditioned for the role of lead singer, claiming he was the son of Gaahl(lead singer of Gorgoroth), which delighted the band. However, his audition--a cover of Celine Dion's "Tellement J'ai d'Amour Pour Toi"--proved his vocal abilites to be more akin to Biz Markie than his apparent man-eating "father".

[edit] Current Line-Up

David Keelen - Vocals/Guitar
Paul Christian Jr. - Lead Guitar
Mitch Burger - Bass/Backing Vocals
Paris Bierk - Drums/Percussion

[edit] Former members

Walter Figueroa - Lead Vocals

[edit] Discography

Keep Your Wives Inside - self released - (2005)

[edit] Trivia

The band was once joined on stage by former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach for a rendition of the Black Sabbath song, War Pigs.
Paul regularly seduces middle aged women with acoustic performances of "I Want to Know What Love is"
Despite the band's sound being reminiscent of such heavy acts as Cinderella, guitarist Paul Christian Jr. cites Randy Newman and Jewel among his influences.
The band is close with Matt Storm, former vocalist of the extreme death metal group No Clear Fix with both Keelan (on drums) and Christian (keyboards) being former band members.
The band was featured in a 10 second clip on the VH1 show I Married Sebastian Bach which documented the marriage, business relationship and sex life of the rocker and his wife. If you look closely, you can see the band was briefly shown playing live while Bach discussed his son's drumming.
Paul Christian Jr. has a side project known as My Static Tears, an emo band predominantly catering to a high school audience. The band released their rendition of the Jewel song, Foolish Games online in 2005.