Penance was born from the ashes of Dream Death, when several members decided to pursue a more traditional doom direction. Dream Death existed during mid eighties and played speciphic mixture of doom, hardcore and thrash metal.
Founders of Penance were drummer Mike Smail and guitarist Terry Weston (both previously a members of Dream Death) and they were the core of the band from its early days to the disbanding. The band changed various line-ups, and one of their most notable members were Mary Bielich (Novembers Doom).
http://www.myspace.com/penancedoom
Really good band. Spiritualnatural was the first album I heard and is my fav. but I've been listening to Parallel Corners and Proving Ground more lately and now I guess my fav. is pretty much a toss-up of those three.
Butch may not be the most technically proficient singer, but he more than makes up for it in power and emotion.
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Gaia's best and most successful metal guild.
