Ringworm (band)


Ringworm is an American metalcore band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1989. Their name was derived from a Vincent Price movie. The band has toured extensively in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has released four albums via Victory Records. In 2013, the band announced they had signed with Relapse Records, releasing three further albums with the label before moving to Nuclear Blast in 2023. Vocalist Human Furnace plays in the Cleveland [heavy heavy metal music|metal music|metal] band Gluttons and solo project Holyghost.
The song "Life After the End of the World", from the band's 2005 album Justice Replaced By Revenge, was featured in the 2016 animated film The Secret Life of Pets.
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Musical style

In a 2019 interview with Davin Deblat, Human Furnace identified the band more with the metal scene than the hardcore scene, stating "70–80 percent of our songs are mostly just thrash. Very fast, very thrashy, and then you got some breakdowns. When you play a hardcore gig, everyone just stares at you for your whole set and they just wait for that one riff so they can spin around in circles and crowd-kill. And I'm not really about that. So when you play a metal show and you play thrash riffs and headbanging riffs, then metalheads respond to that and it's a fun thing. I definitely relate more to that scene because that's what I am. I grew up a punk rock kid, a metal kid, so I have a lot more in common with that scene… these days, anyway."
They have cited influences including Carcass, Slayer, Integrity, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Bolt Thrower, Exodus, Corrosion of Conformity, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and the Crumbsuckers.

Members

Current

  • James "Human Furnace" Bulloch – vocals
  • Matt Sorg – guitar
  • Ed Stephens – bass
  • Grady Wessollek – drums

Former

  • John Comprix – guitar
  • Mike Lare – bass, guitar, backing vocals
  • Matt Devries – guitar
  • Frank Novinec – guitar
  • Chris Pellow – bass
  • Blaze Tishko – guitar, bass
  • John "Lockjaw" Tole – bass
  • Chris Smith – guitar
  • Kenny Carpenter – drums
  • Bob Zeiger – drums
  • Aaron Ramirez – bass
  • Aaron Dallison – guitar
  • Steve Rauckhorst – bass
  • Ben Hollowell – bass
  • Chris Dora – drums
  • Danny Zink – drums
  • Ryan Steigerwald – drums
  • Mark Witherspoon - guitar

Discography

  • 1991: Ringworm, later released by Overkill Records
  • 1993: The Promise, later reissued on CD by Deathwish Inc. and vinyl by A389 Recordings
  • 1994: Split 7" with Boiling Point
  • 1995: Flatline
  • 1999: Madness of War
  • 2000: Hollow Soul
  • 2001: Split 7" with Cold as Life
  • 2001: Birth is Pain
  • 2003: Splitseveninch
  • 2005: Justice Replaced by Revenge
  • 2007: The Venomous Grand Design
  • 2011: Scars
  • 2011: Your Soul Belongs to Us...
  • 2012: Stigmatas in the Flesh
  • 2013: Bleed
  • 2014: Hammer of the Witch
  • 2016: Snake Church
  • 2019: Death Becomes My Voice
  • 2023: ''Seeing Through Fire''

Videography

  • "Justice Replaced by Revenge"
  • "The Ninth Circle"
  • "Used Up, Spit Out"
  • "Snake Church"
  • "Shades of Blue"
  • "Acquiesce"
  • "No Solace, No Quarter, No Mercy"
  • "House of Flies"