Keelhaul is a four piece progressive stoner metal/sludge metal

Sludge metal

Sludge metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that melds elements of doom metal and hardcore punk, and sometimes incorporates influences from southern rock, stoner rock and grunge. Sludge metal is typically abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting...

 band from Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

. The members are Aaron Dallison (bass and vocals), Dana Embrose (guitar), Will Scharf (drums), and Chris Smith (guitar and vocals).

The band's toured Europe in April 2004, and subsequently went on a lengthly break. With no tours or new music recorded, Keelhaul entered the studio in December 2008 with producer Andrew Schneider to record their new album, Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity. In the same month, the band resumed live activity with two shows, one in Philadelphia and the other in New York. In 2009 they played support to Isis

Isis (band)

Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...

 for the Wavering Radiant

Wavering Radiant

Wavering Radiant is the fifth and final full-length album by American post-metal group Isis, released by Ipecac Recordings in 2009 and produced by Joe Barresi. It stands as Isis' last full-length album, as the band split just over a year after its release...

 tour (which took in dates across Europe), filling the bill with legendary Finnish band Circle

Circle (band)

Circle is an experimental rock band, founded in Pori, Finland in 1991. Their eclectic style is "ever changing, ever Circular", classified into genres such as progressive, Krautrock, ambient, heavy metal, speed-kraut, and avant-rock, among others...

.

Members

• Chris Smith (Integrity
  Integrity (band)
  Integrity is a metallic hardcore band formed in 1988. Their lyrical themes include religion, the supernatural, mental illness, individualism, and the occult.- Discography :*Harder They Fall - Demo cassette - 1989...
  
  , Terminal Lovers, False Hope) - guitar, vocals
• Aaron Dallison (Escalation Anger, Ringworm
  Ringworm (band)
  Ringworm is a hardcore punk. band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1991. The name "Ringworm" was derived from a Vincent Price movie. The band has toured extensively in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has released their last three albums on Victory Records...
  
  , Abdullah, State of conviction
  State of conviction
  State of Conviction formed in 1996 and is a hardcore band with a funk background. The band was spawned from the Unified Culture song "Convictions"....
  
  ) - bass, vocals
• Dana Embrose (Groin, La Gritona, Suicide King, False Hope) - guitar
• Will Scharf (Craw
  Craw (band)
  Craw is an independent band from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. They belong to the harder-edged branch of the math rock or post rock movement, in the same category as bands such as Colossamite, Keelhaul, Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, and Ruins.- History :...
  
  ) - drums

Guest musicians

• Bryant Clifford Meyer
  Bryant Clifford Meyer
  Bryant Clifford Meyer is a keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist, best known for his tenure with Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band Isis. He was with the band since its debut full-length, Celestial, in 2000. Previously, he was a formative member of Boston-based rock band The Gersch...
  
   of Isis
  Isis
  Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
  
   and Red Sparowes
  Red Sparowes
  Red Sparowes is a Los Angeles post-rock band comprising current and former members of Isis, Halifax Pier, Angel Hair and Pleasure Forever. Their sound is characteristic of soundscape-influenced experimental rock, with an otherwise uncommon extensive use of a pedal steel guitar.-History:Red Sparowes...
  
   appears on the song "Randall" from the Subject to Change Without Notice album.

Discography

• Keelhaul - (CD 1998, Cambodia Recordings)
• Keelhaul - (CD 1999, Escape Artist Records)
• Ornamental Iron - (LP 7" 2000, Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993...
  
  )
• Keelhaul II - (CD 2001, Hydra Head Records)
• Keelhaul II - (LP 2001, Escape Artist Records)
• Anodyne - Keelhaul - (Split 7" LP 2002, Chainsaw Safety Records)
• Subject To Change Without Notice - (CD 2003, Hydra Head Records)
• Subject To Change Without Notice - (LP 2003, Escape Artist Records) Available in 4 different picture discs.
• You Waited Five Years For This? - (EP 7" 2009, Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993...
  
  )
• Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity - (2xLP 2009, Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993...
  
  )
• Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity - (CD 2009, Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records
  Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993...
  
  )

External links

• Keelhaul @ MySpace
• Interview with Apeshit
• Another interview
• Article "Hello Antwerp" in Cleveland Scene magazine