Ichabod

Most of the members of Ichabod are indigenous to the greater Lowell, MA area, a city whose abundant melancholy is evident in the landscape of mill husks and industrial scarring; where drab childhoods become drug habits and the complexities of immigration and postindustrial anxiety are forever immortalized in the intoxicated verse of Jack Kerouac. Ichabod seem incapable of escaping their roots in the Mill City. This background plays a major role in Ichabod's sound.

Recently, after a number of high-profile MA based gigs (including main stage at the 4th annual New England Hardcore and Metal Festival) and relentless promotion of the band through touring and internet networking, Ichabod landed a recording contract with new MA based upstart label Root Sucker Records. This is the home of the latest Ichabod recording, Let the Bad Times Roll. Shortly after finishing recording, the band recruited bassmaster Greg Dellaria (ex-Blood for Blood) to join Ichabod on their quest.

Depending heavily upon the subjectivity of the listener, Ichabod has been described as everything from hardcore to hard rock, punk to psychedelic, crust to metal, doom to stoner rock, noise to spacerock, and seemingly all else in between. But to commit this band to one genre would be restrictive, for their influences vary indefinitely. The band members themselves are wary of such labels for this very reason. The common threads are the organic atmospherics and claustrophobic energy that pervade the music, but never without there being light at the end of the tunnel. Striking matches in the darkness, Today is the Day mastermind Steve Austin captured a glimpse of the Ichabod reality while recording Let the Bad Times Roll. So listen carefully, and if you can stand to let your eyes adjust to the blackness, look for the light in Ichabod’s epitaph for humanity