\"Lead guitarist Carmine Vincent Matteliano, the doom riff messiah responsible for co-writing and giving direction to hard-core legend BIOHAZARDs most brutal release to date: KILL OR BE KILLED, voted by Kerrang Best Album of their Career. He wrote, performed, and toured with BIOHAZARD, including a performance on the David Letterman Show.No stranger to the scene, Carmines career in hardcore goes back more than twenty years, playing in various bands with lineups featuring members of hardcore heavyweights, the likes of: SHEER TERROR, MERAUDER, WARZONE, CARNIVORE, ANTIDOTE, HOGANS HEROES, and of course, BIOHAZARD. Carmine meets up with road manager/video director DREW STONE, he manages a band that Carmine is pulling double-duty with on guitar. Reuniting with old pals, BIOHAZARD, Carmine becomes fast friends with Danny Shuler, who was engineering a record for VASARIA Carmine played guitar on, and they find that they have many musical tastes in common. At this time, Carmine is planning the proto-type to GODZERO called NUCLEUS. Carmine and Drew Stone get the ball rolling by recording a bunch of doomy blues rock/stoner songs Carmine has written. They go out to LA for a while to hone the band and land a tour of Europe in 2000 supporting BIOHAZARD. NUCLEUS release an EP on Century Media/People Like You called FTW. They bring in GUTWRENCH drummer extraordinaire Keith Rooney and tear up europe,crash and burn style!!!
After a two year hiatus, Carmine calls upon old friend Joe Inga to reinvent a more brutal version of NUCLEUS. With classic rock sensibilities, heavy blues roots, and all the other great music missing from our world today; enter GODZERO.
They record BLOOD OF KINGS, eleven tracks of pure brutal doom ladened rock, and release it on their own label once again.Our final destination with no compromise, coming full circle back to the roots, we have arrived. It is our lifes blood, our reason to exist. See you out there.\" ~ GODZERO
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