Sunk Loto was an alternative metal

Alternative metal

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 band from Queensland

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. The band's members were vocalist, Jason Brown, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Luke McDonald, drummer Dane Brown and Sean Van Gennip who was the bass player in the band from 1998 until 2006. Sunk Loto held a recording contract with Sony Music Australia with whom they signed when the average age of the band members was 16 years old. They have released an EP, 2 full length albums, and various singles.
The band finished a short Australian tour at the end of 2006 and then headed back into the studio to finish writing and recording their follow up to 2003's Between Birth and Death

Between Birth and Death

Between Birth and Death is the second full-length studio album by alternative metal band Sunk Loto.Released in 2003, it featured the singles "Everything Everyway" and "Starved", for which music videos were made....

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Brothers, Dane Brown and Jason Brown and replacement bass player Rob Kaay had a meeting together in May 2007 and decided to work together on a new project without Luke McDonald. The three wrote many songs, five days a week over a six month period and tentatively titled the band The Flood The Flood.

Sunk Loto played a final show at the Hard Rock Hotel on the Gold Coast on Friday 14 December 2007 and have since disbanded.

Jason and Dane Brown are now part of a new project titled Electric Horse.

Electric Horse also features 3 members of the band Lump; including Scott, Stew and Fleshy. The Band went on a tour toward the end of 2009 with Cog and Dead Letter Circus and have produced a handful of demos, six of which are featured on their myspace page.

EPs

• Society Anxiety (1999) EP
  • Track listing

1. "Vinegar Stroke"
2. "Porcelain Buddha"
3. "Lift"
4. "Submission"
5. "Blunt"

Albums

• Big Picture Lies - Sony Music (13 October 2000)
  • Track listing

1. "Shiver"
2. "Make You Feel"
3. "Sunken Eyes"
4. "Cured"
5. "Spherical Hostage"
6. "Empty Days (With Animals)"
7. "11"
8. "Human Ashtray"
9. "Primitive"
10. "BPL"
11. "Goodbye Tonight"
12. "SFA" (Bonus Track)

• Between Birth and Death
  Between Birth and Death
  Between Birth and Death is the second full-length studio album by alternative metal band Sunk Loto.Released in 2003, it featured the singles "Everything Everyway" and "Starved", for which music videos were made....
  
  - Sony Music (2003)

Demos

• "Chameleon (Messiah Demo)"
• "Cloud 9 (Messiah Demo)"
• "We Are The Disease"
• "Empty And Alone (Demo Version)"
• "Kill Your Soul"
• "This Violent World"

Note: The second track is a demo version of "Empty And Alone" from etween Birth and Death. The other three tracks are songs which were to be recorded for their next album before the band broke up. They are not on an official release.

Members

• Jason Brown — vocals
• Dane Brown — drums)
• Luke McDonald — guitar
• Sean Van Gennip — bass
• Rob Kaay — bass

External links

• Sunk Loto on MySpace
• Sunk Loto review
• Electric Horse Homepage