After guitarist/vocalist/comic author Chris Rizzanski and drummer Sparky Rogers’ last band Dollar Spent folded, they laid the foundations for Enos, and recruited bassist George Cobbold and six-stringer Sean Cox to complete the line up. With musicial influences ranging from the standard issue Kyuss and Ufommamut, to Chris’ love of Fields of the Nephalim and Einstürzende Neubauten thrown into the mix, Chris replies to the question of being to asked to describe his band: “That’s a tricky one. I guess we have a much more “spacey” and prog sound to us than a lot of the other bands that I would consider us to be in the same scene as us. The ridiculous amount of effects we use probably helps! There’s definitely a progressive element to us and we’re not afraid to experiment.

“That said there is a firm rooting in song writing. When we were putting together ‘Chapter 1' we were very conscious to try and make it a dynamic record that pulls you along with it. It has its heavy moments, slow bits and fast bits. I think that we have one foot in the stoner/doom scene and another in what would probably be referred to as the ‘classic rock’ scene of the 70s.”
 

Hearing is believing, and you can download ‘Chapter 1’ for the princely sum of nothing for FREE right on their Bandcamp (http://enosthechimp.bandcamp.com/), and is heartily endorsed by Soundshock. Also check out their Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ENOSTHECHIMP) to keep in touch with the continued adventures of the simian stoners!

 

Also catch the live Enos experience on December 19th at The Green Door Store in Brighton, with support from fellow doom heavyweights Slabdragger and Sea Bastard, and you should go if you don’t consider yourself deaf (although you most likely will be afterwards).
 

  Interviewed by Steve Jones