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Holochaust is nowadays known as MIND-A-STRAY. It was formed back in 1996 but the year 2000 can be considered the official year for the band. Please check www.last.fm/music/Mind-A-Stray for the official last.fm site. -Tommy Dee / MIND-A-STRAY (composer, vocals, guitar, lyrics) www.mind-a-stray.com www.reverbnation.com/mindastray www.myspace.com/mindstray .

1. A crust influenced punk-hardcore band from Caen (France) with members of Amanda Woodward, Karysun, Zombies Are Pissed!, Soar, and Fuaim Catha. http://www.stateofexhaustion.org/ 2. Post-punk from Melbourne, Australia. http://exhaustion.bandcamp.com/ 3. Blackened Grind from the UK featuring ex-Throats members http://exhaustionmetal.bandcamp.com/ .

Haust grew up in Notodden in the hills of Norway, in the shadows of hotrod hicks and the black metal crowd surrounding Emperor. Haust never were a part of these groups, but were inevitably infected by the mix of white trash and black metal. The early forms of Haust started in 2001, but it was around the the time of their relocation to Oslo in 2007 things started to pick up, as a part of the Black Hole Crew along with Okkultokrati and Dark Times among others. After Haust relocated to Oslo they were quickly picked up by Tiger Records’...

Haustor was a new wave band from Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), active during the 1980s. The core of the band was formed in 1977, when singer and occasional guitarist Darko Rundek met bassist Srđan Sacher. Two years later they formed Haustor with Boris Leiner (drums) and Ozren Štiglić (guitar). In 1980 they added a keyboardist and a brass section, and Haustor released its first album, "Haustor", in 1981. All of the songs were written by either Sacher or Rundek, and the Sacher-penned "Moja prva ljubav" ( "My first love" ) became a hit. After a pause, caused by the members'...

1. Exhaust is a bass, drum and tape trio that crashed through various Montreal venues in a series of semi-controlled explosions during the mid-90s, starting with a self released cassette album called "230596" in 1996 and followed with an early vinyl release on Constellation appearing in 1998 (issued on CD two years later). As other projects began to dominate the players’ schedules, Exhaust have played only sporadically since 1999 but re-grouped in the summer of 2001 for a short tour and month-long cabin retreat, where their second album was recorded. Aidan Girt (drums) mashes up beats and samples with his...