Hessian

Bio
Hessian was conceived in 2008 by Salli Wason (guitar, vocals) and Angus McFarland(guitar, vocals,) who had played together previously in Hatchetface and the Vipers. In February of 2009 McFarland joined Michael Bryant in a 48 Hour Music Festival band called Knocked up by Wolves. Shortly after Bryant agreed to join Hessian as bass player. Several drummers were involved before settling, for a while, on Zachary Howard, with whom they released the four-song cd Old, Wild, and Free. This was recorded at Acadia Recording during March of 2010 with Marc Bartholomew as engineer.

On the strength of Old, Wild, and Free Hessian was chosen as a "Band of the Week" by Fenriz of the Norwegian band Darkthrone for the last week of September. They also won the Portland Phoenix's Best Music Poll award for 2010 in the category Best Heavy Music. In December they traveled to Brooklyn, NY to record a split 7" vinyl with Brooklyn metal band Natur for The Year is One Records. They contributed the song Witch Road, principal recording taking place on the 4th of December with Mexicutioner of Natur as engineer, and vocals and lead guitars being finished shortly thereafter, again at Acadia Recording, this time with Abel Adame. The release date of this record is October 28, 2011.

Tim Webber joined the band as drummer in August of 2011.

Current Members

 * Angus McFarland - Guitar, vocals
 * Salli Wason - Guitar, vocals
 * Michael Bryant - Bass
 * Tim Webber - Drums

Former Members

 * Andy Haiduken - Drums
 * Zack Howard - Drums

Releases

 * Old, Wild and Free