Confessor

The year is 1987 in Raleigh North Carolina, (home of Corrosion Of Conformity). A healthy musical scene forms around those guys, who are the hometown heroes who put the town on the musical map. Soon other bands form, and since Raleigh was always open minded, (people liked punk rock and rock and metal), no one was upset when the band Confessor started and began to gather a following of metal heads and punk rockers. Folks dug the band’s Trouble influenced metal and singer Scott Jeffries’ high pitched wailing banshee vocals.

Eventually the band picked up drummer Steve Shelton, and the band started to craft these super heavy (almost art rock) songs with lots of tempo changes and unbelievable drumming from Steve. They were completely ahead of their time, and they started to pack in the local clubs with this interesting sound. Confessor didn’t even have any records out, it was the tape trading fanzine universe and soon the band released three demos in a two year period, each better than the other.

I cannot stress how incredible this music was and how it still holds up, and that they were HUGELY POPULAR in town without any vinyl or out of town shows. Confessor gigs were always packed, fun, and entertaining. Soon, the band started to go out of town with Corrosion Of Conformity and their legend started to spread. In time, there were lineup changes, actual albums, European tours, and then thirty years (count ‘em!) of on again off again activity.

Confessor is one of those bands that never ever got what they deserved, or what they should have received. The pioneers are the ones who get scalped, but all of their musical history is worthy and there’s even a talk of a final THIRD ALBUM coming out before the world turns to dust.

This Confessor drawing is the lineup of the band in their pre Condemned lp/ three demo version with Scott Jeffries, Steve Shelton, guitarists Graham Fry and Brian Shoaf, and bassist Cary Rowells. The band is probably playing at the Brewery in Raleigh and the whole gang is there rocking out. I would like to thank Charles Cardello and the band Confessor for allowing this to happen, because Confessor are one of the greatest heavy metal bands to ever exist, and you know that’s a fact! -Brian Walsby

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