Dungeon #15 - Crook, Tooms, Back To The Hillside

Back To The Hillside, an underground alt-rock/shoegaze band from Auckland, NZ. They take inspiration from bands such as Deftones, The Smiths, The Smashing Pumpkins, Title Fight and many more.

Crook
New Band Crook Has Blast-beats, Feedback, Sinister Bass Lines and a Bad Attitude.

Tooms
Tooms Are an Unsettling Bass and Drum Duo from Tamaki Makaurua. Their Uncouth and Dishevelled Tunes Are Engaging and Off-kilter with Intertwining Jekyll and Hyde Vocals, Fuzzed out Bass and Catastrophic Drumming. Tooms Play a Distinct, Raw and Idiosyncratic Version of Punk. Tooms Have Played some Pretty Cool Shows Too, Having Been Lucky Enough to Open for Sleaford Mods, Divide & Dissolve, Propagandhi, Street Chant & the D4. Tooms Have Also Appeared at Borderline, Whammy Fest & Wellington’s Punkfest in Addition to the Others Way and New York’s New Colossus Festival. In 2022, Tooms Released a Full Length Album Entitled Fake Teeth via 1:12 Records. It Was Subsequently Described As a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers. Prior to That, Tooms Had Previously Released a Self-titled Cassette Through Arcade Records and the Dry Ep. In Tooms, Dorian Noval Hits the Drums. She Has Previously Played with Jazmine Mary, Natural Glow and Exit Fear. Nich Cunningham Is on Bass and Has Also Played in the Moonlight and Rope. In a Bizarre Twist of Fate, Tooms’ Song Bit Part Made the Shortlist for the 2022 Apra Silver Scroll. They Did Not Win.