Eibon // Biography

Eibon is a French doom/sludge act featuring Drowning's bass player Stephane Riviere and guitarist Georges Balafas on vocals. Along with Jerome Lachaud, who was Stephane’s former band mate & drummer in the French legendary Doom-Metal pioneer Garden of Silence. Jerome was also part of the Doom veterans Astral Rising. The line-up was completed by long-time friend Max Hedin on guitars.

In March ‘07, Eibon released a split-CD released on extreme metal label Bones Brigade Records. The other band sharing the bill is stoner freaks Hangman's Chair (former Es la Guerilla). Critics and feedback have been really positive and the split-CD was sold-out only 6 months after its release.

This first effort already gave an idea of what Eibon is all about: somewhere between agressive Sludge and Heavy Doom-metal. The music is based on progressive structures, alternating pounding heavy riffs and melody based parts.

In February 08, Eibon is back with 2 new promo-tracks, recorded in October 2007 in the same studio and mixed by Andrew G. (Glorior Belli, Temple Of Baal) Theses 2 new tracks reflect the band’s evolution: progressive parts are longer and more complex while agressive parts are even harsher.

In the meanwhile, Eibon has been regularly seen on stage in 2007. Each time, the band received very positive responses from the audience.

Now, the band is looking for a decent record deal which could allow them to release these new tracks, or one providing any suited format which could host Eibon’s 100 mn (or less) of music that the band has written so far.