Origin:	Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Genres:	Doom Metal

Last update/review:	September 11, 2010

Unorthodox

Originally known as Asylum (the name change was necesitated to avoid confusion with a national pop band of a similar name), Unorthodox was one of the members of the Washington, DC doom metal family, several of whom were snapped up by Hellhound Records in the early nineties. Like many of their contemporaries, they have a Black Sabbath influence, but it is less noticeable here, as in general the sound is somewhat more psychedelic in nature -- The Obsessed would be a prime reference point, due in large part to Dale Flood's vocal similarity to Wino. The band was less a Sabbath clone than some of the other Hellhound bands, and so, coincidentally or not, Balance Of Power is one of the best of the Hellhound releases. The band has been in a near constant state of on-again, off-again status with various guys collaborating with Flood, with a new album, Awaken, finally seeing the light of day in the fall of 2008.