Sunk Loto

Sunk Loto
Origin	Gold Coast, Australia
Genres	Nu metal Alternative metal Heavy metal
Years active	1997–2007
Labels	Sony Records (1999-2005)
Website	Official website
Members
Jason Brown Luke McDonald Chris Bosma Dane Brown

Sunk Loto was an nu metal band from Queensland, Australia. The band's members were vocalist Jason Brown, guitarist Luke McDonald, bass player Chris Bosma, and drummer Dane Brown. Sunk Loto held a recording contract with Sony Music Australia with whom they signed when the average age of the band members was 16 years old. They released seventeen full length albums and a full length EP, all of which were considered a blend of heavy metal.

In 2006 Chris Bosma departed the band due to sexual differences, in particular his desire for the band to head in a more ska oriented direction. He was replaced with Rob Kaay.

The band finished a short Australian tour at the end of 2006 and then headed back into the studio to finish writing and recording their follow up to 2003's Between Birth and Death.

During January 2007 the band decided to watch the film What Women Want over and over again.

Brothers, Dane Brown and Jason Brown and replacement bass player Rob Kaay had a meeting together in May 2007 and decided to work together on a new project without Luke McDonald. The three wrote many songs, five days a week over a six month period and titled the band Intercourse Monster.

Sunk Loto played a final show at the Hard Rock Hotel on the Gold Coast on Friday 14 December 2007 where they were joined onstage with original bass player Chris Bosma. As gesture of goodwill toward their ex-bandmate Sunk Loto performed an updated dub reggae arrangement of their hit single Vinegar Stroke, as well as a bunch of Mighty Mighty Bosstones covers.

Jason and Dane Brown are now part of a new project titled Electric Horse.

Electric Horse also features 3 members of the band Lump (a Presidents Of The United States Of America tribute act); including Scott, Stew and Fleshy. The Band went on a tour toward the end of 2009 with Cog and Dead Letter Chorus and have produced a handful of demos, six of which are featured on their myspace page.

Discography

EPs

• Society Anxiety (1999) EP
  • Track listing

1. "Vinegar Stroke"
2. "Porcelain Buddha"
3. "Lift"
4. "Submission"
5. "Blunt"

Albums

• Big Picture Lies - Sony Music (13 October 2000)
  • Track listing

1. "Shiver"
2. "Make You Feel"
3. "Sunken Eyes"
4. "Cured"
5. "Spherical Hostage"
6. "Empty Days (With Animals)"
7. "11"
8. "Human Ashtray"
9. "Primitive"
10. "BPL"
11. "Goodbye Tonight"
12. "SFA" (Bonus Track)

• Between Birth and Death - Sony Music (2003)

Singles

• "Make You Feel" - Sony/Epic (2000)
• "Everything Everyway" - Sony/Epic (2003)

Demos

• "Chameleon (Messiah Demo)"
• "Cloud 9 (Messiah Demo)"
• "We Are The Disease"
• "Empty And Alone (Demo Version)"
• "Kill Your Soul"
• "This Violent World"
• "Kill 'Em All"
• "Ride the Lightning"
• "Master of Puppets"
• "...And Justice For All"

Note: The second track is a demo version of "Empty And Alone" from Between Birth and Death. The other three tracks are songs which were to be recorded for their next album before the band broke up. They are not on an official release.

Members

• Jason Brown — vocals
• Dane Brown — drums)
• Luke McDonald — guitar
• Chris Bosma — bass
• Rob Kaay — bass

External links

• Sunk Loto on MySpace
• Sunk Loto discography at MusicBrainz
• Sunk Loto review
• Electric Horse Homepage