Henry's Anger

Henry's Anger was a Canberra-based heavy metal band, active in the 1990s. Their second album, Personality Test, was nominated for an Aria Award for Best Rock Album[1] and reached No. 38 on the alternative charts. They supported many acts such as Deftones, Mr Bungle, Suicidal Tendencies, Unsane, Strife, Regurgitator and The Mark of Cain.[2][3]

Henry's Anger
OriginCanberra, ACT, Australia
Genresheavy metal
Years active1994–2000
LabelsChatterbox
Associated actsBrace, Addictive, Psychrist, Cryogenic, The Way Hip Antelopes, Positive Feedback Loop
Past membersMatt Coffey (drums)
Rod Yates (bass, piano)
Paddy Coffey (guitar)
Jamie Thomas (vocals)
Steve Simmons (vocals)
Malcolm McAllister (guitar and vocals)
Michael Patrick Monaghan aka Zebra Nowhere (vocals, keyboards, sampling)

The band was formed in 1994 and were finalists in the Australian National University's Campus Bands competition.[4] That year it received an ACT cultural grant and released the Honest Brutality, Horrific Beauty demo tape. The demo tape was popular, selling about 350 copies by September 1995, helping them to establish a committed local following.[5][6]

After the release of the Interfere EP, original guitarist Malcolm McAllister and vocalist Michael Patrick Monaghan left to join forces with previous members of the rock band "Stickman" and folk duo "Plutoastia" to create the Canberra Acid folk outfit "The Way Hip Antelopes".

Discography
  • "Honest Brutality, Horrific Beauty" (1994) - Tracks: Laughterlife, Worship Me, What I left of what you left of me, Liquid sky
  • Interfere EP (1996) - Different Drum - Tracks: Feed the animal, Sic, Starshine, Black (aka Rectangle), Cafe Del Blasphemy
  • Blacklining (1997) - DC
  • Personality Test (1999) - Chatterbox

References
  1. Aria Awards Henry's Anger awards history
  2. Scully, Anthony (8 November 2000). "Powerhouse Simmons Set for Homecoming". TE Archive. Archived from the original on 13 June 2003. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  3. Giffin, Brian (2015). Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal (3rd ed.). ISBN 978-0-9943206-1-2.
  4. Leedham, Nicole (8 September 1994). "Set for Faze II". The Canberra Times. p. 32.
  5. Castles, Jane (26 January 1995). "No Henry, but his band is angry". The Canberra Times. p. 25.
  6. Sheridan, Melanie (7 September 1995). "Honesty brutality and raw emotion". The Canberra Times. p. 24.
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