Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live has returned, at least for the time being. The Olympia hardcore punk band, often considered at the forefront of the noise queercore movement, toured the country multiple times in the mid-1990s, while releasing material on Outpunk, Sound Pollution and K Records. Since the demise of the band some 13 years ago, some its members went on to other bands - Tight Bros, Lords of Lightseed, Yogoman Burning Band and Nudity, to name a few - while others became a touring vegan chef, budding lawyer, reggae jam band god and producer to many of Olympia's latest crop of bands. Sadly, the band also lost founding member and noise-violin player, Michael Griffen.
The return of Behead the Prophet is not a reunion, but a happening - allowing the collective members to have closure.
"It is definitely a ‘happening,'" notes singer Joshua Ploeg. "It's the perfect way to describe it. For me, (it) is a way to provide some closure to and acknowledgment of the period of time when Michael died, in a very personal way."
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