Crushing since 1992

Uargh, it's another two piece band. Well, we can't help it, it's not our fault. We tried to make it happen as a normal four piece band: bass, drums, guitar, singer. But we couldn't find any of either, guitar player and singer. In fact, we did find some but it didn't quite work out. From the start, we wanted the bass to be the leading instrument and a guitar to enhance it somehow, but it didn't work out. In the end, we were fed up with looking for guitarists, so we just thought, f*ck it. Then the first demo in 2004. Three tracks with an additional singer, we finally found. It was not bad but didn't work out for several reasons. Too tired to look for any more singers then.

As we finally got to like the idea of working as a duo, everything was easy. We didn't have to argue with others and we could finally bring the tiniest details of our ideas to life. That's exactly what we've always wanted to do! When we play, what comes out is beehoover. We don't have to force it, it's there, we just have to select the right parts and polish them.

So we wrote about three songs and put them on "A mirror is a window's end", started to gig in October 2005 and got the deal with Exile on Mainstream Records a year and five gigs later. The debut "The sun behind the dustbin" was produced by ourselves, just as the ep and the demo before. Whereas Ingmar does most of the song writing and lyrics, Claus is responsible for recording and mixing, that he also does for other bands. All the work is distributed equally between us and we are dedicated like horny dogs.

Now it was time for the next massive riff machine taking place on mother earth. Unconventional circumstances helped in the creation of "Heavy zooo". The album was written at 6am over a couple of weeks, then recorded and produced in a cinema before being mixed at beehoovers' own studio. It's raw and angry, it makes you wanna smash your mothers' favourite china and roll on the floor laughing at the same time. We are proud of it! So check it out and dance!

The year 2009 took us on tour through Europe with other great bands from the Exile On Mainstream label as well as support for doom hero Wino. And we wrote new songs for a third longplayer.

This year will be a good one! Why? Because our new junk "concrete catalyst" will be released on September 3rd and a tour will follow.

'Concrete Catalyst' sees them take a hue leap forwards in terms of their approach to song writing. The previous release 'Heavy Zoo' back in 2008 was an accessible but angry slice of raw sonic distillation. On this release, the band has inhaled a big hit of stoner, prog and experimentation. Essentially Concrete Catalyst rips up the rule book with more than a measure of glee - daring you to pigeon hole them as they switch up and throw themselves head first in another direction.

http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/album/beehoover_concretecatalyst.php

Pescara-based ZIPPO have been able to forge within few years a unique musical creature.

Active since 2004, two albums under their belt, several European tours, concerts all over Italy: this hyperactivity makes Zippo one of the leading bands in the Italian heavy psych field. The latest 'The Road To Knowledge', widely appreciated from the press, shows a band in its phase of natural development which combines progressive approaches and post metal landscapes with the classic stoner and doom

rock backgrounds. Their live shows are bursting and mesmeric, a massive electric ritual that will petrify you.