They’ve bitten off a chunk of rock cake with that name haven’t they? But when this Dunedin trio debuted in late 2008, they were ready to show audiences that they’d brought along the biggest fucking knife and fork they could fit in the back of the van.
Mountaineater were ready to lay down a heavy slab of broody sonic landscape and visceral bludgeoning rock. Boom. For Tristan Dingemans, front man of the formidable HDU, it’s a nice case of lightning striking twice. In Chris Livingston and Anani Ngata, Tristan has found another rhythm section capable of joining him on some of the most mindblowing guitar journeys known to man. A couple of NZ tours have been building the hype – “if you thought HDU were capable of wreaking sonic destruction, this trio will leave you gasping” hacked Real Groove.