Founded: 3 / 1997
Location: Australia
Sunk Loto are an Australian alternative metal band formed in Gold Coast, Queensland in 1997. The band's founding members are Dane Brown on drums, his brother Jason Brown on vocals, Luke McDonald on guitar and Sean Van Gennip on bass guitar. Sunk Loto signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia when the members' average age was 16 years. They released two studio albums, Big Picture Lies (13 October 2000) and Between Birth and Death (17 November 2003); both reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. The group disbanded in December 2007, and after a 15-year hiatus the original members re-formed the band in 2022 with coaxing of a meme page dedicated to them and with big public response, completed a sold out East Coast tour. In 2023, Luke McDonald was fired from the band. Musician Rohan Stevenson joined the band as the guitarist shortly before embarking on the Between Birth and Death 20th Anniversary Tour.
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Ahead of their Australian tour celebrating 20 years of 'Between Birth & Death', Sunk Loto frontman Jason Brown has shared some little-known and new facts about the making of/period of the album.
'The Gallows Wait' marks Sunk Loto’s first track with new guitarist Rohan “Ro” Stevenson and signals the beginning of a new era.
"We are really excited for this new phase with Ro and together have already written 2 songs, the first of which is set to be released in the coming weeks."
Froth & Fury Fest returns this November for a day of "beers, riffs, tattoos, food trucks, stalls and more".
You haven't forgotten about just how good Between Birth And Death actually is, have you?
Exciting news for Sunk Loto fans is dropping next week - are you ready to mosh?
"15 years of build-up has been released in a tsunami-like catharsis."
Not just a nostalgic experience, but better than ever.
Pricey sat down for a zoom call chat with Luke and Jason from Sunk Loto about their reformation, their band legacy and their upcoming sold-out shows - and the prospect of new tunes from Sunk Loto!
Sunks are back! We've been tracking the official/unofficial announcements, movements and tidbits as it's all rolled out in the past week or so - and now we have OFFICIAL news and an announcement of a return to the live stage. They've just dropped the news of two QLD shows in July and August this year, and tickets are on sale now, so honestly, you'd better hop to it. They are pretty much a lock to sell out.