Band Members- Corey Canche - Vocals/Aesthetics
- Doug Chappelle - Screams/Buffness
- Jimmy Hamby - Guitar/Backup Vocals
- Danny Canuto - Bass/Woahs
- Stephen DeSorbo - Lead Guitar/Vocals
- Louis Gonzalez - Drums/Drums
- Schmitty - Merchandising/Sex Slave
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As is the case with most bands, Ark Harbour started out as jam sessions in a garage. Guitarist Stephen DeSorbo, then drummer Corey Canche, and bassist Danny Canuto would get together and play whatever came to mind. Metal hardly ever came to mind. That changed, however, when Stephen met guitarist Jimmy Hamby. After just one sleepless, distortion-filled night, the two had laid the framework for what would become the song “Endings and Aspirations.” Fast forward six months, and the garage had become a place of offering to the gods of metal. The quartet had converged to produce over ten songs’ worth of epic riffs, crushing breakdowns, and other things that conjure up images of raging thunderstorms and Norse gods. Unfortunately, there were no lyrics to accompany any of that. Deciding that such an absence was about as useful as Stephen’s ability to solve math problems (Stephen failed algebra twice), Stephen and Corey wrote the lyrics to “Shores” in a single night. More songs followed suit rather easily. Now wielding both music and lyrics, the band set out to find a singer. However, much like trying to find a needle in a really, good-Lord-this-haystack-is-unnecessarily-large haystack, the search proved difficult. Then, like a knight in shining, but oddly effeminate Herbal Essences-scented armor, drummer Louis Gonzalez came to the rescue. With his addition, Corey became frontman. Yet, something was still missing. The band needed a little more oomph, a little more power, a little more pure, primal manliness to balance out Louis' watermelon shampoo and the rest of the band's general goofiness; in short, they needed a big, buff black guy. The metal gods' delivered on this need in the form of Doug Chappelle, whose screams could probably be used as an instrument of psychological warfare. Finally, the lineup was complete, the stars aligned, flights of angels began to sing, and Ark Harbour was formed. |