KEZIAH

KEZIAH is a Lagos, Nigeria-born person, born in 1968, associated in the provided material with blues, funk, singer-songwriter and soul. The name is also used by more than one music act, so the details available here combine separate entries under the same name.

Release and collaboration history

One KEZIAH is identified as the younger sister of hip-hop artist Hezekiah. She appears on his projects and later records a self-titled EP under her own name. The material presents her as an underground hip-hop and east coast hip-hop artist with ties to a family music connection through Hezekiah.

Basque sludge and post-metal group

Another KEZIAH is a sludge, post-metal and doom metal band from the Basque Country, formed in 2015. The line-up includes Gorka on guitars, Aitor on bass, Jonan on vocals and guitars, and Alvaro on drums, who joins in early 2016. The group draws on a heavy sound shaped by bands including Black Sabbath, Neurosis, Crowbar, Amenra, Breach, Cult of Luna, Entombed and Horn of the Rhino.

The band records its first EP, The Ocean is not Silent, at Grabasonic Studios in the Basque Country and has it mixed at Redmont Studios in Sweden by Magnus Lindberg, who is also noted as the drummer of Cult of Luna. The release appears on a physical co-edition through Cosmic Tentacles, Muerte Matar Records, Barraks Promotions and Violence in the Veins Records.