THE GODDAMN GALLOWS

The Goddamn Gallows began in Michigan and have lived largely on the road since. [chicagoreader.com] The band has moved base repeatedly and its members live scattered across the country. [chicagoreader.com] Its style has been called hobocore, drawing on Americana, bluegrass, punk, metal, cabaret and sea shanties. [chicagoreader.com] Asheville Stages dates the band's formation to Detroit and reviewed it at The Grey Eagle in June 2023 — the room the register documents them playing. [ashevillestages.com] The band played that night as a four-piece. [ashevillestages.com] The band's members describe writing by refusing to meet in the middle on genre. [charlestoncitypaper.com] The early touring years were lean. [charlestoncitypaper.com]

“Born in Michigan and raised on the road, the Goddamn Gallows had a four-year gap between The Maker and last year’s The Trial.” [chicagoreader.com]

“The somewhat nomadic existence of this raw and boisterous band might account for that—they’ve moved from Michigan to Portland to California, and their members are currently scattered in cities all over the country (including Chicago) like empty bottles.” [chicagoreader.com]

“The Goddamn Gallows’ style has been described as “hobocore,” and they draw from diverse influences—Americana, bluegrass, punk, metal, cabaret, Celtic punk, sea shanties, and more—to create a sound that’s both new and nostalgically familiar.” [chicagoreader.com]

“But The Goddamn Gallows have been doing their hobo-grass thing since forming in Detroit nearly 20 years ago, and they’ve built a rep for putting on a show that is something to witness at least once.” [ashevillestages.com]

“The four-piece—Mikey Classic on vocals and guitar, Fishgutzzz on vocals and upright bass, Uriah Baker aka “Baby Genius” on drums and Jayke Orvis on mandolin—romped through a set of songs full of devils, revenge, booze, death, and disease.” [ashevillestages.com]

““None of us like the same music at all, and we all insist on only playing the music that we want to play. So the metal drummer will be playing metal and I’ll be playing polka and [guitarist] Mikey Classic might be playing something rockabilly, and you just have to make a song out of it. So there’s no compromise.”” [charlestoncitypaper.com]

““It definitely made us stronger, because we were eating out of garbage cans for like two years,” Avery says.” [charlestoncitypaper.com]