San Francisco's Lower Forty-Eight combine raw energy and complexity to form a new and inventive approach to rock music.

Musically fearless and fed by an intense passion and understanding of composition, structure, and chaos, LFE blends these attributes into an amalgamation of metal, hardcore, and indie-rock. Lower Forty-Eight straddles the line between full-on aggression and melancholic trepidation with highly cerebral and emotive lyrical content.

Their previous album, 'Skin Failure' (2003), was hailed in the European press as a powerful, dynamic and complex album that combined the best elements of hardcore, mathrock and punk.

With their latest album, 'Apertures', the band have further solidified their identity, creating their most accomplished album to date. 'Apertures' is a personal account of human conflict and moral struggle, set to music that is heavy and intense, but also beautiful and melodic; a skillful fusion of metal, hardcore and indie-rock that highlights the band's superb grasp of composition and structure. The culmination of two years of intensive writing and touring, 'Apertures' is a knife-edged album that is epic in its scale and cinematic in its passion.

Formed in 2000 and hailing from the bands Spackle, LandShark, Model, and The Rail Gun Ensemble, Lower Forty-Eight have always striven to forge new approaches to the standard rock constructs Vocalist/guitarist Andrew Lund also plays bass with Monotreme labelmates The Mass, with whom Lower Forty-Eight toured Europe in 2004.

Lower Forty-Eight is:

Phil Becker (drums)
Andrew Lund (guitar, vox)
Grady Mutzel (bass)

Discography:

2006: Apertures C D album (Monotreme)
2003: Skin Failure CD album (Monotreme)
2001: Halfback CD album (King of Sticks)
2000: Gentle Tyranny CD ep (King of Sticks)