When five teens enter an abandoned graveyard at night looking for the perfect spooky place to film an amateur music video and partake in booze and pot, they accidentally stumble upon a mysterious black hearse wasting away among the overgrowth. The cursed hearse entraps the teens morphing them into horrific figures and enslaving them to it.

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Now cursed to travel through space and time in the "Fat Hearse", they chronicle all the evil and macabre that the world has ever held witness to, some real and some imagined. With songs telling the tales of serial killers, despots and villains of all time, of murderous entities and demonic intrusions, this horrorcore metal band draws from such acts as Gwar, Wednesday 13, Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie.

Lee Laroque - Vocals
Kory "Killer" Kay - Guitar
"Laughing" Jack Hixx - Guitar
Diamond Dan Leather - Drums
Budd Crunch - Bass

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Creation: Originally intending to only do songs for High Relief, this band was a surprise to me. Some of my music creations were leaning into being far too heavy. Not a bad thing, just not what I envisioned High Relief to sound like. My son had made me a father's day card and had written "Happy Fat hers Day" with a large inadvertent gap in the middle of the word "Father's", leaving me to pronounce it jokingly as "Happy Fat Hearse Day".

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It sounded silly, but it also had a bad ass ring to it... something along the lines of Motorhead or Warlock. My first song was simply about the Boogeyman and then next came a song about going to the gallows to be executed. Two songs in and I had found my hook for Graveland's second band - horror!