Hailing from an alternate dimension where Mega-Record corporations controlled the world and the airwaves, High Relief began as a high school garage band in the late 1970's but quickly solidified themselves as metal pioneers in their version of America during the metal heyday of the 1980's, becoming one of the largest bands in the world. 

 

In 2013, in the wake of a coming 'planet killing' comet, the music industry imploded. Amidst civilizational downfall, governmental collapse, and infrastructure decline, High Relief plotted to break into the lost vaults of their record label, Pantheon Records, and steal their master tapes and escape the catastrophe utilizing an inter-dimensional time travel device known as 'Project Matador' - a wormhole created by a particle accelerator.

With great research and determination, amidst a hellish landscape, the band located the hidden vault deep within the Hollywood hills and recovered their master tapes, escaping just as the comet struck the earth's atmosphere. The mystical technical device warped them from their chaotic end times to our world. With their master tapes in hand they made their way to Graveland Studios, a small entertainment firm, specializing in music production, game design and pushing the boundaries of technology. Graveland is proud to re-release their stolen classic's to the world and promote their new musical ventures. 

High Relief is the quintessential 80's metal band, ala Def Leppard, Motley Crue, and with some faint touches of KISS or Cheap Trick for good measure. Their shifting lineup are equally adept at touching ballads, hard rock 'n' roll anthems or politically and socially charged subject matter.

Jerry Hyles - Vocals (1977-present)
Chris Clanton - Guitar (1977-1995, 1998)
Nathan Hathaway - Guitar (1977-1987, 1998)

B.J. Towers (1987-1993)

Bill Mills (1993-present)

Cody Williams (1999-present)
Lamar Jones - Drums (1977-1980)

Billy Armstrong - Drums (1980-1994)

Jay Hunt (1994-2010)

Tom Thayer (2010-present)
Tao Hill - Bass (1977-1980)

John Nelson (1980-1995)

Kerry Hart (1995-present)

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Creation: High Relief would be the band I would call my own if such a thing could ever have existed. I had several half-ass bands in my late high school years that went by this moniker but we totally sucked and could barely even play. It was more cosplay than actually making music. Although we did once spend several hours in a friend of a friend's garage studio goofing off and made a tape with one song that despite the horrible singing wasn't quite bad for what we were capable... or incapable of. 

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The name has marijuana connotations, as I hung out with a lot of stoners and burnouts in my high school years and while I never cared much for the drug I knew plenty of guys that would skip school for some 'high relief'. Practically ever lyric I have written from 1990 until maybe 2020 were done so as if High Relief actually existed and instead of crude poetry I was crafting possible hit songs.