Album Notes

Suhgarim started out as an acoustic duo near Venice, Italy, and is the brainchild and passion of Vocalist/Songwriter Tricia Montfleury and Guitarist/Songwriter Dave Sudak. They have released one EP called When You Bleed in April of 2007, which was recorded at Studio C in Chapin, SC. Special thanks to Race Manning and Matt Veltmann for a great job tracking and mixing. After going through some personel changes they added one of the tightest and most energetic rhythm sections in the Southeast consisting of Patt Trikk on Drums and Hank Thomas on Bass, as well as Charles Traweek on guitars & keys. Patt, Hank and Charles bring a wealth of musical knowledge and solid skills to the band. They are currently touring the Southeast and have played with Blessed by a Broken Heart, Hydrovibe, Wednesday 13, Hot Lava Monster, Black Ritual, Closer, Soul Mites, Dave Britt Band, Evil Empire, Zelazowa, Restless Oblivion, Psycle, Lunas Lament and many other bands. Suhgarim seeks to turn people on to some rockin' tunes and have a good time in the process!

So what does Suhgarim mean? Apparently no one really knows what our name means, or so it seems. Perhaps an explanation is in order. Ambiguity may not be the best policy as far as band names go, I suppose. People have been asking, so here goes. In it's pure form Suhgarim means absolutely nothing except the name of a rock band from Columbia, SC. However, it is a play on words. Or word actually. The original name is taken from the ENUMA ELISH which is a Babylonian creation myth which is most likely Sumerian in origin. Sumer was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC, we're talking way back. Thousand of years before Judeo Christianity to be exact. Sumer together with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization is considered the first settled society in the world to have manifested all the features needed to qualify fully as a "civilization". The name Suhgarim is taken from one of the fifty names of power for their god who was actually the creator of all gods. In that context Suhgarim which was the 21st name of power, SUHGURIM, means he who insures a hearing, Creator of the gods, his fathers. May his name be evoked and spoken in the land! So why the word play. Well for one, there are other bands that have taken that name as their own. Which leads to reason number two. Branding. In my opinion the best name for a band is one that can be easily branded and recognized. When someone searches for that name the first and even better the only sites returned are linked to that name, not a bunch of unrelated sites, therefore reinforcing name recognition.

And so the mystery is ended. Perhaps in spoiling the suspense we have created in you a curiosity to look into ancient history. Or perhaps not!

Disclaimer: All of this is not to say that anyone in Suhgarim believes in anything whether it be an ancient or modern god. Not to say we don't believe in something either, individually that is. It's just to say that Dave finds these things interesting and thought it a good place to get a name. Of course in the words of Skeleto, "I only believe in Science".