Gruntruck

Gruntruck was a grunge band formed in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1989 by former members of Skin Yard, Ben McMillan and Scott McCullum. They were joined by Tommy Niemeyer and Tim Paul to close down their training. However, McCullum only witnessed the formation of the group, which was soon replaced by Norman Scott.Their sound was described as grunge, and the band focused more on the metal side of the genre.

The band only released two albums and toured with Alice in Chains in autumn 1992 and Pantera in 1993. Gruntruck also opened for other artists like Screaming Trees. The bassist Tim Paul left the band in 1993 because a legal dispute to be replaced by Alex Sibbald and Norman Scott was replaced by Josh Sinder, after stopping for three years, in 1996. In that year the band recorded an EP called Shot, and then grouping together (Niemeyer, Paul, Scott and McMillan) because they want to give several concerts and record composite. This material was never released because the band separates in 2002 definitely. For the gallery were two discs, recorded in 1990 and 1992, entitled Inside Yours and Push respectively. The vocalist and guitarist of the band, Ben McMillan, died of diabetes in 2008