BEHEAD THE PROPHET: bio

Joshua Ploege and Jon "Quitty" Quittner were both members of Olympia, Washington's Mukilteo Fairies. When M.F. broke up around 1994, they quickly gathered together a group of musicians from Olympia, Bellingham and Seattle, Washington to form Behead The Prophet, No Lord Shall Live. Members were Joshua, vocals and lyrics, Jon on bass, Dave Harvey playing guitar, saxophone and feedback, Jordan Rain on drums and Michael Griffin on violin. Their sound was alternately described as crust punk, noise core, queercore and spazzcore. Behead The Prophet released their first self titled, 8 song 7” single on Outpunk Records in 1995. Soon after this, they played the “Dirty Bird” queercore music festival in San Francisco where they made quite an impression and garnered many new fans. They then released their only full length CD/album I Am That Great and Fiery Force, a split release on Outpunk and Olympia based K Records. They later released two more 7" records, one a split with Joe Preston's one man band Thrones, on the label Voice of the Sky where each band did their own rendition of Blue Öyster Cult songs. Their last 7" release was on the Sound Pollution label, entitled Making Craters Where Buildings Stood. Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live disbanded in 1998. “Quitty” is currently residing in Olympia, Washington, working at Orca Books. Ploeg is now a traveling gourmet chef who has released a series of vegan cookbooks. Follow him through his blog http://joshuaploeg.blogspot.com/.