History & Biography Ardkore was a British thrashcore band from England's North East. The
band was originally fronted by one Mike Howard, a friend of Steve
Hoggart. The band would open for The Exploited and Warfare. This line
up would record two demos.
When Howard upped and left the act in 1987, the rest of Ardkore would
hold open auditions for a replacement. No candidates would turn up. The
band would ask roadie Scott Pope to give it a go. With Pope as
vocalist, the band would record a three-song demo entitled Humans Revenge. A
five-song demo called Apocalypso would follow. The band broke up in
1992 with Pope having left the band ostensibly "due to woman trouble" even
before the album's release. Another roadie called Brian Meredith would
front the band for a while.
Pope would later become a professional tattoo artist and would also do
artwork for bands. The other members became the anagram D.R. Korea and
continued for another year with Hoggart on
vocals. A singer called Shaun Atkins also would join for a while. As a
side note he would later be more famous for being in Sound Disciples and
Down River Nation with Gizz Butt from The Prodigy. Three of the members
ended up as P.I.G.s.
The remaining would often discuss regrouping the band over the years,
but so far nothing has transpired.
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