Adam Lehan is a British musician who has worked with doom metal bands

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and Workshed,

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bands

Acid Reign Acid Reign are an English thrash metal band, originally active from 1985 to 1991. The band rebooted in 2015 with just H remaining from the original line up. Along with Onslaught, Sabbat and Xentrix, Acid Reign are considered to be one of the ...

, Deadline and Lord Crucifier and

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band Beneath the Oak.

History

Some of Lehan's uncles were members of

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, which led to him beginning to learn to play guitar at the age of fourteen, with his early influences including

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, Eric Clapton and

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. In 1987 he formed his first band, Deadline, who were heavily influenced by the sound of

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and would generally play concerts in punk rock and

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circles, rather than metal. In 1987, while still in Deadline, he joined first wave black metal band Lord Crucifier, after their relocation to Halifax, West Yorkshire from Italy, however Lehan was only a member for a few months. After his departure from both bands, in 1988 he joined

. Lehan left Acid Reign in 1989 to form

with former Acid Reign member

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, former Napalm Death vocalist

Lee Dorrian Lee Dorrian (born 5 June 1968) is an English singer, best known as a former member of grindcore band Napalm Death and later frontman of doom metal band Cathedral. Career During his early teenage years, Dorrian was the editor of a local punk f ...

, former

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roadie Mark Griffiths, as well as Andy Baker. In 2013, Lehan and former Acid Reign and Cathedral bandmate Mark Wharton formed the doom metal band Workshed. Workshed's debut self-titled album was released on 13 September 2019 through

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Discography

With Acid Reign

* The Fear (1989) *Obnoxious (1990)

With Cathedral

* Forest of Equilibrium (1991) *

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(1993)

With Workshed

*''Workshed'' (2019)

References

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