HAMMERED.A heavy metal band that started out in early 2007,infleunced by the hard driven beats and power riffs of bands the like of Pantera,Metallica,Children of bodom and Megadeth. Zakk teamed up with Ru in 2005 while they were in former band "Unspoken". They started Hammered as a fresh,hard hitting,no nonsense fueled band with clear visions of where to go and what they want.Domination! Adding onto the Hammered family is the new drummer Mike.A dedicated,hard working friend and band mate. With the addition of the Bass player Van,the band is locked,loaded and ready to come at you harder than ever before!!!!!!! RU-BACKING VOX AND GUITARS Started out with a 40 year old crappy fender,amped through a hi-fi system in 2002.He never thought that he'd go through with it.But with practise and hard work,started shredding and stacking up on gear.In the summer of 2005 he joined good friends and former band mates in a Heavy Metal Band Called Unspoken.Unspoken led to a friendship forming between Zakk(Vox And Lead Guitar)and Ru(Guitars),and after a year they stared new project Hammered with his brother Van(Bass),and former band (Unspoken) mate Mike.(Drums) MIKE-DRUMS Getting intrested in playing guitar through a friend(Now current band mate Zakk) Mike started out in 2001 with guitar lessons and after 4 years joined Heavy Metal Band Unspoken.Leaving for Australia in 2005 he filled in for a couple of gigs playing bass for Rock Band Skewer. Soon after that he joined the band Choas Incarnate also filling in on bass but starting a new project calledNuff Nuff, playing a more acoustic and intrumetally orientated style of music,in which he played drums.After coming back to South Africa he joined Hammered in November 2007,playing drums. ZAKK-VOX AND LEAD GUITAR A self tought musician and guitar player he started out in 2000 playing acoustic and later moving on to electric guitar,playing riffs and solo's of guitar virtuosos the likes of Jimi Hendrix,Yngwie Malmsteen and Zakk Wylde.Being o...