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The Sundog Project is the musical alias of Cheltenham (UK) based Ian Johnson. Ian’s musical explorations first appeared in the mid 90’s, as he played guitar in various heavy metal bands before joining dark, goth/groove rockers, Threshold in 1996; a band held together not by their love for each other, but for the love of defunct noise merchants, The God Machine. When this project ended, there followed a musical hiatus. The Sundog Project’s first demo, ‘Save Me From The Numbers’ (simply under the name Ian Johnson) was released in the summer of 2006 via Ian’s own website and, while unrefined in comparison with current tracks, showed signs of the music that you will hear in his recent material.

In December 2007, the ‘Sundog’ demo was released (again via Ian’s website) – containing two tracks: ‘Twin Suns’, a melodic piano led piece of electronic niceness, and ‘Never Again’, a Ministry-fuelled thrash-out glitchfest. ‘The Hollow Earth Theory’ followed in early 2008. The self titled lead track was inspired by historical lunatic ramblings about a civilisation living inside the core of the earth, while the other track, ‘Pluto and Proserpine’, was an early draft of the track that you can hear on the ‘At Night’ EP.

Official releases:

The Sundog has previously officially released EPs on:

Vorbic (‘At Night’ EP – July 2008)

Enough Records (‘Untitled’ - split EP with The Vanhalia Project – May 2009)