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, BWC Studios and The Abandoned Hearts Club. The band motto is "All intensity, all the time," and they are known for short, ferociously intense songs.

History

Kenny Bridges and Erik Hughes are members of

, which is a rock band. Hughes, Bridges told an interviewer, "has a great scream" and they, along with BWC Studios producer Greg Dawson, mused about starting a punk rock band, as a side project. On November 1, 2009, Bridges called Dawson to say that they should go ahead, and found that Dawson had already written nine songs. Bridges wrote the tenth; Hughes wrote the lyrics in one evening. They recruited two friends:

drummer

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and The Abandoned Hearts Club guitarist Billy Curtiss. When they couldn't come up with a name, they borrowed the name of Hughes’ son and called the band 'Hunter'. A Polish band with the same name threatened to sue so, as of May 11, 2011, the band's name became Cunter. The band’s first EPs were released on 7-inch vinyl by

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. They name their releases according to the number of songs they've recorded; their first EPs were ''4'', and ''8''. In 2010, they released their first full-length CD, ''10'' and, in 2011, ''20'' (sometimes seen with the sub-title 'Some Really Nice Guy Threatened To Sue Us And Made Us Change Our Name'). In 2013, they released ''27'', this time on New Damage Records. Cunter played most of its shows in and around Toronto; they've played club dates and took part in the 2011 Warped Tour. The band has been inactive since 2013. In 2020, Jordan Hastings said that this is because everyone's so busy, but that he would like to make another Cunter album.

Members

* Kenny Bridges – bass, originally from

* Billy Curtiss – guitar, originally from The Abandoned Hearts Club * Greg Dawson – guitar, originally from Haitian Knife Fight / BWC Studios *

– drums, originally from

* Erik Hughes – vocals, originally from

Live members

* George Pettit – vocals, originally from

* Aaron Wolff – vocals, originally from

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* Chris "Hippy" Hughes – guitar, originally from

Discography

References

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External links

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