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Zimmer's Hole, from left to right: Jed Simon, Chris Valagao, Steven Wheeler, and Byron Stroud

Zimmer's Hole is a humorous thrash/speed metal band from Vancouver, Canada. It includes Byron Stroud and Jed Simon from Strapping Young Lad. Zimmer's Hole was a local band as early as 1994, with their first studio album being 'Bound By Fire' in 1997 (re-issued on Century Media in 2003). Vocalist Chris Valagao also provides backing vocals on mostly every Devin Townsend solo release.

From the text according to "Bound by Fire"

By The Light of the Sheep's Eye, We; Zimmer's Hole, Do Espouse These, Our Laws...

1. Should They Plunder, Thou Shalt Suffer an Eternity of Humiliation in Song for Thy Ignorance and Stupidity.
2. Thou Shalt Embrace the Flame. For It is The Creator, and The Destroyer, and The Cooker of Weeners.
3. Thou Shalt Wear Dark Clothing. Especially, Big Tall, Leather Boots.
4. Thou Shalt Break the Crust that Imprisons the Rectally Retentive.
5. Beware the Changeling Glo-God for It is the True Weakness of Will.
6. Thou Shalt Ignite That Which Burns.
7. Thou Shalt Suck It. Suck It Up. Suck It The Fuck Up. You Fuck.
8. Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Bob Barker. The True Shirtless Aerosol Cheesus Crust, in vain.
9. Thou Shalt Stand and Accept It.
10. Thou Shalt Swill Ale From A Bullet Proof Cup.
11. Thou Shalt Revel in the Flesh and Consume the Feast That is Life, Before the Great Flash - Dot of Armageddon.

Later in 2001, when SYL wasn't touring, Jed and Byron got Devin Townsend to produce their sophomore album "Legion of Flames", released on his label Hevy Devy Records. It was a big step-up from their previous album, with song piss-takes such as "Gender of The Beast" (Number of The Beast,Iron Maiden), "Sodomanaz" (Go For a Soda, Kim Mitchell), and spoofing Metallica's "Master of Puppets" in the song "Evil Robots" with the line "Napster, Napster, where's the cash that I've been after?".
The album also contained a straight-out cover of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight"

Jed Simon has also said recently that he and Byron Stroud could possibly work out a new album after his current project Tenet [1]. A snippet of the live DVD has been posted on MySpace by the editor's Mild Concussion: [2]

• Chris Valagao - Vocals (Dr. Heathen Hooch, Lorde of Ass-Fire) [Also known as 'E.Val']
• Jed Simon - Guitar (El Smooché, Lord of Electric Wynde)
• Chris Stanley - Guitar (The High Commander of the Satanic Bubble)
• Byron Stroud - Bass (Sickie Moochmaster, Lorde of Greased Thunder)
• Steven Wheeler - Drums (Bangsley Starnipples, Lorde of Strobe Lightning)

• Bound By Fire (Original) (1997)
• Legion of Flames (2001)
• Bound By Fire (Re-Issue) (2003)

• Zimmer's Hole - Official Site