About
CESTUS - METAL THERAPY
CESTUS is a heavy metal band founded in Athens, AL in 1983 by Robert Garrett (Guitar\Vocals), Gary Craig (Bass Guitar), and Ken McClung (Drums).
In addition to playing live concerts across the region, the band recorded a full-length album in August 1984, but band members went their separate ways later in the year and the recording was never released.
The individual members remained in contact over 30 plus years and reconvened in December of 2018 to record songs leftover from the 1984 sessions. CESTUS was back in the studio in April 2019 and again in 2020 to work with renowned recording engineer Jeremy Stephens at Clearwave Studio in Decatur, AL, this time to record newly written material. In the Fall of 2020, they released the digital, nine song EP CESTUS.
Recently, the band added rhythm guitarist Rob Cox to fill out the live CESTUS sound. The band continues to write and record new music in their own unique style.