Suhgarim started out near Venice, Italy. After relocating to South Carolina Dave and Tricia started playing out with various musicians! They formed the band UV Blue and started playing throughout South Carolina. Most notably, they won the Acoustic Therapy competition at Group Therapy with Brandon Roshto - Perc and Scott McDougal - Guitar and recorded the Kosmic Karma EP. Some of the other musicians they have played with are Robbie Hamilton - Drums, Jerry Kelly - Bass and Brian Swetnam - Keys. After taking a break to pursue other interests (Dave finished his degree in Computer Science and Patricia started her own Bath and Body business, Patrician Treasures) they started to get the itch to play again and they formed Suhgarim at the end of 2006 and started seeking out the right musicians to complement the music. They recorded the When You Bleed EP with some guest musicians at Studio C in Chapin, SC. Currently they are working on new material with new members, Patrick Ramsey on Drums, and Hank Thomas on Bass and will be touring the Southeast very soon. So what does Suhgarim mean? Apparently no one really knows what our name means, or so it seems. Perhaps an explanation is in order. Ambiguity may not be the best policy as far as band names go, I suppose. People have been asking, so here goes. In it's pure form Suhgarim means absolutely nothing except the name of a rock band from Columbia, SC. However, it is a play on words. Or word actually. The original name is taken from the ENUMA ELISH which is a Babylonian creation myth which is most likely Sumerian in origin. Sumer was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC, we're talking way back. Thousand of years ago to be exact. Sumer together with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization is considered the first settled society in the world to have manifested all the features needed to qualify fully as a "civilization". The name Suhgarim is taken from one of the fifty names of power for their god who was actually the creator of all gods. In that context Suhgarim which was the 21st name of power, SUHGURIM, means he who insures a hearing, Creator of the gods, his fathers. May his name be evoked and spoken in the land! So why the word play. Well for one, there are other bands that have taken that name as their own. Which leads to reason number two. Branding. In my opinion the best name for a band is one that can be easily branded and recognized. When someone searches for that name the first and even better the only sites returned are linked to that name, not a bunch of unrelated sites, therefore reinforcing name recognition. And so the mystery is ended. Perhaps in spoiling the suspense we have created in you a curiosity to look into ancient history. Or perhaps not!