Front End Loader are an Australian rock band which formed in December 1991 with founding mainstays, Bowden Campbell on guitar and vocals; Davis Claymore on lead vocals and guitar; Richard Corey on bass guitar; and Peter Kostic on drums. Front End Loader have issued six studio albums, Front End Loader (June 1993), Let's Ride! (March 1995), Last of the V8 Interceptors (August 1997), How Can We Fail When We're So Sincere? (March 2002), Ritardando (6 May 2011)and Neutral Evil (2018). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2011 Front End Loader won an award for Ritardando as Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album. Kostic has also drummed for fellow Australian groups Regurgitator (1999–present) and The Hard-Ons (2002–2011). History 1991-1993: Front End Loader Front End Loader were formed in December 1991 in the Sydney suburb of Darlington. Founding mainstays are Bowden Campbell on guitar and vocals; and Davis Claymore on lead vocals and guitar – who had broken away from Edelweiss, their previous band – together with Richard Corey on bass guitar; and Peter Kostic on drums – both from Perth-formed group, Kryptonics. The new group were named 'Front End Loader' – which was originally chosen as "a ridiculous, strictly temporary title, until something better came up. Ha" – to enter into a Sydney University band competition. They made the final alongside Frenzal Rhomb but both lost out to another group. In January 1993 Front End Loader appeared at the Sydney venue of the Big Day Out concert series. In the next month they issued their debut singles "Weak as Piss". "'Fraid Knot" and . Their debut album was the self-titled, Front End Loader, which was released in the June 1993, It was recorded at Powerhouse Studios and was produced by the group with Paul Tagg. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt it "highlighted the band's sense of humour and gritty, unrestrained brand of thrash rock". In September that year they supported an Australian tour by Canadian group, No Means No. 1994-2000: Adolescent Fantasy World, Let's Ride! & Last of the V8 Interceptors In June 1994 Front End Loader released the EP, Adolescent Fantasy World, and followed with a split single, "Heightened State of Awareness" backed by a track from Melbourne-based psychobilly band, Fireballs. In October that year Front End Loader toured Europe supporting No Means No. Their second album, Let's Ride!, as well as its lead single, "Be Jesus", were released in March