Jason Hamacher is an American musician. He was the drummer for the bands Frodus, Decahedron, Combatwoundedveteran and the mid-1990s straight-edge band Battery. He also sang under the pseudonym Ponan for the Washington, DC rock band Mancake (Part Man... Part Pancake...), which released an EP on Art Monk Construction in 1999 entitled We will destroy you. Aside from music, Jason Hamacher is an accomplished photographer and documentarian and runs ""Lost Origin Productions LLC"". He is currently working in Syria with the ancient Aramaic speaking Syrian Orthodox Church. In March 2008, Hamacher starred in the documentary short, Old Soul which won the 2008 International Documentary Challenge. Lost Origin Productions will release Hamacher's field recordings of the earliest known Christian chant, publish a book of his Syrian photography entitled, "Aleppo, Syria: Witness to an Ancient Legacy", and launch an international series of limited edition cross cultural images.
Although he has remained quieter in the music scene than former band mate Shelby Cinca, he posted writing for a metal 'dream band' on his blog: 'I finally started writing songs with my dream band. I'm calling it Zealot. The line up is: Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour) on guitar, Dimitri Minakakis (Dillinger Escape Plan) on vocals, Kevin Lamielle (Slow Children at Play) on Bass and Kurt Ballou (Converge) on Guitar. So far Mike and I have written three songs that sounds like if Entombed were on Dischord. It gets pretty heavy. It'll be good times.' Hamacher currently performs in Regents with David NeSmith of Sleepytime Trio, and Dan Evans of the Exploder.
He is happily married to Jenny Luu, lives in Washington DC and is a successful massage therapist working for RENU Medspa.