23 June 2010

VIA VENGEANCE joins Starbird Booking roster!

I am thrilled to announce that VIA VENGEANCE has joined the Starbird Booking roster!!

Arizona-based Via Vengeance is a one man band - but not your typical one man band. No. There is no makeshift suitcase kick drum, there are no loop pedals; it's just a man, his drums and his guitar. The days of clangy knee cymbals have made way for hard melodic guitar chords. Slow irrevocable lyrics and precision drumming. This is sludgy stoner rock fueled by pain, anger and amplified electricity.

Having played with such bands as Mastodon, Pelican, Jesu, Melt Banana and Black Cobra in addition to a national tour this past Spring with A Storm of Light, this September will see Via Vengeance venturing out on a 2 week West coast tour. He will be showcasing new songs from his forthcoming sophomore album entitled Dead In the Snow, which features album art and a musical appearance by Josh Graham (ex-Neurosis, Red Sparowes, Battle of Mice).

"Musically, the album is reminiscent of early Godflesh, with Ocell's guttural growl and crushing riffs laid over bare-bones drumming." stonerrock.com

"The chromatic-scaled Black Sabbath-y riffs are simple, stripped down and covered in barbed wire." SLUG Magazine

"The rhythms are snappy and solid, with seamless, simple timing changes that often lead into even simpler guitar interludes, but show attention to composition nonetheless. This is raw, hard stuff, oozing with slow, booming backbeats, and bludgeoned by stoner rock power chords." - Phoenix New Times

"....feeds fat, gritty guitar sounds through effects pedals and Sunn amps with one hand while drumming with the other hand and stomping out steady, stalking rhythms with his feet. It's stoner doom-metal with the structural ambitions of prog-metal bands such as Isis and the raw, analog ambiance of garage-punk terrorists Drunk With Guns." - New Times



Visual idea of VV performance:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1518803676672070467

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