what's YOUR band up to?

MichaelZodiac · December 29, 2014, 02:15:50 PM

We're opening up for Salem's Pot & Monolord in February. We got another gig in March and that promotor describes us on the FB event thingy as "think Om on speed". I can live with that.

bbottom · January 12, 2015, 08:54:40 PM

We're doing a contest right now for free merch

Giveaway! We'll send someone on planet Earth every piece of merch we have! That's a shirt, buttons, stickers, and our first album and live ep! All ya gotta do is put something in our comments section. Anything. You could type your name, maybe put pic of your El Camino or your girlfriend's ass! We'll pick one. Offer is good worldwide!https://www.facebook.com/massdriverband

bbottom · January 12, 2015, 08:54:51 PM

We've also had a string of very successful shows.

Here is a review of our last one:

http://thegreatsouthernbrainfart.com/?p=14252

Doom Comes to Knoxville!

Mass Driver/O'Possum/Wampus Cat/Generation of Vipers
January 3, 2015
Knoxville, TN
The Concourse
Written by: Tommy Smith

Saturday night we had a night of doom, sludge and fuzz in Knoxville. Normally I like my metal with a little more spikes and leather than the fare here, but it was a great bill and it was a metal show on a Saturday night! I can't miss that! This one was all local, and there was a good mix of metal heads, punks, regular dudes...and women! Ha.

Mass Driver

Mass Driver is a 3 piece fuzz rock band from Knoxville, kind of in the vein of say, Fu Manchu. Holy crap, did they rock! The music was high energy, and the way these guys played it really made for a great live experience. Such a charismatic band! The guitarist and bass player alternate vocals for each song, and were always moving. The drummer was strong, as is really necessary for this kind of music. His drum set was fairly minimal, but he does has a cowbell that he makes great use of. There was jumping, breaking of strings, hats flying, and even an appearance in the pit from the guitarist. Everyone really loved these guys and I can't wait to see them again. They're easily one of the best local live bands around, and were a tough act to follow. SEE THIS BAND.

Dylan Thomas · January 12, 2015, 08:58:58 PM

Quote from: bbottom on January 12, 2015, 08:54:51 PM
We've also had a string of very successful shows.

Here is a review of our last one:

http://thegreatsouthernbrainfart.com/?p=14252

Doom Comes to Knoxville!

Mass Driver/O'Possum/Wampus Cat/Generation of Vipers
January 3, 2015
Knoxville, TN
The Concourse
Written by: Tommy Smith

Saturday night we had a night of doom, sludge and fuzz in Knoxville. Normally I like my metal with a little more spikes and leather than the fare here, but it was a great bill and it was a metal show on a Saturday night! I can't miss that! This one was all local, and there was a good mix of metal heads, punks, regular dudes...and women! Ha.

Mass Driver

Mass Driver is a 3 piece fuzz rock band from Knoxville, kind of in the vein of say, Fu Manchu. Holy crap, did they rock! The music was high energy, and the way these guys played it really made for a great live experience. Such a charismatic band! The guitarist and bass player alternate vocals for each song, and were always moving. The drummer was strong, as is really necessary for this kind of music. His drum set was fairly minimal, but he does has a cowbell that he makes great use of. There was jumping, breaking of strings, hats flying, and even an appearance in the pit from the guitarist. Everyone really loved these guys and I can't wait to see them again. They're easily one of the best local live bands around, and were a tough act to follow. SEE THIS BAND.

Wow, that's a pretty overwhelmingly positive review, congrats on that!!

jibberish · January 13, 2015, 12:53:38 AM

awesome bbottom. king for a day.
even when you posted a video like a year ago, i was thinking i would like to have seen that set.

bbottom · January 13, 2015, 08:01:24 PM

thanks guys

Danny G · January 14, 2015, 12:34:56 AM

Fuck yeah man!

showdown · January 20, 2015, 08:14:42 AM

We've started tracking drums for our next release, we're also opening for a Black Debbath show in February.

jibberish · January 20, 2015, 10:48:22 AM

^awesome.

RAGER · January 20, 2015, 12:23:39 PM

I think Sunday we stumbled across a couple ideas that will actually be structured into songs. I think much of what we'll do will be improv though.

Angostura · January 21, 2015, 11:46:10 AM

Paleo will be playing our second show on Monday, and getting ready to record another EP.

Check out Voidstrider, they're pretty cool...

liquidsmoke · January 21, 2015, 12:17:33 PM

First gig for the new band was last month, next one is this Saturday, shows are setup for February and March. Starting to track songs for 2 local compilation projects. This feels good. My other band did not play out nearly enough when we were a live band.

Danny G · January 22, 2015, 12:57:35 AM

Ocean of Stars rehearsal last night for this weekend. Wasn't perfect but sounded strong. Ready to play Triple Crown in San Marcos TX (first road show!) on Friday.

Depending on which songs sound best at the show will help decide what to play for our 20 min TV appearance the following afternoon.

And added a show for Fri Jan 30 in town. Awesome, we'll have a show to promote for the TV appearance \m/,

Danny G · January 22, 2015, 08:22:09 PM

Sweet.

Just landed Ocean of Stars an afternoon slot for afternoon/evening show during SXSW on Thurs March 19.

Always good bands on this bill, will be fun to finally play it with my own project in addition to Adrian and the Sickness!

Volume · January 28, 2015, 11:10:32 AM

Writing and recording for a new album, also this:

Dylan Thomas · January 28, 2015, 11:20:22 AM

Just got back the mix revisions for our latest album.

They sound terrific.

eyeprod · January 28, 2015, 07:54:55 PM

We're still thinking of a name that everyone agrees on and fits the music we're making. Got a paying gig in march that is roughly 3 hours. Working on hour long sets to do this and more lengthy gigs in the future, based around improv, but including some basic structures so we can sort of repeat certain things that we've done. There will be some structures built on certain keys (A, E, G, D), some riff based, some scale/mode based, some drum beat and instrumentation based, some that will start with one guy playing solo for several minutes so the others can tune in to what that person (probably me most of the time) is doing and then join in. Finding simple ways like that to stretch out each jam and create epic meditational music.

RAGER · January 28, 2015, 08:05:00 PM

Interested in what kind of gig it is that you'd play this stuff for 3 hours.

eyeprod · January 28, 2015, 08:40:43 PM

It's at a brewery in Arcata. They want music from 8 to 11 roughly. There's no way that we'd bring all of our gear out for a typical rock band gig of 30 to 40 minutes. So probably will never play with bands but will do long gigs where we are the only act. Still wondering how often and where we will try to book anything. Oh yeah, we've got a projector now. That thing is a great light show.

jibberish · January 29, 2015, 01:55:49 AM

wow. just like that..concept, band..gig. that is very encouraging to me.

Dylan Thomas · January 29, 2015, 08:23:20 AM

Playing another party next week. A local rocker dude's birthday. Then we've got a Friday the 13th show in March, and then our CD release show in April.

Working on new material, we've got three new songs written, and are working on a fourth. So we may have a full up album as early as next year, depending on how things go.

eyeprod · February 04, 2015, 10:45:32 AM

finally named our band, Deep Dark Light. We like it

RAGER · February 04, 2015, 10:58:54 AM

Hey I like that. Band naming is a goddamm chore.

Dangling Fury · February 04, 2015, 11:21:55 AM

Quote from: RAGER on February 04, 2015, 10:58:54 AM
Hey I like that. Band naming is a goddamm chore.

yeah it is. Thought dangling fury was a great name turns out there's at least four bands with that name, which means there many more.

Danny G · February 04, 2015, 12:10:14 PM

Quote from: eyeprod on February 04, 2015, 10:45:32 AM
finally named our band, Deep Dark Light. We like it

Nice!

Ocean of Stars is taking Feb off, people will be out if town and no gigs anyway.

We have Thurs March 5, and landed a SXSW party for Thursday March 19 at the Key Bar. Always an awesome bill, stoked to be on that. Adrian and the Sickness is also playing so ill be doing double duty.

In the meantime a friend of the bass player wants to record an OoS track at his studio as a bro deal to show what he can do in case we'd be interested in recording there officially.

So we may be working on that this month.

In the meantime I need to figure out how to come up with the funds to press the OoS EP and get a proper website by SXSW