OK, so a little background. One of the kids from my high school has a band called "Tinnitus". Their genre is "Power Violence", which is basically grindcore... short 30 second songs with power chords, blast beats, and screaming vocals. We'd always be taking cheap shots at each other's music (I'm into prog, hes into shit.
). One day he told me that Rush wasn't even good and they just jerk off to music... I told him anyone could play the stuff he does. So what do me and my friend do? We start our own band mocking his.
: It started out as a joke, and we were just fooling around recording the shortest, most offensive songs we could.
But as time went on we had a lot of fun coming up with obscene ideas for our songs
: We recorded about 65 songs since March, which has a total time of about an hour.
We would play friend's graduation parties and stuff, and it was a lot of fun. Everyone always enjoyed us because I would sing the most random things, and often single people out in the audience.
Anyways, last night my friend got a call on his cellphone. The woman on the other end was a promoter of some sorts and was looking for my friend's old band which disbanded because she was setting up a local show. He told her that band was done, but he has another band hes in now that'd be willing to play. Well, turns out we got booked to THE PALLADIUM. I don't know how many of you are from around Worcester, MA, but this is a pretty big venue. Its the place most metal bands that come here play, including Slayer, Dragonforce, etc.
So, yeah, I'm pretty excited!
We're just a two man band, my friend on guitar and me on "vocals". My vocal style consists of me yelling in a deep voice, and then doing certain parts using screechy high notes, like D6.
However, at some of the gigs we've played I've had difficulty doing the higher parts, so it'll be interesting as to what happens at the Palladium.
: The show is on October 10, and we get half an hour set... we are working on figuring out what songs we want now, but we should be able to fit atleast 30 in.
Anyways, we're called Altered Beast, and here is one of our songs... its called Team Work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUTbpPrRtMEDIT - It should also be noted that everything we do is improvised, everything... so there are many mistakes throughout the songs.
We're more of a joke band than anything, its just we have fun doing it.
Topic: My band got a gig! (Read 2519 times)
