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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979


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Death From Above 1979 "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine" CD Death From Above 1979 "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine" CD
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BIOGRAPHY

"We wanted our band to be like an elephant in your living room," proclaimed Jesse F. Keeler, bassist of Toronto's Death From Above 1979. That could explain why they give themselves pachyderm trunks on album covers, but it also speaks to the ferocity with which they sing and play their instruments. DFA 1979 is a gale-force blast of rock intensity, vicious yet remarkably danceable.

Notably, they do it without any electric guitar. Keeler runs his bass through distortion and overdrive and plays frenetically, while drummer and singer Sebastien Grainger pounds with abandon and shouts his vocals over the din. Death From Above 1979 adds some berserk analog synthesizer and occasional samples and little else. Proving that six-strings aren't necessary to a big, heavy sound, Death From Above 1979 stands the recent no-bass garage rock vogue on its head, and consciously brings heavy music back to its elemental principles. This is a hard rock group that structures its music as a dance band might. "We have very primal ideas about everything," explains Sebastien. "Our music is an expression of those primal ideas. Ultimately we want our songs to make people completely lose it."

Spending most of 2004 and 2005 on the road, endlessly touring Canada, the US, the UK, Japan and Australia, they capped the year anniversary of the release of You're A Woman, I'm A Machine supporting Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age in the biggest arenas in the country.

LINKS

OFFICIAL SITE
MYSPACE
IMEEM
LAST.FM

BAND MEMBERS

SEBASTIAN GRAINGER - Drums, Vocals

JESSE F. KEELER - Bass

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