Art Of Dying - January/February 2006
Who: Art Of Dying
What: death becomes you
Where: Vancouver
To Contact: www.artofdyingmusic.com.
Another rock band based in Vancouver that is making things happen. With out a major record label behind it, the winner of CFOX’s 2005 Seeds local band competition has since scored representation from LA-based booking agency The Agency Group, and prime opening slots recently for Taproot in Sarasota, FL, and Staindt, My Chemical Romance and Our Lady Peace in West Palm Beach. The still unreleased, unmastered, self-titled album is filled with potential single after single, just straight up hard rock with hooks - and without annoying histrionics. “Get Through This”, available on iTunes, debuted at #48 on America’s R&R’s active rock chart and has about two dozen stations on the track. Guitarist Greg Bradley and bassist David Mariacci, both from Calgary, tried Toronto for a year or so before bouncing to the west coast and meeting another Albertan, vocalist Jonathan Hetherington, and making an album called Inverse. They meet producer Darryl Romphf, who cut his teeth with pros like GGGarth and Jack Richardson, and drummer Flavio Cirillo joins the fold. Together, they record this new offering at several BC studios - Warehouse Studios, Greenhouse Studios and Magma. It was engineered by Alex ‘Condor’ Aligizakis, Romphf, and Kirk McMally; and mixed locally by Juno-nominated engineer Dean Maher at Warehouse and Hipposonic Studios with assistance by Mike Cashin and Amy Worobec.