Metal Extravaganza Review.

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Origins of Sound

How often does one actually sit & contemplate the manner in which a band formed their name? If it was something plucked from the sky, or kind of just fell into their laps. Does it have personal meaning? Did it take months to decide? I've heard many different stories of how these underground bands of FL got their names and thought it would be awesome to share them with you the readers, fans, and fellow bands. Who know and love them so. Enjoy my music minions.


SLEDGEGRINDER- Brad Blasama (Guitarist)https://www.facebook.com/SledgegrindeR

“We really wanted to make-up a name that no one already used so we basically wrote down a bunch of words and starting combining them together. Originally I started it with sledge grind demise but we thought it was a little lengthy so we started messin with that foundation and ended up with SLEDGEGRINDER(smiley face)”

UNKEMPT- ANDY KEMPT (Bassist)https://www.facebook.com/Unkempt

“Well, it was actually just one of those open a dictionary and point kinda things. We never thought at the time the band would come so far or we would have tried to think of something a little more clever. So we're pretty much stuck with it now.haha It's not too terribly exciting of a story but i guess the name has gone on to mean a lot to us because of all the great friends, fans, family, and good times that are now forever associated with what it represents.”

AN EFFIGY DISTORDED- RAFE CARRINO (Guitarist)https://www.facebook.com/AEDOfficial

“Effigy means a representation or image.

Distorted means unclear.
So An Effigy Distorted means an unclear image.
This name can be applied to literally anything especially since everyone has their own opinions. The best way we can describe it is that alot of people say that it takes no talent to play metal music. Their view, their image, on metal music is unclear because they do not like it, making it an effigy distorted.”

THE TOILETS- ELLIS TRIAALS (Lead vocals & Guitar)https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Toilets/126232384094583

Okay, simple The Toilets is a metaphor for how Brett, Rob and I feel. The Toilet is most often looked upon with disgust, yet everyone uses one. We take everyones shit, piss and puke and faithfully stay there. If people were asked what ten mordern conveniences they'd absolutely have to keep I could promise you less than 10% would say toilet. The Toilets are a state of mind, and just like when you flush everything that's in the bowl combines, much like how we genre mash and make unique music. I honestly challenge anyone to find a band that sounds like us, it just won't happen. You can hear little tinges and influences, but the final product is unique, bizarre and beautiful. We are Toilets...Filthy, rotten, disgusting but everyone uses us and would be up "shits creek" without us.
TUG- DANNY JOHNSON (Vocals)
https://www.facebook.com/TugMusic

“Well, I wish there some elaborate explanation for it but....sadly there isn't. Lol"

"It was basically formed out of the need for simplicity. Tony's old band was called quite simply 'Something Simple'. So when we were discussing potential band names we knew we didn't want some stupid, long and drawn out name that reflected how "deep & dark" the band members were because, of course, we are neither. Haha! So after tossing around ancient Greek words and other bullshit someone (I think Tony) threw out TUG. We were like "YES!".
People always ask us what TUG stands for. We have the same answer every time. Nothing. We wanted something short, powerful and easy to remember. So there it is.”

It was basically formed out of the need for simplicity. Tony's old band was called quite simply 'Something Simple'. So when we were discussing potential band names we knew we didn't want some stupid, long and drawn out name that reflected how "deep & dark" the band members were because, of course, we are neither. Haha! So after tossing around ancient Greek words and other bullshit someone (I think Tony) threw out TUG. We were like "YES!".
People always ask us what TUG stands for. We have the same answer every time. Nothing. We wanted something short, powerful and easy to remember. So there it is.”

(N)CEPTION- NICHOLAS BROWN (Bassist)https://www.facebook.com/nceptionmusic

Well, as we all know an (N)ception is a beginning. A start. The thing that attracted me to this name was that anyone can relate to a start. People move new places to "start fresh" people change things about their lives to "start over" basically we do things to hit a "non existent reset button" So that is where the main idea for (N)ception began for us. Another tid bit of information is this band has been around for 8 years under the name "Scorned" we went through many line up changes to the point where no one who was in the original incarnation of Scorned is in the band. So our first album was going to be called Inception because it was the beginning for us, the start for us to put our stuff out there and continue up from there. Well complications arose and that album was never completed... So we all made it back together (me being the final piece of the puzzle) in December of 2011. We played one show out still under the name "Scorned" and just decided that it was time for a change... (N)ception was born. The parenthesis came from an idea that I always had locked away since we name our album that, I still have doodles in my lyric book of the first time I drew it. I introduced it to my band and we decided to roll with it because it was something to stand out and something that we felt that we can market... basically something memorable. So here we are at the middle of 2012. We have started production on our first full length album "...A Letter of (N)tent" which should be out the first quarter of 2013 if the end of the world doesn't come(smiley face)

ANOTHER LIFE SPARED- Will D Hayes (Vocals), Jennifer Perez (Vocals), Greg Moir (Rhythm Guitar), Dillon Tuttle (Lead Guitar), Kevin Ruffo (Drums)https://www.facebook.com/AnotherLifeSpared

"The band was originally called All Is Lost back in 2010. At the time, we were running through EP titles and the name Another Life Spared came up and we thought it would be cool to have a dichotomy effect with the name All Is Lost. Some time had passed, and the name All Is Lost started to look really dim and tasteless. It didn’t stand out and draw attention. So we decided it was time to change the band name to something a little less cliché’. The name Another Life Spared came back up in conversation as a possible band name. It was laughed off at first, but once we started bringing it up more and more it started to stick. It stood out, it was easy to remember, and it grabbed people’s attention. And it still kept the dichotomy effect with the seemingly upbeat band name Another Life Spared vs. the dark song themes and lyrics. Eventually, we all agreed that Another Life Spared was a really good match for us and the name was set."
CONTORED- COBY KOCH (Vocals)https://www.facebook.com/contortedmetal

“Ok, 3 of the founding members of Brutality wanted to keep jamming after Brutality had broken up. This included Pete Sykes (Guitar) Jim Coker (Drums) and Ed Webb. I am not certain but I believe Ed was on guitar as well. They were sitting around trying to think of a name that wasn't too cliche or shitty. Contorted was one of them. Pete's brother Sam had come up with an early version of the logo. Everyone seemed to like it so it stuck. Shortly after the logo was changed a bit to be what it is now.”

FALLS UPON US- JON FREDDINO(Rhythm Guitar)
https://www.facebook.com/FallsUponUs

“We got out band name one day i was standing in the kitchen and its was kinda cool out and I said man Falls is Upon Us and Carlos said holy shit that sounds awesome. We had probably a list of 100 names and they all sucked so we rolled with Falls Upon Us.”

FIRES OF GAMORRAH- MICKEY BEILMAN (Guitarist)https://www.facebook.com/firesofgomorrah

“Well there wasn't a whole lot to the naming. I had come up with it a while back and sorta threw it out there when we formed the band. It's not so much a religious reference either. More like a powerful force wiping an entire existence from the earth. Like a cleansing fire I guess. It has a bit of a personal meaning to me cause I was raised pretty religious and though my views are very different than traditional beliefs I still have my beliefs. I also don't ever cram it down people's throats or bring it up. They are my own views...
That's pretty much the general background behind it.”

FORESHADOW- AARON ROBINSON (Guitarist)https://www.facebook.com/foreshadow76

“Foreshadow has been a name for a band I have been wanting to form since 1997. But I wasn't able to finally realize that goal until 2008. The name comes from literature. It means the foretelling of things to come. I felt that name was the best way to describe the writing style of the band.”

ICKIS- DANIEL PENA (Rhythm Guitar)
https://www.facebook.com/xIcKiSx

its from a cartoon on nickelodeon call "Ahhh real monsters" we all use to watch it and decided on that character as our fav and band name We didn't have a band name for like 4 months.

LET ME DRIVE- TIMOTHY SMITHLER (Vocals & Guitar)

https://www.facebook.com/LetMeDriveBand 

“Let Me Drive started out as a programming term and turned into much more than that. It was the spring semester of 2011 and I (Tim) was taking Processes of Object Oriented Design at UCF. It required me to basically create a supposedly big piece of online software. I heard it the first time coming from my professor who was younger than both me and Ross. She said it in a way that made it sound as if you were to rescue something that was falling apart, not necessarily by force, but in a way of helping one another out in a team. At that time all I really knew Ross for was we lived in the same complex and took some of the same computer courses together. He helped me code what was called “TroubleBubbles.com” and during the entire time we switched back in forth on our computers saying let me drive. On another note, it was also a way to help each other out as far as drinking goes and taking a responsible designated driver with you. In even another sense, Ross and his current girlfriend living with him at the time broke up and it wasn’t pretty. So I rented a U-Haul and Ross let me drive to a new place for him to live. Essentially, we make it stand for more than just a term for us nerds to throw back and forth, we provide a more descriptive meaning towards Let Me Drive in helping with relationships, friendships, hard times, good times, and of course, music.”

PROPHACY Z14- DAN PROPHACY ZXIV (Vocals & Guitar)

https://www.facebook.com/prophecyz14 

“Well actually it comes from the bible, Zechariah 14:12 "And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth." Possibly the most metal passage ever, and a blatant proof of the hypocrisy of the bible (smiley face) Also if you look at the new living rendition it reads "And the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths." which is basically describing a holy zombie apocalypse lmao! Either way, we thought it was extremely metal \m/ plus all the good names were taken lol (And it is Prophecy Z14, Facecrook is just too stupid to allow numbers in our names)”

RIPTORN- BRAD JONES (Guitar & Vocals)https://www.facebook.com/RiptornThrash

RIPTORN got it's name from the actor Rip Torn. You've seen him in Men in Black, The Larry Sanders Show,and Robocop 3. However his pivotal role, the one that inspired us, was as James Brody in "Freddy Got Fingered". He was the annoyed old man in us all who only wants his boy to grow up and move out, and get a real goddamn job! But for real though, we named ourselves RIPTORN because we LOVE that movie and just saying his name makes us laugh. So there it is, the story of the Torn. thank you.

THE BROWN GOOSE- MIKE INGRAM (Guitar)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Brown-Goose/174234202660100

“In Tallahassee there was this huge boom of jokes amongst our group of friends about anal sex that all stemmed from one kid named Cody Medley...Cody is the most inappropriate, way too shitfaced terribly out of line kid youll ever meet and somehow everyone loved his jokes. Somewhere along the way he started saying brown all the time when talkin about anal sex (oh shes down with the brown? she likes brown stuff? she was giving you head and stuck her finger in ur brown?!,etc.) While this band was forming and we were thinkin of a name, we were always serious about the music side but as a joke Pat(bassist) was like we should call our band The Brown Experience.... we all thought it was hilarious and then we looked at my crazy ass chocolate lab named Goose layin on the floor and we were like wait what if were the brown GOOSE experience? so we dont have to explain the truth behind this band name. After playing a show as the brown goose EXPERIENCE we decided to drop the experience part since we didnt wanna sound like we were copying jimi hendrix and how he called his band Jimi Hendrix Experience. it was still kind of a joke when we started playing shows, then ppl really liked us and started booking us by that name and we were like well shit we cant change it now lol”

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-Madalena

Divided we stand, United we fall.

So check it!! I've just seen not one, but two posts from people bashing, bad mouthing, and just flat out talking shit about another band. I'LL SAY THIS ONCE. I will not be associated with DRAMA!!! I don't wish to know or be seen with individuals who are apart, or cause it! 

If you play with a band that are complete assholes (and it happens) let them be assholes. They will soon find that no bands will want to play with or want to help them out and BAM! They're fucked. Do you guys not understand that the scene is fucking fizzeling out? All we have is each other dude. Some of you honestly take this shit a bit too serious! What ever happen to just playing for fun? Playing for the love of music?

I, personally would think that bands would be a little closer, be a little more supportive of one another. & have a shit load more respect for their fellow brethren. Isn't it bad enough that some of the venues are pretty much bold face refusing to pay you guys?? Why worry about the venues fucking you, when you guys are letting the issues start from the inter sanctum?? You're letting it slowly eat its way through, infecting EVERYTHING it comes across.

What is with all the hatred? A band gets signed and instead of congratulations & words of encouragement, people automatically have to nit pick or talk shit. Stop with the negativity people!! It honestly gets you NO WHERE!!! Back to the whole venues not paying bullshit! I've spoken to a few people in the last week who feel the exact same way, & all honestly I feel that YOU the BANDS should boycott the venues. Don't play them for a month or so. Think about it bands are pretty much the sole reason some of these venues even stay open in the first place. Without YOU the MUSICIANS venues would cease to be. So a little advice from yours truly: get your heads out of your asses, its not a competition so stop being so serious, start being more positive, & lets show the the planet, just why we're the Death Metal capital of the world! WE HAVE TO STAY UNITED! 

-Madalena Hutton