Artist description How can you describe the music of Dog Fashion Disco? Imagine yourself in your youthful, innocent past. You are walking through a crowded circus tent, hand in hand with your father. Everything seems so right and in place, from the smell of the animals to the babble of the crowd in the background. You see other children run past you in sheer joy and thrill. You look up at your father and smile. The exhilarating and buoyant circus music pulsates throughout the entire area. You think to yourself, "This is where I want to be for the rest of my life. Safe and secure". Nothing, it seems, could ever go wrong. Suddenly and without warning, screams echo throughout the crowded mass of people. People start trampling over one another, pushing each other out of the way, knocking their friends and loved ones down to escape from some unforeseen terror. Seconds seem like hours. You look around and realize that you are all alone. Staring ahead, you find yourself face to face with something that can never be explained. Nobody can help you from this point on. The sheer madness and brutality that exists from this mysterious element starts to run its course through every part of your body. You think to yourself, "If this is so bad for me, why does it feel so good?". You continue on taking in every note, every sound that it produces until it seems that every cell in your body has reached a full-throttled multiple orgasm. You collapse to the ground in unbridled exhaustion. Whatever you just witnessed has left you as fast as it came. All you know is that you have been forced through some whirlwind of emotion and you'll never be able to define what has just happened. One thing you do know, however, whatever you just heard has left you stripped of all your innocence and inhibitions. Your life has changed. Don't worry though. It's for the better. Just get used to it.

Music Style Hard-Core Circus Metal

Musical Influences Clutch, System of a Down, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tool, Frank Zappa, The Melvins

Similar Artists Clutch, System of a Down, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tool, Deftones, Primus, The Melvins, Frank Zappa

Artist History Performed on the national TV show Farmclub.com, Atlantis Music Conference performers for 1999 and 2000, Philadelphia Music Conference performers for 1999, Performed with: Mindless Self Indulgence, Stone Temple Pilots, P.O.D, Methods of Mayehem, Nothingface, Clutch, Anthrax, Signed to Spitfire Records

Group Members Todd Smith : vocals --- Jeff Siegel : keyboards --- Steve Mears : bass --- Jay Stevens : guitar --- Ollie : drums

Albums 'The Embryo's in Bloom', 'Anarchists in Good Taste'

Press Reviews Washington, DC-based quintet Dog Fashion Disco mines familiar loud rock/metal influences, but its playing and clever riffs are so tight and its music is so stylistically of-the-moment that the band could be poised for success. It's hard enough just to please headbangers, but The Embryo's In Bloom is also quirky and irreverent enough to hold the interest of fans of hybridized funk/metal bands like Faith No More. Vocalist Todd Smith is an even mix of the cartoonish, possessed howl of Mike Patton and the heavily processed growl of Rob Zombie. DFD is also capable of navigating a litany of time signatures and sudden, kooky instrumental interludes, which paint the group as a kindred spirit to more accomplished acts such as the Melvins and Mr. Bungle. Highly recommended for new metal fans who are in the throes of a sugar rush. -Cheryl Botchick CMJ New Music Report, Issue: 628 - Jul 26, 1999

Location Washington, DC - USA

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