Artist description 5-piece 3-guitar assault from Miami, FL serving up intricate rhythms, deep lyrics, and in-your-face live performances.

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Thrice, Taking Back Sunday, Finch, Glassjaw, Carter Beats the Devil, Thrice

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Artist History Save Arcana has only been a band for a few months, but their story stretches back a long farther than you might think. The year is 1999, and a group of three long-time friends decide to get together to form a band. Without much exposure to punkrock beyond the usual suspects (blink182 and Green Day), the band wrote a slew of short poppunk tunes and hung out on a daily basis. Andres Delgado played drums, Romy Olazabal played bass, and Hely Rego played guitar. When a childhood friend of Romy and Andres', Peter Allen, bought himself an electric guitar and tried to join the band, they declined. After "Da Kyne" played its legendary first (and only) show, Andres moved to Italy, leaving the remaining two members without their musical backbone. Peter, determined to start a band of his own, exposed his friend Mike Nunes to bands such as Green Day, Blink182, MxPx, and The Descendants. Being a fan of hip-hop, Mike had always loved recreating the beats from his favorite tunes on anything he could find. The drums were a natural step for Mike, and so in the year 2000, Out-Of-Reach was born. Needing a bassist, Peter asked Romy to join, which seemed logical. (Hely went his own way and went through several bands.) Once Mike finally bought a drumset, the band came together and wrote several short, infectuous punkrock songs. After a string of small shows in Peter's apartment building, a recording of a really bad demo, a loss in a battle of the bands at Romy's school, and going through a bunch of members (including 2 singers, 2 DJ's, and a guitarist), Peter asked friend and former classmate Chris Capestany to fill the void on guitar and to trade off with Peter as lead vocalist. His tastes in music were totally different from the other members, which had a dramatic effect on the way they thought about music. He fit right into the band, developing bonds with the other members that have become impossible to break. After a show in Peter's living room for about 15 close friends and a short hiatus, the band decided to take a step forward, writing a slew of new material and playing their frist 3 shows with such names on the scene as Local Story, The Madd Agents, Audible, Waiting Theory, and Teenage Frenzy (R.I.P.). In late 2002, it was discovered that Hely had started a band with some new schoolmates. They went through a lineup change or 3, a few names, and are now called Branded. A friendship between bands had formed, and they have since performed on the same bill together about 5 times. In January 2003, the band recorded their second demo with Andy Hernandez, lead guitarist and vocalist from Branded. It was a horrible recording, but it helped the band continue to spread the word. They continued to play shows wherever they could. In February, Peter filled in for Hely at a small show for Branded, where he met Joey, guitarist of the now-defunct Disbanded. Later that month, Mike and Peter teamed up to throw one of the biggest shows of the year, getting nine of the scene's biggest names to play a charity show for the Daily Bread Foundation. In March, they entered Voyage Studios with engineer/producer Luis Salazar to record an 8-song album. That idea was soon thrown out the window when the band looked inward and realized it had grown up a lot since the days of their hardcore fanhood to poppunk. After another hiatus, the band came together with a lot more new material, scrapping their older, cheesiser stuff. They are still yet to finish what they started with Luis in March of 2003. They played 3 shows in the month of August alone, becoming the 1st time in the band's history that they play 3 shows in one month. It was around this time that tensions with the band started to boil. After Peter had shared the stage with and gone on a few out-of-town trips with several of his favorite local bands, he began to feel that he had lost his place in Out-Of-Reach. Problems with other members became too severe to ignore, and a drastic change needed to take place for the band to stay afloat. With the addition of a new frontman who was tearing the band apart in terms of the band's new musical direction, the member's general discomfort drastically increased. Thus, after their first show at Kaffe Krystal, Peter called it quits, and left the band in a severe standstill. The band recruited Joey from Disbanded (who knew Peter from his fill-in duties for Branded) as Peter's replacement, playing a single show and writing bunches of new material. Meanwhile, Peter was trying to get together a new band of his own. With unsuccessful runs as a member of Not Just Kids (ska band) and The Stray (emocore band), and trying unsuccessfully to join Bum Ruckus (haha that was a laugh riot), Peter decided to rejoin the band he had started 3 years earlier. Toying with the idea of another frontman and sixth member, the band decided to stay with 5 members, becoming one of the few bands in existence with three guitarists. Peter and Chris' trading of leads on guitar and vocals is something rarely seen in music today. Once again realizing their growth as a band and as musicians, and due to the addition of a new member, the band decided to change its name to Save Arcana. Despite only a handful of common musical interests, the band has since written enough new material for a full-length album, that they will end up recording partly with Luis Salazar and partly by themselves. They've made a few friends over the years who have promised to help get the band back on its feet when the time is right. That's the story so far.

Group Members Romy Olazabal: Bass, Backing Vocals; Peter Allen: Vocals, Guitar; Mike Nunes: Drums; Christian Capestany: Vocals, Guitar; Joey Wasserman: Guitar

Instruments Peter: Custom Ibanez, Custom Telecaster. Chris: Fender Standard Stratocaster. Romy: Fender Standard Jazz Bass. Mike: DW Pacific/Pearl Drums, Pearl/Tama Hardware, Remo Heads, DW Double Bass Pedal, Sabian Cymbals. Joey: Custom Gibson Faded SG.

Location Miami, Florida - USA

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