Artist description Tom Fury is a project spearheaded by a musician /songwriter / insane martyr for nothing named Matthew Barnes. He is 22 years old and has his audio-phonic ramblings to offer to the world. Tom Fury is a mish-mash of several different styles but contains a cohesiveness supported by struggle, love lost, endless searching for inevitable letdown, and other extremes (not including apathy). Tom Fury has approximately 30-40 songs right now,with at least 20 of them recorded. If you are a fan of music that means something yet is not pretensious (usually), you shall enjoy this fine Tom Fury product.

Music Style The turn of the century marks the end of borders...this is what it sounds like.

Musical Influences Faith No More, Failure, Nine Inch Nails, Blinker the Star, Beck

Similar Artists Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Failure, Nirvana, Faith No More, free sex

Artist History Matt Barnes has been playing music his whole life.He has played with a number of bands including BenT PeG, and his newest endeavor, Pile of Heads (formerly Big on Mars). His range of influences, which comeout in his songwriting, range from the bombastic rumble of the metalest of metals, to the quietest, richest, acoustic humblings of softly spoken lovesongs. He has been playing in central New York for the last five years and is planning on digesting barbed-wire if the music thing doesn't work out.

Group Members Matt Barnes: (songwriting, engineering, vocals, keyboards, acoustic, electric, and bass guitars, percussion)

Instruments electric/acoustic/bass guitars, synthesiser, percussion, vocals

Albums Anger Towards Immaterial Objects

Press Reviews Won best male singer of central New York in 1996 by Jim Catalano for the Ithaca Journal's annual music review. In 1999, BenT PeG's CD "Vuja-De" was listed as one of the best 25 local CD's of the decade by Jim Catalano of the Ithaca Journal, "Matt Barnes is one of the most impressive singers to come out of the Northeast in a long time".

Additional Info Has tons of extra material recorded...just email me and ask!tom

Location Ithaca, New York - USA

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