Artist description Death Bus is like a tornado inside a plastic tube.

Music Style Noise Metal Stoner Rock Eperimental

Musical Influences Slayer,Crash Worship,Bad Brains,Sabbath,Hendrix,Butthole Surfers, Pink Floyd,Mr.Bungle,

Similar Artists Melvins, Black Sabbath, Ween, Butthole Surfers, Slayer

Artist History Nathan Espen: Ude Wir, Chloroform, Rice Burner, S.L.O.P. Nathan Espen Flatland Orchestra, Diamond Scamrock, Architects Of Fashion, Countryman, Nano, Death Bus, Rice Burner, Spirit of the Beaver, Anarchis Arm, Christbeaters, White Trash Veggie Taco, Baccho Umbertis, Dusty Beaver Head, Fallopian Tubesteakas With Beer, Kozmyk Vampz. LT Goatboy-Chloroform, Fallopian Tubesteaks With Beer, Diamond Scamrock. George Mack-Bouffant Jellyfish/Great Atomic Power/Illusionist/Team Spider.

Group Members LT Goatboy-Vocals, Guitar, Noise Nathan Espen-Drums, Loops George Mack-Guitars, Programming, Sax, Noise

Instruments Drums , Guitar, Keys, Bass, Vocals, Loops

Albums Headed Strait For Hell

Press Reviews Hailing from Austin, Texas, Death-bus are quite a strange breed. This EP, Headed Straight For Hell is nearly impossible to place into any category, which was probably their intent. The opening track, "Death-bus" is probably them at their most conventional. A mutant slab of sludge metal, it comes across initially almost as a crossbreed of early Head of David and AC/DC, complete with partially death metal style vocals. Bits of the track even sound jazz influenced, and parts are Korn-esque "New Metal" as it's being deemed. And as a totally different style, the next track, "You Must Feel Like I Feel" has a sort of pseudo-tribal quality to its percussion section, the drums are the entire basis of the song, along with some almost dubby bass and jazzy guitar, and quieter, undistorted vocals. The lyrics are pretty entertaining too. "Next bus to Afrika" sounds like blues with an obvious drum machine backing. And lots of fun banging, clanging, yelling, clatter noises filling out the background. "G" is another odd one. Drum machine beats, live bass, and what sounds like a synthesizer is the musical basis for the track, but as an added bonus, there are lots of recorded yelling in the background about all sorts of strange things. And some vocal freakouts of course. This stuff reminds me of Ween circa The Pod or Pure Guava, which can only be a compliment. "Gc-dc" is a dense collage of middle eastern sounding beats, found sounds, and some conventional saxophone. Great bass sound on it, too. The disc ends with "This Noise=Life", a muddled mix of drums, bass, synth, sax, and distant conversations. Overall, quite an impressive disc. Though there's no consistent flow throughout the tracks, the varied sounds are all done well, be it sludge metal, tribal banging, or dense sound collage. Well worth checking out. --Creaig Dunton http://fpc.hypermart.net/reviews.html

Additional Info Recorded By Nathan Espen at Revolution Studios in Austin Texas.

Location Austin/New York/San Diego, TX - USA

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