Thursday, June 01, 2006

Death From Above 1979


Death From Above 1979- Dead Womb
Death from Above 1979 or "DFA 1979" is underground music at it’s best. The relatively unknown band from Toronto was formed when Bassist/synth player Jesse Keeler and Drummer/Singer Sebastian Grainger met in 2001. JustDeath from Above back then, the band gained recognition and praise for their fast paced play and their heavy, strange, and sometimes machine-like bass riffs.

Jesse is the master of distortion, and gets some sounds to emit from his bass that I didn't even know were possible! Sebastian displays his skills by just singing while drumming... no easy feat!

Death From Above added the 1979 to their name in 2004 as they were releasing their album "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine." The album was headed by the song "Romantic Rights." (This song will be available for download in this post.) "Romantic Rights" has a fuzzy bass riff that sounds almost like machinery. The song is loud and fast, it will blow your brains out for the first 1:45, then it slows down only to build up, more and more until it explodes into absolute . "Rights" will leave you hungry, wanting more of their unique style. Many more of the songs on the album are like this. DFA are becoming somewhat popular. Their videos can rarely be seen on MTV2. Where Death From Above is really getting their recognition from however, is video games and talk shows. Songs from From Above 1979 have been featured on games like *SSX On Tour, and **Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. They have also appeared on Late Night with Conan O' Brien playing "Romantic Rights." Thanks to these, the band is becoming bigger and bigger. I see no reason why these 2 guys can't be the next big thing on the radio.

Closing, I would like to say thank you to NekstBestThing for letting me post on the blog.

Keep coming back to Nekstsong for more music for the musically inclined.

Signing off for now: Andrew

*Song Featured in SSX On Tour: "Black History Month"

**Song Featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland: "Little Girl"



4 Comments:

Blogger drudru3456 said...

How come you took Romantic Rights off of there?

2:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I didn't know you knew these guys. You never said anything when I had one of their pins on my backpack.

2:51 PM  
Blogger drudru3456 said...

Yeah, I first saw them on the Conan show, and I thought they were really good. That was sometime last Summer I think, maybe before then. But I like them a lot, and they seem to be gaining popularity.

5:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if you like DFA, you may like the band LIARS. They also play a fast, twisted, kind of mechanical sound.
The album "They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top" is pretty good.

9:11 AM  

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