Funny inconsistency : at this San Francisco based Alternative Rock/ Metal band's facebook page, it is mentioned in the biography that they got together in 2010...yet the page itself was already opened in September 2009! Less funny, is that I've come across very little info on the band...but I am glad to share with you what I have found!
With a line-up consisting of lead singer/ guitarist/ programmer & synths handler Reyka Osborn (formerly of Tinfed and Ghostfire), guitarist/ backing singer Chris Sanders, bassist/ backing singer Huffy Hafera, and drummer/ programmer Adam Bannister (whom all three had already paid their dues in the local scene), the guys took on an “undead” image atop of their somewhat sinister songs, and did two national tours prior to releasing their debut album Doom, In Full Bloom, through Minus Head Records in April 2011 (on both CD and vinyl, by the way!). The album got the band an Independent Music Award in the category of “Best Rock Song” for the track “Multiply”...and that's the most current item on the band I can give you, until the band retreats into Fantasy Studios with recording engineer Jesse Hart Nichols (whom in the past worked with The Stooges and Ty Segal) during August 2012 to record their new album, the material of which they had mixed by Eric Stenman (of Thrice and Deftones fame).
The material is said to be a rebirth for the band, seeing the musicians expand their signature style “to even deadlier and more dynamic territory”. Well, I wouldn't know, as I hadn't come across the band before. As a teaser for their fans, the guys (again trough Minus Head) released the 5-track 7-inch LP Survival Program. Rather than containing a foretaste of the upcoming album, it in fact contained remixes of 4 songs off the debut album (one of 'em being remixed twice, see?). A description of the music? Hum...the band itself puts it as such (on their facebook) : “...Fuse distorted guitar riffs over Dance Punk beats and you'll have Death Valley High – the mixtape to a doomsday dance party...”! If that ain't enough to make a picture, at (www.) minushead.com/bands (to which you will be diverted when you try to enter the band's “own” site (http://) deathvalleyhigh) you'll find videos to current album's first single “How2Kill” and to the debut album's “Multiply”, and audio files for additional 3 songs (“Re-Animation”, “Blood Drive” and “Cinema Verité”) off Positive Euth. Via links you can also log onto the band's pages at facebook (find audio for “How2Kill”, “The Present”, and 7 songs off the debut), MySpace (which I was unable to check on my network PC), as well as twitter, YouTube, and SoundCloud (none of which I bothered to check, having already found the mentioned links more than sufficient – of course, you're free to go see what's available in sounds and videos there yourselves).
Oh...and, by the way...the promo album we got was a double CD affair, the second CD a bonus extra containing 5 songs off the debut album, and 5 remixes which...huh, are announced as the tracks off the Survival Program EP...which is weird, because according to my info source (Amazon) that EP does ót have a remix of “Multiply”! About those remixes: the first one actually announces a great Industrial-like mix of the guitars with wacky effects in both the music ànd vocals, and synths added. One almost expects a same cross-over hybridisation with the rest of the songs, but actually they are all stripped of almost each and every bit of guitar in the original songs (the exception being the disc-closing remix of “Multiply”)...been turned in purely Electronic tracks! Of course, I don't mind, because I'm kinda fond of that kind of creativity with already existing songs.