Botch

   
Artist: Botch

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Unifying Themes Redux

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


   
 061502

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14


   
 We Are the Romans

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 An anthology of dead ends

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


   
 American Nervoso

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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Seattle, WA's Botch is at the cutting edge of a near revolution in sound in sonorous music. A acid melodic phrase of progressive, tube, and sometimes violent heavy metal-infused guitar histrionics steeped deeply in hard-core punk scene aesthetics and the much touted D.I.Y. ethical code, with many that community's last-place vernacular denominator, plug-ugly disposed inflections thankfully abstracted. It's a subgenre that is almost often labelled noisecore. Much like their noisecore peers in bands like Converge and Isis, Botch's effectual balks at the established conventions and preconceived limitations of the hard-core genre, with the quaternion tastefully and craftily crafting complex, mathematical melodious compositions with dexterity, depth, and skill. Advertising copy erstwhile suitably called the ring evilness maths rock. Vocalist Dave Verellen takes his lyrical conceptualization very gravely, filling the band's records with stark metaphors and often incredibly tedious song titles. Botch formed in 1993 when Verellen hooked up with his heights school chums Tim Latona (drums), Brian Cook (bass), and guitar player David Knudson -- a lineup that has endured o'er the age, avoiding the constant changes that many of the band's peers undergo. Two years later, Botch released their first demo on cassette and toured behind it. In 1997, the stripe coupled forces with Boston's Hydra Head Records imprint, a sometimes habitation to such noisecore genre standard bearers as Cave In, Drowning Man, and other bands. Botch released their first uncut album, American Nervoso, that same year. It was an album that showcased Knudson's incredible guitar playing talents that would shortly go out him recognized as matchless of the best players in the resistance aspect. 1999 saw the release of Botch's We Are the Romans, a profoundly dense, conceptually impelled, and meticulously crafted thematic enlistment de force that heightened the band's ill fame amongst the metal weightlift and garnered them further touring opportunities, including a trip across the pond to Europe (their second base) in support of friends/like-minded musicians Dillinger Escape Plan. The following deuce years saw the band playacting live, including an appearance at Krazy Fest 4 in Louisville, KY.