Necktie Suicide
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Overview
In the evoloution of metal, Necktie Suicide is undeniably the next level of conciousness. A 5 headed beast that has won over their midwest confines without major-label support or buying into the gimmick heavy world of cheese before integrity and ego before talent.
Necktie Suicide
Necktie Suicide started out of the ashes of 2 prominant bands in the Fargo, ND area. With Jared (guitar) and Justin (drums) Norris from a band called Blood Dries Black and Andy Hanson (bass) Steve Smedshammer (guitar) and Jarret Vosler (vocals) from Invividly. Playing only a few shows together, Jarret lost interest in the band forcing the other members to make a change. Pushing forward without a vocalist and embarking on a short tour the other members started to let their voice be heard. Andy Jared and Steve picked up the vocal duties. Playing over a hundred local and regional shows in a year and a half the band felt the need for another change. They recruited A.j Anderson to pick up most of the vocals. With A.j having a huge vocal range the other memebers could focus more on their playing rather than having to take time out to sing so much. Pushing forward they went out to california to record a 5 song EP. Ryan Sellars recorded and produced it at DML Studios in Escondido, CA under the supervision of Don Lithgow. It was mastered at Rare Form Mastering by Greg Rierson in Minneapolis, MN.
Stats
- Genres: Alternative,Hardcore,Post Hardcore,Metal,Screamo,Experimental,Thrash
- Country: USA
- Status: Active
- Time: 2003-
Members
Justin Norris: Drums
Steven Smedshammer: Guitars,Vocals
Andrew Hansen: Bass,Vocals
Jared Norris: Guitar,Vocals
A.j Anderson: Vocals
Biography
Nearly 4 years in the making Necktie Suicide has gone from sharing the stages with local Fargo bands barely out of the garage to sharing the stage with an assortment of national bands that had to be carfull to walk that line of being upstaged by their local upstarts. American Head Charge, Dope, Internal Bleeding, Dog Fashion Disco, Sinai Beach, Into Eternity, Six Feet Under, Premonitions of War, The Brain Chiggers, Vampire Moose, Misery Index, Through the Disipline, Jucifer, Twisted Method, Dead to Fall, 12 tribes,Marytr AD and Fight Paris all have taken to the stage after the five young mad scientists that form Necktie Suicide, Now it's only a matter of time before the stage belongs to N.T.S. and rightfully so. Full of passion,ideals,talent,anger, empathy, conviction and showmanship, Necktie are as much individuals as they are one within it's collective members.
Discography
A Marrige of Life and Loss 2003
Bearing Witness to the Fall of Rome 2004
Links
Necktie Suicide's Myspace page
Necktie Suicide's Pure Volume page
Press Releases
High Plains Reader 8.25.05 Metals a bitch; a stubborn, rigid creature that occasionally reproduces and spawns varying sub sects, but dangles the possibility for creative interpretation above its practitioners like its taunting a gorilla with a banana. Some artists have strong enough calf muscles to make the jump; the rest either say,"To hell with it!" and stay where they are during the duration of their career, or travel even lower downt he slope as if running from the big, bad originality goblin (cough...Slipknot...cough).
The Thing about Necktie Suicide is that they have legs like wallabies. "Bearing Witness to the Fall of Rome"--the bands debut EP--is a five-song operetta of men leaping through the air, and tearing apart an empire when they touch back down. A treatise on war, culture, and misinformation that ties it all together, "Rome" is like attending a dinner with a brain trust and watching the room explode into fisticuffs. Havoc isnt the point; its frustration that can no longer be kept quiet, and vitriol with a doctorate.
Its also wonderfully manic music. Everything comes in layers (the guitars alone on "Apologies Made Without Response" are stacked like skyscrapers), as if someone just relieved themselves all over Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound."
"Rome" cuts, changes, and ducks under the cover of night before you are sure of what you have just seen. Singer A.j Anderson delivers each song with the right amount of brutality as the remaning four members of this metal mob march through other great cuts like "Someone" and "Shotgun Divorce Settlement." Like Poison the Well without a Swedish production team, or Thursday finally becoming too pissed for emo to hold them any longer, Necktie Suicide is why you should never give up on heavy music, even when it seems like heavy music has given up on you.
Fargo Forum If you think a name like Necktie Suicide sounds harsh, listen to the Fargo group’s new EP, “Bearing Witness to the Fall of Rome.†The opener, “Apologies Made without a Response†features more screams than a slaughterhouse, while tracks like “Shiver†and “Blindfold†pound out hooks like a heavy-weight grudge match. The five-song CD isn’t for everyone, but in 25 minutes the quintet crunches out a polished bit of heavy metal. John Lamb Fargo Forum
