Bane

Aaron Bedard - singing Aaron Dalbec - guitar Zach Jordan - guitar Brendan Maguire - bass Bob Mahoney - drums
In 1994, in Worcester (Massachussets), Aaron Dalbec and Damon Bellardo, respectively guitarist and drummer of Converge, decided to form a side-project named Gateway. The band has no stable line-up and no singer. That is why, in 1995, after seeing at work the charismatic Aaron Bedard, singer of a local band named Backbone (and former drummer of Over Under), A. Dalbec offered to join the project. Very motivated by this perspective, A. Bedard accepts and writes the first texts of the group. In December, A. Bedard, A. Dalbec and D. Bellardo recorded a demo of five tracks in Boston, with A. Dalbec playing bass and guitar. Pete Chilton, bassist from Auburn, joined them the following year and Bane's first show was held in March in Worcester with Kurt Ballou from Converge on the second guitar. The demo enjoyed a small success and soon after Bane gave himself a second guitarist in the person of Zach Jordan ( Relm , Barrit ). The band recorded its first ep in May. Produced by Brian MacTernan ( Hot Water Music , Thrice , Cave In , With Honor , Strike Anywhere , Converge , The Draft , Snappase ), he is released at Life Records ; It's actually a self-production by A. Dalbec. The band then performed concerts in the Massachussets and forged a name through cataclysmic shows. His hardcore is raw and intense, in the same vein as Judge . It is the antithesis of that of Converge, more metallic and experimental. Bane's members are perceived as romantic sighing after the old hardcore scene. Nevertheless, success is emerging. In May 1997, the band found B. MacTernan for the recording of a second ep, entitled Free To Think, Free To Be, which will also be released on Life Records. But Bane remains a side-project, forced to deal with the tours and pace of work of Converge. At the end of the year, D. Bellardo decided to devote himself exclusively to Converge and left Bane . Ben Chused, drummer of Ten Yard Fight, comes to play acting. There are more concerts and the band performs as far as Detroit. A year later, Bane returned to the studio with B. MacTernan to register his annual ep. But the focus of the labels was on the group because of the fourth reissue of its old ep. Finally, it is a compilation of the three eps released at Equal Vision Records, under the title Holding This Moment . The following tour cannot be done by Ben Chused, busy with Ten Yard Fight . He was replaced by Nick Branigan of Close Call. The US tour of Saves The Day in July was a huge success. Back in Worcester, Bane decides to write an album. 1999 will be a monstrous year for the band members who will make four tours with Bane . Z. Jordan and P. Chilton will also tour with metal band Barrit, while A. Dalbec will tour Europe with Converge. From June to July, they recorded their first album at Clinton (Austin Entreprises). Produced by Steve Austin (Today Is The Day), It All Comes Down To This is released in November at Equal Vision Records. He is acclaimed by criticism. Incessant tours will follow with Death By Stereo and Adamantium, as well as participations in festivals such as Hellfest. The group's stage performances are huge and success at the rendezvous. In September 2000, Bane recorded in Norwood an ep split with the metalcore band Adamantium: it included three tracks including a cover of the song "Eye for an Eye" of the homonymous band. Mixed by Bane and Kurt Ballou, he will be released in February 2001. After the recording of the ep, Bane flew away for a six-week European tour in the lead. Bane's second album, Give Blood , was released in August 2001 (Equal Vision Records). Recorded in Beltsville (Maryland), it is produced by B. MacTernan. Its quality and sincerity give a second breath to a stagnating hardcore scene. That same year, A. Dalbec, after making the album Jane Doe , definitely left Converge and devoted himself to what Bane had become master: the stage. The band toured with Agnostic Front, Dashboard Confessional, Thursday, Shadows Fall, Good Riddance and Hatebreed. A. Dalbec finds time to play with Only Crime while Z. Jordan and P. Chilton form Silent Drive. In 2003, Nick Branigan left Bane . Bob Mahoney, Reach The Sky drummer, replaces him. The band still toured with The Promise and left for Japan for two weeks in April 2004. In January 2005, Bane entered the studio to record his third album with the incredible B. MacTernan. It took four long years to finally listen to The Note released in May, still at Equal Vision Records. The album highlights the traditional hardcore Bane has become the synonym and the result is up to the expectations. The band then toured with Comeback Kid and FC Five (European tour), as well as with With Honor, Strung Out and The Reason. In February 2006, he returned to Japan and played that year with Strike Anywhere, A Global Threat, This Is Hell, Outbreak, Modern Life Is War and Silent Drive. On December 30, 2006, Bane celebrates its ten years of existence, remarkable longevity for a hardcore band, by giving a concert in its original city, Worcester, in the company of FC Five, Evergreen Terrace, Outbreak, Overcast and Ambition, and releases in the aftermath an ep two titles, Ten Years Plus, which includes a cover of Bjork's "Enjoy" . We find him in January 2007 to greet another hardcore heavyweight since he appeared on the tribute album to Sick Of It All , Our Impact Will Be Felt , with the song "We Stand Alone". Between 2007 and 2009, Bane resumed her fetish activity: live. There was a European tour in August/September 2007 with Have Heart and Ceremony . In 2008, the band shared the poster with H2O, Cruel Hand, Comeback Kid, Shai Hulud, Energy, Grave Maker, Misery Signals ..., and continued in 2009 with Madball, Terror, Crime In Stereo, Poison The Well, Vision Of Disorder. In June 2009, Bane joined Gateway Studio with Jay Maas to record new titles. Brendan Maguire ( Reach The Sky) plays bass instead of Pete Chilton. An ep to artwork and different titles comes out at the end of 2009 ( Tokyo 7:58am , Dublin 11:58pm , Rome 12:58am , Curitiba 7:58pm , Boston 6:58pm , Perth 7:58pm and Los Angeles 3:58pm ). In support, the band performs concerts including Have Heart, Shipwreck, Blacklisted, Foundation.
Ignoring trends and fashions, the band in Dalbec and Bedard has always played the hardcore she loved. The group grew up and evolved without changing its point of view, pronouncing a traditional hardcore to which it gave its letters of nobility. Passion, fidelity, integrity and obviously musical quality have made Bane one of the most influential and respected hardcore bands today.