Today Is The Day

Unmissable U.S. underground music training, Today Is The Day
first formed in Detroit by Brad Elrod's association with the
drums and Steve Austin on guitar and singing. Fatigue of
local scene, they move to Nashville, paradoxically more
known to be the capital of the country as a Hardcore land or
Noise. Because it is initially the niche that the group invests, a
innovative approach to these two currents under strong rock influence
progressive and psychedelic. After being joined by the bassist
Mike Herrel, the trio self-produced some demos and their first EP: How To Win Friends And Influence People in 1992, which is noticed – almost naturally – by Amphetamine Reptile,
legendary 90's stable that counts at the time as a Unsane stallion or The Melvins as well as a significant part of bands that will make the
musical legend of the decade under the auspices of the innovative times
of this noise/hardcore meeting. The band released its first album, Supernova , in 1993 which forged the sound Today Is The Day ,
something that looks like nothing known, under the impulse of
Steve Austin who affirms his will to play and sing as
No one has ever done so at the time, to propose a project
artistic innovation instead, according to her, "to copy what she does
other groups". The fate of Today Is The Day quickly became confused with that of Austin. After making the EP Bent scared then Willpower (1994) and Today Is The Day (1996), the band toured with their fellow label Unsane, Helmet or Sick Of It All. Elrod and Herrel left the group in 1996, starting a instability of
line-up that will become permanent, the group's characteristic leader
recruiting and dismissing at will bassist, drummer or keyboardist.
1996 will also mark the break with Amphetamine Reptile to go to Relapse Records. This label change also marks a stylistic change at Today Is The Day. The Relapse period that opens with Temple Of The Morning Star marks a radicalization of the music of their music.
It now incorporates Death Metal and Grindcore elements,
compositions become much more brutal and dark but also well
more oppressive and tortured, at the limit of a certain exaltation
Mystical, which is marked by the appearance of compositions
acoustic typified psychedelic folk and apocalyptic song title Temple Of The Morning Star . This radicalization is symptomatic
Steve Austin's personality, reluctant to compromise and
submission. This one, through the many changes of line-up and
of the label, marks well its fierce desire for independence, not to
Let his life dictate. This will is also reflected in its
of which Austin is not secret, a very American blend of
defiance of any authority, institution or ideology,
veneration of firearms – of which he collects – as a symbol of
the defence of its independence without falling into the cliché of
proto-fascist redneck, as evidenced by his aversion to
neo-conservatives. In 1999, he hired two unknowns who
occupied the bass and drummer seats of a Death Metal group
Rochester's technique, Lethargy, to record one of his masterpieces, In The Eye Of God. These two unknowns are Brann Dailor and Bill Kilheler, whose experience with Today Is The Day will be important for the construction of Mastodon,
that they will soon found after. Then Austin starts to get
build a reputation as a producer by producing future large
Metalcore and Hardcore Metal: the first two Lamb Of God albums, and When Forever Comes Crashing by Converge
are two of his greatest acts of arms. He also founded
Austin Companies, its own recording studio in Nashville, where
the recurrent discharges of decibels are worth him so many complaints
for day and night noise. He comes out a while later Sadness Will Prevail,
double hard album where the blackest and psychotic sides are
pushed to the extreme by a further development of a Noisecore sound
sick enhanced by Dark Folk passages that abandon their sides
mystics to become perverse and unhealthy, all in the usual
tortured style of Today Is The Day. The Relapse period ends with the most famous and violent work of the band (to which comes the drummer of Hate Eternal Derek Roddy), Kiss The Pig,
an album wanted Austin as a "grind album, but that makes
Grind differently." Apotheosis in this small decade
who saw Today Is The Day metallize his music by leaving his hardcore noise sides of their time at Amphetamine Reptile
to see a strong intrusion of extreme styles, Grindcore and Brutal
Death Metal in the lead, placing the Nashville trio still at the forefront of
musical extremes. Even if this new direction attracts
first-hour fans lightnings, Steve Austin doesn't cure,
more than its new metally audience conquered by its assaults of
blast-beat. However, the guitarist character's relationship with Relapse Records deteriorates dramatically during the change of direction of the house of
disc and this one violently slams the door, accusing them of
want to appropriate the artistic direction of the group, in addition to the
swindle their royalties while giving them a budget too much
lean to better focus on their mainstream poster heads.
Austin will be and is still a great industry defender
of his blindness on the question of
transformation of the market via the appearance of download. In order
to emancipate from all authority and to preserve its integrity and
He founded his own label, Supernova Records. It'll come out on
new opus by Axis Of Eden , a popular album
obvious anti-bush political reference, which sees the evolution of the group
towards a new musical form, pinging both in all the
Group periods. Following the breakup with Derek Roddy including Austin
felt that the career of a dormant professional drummer took too much
the step on Today Is The Day. After a tour in Europe, including a visit to Hellfest 2008, Frenchman Julien Granger ( Four Question Mark , Darkness Dynamite ) will make a short passage behind the futs. Then with an umpteenth new line-up released in 2011 Pain Is The Warning, which will release not on Supernova Records but on Black Market Activities. Three years later, it was Animal Mother who was born from Steve Austin's dungeon, after a usual line-up change and then No Good To Anyone in 2020. If Today Is The Day
is still relatively unknown to the general public, its influence in
the extreme spheres of syncretism Metal and Hardcore remain strong.
Drawing both from Hardcore, Noise, Death Metal, Grindcore, Folk, Psychedelic Rock, Doom, Sludge or Progressive Rock, Steve Austin's work remains one of the most innovative of the
world of extreme music, always following personality very
singular of its creator, passionate about independence and radicality
until the rare botist.
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