Sniffles the Bong - vocals/samples Secona Lee - guitar/sax/melodica VanSatan - guitar Art Guerrilla - bass/power tools/backup vocals/art JB - drums
Influences
Free Masons, eccentrics, assholes, nights of watching slasher flicks and bad on-demand pop-videos 'til 4am, interesting sounds, the cathartic power of live performance, doom, angles, noodling, riffing, expirimenting, musical self-indulgence, etc...
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Cavalcade started as a three-piece instrumental band. Eventually adding local artist Craig Horky on bass, the band practiced at the Funeral parlor (i.e., the basement of Dan, the original drummer). This is where Dan Finks, along with Cale Sauter (guitar/saxaphone), Brad Van Staveren (guitar), and Craig would eventually write the music that would make up the original recordings. The band honed a sublimely crafted metallic noise set, heavy in expirimentation. The first performance by this incarnation of Cavalcade was at a house party at the Funender House on the East side of Lansing, MI in June of 2006. The band remained actively playing shows for the rest of the year.
In January of 2007, Cavalcade added vocalist Zak Warren on the microphone, and revamped its set substantially. Warren's black/death metal rasp provided an ingredient that demanded more structure out of the band's previously wide-open approach. Blending such disparate influences as Mastodon, Party of Helicopters, Smashing Pumpkins, The Refused, Sleep, and The Paper Chase, Cavalcade designed a palette relying strongly on riffs, atmosphere and energy and conversely low on conventions; a unique background to Warren's more traditional metal stylings.
In July of 2007, Cavalcade hit a snare (pun entirely intended) when Finks opted to allow the band to search for a new drummer as he focused on his studies in Furniture Design. The band quickly added close friend and ex-Shoelace drummer John Bruce and proceeded to revamp its set yet again. Cavalcade played an onslaught of shows and continued to write more music, eventually leading to the first proper recordings as a full band. The first song recorded with this line-up was "Seasonal Greetings" which was recorded by Ryan "Gyuri" Tarrant for the 2007 Bermuda Snohawk compilation, the 2nd in the series released by Bermuda Mohawk Productions.
In February/March of 2008, Cavalcade enlisted the services of Sean Peters (Summon, Masochist, Winds of the Black Mountains, Dark Psychosis, Wastelander) to record its first album. The 9 song full-length, Into Bolivian, features seperate vignettes, thematically linked as exporations into the minds of actual schitzophrenics and borderline personalities such as Joseph "The Pigeon Man" Zeman, Edward "King of Coral Castle" Leedskalnin, and Mike Tyson, to name a few.
In Fall 2009 we will be recording our new full length, and Sean Peters will be recording it once again. More information to come on that as the time draws near. We've got an acoustic e.p. in the works for GTG Records, songs are in place and we should be recording them very soon. Also look out for "Quiet Men Keep Secrets" to be featured on an upcoming comp for Phil Anselmo's own Housecore Records, alongside some fucking incredible bands. We'll have copies available at shows when its released. We look forward to playing more shows in support of "Into Bolivian" through 2009..
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