The hard rock genre generally evokes images of chaotic mosh pits exploding to a soundtrack of aggression. While San Diego based Mower has provided that very score for thousands of fans across the country, the group is showcasing their dual musical personalities by releasing a split CD with their own jazz/lounge alter-ego, Slower, entitled Make It A Double. The end result creates a stiff drink that combines adrenaline and a stony new vibe created by assembling mellow grooves with a punk rock thought process.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA with producer Eddie Wohl (Anthrax, Dry Kill Logic, Ill Nino, Bleeding Through, 36 Crazyfists), Make It A Double includes nine new Mower tracks that focus on harnessing the band’s notorious live energy and rewarding their hardcore fans with as much humor, sarcasm and full-on antagonism as possible. Slower makes their recorded debut with six new tracks.
Make It A Double starts out with a song called The Party, a “takes-one-to-know-one” stab at Hollywood and all things VIP, and degenerates from there.
A psychotic break introduces Slower, who perform the last six songs on the CD in a bastardized version of a jazz-lounge act wearing suits, snarls and smirks. Picture punks dressed for a court date. The slower tempos, creepy riffs and hazy tones show the group’s infectious songwriting can work in whatever genre the band decides to play in.
Additional musicians on Make It A Double include Rob Caggiano of Anthrax, who along with Eddie Wohl make up Scrap 60 Productions, and Mikey Doling of Snot. On the Slower side of the disc, Roy Mayorga of Stone Sour and Fernando Apodaca of Mad Juana makes appearances as well.
Weaving together numerous musical styles from hard rock to jazz, Make It A Double unleashes Mower’s heaviest songs to date while Slower experiments with a new style of punk jazz like a twisted lounge act in a Tarantino film. One minute the band is coming at listeners guns blazing and in the next moment they’re sipping martinis in 3-piece suits grooving to an infectious jazz beat.
This San Diego based powerhouse some call “California’s hardest working band”, have been assaulting audiences since the release of their 2003 self-titled debut. The group quickly took San Diego by storm with an onslaught of insane live performances that left audiences stunned by the group's relentless energy and in-your-face aggression. Mower also took a cue from its punk rock roots and became a self-promoting machine, plastering the entire city with flyers and Mower stickers, which prompted local authorities to serve the band "cease and desist" letters.
With their sophomore effort Not For You, Mower stepped up their game to compete in the big leagues. The album's lead single Road Rage debuted on MTV’s Headbangers Ball and immediately jumped into heavy rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio's hard rock channel, Hard Attack, where it spent four months in a row on the Devil's Dozen, the weekly countdown show of most the station's requested songs. Outburn Magazine gave Not For You a 9 out of 10 rating and Metal Edge Magazine said the disc contains "something for everybody." The band took their live show on the road touring with heavy hitters like Soulfly, (Hed)pe, Diecast, Adema, doing arena shows with Disturbed, Papa Roach and Kottonmouth Kings, opening for the genre's powerhouses System Of A Down, Deftones, Linkin Park, Stone Sour, P.O.D., Staind, Mastodon, Five Finger Death Punch, and Shadows Fall, and with opening slots for metal's golden gods Metallica and Slayer. Touring Japan to support the Japanese releases of Mower's discs even gave the band a taste of international success.
The network of sponsors working with Mower includes heavyweights Jagermeister, Ampeg, Schecter Guitars, Dean Markley Strings, SRH Productions, Sik World Productions, No Fear, Lost Enterprises, Tribal Streetwear, and Seedless Clothing.
Support for the band is growing steadily as their no-bullshit style of rock n' roll is winning over punk, metal, and hardcore fans alike. After early shows with GWAR, Fear and a Vans Warped Tour date raised eyebrows in the music industry, the band released their self titled debut on Suburban Noize Records.
To request The Party at Sirius, dial toll free: 1-877-337-4748.
All of Mower CD’s are available at Best Buy and other fine stores and online at www.subnoizestore.com and music websites including www.itunes.com
Mower will be touring the southern United States in January/February. Dates are posted here on Mower's Myspace Page or at href="http://www.reverbnation.com/mower">Mower's Reverbnation Page.
Click here to reach Mustang Agency regarding booking Mower or their punk lounge alter-ego, Slower.
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