Call it prog rock. Call it hard rock. Call it metal. Call it mathcore. Its what Run Silent Run Deep call home. With an amalgam of delicate melody, time changes and brutal riffs RSRD create music that die hard fans love and others love to hate.
Since August of 2003 RSRD have played up and down the east coast making clubs such as (NYC): the Mercury Lounge, Knitting Factory, The Lions's Den, CBGBs (Philly): North Star Bar, The Khyber, The Fire (DC): Nation, Black Cat, Iota (Richmond):Alley Katz, Nanci Raygun and colleges U of Maryland, George Washington and American part of their route.
RSRD have recorded with Don Zientara (Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan), Grammy nominated Bob Dawson (Dave Mathews Band, Nils Lofgren, Mary Chapin Carpenter) and the great Mike Fisher. Each recording yielding songs that are being played on DC 101, 98 rock, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, WRGW (George Washington University), WUMC ( University of MD) and WVAU (American University).
"Run Silent Run Deep or RSRD as they sometimes refer to themselves, are a band intent on mimicking early Fugazi with a bigger emphasis on melodic singing. Atmospheric rock anthems merge with indie pop sweetness colliding like atoms running light-speed on a super-collider. Chugging guitars instead of beers, Run Silent Run Deep manages to force the hand of post-hardcore into their direction while maintaining something that’s surely different from the thousand of Helmet clones.
- J-Sin, smother.net"
"With their level of proficiency, boasting excellent players all around and playing like they were listening to each other.with a set made up of long, epic compositions with lots of atmospheric, arpeggiated movements, but don't think it ends there. They like to bring the hammers down, too, and none of their 10-minute crowd-pleasers were complete without at least one Sabbath-inspired riff-fest."
-Greg Ceton / Washington City Paper
"ROCK'S CHILDREN: Run Silent Run Deep is among the many bands under the influence of the rock antiheroes Fugazi and Slint: these slightly moody, slightly angry lads turn down Fugazi's noise-rage and update Slint's smart song structure."
The really sad part is, I couldn't even remember which one Widowmaker was. Took me a few minutes, then I realized it's the one that sounds like Headless!
We hope to see you tonight between 5pm and 10pm at Austin Grill Silver Spring for the First Monday fundraiser for WAMA! You eat and the Grill gives 33% of the sales to WAMA! Details are at wamadc.com and on our MySpace blog.
