The United Sons of Toil are a band from Madison WI. It's precision Midwestern noiserock delivered by populist theoreticians. The Sons are a collective deeply rooted in the grinding noise and math rock that bubbled up from the Midwest during the mid '90s. This is not suggest that the Sons are a retro band in any sense, simply that the hoarse vocals, guitar damage, starts and stops, and sometimes-convoluted arrangements and time signatures hark back to a time when labels like Touch and Go, AmRep, and Dischord lorded over the indie-rock landscape.
The Sons are Bill Borowski (The Arge, Atalanta, Knuckeldrager, Original Sinners) and Russell Hall (P'elvis, Pound WI). Jason Jensen is our new drummer and Chad Burnett (Houndrunner, Colony of Watts, Moggs) is our ex-drummer.
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Press
"...a harsh, big-sounding math-rock album obsessed with imperialism, exploitation,
and genocide. ...it hovers, shudders, and wrangles massive volume with such
precision..." -- The Onion
"...a more aggressive Unwound, giving a sort of mathy post-punk vibe with some hints
of chaos thanks to a seemingly heavy influence from the Touch and Go noise-rock
movement. Guitarist Russell Hall wields distortion like Neil Young gone
post-hardcore." -- Scene Point Blank
"...stemming together various aspects of the past mid-western math-rock elite and
the fleshed out noise-rock style of Unwound." -- Built On A Weak Spot
"Mixing Dillinger Four attitude with some elements of Refused and early At the
Drive-In..." -- Decoy Music
"Explosive, violent and for the most part terrifically precise... This tough,
neo-noise rock harks back to a superannuated Rust Belt world of drop forges and
blast furnaces with every angry, chopping chord and sharp, pile-driving beat. ...a
fascination with the cerebral aggression of
old-school noise stars like Big Black and Tar is obvious, but there's also more than
a hint of breathless '80s hardcore here. Looking for a musical analog of your
favorite Howard Zinn tome? This is it." -- Isthmus
I don't know if it's been said before, but after seeing you guys at the Frequency a week or so ago, I must report how fantastic Bill's bass playing is. I'm guessing he could care less, but I fell in love with it that night. Soothing, rubber band, stretch-y lines that perfectly fit in the band's sound so well without (at first) drawing attention to themselves. I couldn't imagine anyone else banging the bass cables. Prost! See you Dec. 2nd, possibly Nov. 21st, Jeramaya
(and this would've been the place i was going to put a picture of gary coleman and david hasselhoff standing in front of the knight rider-mobile giving the thumbs up...but seeing as how there's no HTML...you just get the words...and that's something)
no it was a joke... they're all good friends of ours. I just laughed out loud about how you had them listed. It was funny, and a pretty lowbrow joke, so I hope I don't have to explain why it's funny. -b
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