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PRISMS

About Me

Prisms is a band trying to create their own art in a rock music scene that's become listless and oversaturated with unoriginality. Their strong guitars, intricate bass work, technical drumming, and lush vocal melodies come together to form something bigger than the sum of their individual parts. What results is a powerful, melodic sound; at once noisy and beautiful. Their songs have diverse qualities, ranging from the washy waves of guitar in "Another Dream" and "Blue Dye" to the pounding rhythm and clarity of "Winter Cliffs," to the dense noise of "Once On," all bound together to form something cohesive and truly unique.
Prisms is currently based in the Washington, DC area. They have played at such venues as The Velvet Lounge, The Red and the Black, Comet Ping Pong, and Galaxy Hut. They have also had the honor of sharing the stage with great local and touring acts, such as Solar Powered Sun Destroyer, Gray Young, The Strange Attractors, Hammer No More the Fingers, and Eat People.
Prisms' debut LP, A Rain of Bombs, Well Placed, was released in 2007. Nearly three years later, Prisms is preparing to enter the studio again to record their second full-length record.
Thanks for listening!
A Rain of Bombs, Well Placed on iTunes...

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Member Since: 25/09/2006
Band Website: prismsmusic.com
Band Members: Nathan: Vox, Electric Guitar
Sam: Bass Guitar, Vox
John: Electric Guitar
Evan: Drums
Influences: Engine Down, My Bloody Valentine, Refused, Codeseven, Ghost Outfit, Sigur Ros, Denali, The Appleseed Cast, "the city" by Dismemberment Plan, The DC music scene c. 1989-1996, The Arlington, VA music scene c. 1999-present
Record Label: The Dissonant Sound Collective
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Another Dream Demo Up!

Hey everyone!  check out a new demo of "Another Dream," one of the songs from our next record!  It's not finished and there's a few parts missing, but you get the idea.  We can't wait to get into the ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:29:00 GMT

New Record

Prisms has begun the process of recording a new record.you heard that right.  A NEW PRISMS RECORD.I won't give too much away, but Prisms is hard at work in the makeshift Shiloh Studio.  We are recordi...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 22:02:00 GMT

DIRECTIONS TO THE RED AND THE BLACK

DIRECTIONS FROM 66E: Take 66E into DC, and it turns into Constitution Ave. Take a left at 6th st NW, then a right onto E st NW, left onto 2nd st NW, then a right onto H st NW and the club (The Red and...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:20:00 GMT

Show, EP news, New Song Up!

Prisms is having a sweet show at the Red and the Black on Nov 12, so you should come.  It's our first show in awhile and we'll be playing some new stuff!If you haven't noticed we also have a new ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:54:00 GMT

Show, iTunes, new songs

Hello dear readers.  What's up?  cool, cool...we have a show coming up in one week.  Sunday!  And it's going to be fun! OR ELSE!  It's at Galaxy Hut in Arlington.  $5, 9...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:38:00 GMT

CD RELEASE UPDATE

Hullo!  News from the front! Well, over the past few days Sam and I have been working tirelessly on the album (and by "working tirelessly" I really mean, "we were watching almost the entire first...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:15:00 GMT

A Rain of Bombs, Well Placed

After very little deliberation and, frankly, not a whole lot of effort, the title of the very first Prisms full length album has been decided (I think). It's in the title but in case you have trouble ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:58:00 GMT

Recording continues...

Recording continues to go well! All the base vocals and instrumentation for the new Prisms record are finished (except for one song that doesn't have vocals yet)!!  Everything is going smoothly s...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:27:00 GMT

Album Progress

hey everyone who reads this! Prisms has been hard at work!  Right now we're about 50% finished with vocals for the new [as-yet-unnamed] album!  All the songs still have some cleaning up to d...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:24:00 GMT

PRISMS FULL-LENGTH ALBUM IN THE WORKS

Hello all readers of this blog, Prisms is currently in the studio recording our first and only full-length record.  We are still in the tracking process.  Soon we will be in the mixing proce...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:01:00 GMT