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Brutal Republic

Pioneers of Another Day

About Me

Brutal Republic began in 2003, when Jeremy Ober (guitar/vocals) and Jon Skogland (drums) were introduced to each other. We began writing songs that encorporated everything from blues and southern rock to heavy metal with expertly crafted guitar lines and in your face rock drums. After a year of writing they added Dave Hoffman (bass) to beef up the sound and be a strong backbone between the guitar / drums duo.

In October of 2004 we recorded a quick and dirty promotional EP at Junior's Motel outside of Otho, IA. The disk features the four tracks: The Raven, Apollo Falling, Crow and Down Low. We are constantly writing new material and booking shows across Iowa as well as the surrounding states.

2005 was a fine tuning year for us. Tightening up our live act and finding our musical identity. By playing with top bands in our area, such as: On A Pale Horse and Parallex, we got our name out as an up and coming band in the music scene.

As we return to the studio in 2006 to record our first full length album with Chris Brown producing we've only begun to hit our stride as a band and we are ready to take the stage to play some Iowa grown rock.


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Member Since: 3/20/2005
Band Website: brutalrepublic.com
Band Members: Jeremy Ober - Guitar/Vocals
Influences: Black Label Society, Pantera, Down, Kyuss, CoC, Slayer
Sounds Like: Brutal Republic
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ages

Setting a marker down right here to mark the time period that some big changes have happened in the Republic. John Skoglund and Dave Hoffman have both parted ways from its path. John certai...
Posted by Brutal Republic on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:07:00 PST

Recording is finished!

Hey gang! Recording went great and you should finally see some merch/promo cds at our show June 3rd!Take a listen to two new tracks here on MySpace: Stone Face and March of the Vultures.We are taking ...
Posted by Brutal Republic on Tue, 16 May 2006 08:30:00 PST

Recording (for real this time)

Hey again, I just got off the phone with Chris Brown at his studio Recorded By Chris Brown and we are scheduled to go in for the weekend of April 7-8th to lay down Jon's drums and some scratch guitar ...
Posted by Brutal Republic on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:47:00 PST

March 11th is no go but there's a silver lining! (edit: I'm a retard)

The 12th is a Sunday and Jon works sundays so unfortunately we can't make it.  Sorry folks, maybe next time...
Posted by Brutal Republic on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:42:00 PST

Merchandise and Recording

Hey everyone we are planning on hitting the studio by the end of the year to record our first full length disc over in Cedar Falls.I've also been playing with shirt designs so as soon as I get one fin...
Posted by Brutal Republic on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:47:00 PST