cockvandyke

Eons ago... a mystical dragon fell from the sky and let out a flaming belch of the word, "CockVanDyke!" The rest, as they say, is history, and the future.On face value, the benevolent Cockvandyke looks like a poodle thats face had been set on fire, and someone tried to put it out with a chain. Like false appendages on an amputee, the benevolent Cockvandyke fuses the likes of Johnny Cash, Dick Dale, and Elvis Presley all onto a hideous death metal machine with undercurrents of true punk. The outcome is a musical Frankestein; well admired, hard to look at, undeniable fantastic feat of alchemy that extends the outerlimits of rock, yet remains adversely attractive.The process is ugly, but the outcome is God-like. Located in Austin, home of the Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, And you will know us By the Trail of Dead and Spoon, the capitol of Texas has allways been a fertile breeding ground for the atrocious and insane, the benvolent Cockvandyke is no exception.Hailing from local Austin bands like Rattletree, a.d.a., and TV People, the members of C.V.D. have experience in music spanning the entire globe, which only adds to their distaste for the flacid and mundane.Cockvandyke started in 2006 in Carson's bedroom (which was known as the carpet cave) with two friends. With just a few short months as a full band, Cockvandyke are already in the process of recording a full length album and planning a U.S. Tour. Until then, the benevolent CVD will continue to extend its ragged appendages out into the world, looking for love and a warm glass of milk.