Conceived in March of 2003 in the basements of Chico, Ca. and dissolved in Ocean Beach San Diego, Born Tonight, an ‘army to the ears', imposed a grandiose gamut that was capable of both crushing and caressing.Each Born Tonight composition was of epic ambition, some minutes long, some cycled for quarter hours, yet each was an expedition. A sound of explosive energy, expanding and diminishing through a flood of moods, the charged songs seared ears and incited sing alongs.Born Tonight was a type of soul music--if that soul had been anguished. While having possessed a squall and venom like early Deftones, they were also capable of expansive and meditative vistas like Oceansize. The lyrics were dark matters, often obtuse, but delivered with all the agony and anguish of any mortal.Jai Luna, Epiphone Sheridan aficionado, possessed a unique fusion of pained and strained chords grounded in classic metal flash, a product of the Metallica/Guns & Roses/ Faith No More dynasty, with roots in grunge, hardcore, and classic rock.Hunter Levy, originally from Texas and the latest addition of the group, was a bona fide band leader in his own right, helming up both ‘Take over Turn' and ‘The Trusted' before he lent his wrist-wrenching and tense tenor to BT.Jay Two was a multi-dimensional and cathartic singer, who spanned the spectrum of human mood, from sweet serenades through harmonized heroics to animal blasts, he extracted every atom of his energy onto the audience. His lyrics were dark and post-romantic and evoked pained breakups, loss, isolation, troubled pasts, and self-destruction, while they maintained a solitary sacred fire of optimism.Beau Murray was a fast-crashing speedball, a steadfast, stuttering single kicker, who played two snares and seven cymbals. With the deep hits of hip hop, the fury of punk, the mechanics of metal, and an inclination for progressive polyrhythms, he was a scrappy and dynamic drum pummeller in the tradition of Tim Alexander, Abe Cunningham, and David Sandstrom.Dan Drake was a towering, leaning, chain-strapped, sweat-soaked beast who locked the low end with machine-like staccatos and nimble treble. Influenced by Matt Freeman, Roger Waters, and Lemmy, his lines were often contrapuntal and complimentary and he always maintained a heavy and tense presence.Their aborted debut album, the never released “I livedâ€, had been a piecemeal amalgam that spanned several years and several studios, including the famed Radiostar, home of Sylvia Massy Shivy (Tool, System of a Down).Born Tonight stomped across many of southern California's most venerable stages, (Viper Room, Troubadour, House of Blues, and Casbah) but never did tour America. PUT YOUR BIO SECTION HERE! Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profile PUT YOUR BIO SECTION HERE! Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profile[LOVEMYFLASH]
