Boys Of Thunder

If you throw the bloodhound gang, the beastie boys, nofx, the chemical brothers and bob dylan in a blender, you would end up with a whole lot of blood and mangled limbs...or...you'd get the boys of thunder.Two poets each with their own dark way of making depression beautiful.
Mixed with electronic beats you can't help but hurt yourself dancing to, these boys slaughter microphones regularily.
The monotonies of life (working, bills, idiots) are transformed into beautiful complaints, a social commentary if you will.
Matty B (also of suffocate the stars) brings his industrial tinged background to a whole new playing field.
And P.O.E. (the poetically organized entity) brings an ear for the ambient .
Together they create beats that not only catch your ear and make you dance but they actually force other attractive people to have sex with you (it's in the frequencies).
With rhymes tighter than a vice on your ball sack (or a mammogram for the ladies) they feel they give back to the microphone community.
The boys sold out their very first show at Absinthe in the hammer and are well on their way to crucial recognition. With interviews on college radio and local papers, a stint on the edge 102.1 and a loyal army of friends and myspacers the boys are making waves.
So, send your cursor north, click play and ride with them on their journey of chaos.
Article From VIEW MAGAZINE with Ric Taylor
Warsawpack, Peoples Republic, Fresh Pro, HEAT and other local performers have been adding their beat and rhyme to a burgeoning hip hop community over the last few years. But long time readers may be surprised to discover that Matt Barrett, the man behind the unsettling and experimental Suffocate The Stars project, is part of one of the area’s latest hip hop offerings. “Suffocate The Stars is and always will be my alter ego,” explains Barrett. “Although I haven’t been able to focus on it as much lately, I am currently still working on new tracks for an EP release. But when I started working out in Burlington at a new company, James (Brown) was one of the employees that I instantly become good friends with. We both shared a love for older punk and ska bands growing up and found that as we were growing older with our musical tastes, they were still along the same lines with one and another. “I had told him about Suffocate The Stars and he had mentioned that he was a rapper known as Poetically Organized Entity,” adds Barrett on the collaboration. “I think starting off, it was merely just to see if I could do it and if I would even be successful and could do it well. The Boys Of Thunder came about when we decided it would be interesting to see what would happen if we combined the two projects.” Recorded in their own home studios, some might compare Boys Of Thunder on CD to the likes of The Beastie Boys, but with music that owes more to Naughty By Nature or Digital Underground. The lyrics, however, are where the pair seems to pack the most punch when they focus on the realities of their lives. “Our influences are not at all what most people would think,” confides Barrett. “In fact, we don’t really listen to hip hop at all. Our songs are a change from the songs about girls. We have the songs about depression, working and struggling, you know, the everyday blues. “It’s easy and therapeutic to write about what you hate,” he adds on BOT’s visceral vocals. “But it’s also fun because others might hate it, too. I think we really try to focus more on the points that we feel need to be changed or make more people aware about. You don’t have to have a gun to be hardcore like 50 Cent is telling these kids.” The last couple gigs of note for BOT have aligned them with rock if not metal bands, but their lack of allegiance has seemingly opened their music up to a larger community. With songs like “Welcome To The Hammer,” BOT offer a credo and perhaps an explanation for why they refer to themselves with an unusual moniker. “Since we grew up on punk bands, we try to have the same feel,” offers Barrett. “We are more of a live band, we literally give everything we have and leave ourselves up there on the stage by the time we are done. We work on pure energy and adrenaline. “We call ourselves ‘anti hip hop heroes’ since we don’t really fit into the hip hop scene nor the rock scene, but both communities have been amazing to us and even overwhelming with their responses,” he adds. ““Welcome To The Hammer” was more of a song not just about Hamilton, but a song for when you feel like you are stuck in a place that you just can’t get out of. You start blaming your surroundings for everything going wrong. It’s also saying how other people are talking bad about it, yet we choose to stay since it is the place we call home. We owe so much to Hamilton, not only have they embraced us and let us come with a new style and genre, but also we are getting sold out shows here, based on just word of mouth. It’s quite impressive how the scene in Hamilton works.” [RIC TAYLOR]
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