Drawing heavily on hard rock groups like Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Local H, the Foo Fighters and infusing it with the sounds of ZZ Top and Jimi Hendrix, point08 is a band that loves the rock in any way, shape or form.
Formed in 2002, point08 became a band when Matt, Shawn, Phil & Zac started a cover band, playing some of their favorite tunes, despite their popularity. Given that cover bands are all about playing ..1 hits to the masses, this plan wasn't working out. Given their massed experience of writing original music and being in original bands, the members of point08 set out to craft songs that sung to them as being true to the rock form, with no theatrics or pomp. The riffs are hard, the lyrics are sometimes nonsensical and the air is filled with smoke and whiskey. That's what point08 is about.
point08 released their Aqua Vitae EP online in mid 2005. Many people have downloaded the material from their website, from their myspace account and from Garageband.Com, where the track "Monarchy" was voted the Hard Rock Track of the Day for Dec 27, 2005, as well as winning weekly awards for best guitars and climbing into the top ..100 within days of being submitted. The other tracks from the EP also met with similar success.
