Booze Devil

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Member Since: 31/03/2008
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Influences: !-Start Custom Code in Sounds Like-!::It all started around the first of 2008. Kyle, drums, had moved back from Florida early February to stay. After having dropped the drums for almost 3 years, he had a phone call from a friend, Cole, wanting to form a band. Cole, guitar, had jammed with Kyle in the past when he had visited his house the year before in Redmond, Or. and the chemistry between the two was great. Cole convinced Kyle to pick the drums up again and they had conversed over the phone about starting a band for over an hour about what direction they were going to apply the band too. They started brainstorming about other members when Kyle had mentioned his old band mate from his previous band, Insubordination. Cole agreed and they got on the horn with Wade, lead guitar.

The three set the date to first set up together and jam. Those phone calls were made in early March. They started writing under a concept they called “musical freedom.” It’s a concept they feel, unfortunately, is rarely held in today’s music. With all the different influences the band holds, they manage to have a very wide diversity in there music. “You see all these bands that are in the mainstream and they are all singing and writing about the most stupid bullshit ever and they all sound the same! What’s even more sad, these musicians play there shit great but it’s like there’s someone there telling them to write what people want to hear. You can usually tell what bands or artists do it to, cause they all sound the same! People want a new sound. They also want to hear a band that has the god damn balls to say whatever the fuck they want. It’s like what George Orwell said, ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ That’s the way we’re going about it.” –Kyle

By mid-April, the trio had an 8 song set list with more songs on the back burner. They decided to get recognition in the early stages, as a band, by having “public practices” every Friday, so that anyone could come down and kick back and drink before, during, and after practice. One Friday, an old friend of Cole’s came down to listen to the band that he had heard so much about through some other people. He loved it so much, he decided to throw a house party so that they could have there first show. That night, Wade, Cole, and Kyle kept playing phone tag, knowing they would need to come up with a name for the group. After much deliberation, they had all decided on Booze Devil. Very appropriate, seeing as how every time the band got together for practice, there was always good times and also plenty of booze for everyone.

May 16th, 2008 was there first show. It was a house party were the booze outweighed the people, ten to one. After hearing about all the hype from that first show, weeks after it had happened, from all the people who couldn’t even go, they knew they needed the two missing links in order to complete Booze Devil; a vocalist and bass player.

They had tried out many singers and many bass players, but to no conclude. They ended up befriending another local metal band, Mortar and they had set up a couple shows with them. The first one was on some acreage in the outskirts of a small town called Powell Butte. The cops ended up showing up and shutting down the show so another one was set up in Prineville Oregon at an amphitheatre. Booze Devil was still trying out a singer when this had happened and he got to do a couple songs on stage even though he hadn’t learned the material. It ended up not working out with him and word of this had caught the ear of the back-up vocalist and bass player of Mortar, Mikey.

Mikey, vocals, decided to take on Booze Devil full time, helping them finish some unfinished songs. The chemistry of the vocals with song was perfect. Booze Devil had also adopted the guitar player of Mortar as the bass player but when it ended up not working out, they knew the perfect candidate for there, now, open position.

Cole’s cousin and Kyle’s best friend, Gabe, bass, was there for every practice and was already a great part of the Booze Devil family, due to the fact he helped spread the word so much. Now with a complete band and a complete set with more songs always in the workings, Booze Devil is complete.

After 4 different practices spots, hard times finding the right people to complete the band, much time recording, and keeping the “public practice” concept, Booze Devil had started a following.

With all this being said; welcome to the official Booze Devil myspace page. We are a five-piece band, hailing from central Oregon, but it has transformed into much more then a band, it’s a family.

REVIEWS
"A little bit of hooch is just what the doctor ordered for the booze hounds in Booze Devil.

Booze Devil, which hails from Prineville, OR, features vocalist Mikey Hendrix, guitarist Cole “John Wayne” Cutsforth, lead guitarist Wade “BMF” Hanes, bassist Gabriel “G Spot” Rollin and drummer Kyle “Stix” Henon. The group formed in February 2008 upon Henon’s return from a six-month residency in Florida.

Booze Devil gets its name from, what else, the lovely liquor that helps the time go by. That and for the fact that whenever the group gets together, whether it be for practice or for a show, the alcohol and the good times flow hand-in-hand. “There was always good times,” says Henon, “and also plenty of booze for everyone before, during and after each rehearsal. Anyone that decides to come by our practice and kick it, we always make sure they have a good time too.”

BD writes alcohol-fueled Metal songs that aren’t loaded with pretension, Pro Tools effects or bullshit. It’s straight aggression and chords like Black Sabbath, Slayer, Pantera and Lamb of God. The heavy riffs, growling vocals, brutal rhythms and punishing leads are all part of the total package.

“We have written all our songs,” explains Henon, “based on the things that either pisses us off, things we feel strongly about (such as government, religion, corruption, closed-minded ideals, etc.), things that have happened to us throughout our lives and, of course, all the good times. Every one of our songs is important to us and we make it to where people can relate to it.”

Booze Devil is currently working on a full-length demo to shop to a producer for a proper studio recording."
-Clint Veale of Hitt Music Group LLC.
December 4th, 2008

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Whiskey a Go Go w/ Holy Grail, Illumination, Windskar, and Soul Wraith
West Hollywood California, 90069
8019 W Sunset Blvd.

08/14/09
Truck Stop Skate Park w/ The Cradle Robbers, Hands on Throat, The Knuckle Children, Broken over Haunted Seas and more
Bend Oregon, 97701
1307 NE 1st. St.
8pm | all ages | $tba

09/24/09
Six Night Club w/ Almost is Nothing and more tba
Redmond Oregon, 97756
349 SW 6th. St.
7pm | all ages | $tba

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