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MOTHER DIED TODAY

About Me

Mother Died Today is a melodic doom/death metal band from Victoria, BC, drawing its main influences from such acts as Opeth, Amorphis, Type O Negative and October Tide, among the other myriad and obvious inluences like Metallica, Megadeth and Death. The group was formed originally in 2003 by David and Dylan (now of Archon Legion) with two other Shawnigan Lake-area musicians but folded quickly due to drummer issues. In spring 2005 David went on to record the material that was found on the initial demo with drummer Tim Hagberg, and then resumed work on putting together a band with Dylan. Over the following year Andrew (also of Archon Legion) joined the fold, living Shawnigan Lake legend Curtis began learning to play synth and signed on shortly after that, and David's longtime musical co-hort Paul (of The Switchblade Valentines and Lesbian Fist Magnet) began playing drums for the group. This incarnation played a few shows before Paul left to concentrate on the Switchblades, and was soon replaced by Darius to complete the line-up. The band set up a quick 1-week BC tour for November of 2007 which went extremely well, and followed it with a first 'true' recording that was released in early April of 2008 and a subsequent 2-week tour of BC and Alberta.
Line-up changes have slowed the bands activities as Curtis, Dylan and Andrew left the band to pursue other bands and school in May of 2008, and while those of us remaining (Darius and David) were sad to see them go, we are excited for the dark night ahead: we have found some extremely talented musicians and great people to join this crusade, and are confident that with this new line-up we will surely deliver a tighter, darker shade of black.
Message the band through this site for shows or any questions/hate mail.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/1/2006
Band Members: David - vocals/guitar
Darius - drums
Kyle - bass
Dane - guitar
Influences: Amorphis, Children Of Bodom, Dead Can Dance, Opeth, Type O Negative, Enslaved, Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Mastodon, Pink Floyd, Paradise Lost, Gamma Ray, Anthrax, Entombed, Dismember, Dream Theater, Renaissance, My Dying Bride, Neurosis, Brutal Truth, GWAR, Pantera, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Behemoth, Emperor, Guns n' Roses, Voivod, The Doors, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Allfather, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Police, Carcass, Skinny Puppy, Rush, Kataklysm, Cryptopsy, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, The Divine Comedy, Strapping Young Lad, Nightwish, My Bloody Valentine, White Zombie, Ween, Ministry, Corrosion of Conformity, Witchery, Candiria, Testament, Deicide, Suffocation, Faith No More, Styx, Allfather, Judas Priest, Crypt of Kerberos, Led Zepellin, The Locust...
Sounds Like: Life and death, love and loss.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

drag yer asses out to logan's tonight!

Tonight!  At Logan's!  With Omega Crom and Zuckuss!  $10!  Doors at 9!  Be there or get fucked!
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 13:35:00 GMT

$10 to whoever reads this whole thing!

After some harrowing and not so harrowing events, Mother Died Today finally arrived back home on Sunday from our third tour, though it was our first with Kyle and Dane.  Overall it was a huge success,...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 17:09:00 GMT

demos finally up

So we've finally got some mixes of the songs we demo'd the other weekend at Deadwood Studios and they're up on the player, obv.  Listen to them 100,000 times and learn the words/air guitar actions so ...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:59:00 GMT

van!... shirts!... BOOTY SHORTS...

MOTHER DIED TODAY are now the proud owners of a '94 Dodge Ram 3500, we just bought the son of a bitch as our tour vehicle so no more over-priced rentals or borrowing dad's van!  It's very exciting to ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:01:00 GMT

march update

Just an update to let y'all know what's up with us.  We've been working on new material for the upcoming BC/AB tour and have 3 new tunes that should be show-ready by then, which we're pumped about.  A...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:28:00 GMT

some pics n' shit

Just a thanks to everyone who came and slayed at Logan's last night, we had a rad time and appreciate everyone who dug it and showed their support!  Now comes the hibernation, so hold tight while we w...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:44:00 GMT

show tonight, upcoming recording

Wtf, I'm sure I posted a blog about this shit already - that's what I get for a free fucking website from myspace I guess.  Anyway, come on out to Logan's tonight because it's gonna be DEADLY, we're p...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:04:00 GMT

reminder about thursday show @ evo...

Just wanted to remind everyone to come out to Evolution this Thursday (January 12) to catch us along with Autoinfanticide and Reaver - doors are at 9 and it costs a paltry $8, see you scumbags then!
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:13:00 GMT

back from island mini-tour, 2 upcoming victoria shows

Hey all, just wanted to throw out some thanks to various people who had rolls in shows over the weekend: all our peeps in UTA and Archon Legion for the rad times; all the promoters for the shows; all ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:32:00 GMT

EVOLUTION SHOW CANCELLED, DON'T GO!

FYI, the Thursday April 29 show at Evo was canceled because it was double-booked, so save your hard-earned scrillah for the next MDT show in Vic, which will be Saturday February 21 with Black Lotus an...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:00 GMT