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We Are Desire [We Were Desire]

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About Me

We Are Desire is a five-piece hardcore band hailing from Ann Arbor Michigan. The band originally spent several months jamming together and playing the occasional local show. Having stagnated somewhat when one of their guitarists went on tour in the summer as bassist for the popular Tooth and Nail/Solid State outfit August Burns Red, the members of the band reconvened in early October to discuss their plans for the future. Collectively deciding to pursue the band more seriously, they weeks later had a handful of new songs and plans to record an EP in January of ‘07.

We Are Desire practices in an unheated barn year-round, and during winter practices it is not uncommon to see the band sticking their fingers next to a space heater in the scant seconds before the next breakdown. We Are Desire is dedicated to their music, constantly in pursuit of ways to improve and surprise with their sound – a sort of tangled mixture of traditional hardcore/metalcore song structure wrapped around a fascination with post-rock rises and swells, as well as shoegaze ambient guitar noise. They play a convincing set of unrelenting pit-worthy epics – one of their songs, Mourning Drive, Evening Pursuit, clocks in at eleven minutes, stopping the violence with a jaunty guitar ditty just long enough to let the audience catch their breath, setting it on fire with post-thrash guitar and raging drums moments later.

Ian Murray is an freelance writer in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Member Since: 3/26/2006
Band Members:

Jesse - Drums
Josh - Lead Guitar
Derek - Rhythm Guitar
Dave (Earl) - Vocals
Dave (Champ) - Bass


Influences:
Sounds Like: Taking time to look at a butterfly... and then shooting it with a rifle.And the sound of adding people by hand, not with a spam program.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

NEW T-SHIRT!!!

Hey Everyone,We Are Desire has a new t-shirt being printed and it will be available Dec. 8th at our show in Howell!!! Here is a sneak peak of the new shirt...Come out and see us at a show soon and ge...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:44:00 PST

Shirt preview/Tour update

Hey guys, Jackson here.We're hammering out the details about our tour this summer, but thus far it looks like we'll be out for a week in July with War of Ages! We're pretty hyped about that, and work...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:19:00 PST

Epitaph Records

Hey Guys, I just posted Death By Thorns up on Epitaph Records Demo-lition page. This is how they deal with all of their demos and it's all done by rating. Please head over to their site, sign up, and ...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:13:00 PST

6,000 Plays!

Hey guys! We just crossed the 6,000 plays threshold! Thank you so much for the support, it's so cool to get to be doing this and playing all these shows and whatnot. We can't wait to see everybody ove...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:28:00 PST

CD Release

Hey all,Our CD release show will take place April 29th at Foggy Bottom Coffee House in Dexter, MI. It's 4 bucks to get in, or you cansave a buck and get our CD and into the show for 9. Hope to see you...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:51:00 PST

We Are Desire...

Love's you guys. HxC. What it is, y'all.What it is.Cd release show details coming up soon. Bring a friend. Bring an enemy. Bring an anemone. There'll be hardcore. And dancing (Actually, people ...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:34:00 PST

CDs Ordered!!

Yes the moment you all (or most of you) have been waiting for. This morning our CD's were ordered. We should totally have them within 2 weeks. So make sure you pick one up at a show, or talk to us if ...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:33:00 PST

Things go round and round and round and round

Heya guys,Just checkin in to let everyone know what's up with the band. God's been blessing us like freaking crazy, and it's really awesome. We've been trying just really, really hard to get things ...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:16:00 PST

Recording Journal, Day 4

Hiya guys,It's day four of recording and we have everything tracked except a couple vocal parts, and we have started the mastering process. The more time that goes by, the more we love working at thi...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST

Recording Journal, Day 1

First day of recording went great.  We laid down all the drum tracks except for one, our ten minute long epic, haha, and are finishing drums/bass tracks today.  Everything we've got recorded...
Posted by We Are Desire [We Were Desire] on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST