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By Design is a female-fronted rock band formed in 2006 to create block-rockin’ music and have an unbelievably good time doing it. Their formation evolved into writing sessions that merged rock, punk, jazz, and eastern music influences into their fresh hard rock sound.
Fronted by the lyrical and raven-haired beauty Kristy Nightengale, By Design is certain to impress. Her passionate words and melodies deliver a balance point on the edge of an aural drama, unfolding before your ears. The band’s high-energy guitar sound is amply supplied by guitarists, Mujtaba Habib and Strange, who provide By Design its driving force. Metal, hard rock, and eastern influences are flawlessly combined by this duo to yield an exceptionally unique sound.
The phenomenal bass styling of Nick Valese thrust a punk-groove infusion into By Design’s music. Nick’s sound plays more like a bass melody than a bass line. Drummer, Zach Young fervently hammers out By Design’s beats. His jazz-inspired approach artfully rounds-out the sound that is By Design.
Come out and join By Design on this audio odyssey and discover that you need nothing more than four men and a sultry lady to fulfill your auditory desires.

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Member Since: 6/29/2006
Band Website: bydesignmusic.com
Band Members: Kristy Nightengale - Vocals
Mujtaba Habib - Guitar
Strange - Guitar/Backing Vocals
Nick Valese - Bass/Backing Vocals
Zach Young - Drums

ByDesign - Hell - Live at The Norva Jan. 25, 2008

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Influences: Muse, Evanescence, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, The Beatles, Eddie Van Halen, Led Zepplin, Metallica, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, The Police, Cake, CKY, David Bowie
Sounds Like: We would have to say that we are hard and heavy but not at all fast and oompah.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Tunes and Updates

We now have some new songs up on the profile, so you guys should check out That Girl, England and Over and Done.  Thanks to everyone that has been supporting use over the last few months since we...
Posted by By Design on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:12:00 PST

By Design News

Here's what is going on...We have all been hard at work preparing for our first show with Something Like Seven on March 17th at Gil's.  Be there at 9 to catch us, and stay there for the other awe...
Posted by By Design on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:44:00 PST

By Design Updates

Since there hasn't been a posting since last year I figure it's time for a new one with a quick update on our progress.First and formost, a belated Happy New Year to all of you.  We hope that 200...
Posted by By Design on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:04:00 PST

New Sounds of By Design

The announcement was made less than a week ago that we found a singer.  In that time we have had a lot of people ask what she sounds like.  Since we welcomed Kristy into our family, she has ...
Posted by By Design on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:10:00 PST

New Photos of By Design

Two new photos have been posted of By Design featuring our newest member Kristy Nightengale.A big time thank you goes out to Mike Baker of Tier 3 Media for his work behind the camera.So if you want an...
Posted by By Design on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:48:00 PST

By Design.. Once again with Vocals!!!

By Design is proud to announce that we have found a singer.  We would like to introduce Kristy Nightengale as our new Lead Singer.  She has a phenomenal voice that compliments our style magn...
Posted by By Design on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:59:00 PST

We have new music for you!

In the last couple of months, we have taken the time to concentrate on doing some writing. With a little hiatus for us coming up, we figured why not record some of our stuff to share with everyone? W...
Posted by By Design on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:01:00 PST

By Design News

Just to give everyone an update since the last posting....First and foremost, we want to thank all our friends for their continued support throughout our recent changes over the last several weeks.&nb...
Posted by By Design on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:54:00 PST

By Design Update

We are sorry to report that our singer, Angela Hudson, has decided to part ways with By Design.  We sincerely wish her the best in her musical endeavors and future projects.With that said, By Des...
Posted by By Design on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:32:00 PST

Update By Design

It's been a couple of weeks since many of you were first introduced to By Design.  I figured it's time for an update on our progress.Angela is working out beautifully as the lead singer for By De...
Posted by By Design on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:44:00 PST