Electric Mayhem Presents: BOTTOMFEEDER

BOTTOMFEEDER

http://www.innervenus.org
optimus8@innervenus.org

BOTTOMFEEDER was formed in October of 2000 as a collection of artists and musicians who came together to work on a new project after a lot of bands they were previously in had broken up (The Bully Cats, Samsara, Seventh Sense, Pied Piper, Chainslut, Caterpillar Drag and Chronickle).

It didn’t take them long to realize that what they wanted to do was much larger than what a single band alone could do, so the idea was then split into two separate entities in order to give each group it's own identity. The organization you know today as Innervenus Art & Musek was created by some of the members and became the art (and now musek collective) side of the original concept, and BOTTOMFEEDER was then able to stay on it’s own course as the epic rock band that it is.

After a year of solid writing, practice and concept development, September of 2001 would mark the beginning of a recording process that spanned the next 2 years, 2 engineers and 4 separate studios.

Engineer #1 was Buzzy Beck at the Audio Loft in Ambridge, PA. This is where the band recorded their first 12 songs, including the 3 tracks that made up the first promotional single, as well as 2 tracks that were included on the Invisible Records release, Notes From Thee Real Underground Vol. 3

In 2002, BOTTOMFEEDER played a series of 6 live shows so that they could fine tune the new songs they had been working on before going back into seclusion for another 6 months to finish their album at +/- studios with engineer #2, Andy Wright. For those shows BOTTOMFEEDER shared the stage with the likes of Disengage, Bozo Porno Circus, Lift to Experience and label mates, Reducer.

By this time, the live set and the new songs were being written and performed by an octet. The songs were longer, the arrangements were more complicated and the magnitude of it all was just unbelievable. Now remember that live shows for this band were only for practice purposes, and that the studio is where the real monster was born. So if you’re in a metal band that has 2 drummers, 2 guitarists, 2 keyboarders, 1 bassist and 3 vocalists, or if you are the engineer or producer who has to make all of that come out not sounding like death on crystal meth, you can completely understand how difficult of a task that is. If you’re not in one of those positions, or if you’re not a CMU student who builds his own programmable robotic band, don’t even think about it. The tracking alone is enough to make you want to slit you wrists. We won’t even discuss the editing or mixing process.

2003 was a strong year. Shows were being played with Rein[FORCED], Tub Ring, Caustic Resin, Soiler, Acumen Nation, SMP, Bile, Humbucker, Pigface and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. The first version of the website went up, merchandise was made and sold, the word was getting out, the dues were getting paid, and most importantly, the album that was started all the way back in September of 2001 was finished in July and In the Name of Love & Science was released in December of 2003 by, you guessed it, Innervenus Art & Musek.

Which brings us right up to the here and now. The original line up of live and studio musicians have now finished their tour of duty and most of them have moved on to find their own path to enlightenment. Thus leaving the purposely undefined entity known as BOTTOMFEEDER to once again redefine itself and create a new way to bring you the next set of untold truths in the ongoing saga that Innervenus is calling The Romantic Evolution.

So here’s to the past, present and future, my friends. Let us all raise a glass and propose a toast in the name of love & science... CHEERS!!!

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