The Native Howl - Thrash Grass (2016) (Full EP)
The Native Howl features banjos, harmonicas and various other hollow wooden instruments, but it isn't a country band and it isn't folk. It also isn't, despite its twang, an Americana or roots-music outfit. Instead, the Rochester quartet brews up a furious hybrid of thrash metal and bluegrass on "Thrash Grass," its new EP, which delivers bluegrass as you've never heard it before. Singer-guitarist Alex Holycross started out playing folk with banjoist-vocalist Jake Sawicki as both were finishing college. Holycross studied music at Oakland University, while Sawicki studied electrical engineering at Michigan State. The Native Howl congealed when Mark Chandler and Joshua LeMeiux, both professional musicians and songwriters, joined on bass and drums respectively.
The band members' relative youth (they're all in their mid-20s) belies their disarming appreciation for the hard work it takes to make it in today’s music industry. (Holycross and Sawicki are business partners in Clean As Dirt records, which serves as their recording studio and their publishing label.) Still, it's the fury and the fun the band generates onstage that makes its performances memorable. The Native Howl formed in the early winter months of 2013, they quickly gathered a large local demand to play live. A mere 9 months later, they released their first EP “The Revolution’s Dead.” Their music is a blend of rock, bluegrass and experimental genres that give it a uniquely rustic and clean sound while their lyrics embody a folk-like, storytelling style.
Review by Jeff Milo http://www.freep.com/story/entertainm...
1. Thunderhead
2. Doomed From the Start
3. Follow Me (Plugged)
4. Interlude
5. Hurricane
https://thenativehowl.bandcamp.com/al...
http://www.thenativehowl.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheNativeHowl/
The band members' relative youth (they're all in their mid-20s) belies their disarming appreciation for the hard work it takes to make it in today’s music industry. (Holycross and Sawicki are business partners in Clean As Dirt records, which serves as their recording studio and their publishing label.) Still, it's the fury and the fun the band generates onstage that makes its performances memorable. The Native Howl formed in the early winter months of 2013, they quickly gathered a large local demand to play live. A mere 9 months later, they released their first EP “The Revolution’s Dead.” Their music is a blend of rock, bluegrass and experimental genres that give it a uniquely rustic and clean sound while their lyrics embody a folk-like, storytelling style.
Review by Jeff Milo http://www.freep.com/story/entertainm...
1. Thunderhead
2. Doomed From the Start
3. Follow Me (Plugged)
4. Interlude
5. Hurricane
https://thenativehowl.bandcamp.com/al...
http://www.thenativehowl.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheNativeHowl/
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