"ROCKS LIKE L7 WITHOUT THE VAGINAS" - justin timberlake
Along the perimeter of modernist salvation, a quartet fresh with mud from the banks of generations past forged a musical ethos known only as The Better Death. As their underground mutates as an honest and unapologetic score to the soundtrack of life, their surface holds personal vindication to such a culture. Performance is a platform for delivery and absolution, with challenging compositions for the sake of the soul and ultimately to entangle the listener equally in purpose and awe.
The memory of their former selves eroded around 2006, in a small Ft. Worth housing development where neighbors Ricky Wolking (bass) and Danny Handler (drums) started hammering out grooves that tested their ability, times infinity. Danny's friend and fellow UNT grad Ed McMahon (guitar) joined the duo soon there after, adding yet another musical mind to the monster. Ricky called on Sean Dailey (vocals) to jump in and find melody amid the complex structures. It was gratifyingly obnoxious as the ongoing experiment eclipsed all previous musical notions. There would be nothing standard about it. How do you feel about leaving this earth at this very moment? Will you have lived a better life? Taking an oath and leaving blood on the floor, electrified.
A Texas buzz going down in PASTE Magazine's Best Music Scene of 2008, "Denton, Texas is simply the paradigm of a healthy music community". When the established and eclectic music collective Do For It Records came calling, it immediately became home and a launching pad for 2009.
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