Dynoride

Starting over is rough, and musically-speaking, it's a growth killer. Kick a member out of a band, and you inevitably have to teach your entire repertoire to a replacement, forcing a standstill of sorts before you can move forward with new material. Hailing from Cambridge, Ill. - a small town of just over 2,100 residents - the high-energy rock trio of Dynoride know this well, and encountered an unavoidable tragedy early in 2010, as tracks for an LP they were prepping were mysteriously lost. Original takes and priceless moments on tape were never to be heard again, and tension between band members grew. The band pushed off any collaborations or shows for an extended period of time and it wasn't until almost two years later that the band reformed undeterred. They painstakingly re-recorded this legendary ghost of an LP, What You Wanted, to outstanding results and reviews. Old friends John Taylor (bass) and Burnell Eckhart (vocals, guitar) connected originally when John caught Burnell as Aladdin in his senior high-school musical production. Down the road, after running into each other at a Smashing Pumpkins show and discussing performing some quirky acoustic songs together, Dynoride got off the ground in 2008 with a five song demo of far different material: straight-ahead, feedback-heavy grunge. Then a quartet, the band recorded what was to be the original What You Wanted but recovering the eventually disappeared tracks was an impossible feat at the time. Letting that burden sit a while was clearly the best possible avenue, as the band reformed as a trio in 2012 with a new drummer, Steve, did What You Wanted all over again and are now on a tear of screaming live shows with a different gentleman behind the kit, Jacob Laird. Nothing like new blood to invigorate an adrenaline-pumping machine even further. What You Wanted has the testy, yet muscular sound of early Seattle rock classics - Nirvana's Bleach; Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger - with nods to touchstones of mathy space-rock as well (one can hear Electra 2000-era Hum towards the end of the engaging "Sleeper"). The album-closing "The Weigh-In" shifts constantly (a breakneck punk anthem one minute and a wash of crushing, half-time drums the next), while Eckhart's worried vocals on the spastic title track throw in a sense of overwhelming danger. The guitars wail, the vocals surge and music blog Beneath Everything went as far to say, "There's no compromising on this album... A gem for sure." Laird played with the band through 2013, during which time the "You Think It's Real" EP was recorded. In late 2013 the group began playing shows with multiple drummers, one of which was Steve Maule. Maule, the drummer on What You Wanted, officially rejoined the band in early 2014 and sparked the group to feverishly begin writing and recording new material. Dynoride has a new LP in the works as well as a number of other projects. Energetic Rock You can purchase our merch at www.dynoridekills.com