Thunderchud

Licensed and bonded rock'n'roll dreamboats dropping power-pop bops that just don't stop.

Born of the boredom, frustration, and mortality contemplation of the Covid era, Thunderchud came together when eclectic musician and writer Josh Gross (Cark, VAM Commanders, Puppeteers for Fears, Astrofauna, Iconoplasty) recruited players to perform songs penned during the pandemic; including longtime collaborator Will Shapiro (Ol’Mount’n’Due, VAM Commanders, The Deliniators), and bassist Travis Gearlds (Hello Mayfield).

For Gross, who had spent much of the previous decade focused on writing ambient music and stage musicals, shorter, sharper material was a way to puncture the malaise of the pandemic—much of which he’d spent wandering the hills of his Oregon hometown with a guitar.

Shapiro brought a driving percussion honed in surf-rock band The Deliniators, as well as a choir-honed ear for vocal harmony; and Gearlds brought the heavier riff-based sensibility of his solo project, Hello Mayfield, to the bass.

Together, the band’s style is equal parts furious and buoyant; tight, song-focused, high-energy rock n' roll that stares into the abyss and finds itself energized for the experience.

Though Thunderchud began performing regularly as soon as Covid allowed, the band’s debut recording was delayed several years; both for touring obligations in other projects, and due to the death of the band’s producer, Trevor Watson.

The recordings, begun four years earlier, will release throughout 2024, while the band performs across the western US.