Location:

Dallas, TX

Genre:

Hardcore / Metal

Website:

www.diecast villain.com

MySpace:

www.myspace.com/ diecastvillain

PureVolume:

Unlisted

Email:

John@Diecast Villain.com

Bio:

Die-Cast Villain was formed in 2003 by John Knight, Jason Weddington and Rikki Knight, who were in a previous band together for a few months. The 2nd guitarist and Drummer of the old band split and John, jason, and Rikki decided to stick together because of thier shared ideas for direction of a band. Rikki(who ran DJ stuff in the old band) picked up the sticks again for the first time in 4 years and became the new drummer, John decided to take guitar duties on alone, and Jason continued doing his thing with the low end. The search for a vocalist began. On a late night feeding frenzy at Denny's some of the guys met Steev Marsh, who claimed to be a singer looking for a band. So a date was setup for Steev to come show his stuff and try out. At the time John was wanting to go with a melodic type singer, but when Steev came in with the deep voice blaring, and gutteral yells, they knew he was the guy they were looking for. With Jason's funk inspired basslines and Rikki's single kick drumstyle, those two playing the songs alone sound something like a cartoon soundtrack or a clown's personal theme song, so when Steev came in and showed he was clearly a heavy style singer, the guys knew it was the perfect sound to compliment John's heavy guitar and square off the band's sound. The band first debuted themselves at Dreamworld in Arlington and pulled quite a crowd for first timers. Since then they have frequented the Curtain Club, the Galaxy, Indigo Club, and Redblood Club in Deep Ellum. The band did the battle of the bands scene for a few shows, won one of them and decided they weren't real happy with the politics and the way such "battles" are run. They've since started playing with bands that fit thier crowd and style a bit more(as diverse as thier crowd is.. you should have seen some of the bands they were booked with in battles.Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb). Recently playing with national acts at the Indigo Club, things are getting better everyday.