Medication

Forceful and weighty yet consistently melodic, Medication is definitely a Los Angeles-based substitute rock combo which includes ex-members of Soulfly, Machine Head, dayinthelife, Skrew, Life of Agony, and Unattractive Kid Joe. For those its strength and hostility, the music group is never with out a solid feeling of melody. Medicine isn’t the type of alterna-rock clothing that thinks in bombast with regard to bombast; their tracks tend to become hard-driving yet intricate. All five people of Medicine, which shaped in L.A. in the past due ’90s, possess belonged to additional alternative rock and roll and/or alternative steel bands. Lead vocalist Whitfield Crane was with Lifestyle of Agony and Ugly Child Joe, while guitarist B-Blunt is really a graduate of dayinthelife and bassist Kyle Sanders is really a former person in Piece Pup and Skrew. Guitarist Logan Mader and drummer Roy “Rata” Mayorga possess both been with Soulfly; Mader can be a graduate of Machine Mind and Mayorga belonged to a music group known as Thorn before he became a member of Soulfly in 1996. The types who initial got the ball moving for Medication had been Crane and Mader, who became close friends in 1998 at Ozzy Osbourne’s Ozzfest. At that time, Crane was still with Existence of Agony, which, like Soulfly, was one of the bands for the 1998 Ozzfest expenses. When Crane’s part as Existence of Agony’s business lead singer finished in early 1999, he was prepared to start a fresh music group with Mader. Later on that yr, Crane and Mader became a member of makes with B-Blunt and Mayorga; with this four-man lineup set up, Medication (that was originally known as the Pale Demons) performed its first display in the Gig, a golf club on Hollywood’s trendy Melrose Avenue. The matter that Medicine lacked during its early weeks was a full-time bassist, however the music group solved that issue after employing Sanders in the suggestion of drummer Dan Richardson. Crane understood Richardson from Existence of Agony, even though drummer have been with Pro-Pain before that. Sanders was still surviving in Atlanta when Richardson educated him that Medicine wanted a bassist; when Medicine determined that Sanders was the person for the work, he shifted to L.A. After playing the L.A./Hollywood golf club picture consistently in 2000, Medicine continued a country wide tour in 2001. And in early 2002, the music group authorized with Spain’s Locomotive Music, which got decided to open up an L.A. workplace. Medicine was Locomotive’s 1st American putting your signature on; before Medicine, the label was known for Western european acts such as for example Spain’s Tierra Santa, the Netherlands’ Elegy, and Finland’s Shed in Tears. Locomotive released Medication’s self-titled debut EP within the U.S. in early Apr 2002.