sBACH is everywhere these days. Perpetually on tour, recording music, and stacking hats on top of hats on top of heads...Spencer Siem’s music and art is inclusive in a way that most never could be – each show or recording a personal invitation to his multi-colored world. We even found the band's secret snow-dog page, with pics of 'em blasting wicked-air over a snowbank! For their first tour of 2009, sBACH will once again claim the West Coast, playing main-support to Don Caballero. The thought that any band might willingly subject themselves to an entire tour opening for Don Cab would've been construed as a kind of musical suicide, such was the heyday power of the Don. But that was ten-years ago, or more, after various line-up changes brought much Storm & Stress - and constant Battles - to legendary drummer, Damon Che.
What more is there to say? Things have changed. There's little doubt that Siem's own legendary band, Hella, took it to the next-gen-level with their onslaught of technical acumen. sBACH borrows on some of that sound, channeling Hella-like moments of jaw-dropping intensity into furious melodic form. 'WTF' moments abound in a dark venue, where the band often explodes like an atom bomb in a tin can...
More proof of their power exists at Daytrotter, where Siem's band stopped to tear apart the studio. These full-band versions of songs - taken from his SSR debut - were recorded last autumn, in the midst of a two-month-plus US tour...and it sounds 'toured', and tough, perhaps like Bitch Magnet would have sounded, pounding through the feedback to drive their songs. Four tracks are available for free download...
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