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Dog Shredder
12+ albums
hardcorerockProgressive rockmath rocknoise rock
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Hometown: Bellingham, WA Genre: Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal/Thrash http://www.facebook.com/dogshredder Band: Jeff Johnson > Bass Noah Burns > Drums Josh Holland > Guitar/Vocals Biography Cobbled together from pieces of lates and greats such as the Russians, Black Eyes and Neckties and, most notably, the instrumental juggernaut that was Cicadas, Dog Shredder is an amalgamation of disparate musical elements that taste great together. Imagine the aural experiments of Sonic Youth coupled with a Sabbath-style dB beat down. Imagine the ferocity of punk applied with the precision of prog. Imagine scalpel-sharp arrangements delivered cinder block heavy. It began, as these things sometimes do, after a late-night conversation over cheap beer. The idea was simple, but somehow carried the weight of a creative imperative, even if no one realized it at the time: to learn to play Yes’ “Heart of the Sunrise.” A random notion, to be sure, but one friends and former musical cohorts Josh Holland and Noah Burns couldn’t shake. And so the conversation was had during other late nights, over other cheap beers. That’s the thing about creative imperatives—they can be pearsistent. Occasionally, they even hold up during the light of day. But the desire to cover someone else’s song, even one as intimidating and epic as the one they had their collective creative eye and ear on does not a band make. However, Josh and Noah were in more of a position than many to travel the road from the shad
