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Tarantula Hawk
12+ albums
Progressive rockexperimentalpsychedelicinstrumentalnoise rock
about
Tarantula Hawk is a band from San-Diego, CA. Their music is heavy rock, though sometimes rather ambient, and shaped with rather odd-sounding guitar and synthesizer. The resulting sound creates very dense, dark and mysterious atmosphere, rather similar to some earlier works of Pink Floyd and King Crimson. They also have more than a few similarities to their patrons, Neurosis, who released the self-titled record in 2002 on their Neurot Recordings label. Free downloads of their works are available at their official site: http://www.tarantulahawk.org. On July 15th, 1998, Rob Morrison and Dave Warshaw moved to San Diego from Seattle and Los Angeles, respectively. On August 1st, 1998, Braden Diotte moved to San Diego, also from Los Angeles. On August 2nd, 1998, together with Dylan Scharf, a San Diego native, Tarantula Hawk was born. Over the next four months, a six-song set of music was written chronologically from start to finish. It was a "concept" that was written to illustrate the lifecycle of the Tarantula Hawk, but also illustrated the progression of a band getting comfortable with their own sound. On February 23rd, 1999, what would be-come Tarantula Hawk's "Self-Titled Debut Album" was recorded. On March 1st, 1999, Rob Morrison left Tarantula Hawk to raise his son back in Seattle. The remaining band members were unsatisfied with the sound of Tarantula Hawk's existing music without the attributes of Rob's bass and noise accompaniment, and were not interested in trying to fin
