Descension Rate - Deadly Elegance
ARTIST........: Descension Rate
TITLE.........: Deadly Elegance
LABEL.........: Fuzzbucket Music
URL...........: http://www.myspace.com/descensionrate
GENRE.........: Industrial
QUALITY:......: 176 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo
RIP DATE......: 2007-02-22
RELEASE DATE..: 2007-01-20
Tracklist:
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01. Fade 5:31
02. Fate's Pawn 3:47
03. The Greatest Waste 4:54
04. Yours Truly 3:57
05. Tin Cradle 4:19
06. The Brazen Bull 4:36
07. Frost 6:31
08. Flies in the Abyss 4:03
09. Mercy 5:43
10. The Tides of Power 3:14
11. I Live 4:49
12. Left/Right 4:56
Total 56:20
Release Notes:
CD was scheduled for November 2006 release, but pushed back to 2007 for official
release show.
Article proof:
http://www.da.wvu.edu/new/print_edition/pdf/2007-01-19Page5.pdf
'Descension Rate is the product of two very different backgrounds coming
together to form one brutal beast. The impetus of DR came about some time in the
year 2003. Jeff Jordan had been playing in an industrial rock band, Loss of
Will, for a couple of years in the small college town Morgantown, West Virginia,
while Ryan Postlethwait had been playing guitar with local industrial metal
terrorists 3-Hole Face. The two bands became somewhat of "gig buddies."
Despite their totally different backgrounds musically, Jeff (electonic based
music) and Ryan (metal based) began getting together at least once a week to get
together and "jam" and see what happened. The songs quickly began to pour out,
and Descension Rate was officially formed in October 2004. After realizing they
were onto something worthwhile and having a fair amount of demos, Ryan and Jeff
decided to form a full band to take DR to the stage. Enter Doug Lilly on bass,
Stanislav "Vicious" Benkivoc (of Beloved Dead and Deacon's Screech fame) on live
electronic percussion, and Neil Zahradnik (guitar).
On January 28th, 2005, Descension Rate played their first live show with other
local Morgantown acts, 8 Bitz, The Caterpillar Scheme, and The Emergency. The
show was a major success, and since then DR has been constantly playing shows in
the West Virginia and Pennsylvania area, with more shows always pending.
On February 10, 2006, Descension Rate's first EP Level 12 was officially
released.
In April 2006, Descension Rate played a show with Slick Idiot in Pittsburgh, PA.
This was the last show with Vicious as the electronic drummer. With his
departure came the inclusion of Mike Beck as the new keyboardist.
August 3, 2006, was the first show to feature Mike Beck. At this show, a free
E.P. featuring the album version of "Tin Cradle," five remixes of the song by
local artists, and Jeff Jordan and Ryan Postlethwait's version of The
Emergency's "Church of the Chix Denomination."
Descension Rate's first full-length album "Deadly Elegance" was officially
released January 20th, 2007 featuring twelve songs including all the songs from
Level 12 and eight new songs. Look for another remix CD in the future!'