Cauterize - Unmasked
ARTIST.....: Cauterize
TITLE......: Unmasked
LABEL......: High 4 Records
URL........: http://www.cauterize.com/
RIP DATE...: Jun-18-2007
STORE DATE.: Jun-12-2007
GENRE......: Rock
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 25,8 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Don't Stop Now 03:34
02 - Minor Key Symphony 04:12
03 - My Favorite Patient 03:39
04 - Why This Last Dance 03:46
05 - Closer 03:44
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18:55 min
Release Notes:
This is the acoustic EP you got when you pre-ordered the new
Cauterize CD Disguises online.
BIO:
Aside from being a shining example of urban sprawl, the web of
cities that ring around Toronto known as "the 905" have been
producing world class rock bands for the last decade. Ajax
unleashed Sum 41, St. Catharines gave us Alexisonfire, and
Burlington gave us Boys Night Out. Now it's time for Oshawa's
Cauterize to make their mark.
According to lead singer and guitarist Jesse Smith, that sense of
suburban boredom makes perfect fuel for spiky rock. "There's
pretty much nothing else to do," Smith says. "That's what it
always comes down to. When rock is the only thing to do, you learn
to do it well." And some important generals in the field have
already taken notice. Greig Nori, Sum 41's ex-manager and
ex-Treble Charger leader, produced two songs on Cauterize's new
Disguises CD.
Smith says it initially took some convincing to lure Nori. "Greig
told us he didn't even want to come check out the band originally,
despite high praise from industry colleagues," says Smith, "but he
ended up coming out to see us, loving the songs, and thankfully
wanting to work with us."
Meanwhile, Darrin Pfeiffer, the drummer for Cali pop-punk vets
Goldfinger, will release Disguises on his own High 4 Records
label, distributed by Fontana North/Universal Music Canada.
Working with Pfeiffer has been a welcome change to the big label
adventures of the band's past. "It feels like we have a record
deal, but we're not being pushed around,"says Smith. "It doesn't
feel like 'business'. The work gets done but it doesn't feel like
work. We go to the pub for our meetings."
Cauterize have earned those pub trips. The band: Jesse Smith
(guitar, vocals), Jason Bone (bass), Josh Slater (guitar), Matt
Worobec (drums) and Chuck Coles (guitar), have been around for
over 10 years as both Cauterize and in an earlier incarnation as
T.O.E. In 2003 they put out the album So Far From Real on American
record label Wind-up and 2005 saw them forge ahead DIY-style with
their Paper Wings EP.
Adding Coles to create a three-guitar attack has amped up the rock
level of this already formidable band. "For the most part it's
never like Iron Maiden harmonies," Smith clarifies. "It's just
really heavy when we're all playing the same thing."
Disguises is just the sort of slicing dose of rock you'd expect
from a band with three full-time guitarists. There's a healthy
echo of the Foo Fighters or protest-era Green Day in Cauterize's
sound. They come by it naturally. "Growing up we were all into
90's California punk bands," says Smith of the band's interests.
"Green Day, they were up there with Strung Out, and the Foo
Fighters, I'd take those comparisons any day."
The particularly snarling first single, "Closer" would do any of
those bands proud. It's a classic outsider metaphor song for
Smith. "It's about a moth trying to fit in with butterflies," he
says. "Trying to paint himself, the weird imagery of that, to be
disguised."
It's not likely, however, that Cauterize will have to stay
disguised for much longer.