Members

Paul – Drums
Alexis – Guitar
Derek – Guitar
Brice – Bass
Mark – Vocals

Location: Madison

MySpace: myspace.com/thekillerdolphinwithrabies

Bio

The Killer Dolphin with Rabies formed in late 2006. The band consists of five musicians, each member having distinct musical experience, adding to the complexity of the band’s unique and experimental sound. Over the past three years, the band has made their mark on the Madison music scene with live, energetic, performances and continue to branch out to other Wisconsin communities. Due to the musical diversity, the band has been able to recruit listeners from all genres, from jazz to metal.

The Killer Dolphin With Rabies completed their full length album Be Human in August of 2008, an intricate, genre blending series of song manipulations and numerous, quick, offset changeups that has developed over the past two years of personal and interpersonal musical growth. Having become a staple of Madison music, the band hopes to engage in a new passionate pursuit of further musical creation, placing the band at the forefront of each member’s life, in goals of touring the U.S.

Releases

The Killer Dolphin With Rabies – Be Human
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The Killer Dolphin With Rabies also has two songs from Be Human available to download free on Wisconsin Sickness Vol. 1

Members

Hobbes – Lead vocals
Dave – Guitar/Backing vocals
Chad – Bass/Backing vocals
Joe – Drums

Location: Milwaukee

MySpace: myspace.com/9mmsolution

Facebook: 9mm Solution

Bio

For years, the fearsome foursome known as 9mm SOLUTION has been turning heads and eradicating eardrums, leaving bloody, barely moving masses as they tore across the Midwest’s music scene. After the physical intensity of their performance, it’s easy to see that this band is on a mission to prove themselves as one of the hardest-working stage acts in the biz.

One of the many things that has always set 9mm SOLUTION apart from other acts has been their seemingly effortless ability to cover the spectrum of today’s heavy metal sound. With songs like Suicide Letter and Below, you get a very real sense of loss with a hint of hope. Add to that the guttural, smashing assault of One In The Chamber and Belly Up, and you have the total package.

When the band formed in 2003, it was clear that these boys had a very real goal in mind. In spring of 2006, the band shocked fans, reintroducing themselves by taking the stage at Milwaukee’s Rave dressed in matching suits. It was around this time when SOiL bassist Tim King came into the picture and kicked things up a notch by producing the band’s music, which piqued the ears of industry greats like Ulrich Wild (Static X, Deftones, Tool), and Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Hellyeah), who also signed on to mix various projects for the band.

9mm SOLUTION released their first full length album, One Shot… One Kill, in the summer of 2006 through King’s Mortal Music. It gained wide recognition throughout college and mainstream radio. It wasn’t enough. The band set their sights even higher. They turned up their game, playing even more shows alongside bands like Five Finger Death Punch and Hellyeah.

These days, it’s business as usual for 9mm SOLUTION. Whether it’s one person or entire crowds, these guys will take out anyone and leave them screaming. When these crowd killers suit up, stand back: when they’ve got a job to do, there’s not a force in the world that’s going to stop them. Just ask their fans, the Bulletheads.

This summer marks the culmination of the band’s efforts. They’ll take aim on the world when they release their second album, The Dream Is Dead, through Rock Ridge Music. But, rest assured, the dream is never dead with these guys.

Releases

9mm Solution – The Dream Is Dead

After a long hiatus The Sky And The Execution have announced their return, as well as the release of the album …and we choke down the eucharist of venom through Union 414 Records in the US and Dead Tree Records in Europe.

They will also be returning to the studio to write and record the follow-up soon.

More The Sky And The Execution: myspace.com/theskyandtheexecution

Members

Henry – Drums
Mike – Left guitars and Lead vocals
Tyler – Bass and vocals
Drew – Right guitars and vocals

Location: Madison

MySpace: myspace.com/unummachina

Bio

Madison-based progressive band Unum Machina started as an online music session that became a live session, and now a debut full-length album produced, recorded and mixed by the band. The band prides themselves in being able to play any style or feeling of music they want while still maintaining their own unique sound.

Unum Machina masterfully combines a wide range of styles from soft alternative, jazz, blues, and prog metal to brutal hardcore with big hooks, huge melodies and thick harmonies.

The new album Towers will be available soon.

Members

Mike “Angel Face” Jonjak – VoKills
Billy “the Billdozer” Hafemann – Gee-tar
Ryan “Ryan” Bero – Bass-ification
Dion “Superbeard” Brass – stuff on things

Location: Oconomowoc

MySpace: myspace.com/methtooth

Facebook: Meth Tooth

Email: medrumgood@hotmail.com

Bio

From the moment of the band name’s conception to their present day status of Attic-Based Elevated Grinders, Dion has had a beard and a penchant for hickory, and Billy’s had one (1) b in his name and has, in all likelihood, consumed several slices of pizza; both with and without extra cheese.

Dion, the Gypsy-raised result of a hops-fuelled liaison between a human-sized dwarf and a Slovakian leprechaunette and Billy, a descendant of Cousin It and the unpaid, official representative of the World Golf-Attire Authority began writing in earnest. They quickly realised that their symphonic venture would pay off much more than their proposed aggressive takeover of Whittlin’s R Us and continued to grind sporadically throughout the season known as summer.

A few months (and several hundred bulletins and classified ads) later, Mike was enveloped into the ensemble. Mike had just been fired from his once-illustrious career as an Ahomosexual live-stock fluffer for Bawdy Barnyard Productions after an… “incident“ involving a harmonica, a tub of hummus and an Episcopalian organ- grinder‘s monkey. Once taken on by Meth Tooth, he was put to work strangling the living daylights out of a Shure micro-ma-phone as well as doubling as the official Meth Tooth nip-gripper. At least he did once he’d overcome the nausea from his sudden elevation into the attic, now known as The Meth Lab.

These gravity-enthusiasts, did not allow the lack of a Mother-Pluckin’ Octave-Popper to hold them back from their dream of being payed in beer, Monsters and Ball-In-A-Cups (or would that be Balls-In-A-Cup ?) in return for playing their set; even having a guest appearance from Dance Cadaverous’ low-ender Johnno.

That, apparently was it: Meth Tooth pretending to have a bassist annoyed the piss out of an ancient universal entity known only as Tsi Ss‘Ab, thus causing the aforementioned entity to copulate with a megasauric, amorous 13-fingered cellist of talents-most-gob-smacking. With a clear purpose in mind, Tsi Ss’Ab seduced MechaCellist with the endlessly looped “Legacies Of Molestation” intro and a 30 pack of PBR with a funnel, and their ensuing love-making destroyed entire galaxies (Have you seen this? Have you heard about this?). Thundering out of MechaCellist’s womb comes Ryan, swinging a five-string rumble-stick above his head to whereby storm his way into the Meth Lab and the band’s hearts.

Members
Meagan Dunham – Vocals
Corey Dunham – Guitars/Synth
Daniel Ross-Moore – Drums/Vocals
Alletta Ergun – Bass
Overt Lexvold – Keyboards/Synths

Location: Madison

Myspace: myspace.com/mutegreyband

Facebook: Mute Grey

Bio

After the release of Mute Grey’s EP Two Minutes Hate in 2008 they toured the midwest playing with bands Mushroomhead, Hurt, Margin Or Error, Human Factors Lab, Filament 38, and more.

Mute Grey is currently recording a new album called We Dream In Black And White, colored with their signature heavy industrial hooks and almost schizophrenic vocals from Meagan Dunham. Mute Grey is set to change the standards of Wisconsin independent music.

And it will make you shit your pants.

Releases

Mute Grey – Two Minutes Hate EP (2008)

Track List

1. One And The Same
2. Road To Madness
3. Deus Ex Machina
4. Two Minutes Hate
5. Mad World
6. Hush

Two Minutes Hate is available on iTunes and Amazon Mp3.