Dry Kill Logic Biography
If Dry Kill Logic's new record The Dead and Dreaming sounds especially energized and motivated it's because the band has faced numerous challenges since the release of their 2001 album, The Darker Side of Nonsense. And since adversity not only builds character, it reveals it, they have come through stronger at the other end by creating music that satisfies their creative hunger.
The results are staggering – an album of pummeling beats, precise, ripping guitars, and vocals that alternate between vehement animosity and haunting melodicism. At any given moment, Dry Kill Logic brings to mind the classic sounds of Slayer, Pantera, System of a Down and Killswitch Engage without sounding like any of them.
So, what got under Dry Kill Logic's skin enough to inspire them to craft such a personal tome of scorching might? Coming face to face with serious adversity and overcoming it. First, they had to change their name from Hinge to Hinge AD to Dry Kill Logic. Then, just as the metal community began embracing their scathing mix of thrash and hardcore, the events of 9/11 unfolded. The band's former label temporarily stopped supporting aggressive music and encouraged Dry Kill Logic to record more melodic songs that would be easier to push to commercial radio.
The band, whose penchant for melody is almost as strong as their desire to destroy, could have given in and crafted an album of hook-filled heavy rock, but that would have meant compromising every principle under which they were founded.
As a result, Dry Kill Logic decided to do things their way, the hard way. After a mutual split with their former label, they decided not to seek another record deal, and instead take their career under their own wing, self-releasing their music on their Psychodrama imprint and handling most aspects of their career themselves.
Soon after they decided to adopt a DIY approach to their music, Dry Kill Logic's guitarist and bassist quit, leaving Rigano and drummer Phil Arcuri as the only original members of the band. Not having a record deal has paid off in a number of ways for the band. In addition to enabling them to shape their own destiny, they have been able to retain ownership over the master recordings and license them to different labels in different territories. In North America, The Dead and Dreaming will be issued through Gary Ashley's new label, Repossession. Ashley is the former MCA label executive who orchestrated the merger between punk label Drive-Thru Records and MCA and is responsible for the success of such acts as Garbage and Blink-182. In the UK and Europe, the new record will see a release through SPV / Steamhammer, which will be overseen by the band's imprint Psychodrama, headed by Rigano.
The partnerships with Ashley and SPV / Steamhammer will allow Dry Kill Logic greater control over the business, financial and creative aspects of their career. Benefits so far include the ability to get their music in video games, TV and soundtracks without getting caught up in traditional red tape - Dry Kill Logic's riffs have been heard in games by Eidos, Midway and Activision, as well as in releases from Frontier Films, Fleshwound Films, H-Bomb Films and many others.
The roots of Dry Kill Logic stretch back to 1993 when Rigano formed Hinge in Westchester, New York. The group's first EP Cause Moshing is Good Fun marked the birth of Psychodrama Records, which Rigano created to distribute the disc and its follow-up, the band's first full-length Elemental Evil. In addition to honing its skills in the studio, Dry Kill Logic developed a frantic, mindblowing live show, which they fine-tuned on tours with Coal Chamber, Anthrax, System of a Down and others.
In 2001, Hinge changed their name to Dry Kill Logic, and released their second album, The Darker Side of Nonsense, going on to sell over 100,000 copies. The Dead and Dreaming is even tighter, more incisive and more original. Dry Kill Logic began writing the album while they were on tour in 2002, and recorded much of it at Millbrook Sound in upstate New York with producers Eddie Wohl and Rob Caggiano.
Dry Kill Logic has set out to be the best people that they can be, to lead by example and to try to show people that with a bit of hard work, a difference can be made. For the band, that begins with giving back to the metal community by making real music for the fans, for themselves, and no one else.
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