Stand Down

“Music is our life and our escape from the troubles in this world today. We deliver hard, passionate truth the best way we know how,through music” The Vancouver-based band spent the last year intoxicating and immortalizing the local music scene in a sea of head-banging, sweat-dripping shows to promote the album. Opening for Default in Kelowna raised hype for the band and hurtled the boys into summer. Going on to place top 10 in Vancouver’s Seeds Competition, STAND DOWN proved to be connected by an allied field of hard-rock and metal culture. Carrying through the winter on the Xmas Slay Tour, the boys moved throughout Western Canada, venue after venue, channeling emotion, passion and politics into a progressive, blood curling audio assault of riff, rhythm and rhyme.

 

 

The former four-piece unit originated from Cranbrook BC in 2003 and migrated to Vancouver soon after. They began by pushing their name and playing smaller shows then slowly built a foundation among the Vancouver scene with increasingly strong feed back from local promoters and patrons. Since the release of “Villains Parade”, the band has brought on yet another fresh face behind the guitar, Cody Jackson (also Cranbrook bred). Now with two guitarists dueling onstage, STAND DOWN has created a larger-than-life sound that emulates their audio aggression. With Chris on the rhythm axe, laying the bottom and Sean’s hard-hitting drums syncopating the beats behind every potent song, Stand Down’s backbone is intact giving Justin and Cody free range to set the mood with deviant guitar riffs as front man and lead commander, Ken Goode, releases the perfect enigma of a somber rocker, immersing the audience in his vocal authenticity and explosive stage presence.

Our Review: 

Stand Down-Villains Parade

 

Official Site:

Stand Down’s Myspace

 

 

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