Car Bomb (band)
| Car Bomb | |
|---|---|
| Origin |
Long Island, New York, United States |
| Genres | Mathcore |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Relapse (2007–2012), Independent (2016) |
| Associated acts | Neck, Spooge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gojira |
| Website | www.carbombcult.com |
| Members | Michael Dafferner Elliot Hoffman Greg Kubacki Jon Modell |
Car Bomb (stylized as [Car_Bomb]) is an American mathcore band from Long Island, New York that was initially formed in 2000. Their debut album, Centralia, was released through Relapse Records on February 6, 2007.
Car Bomb first came to be around the year 2000, when Greg Kubacki and Michael Dafferner of the band Neck shared a rehearsal space under a Rockville Center, New York butcher with Elliot Hoffman and Jon Modell of the band Spooge. Over time, the bands became great friends and frequently visited each other's practices. In 2002, Modell, unsatisfied with the music his band was making, recruited Kubacki and Dafferner to form a side project called Car Bomb.
The band released a three track demo in 2004 which featured early versions of songs "Rid", "M^6" and "His Eyes." Car Bomb collaborated with a split 7" with Burnt By The Sun in 2007, featuring the track Pieces Of You. Their first full-length album Centralia was released on February 6, 2007 via Relapse Records. In 2011, the band was dropped from the Relapse Records label and their subsequent albums were independently released through Bandcamp. According to Doug Moore, writing for InvisibleOranges.com, "Each member [of the band] works a technologically-inclined professional day job, which restricts their schedules but offers them uncommon financial resources. Some bands build their own studios; Car Bomb built their own microphones from scratch." In addition to buying or making equipment to create their own studio, this means that the band does not depend on the resources of a record label to finance recordings and production costs.
Car Bomb showcased a number of new songs from w^w^^w^w on their May 2009 tour with Gojira and The Chariot, viewable on YouTube.
Singer Michael Dafferner premiered his first independently released film [Why_You_Do_This], a feature-length documentary 'about money, touring, and technical metal,' at the Queen's World Film Festival in August 2011. The band's New York rehearsal space was flooded in early 2012, with most of the equipment being lost or damaged.
The band released their second full-length album w^w^^w^w in 2012, featuring a guest vocal appearance from Joseph Duplantier of the band Gojira. w^w^^w^w is supposedly pronounced 'w click w', but guitarist Greg Kubacki mentioned "a lot of people are now calling it the “waveform record,” which works too."
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