This Will Destroy You

This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You performing at Fun Fun Fun Fest in November 2009.
Background information
Origin	San Marcos, Texas, United States
Genres	Instrumental rock post-rock ambient shoegaze drone doom metal
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Suicide Squeeze Hobbledehoy Record Co Magic Bullet Monotreme
Associated acts	Symbol, Amasa Gana
Website	thiswilldestroyyou.net
Members	Jeremy Galindo Christopher Royal King Andrew Stevens Jesse Kees
Past members	Raymond Brown Andrew Miller Donovan Jones Alex Bhore

This Will Destroy You, often abbreviated to TWDY, is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2004. They typically compose lengthy atmospheric instrumental pieces, featuring layers of effects-laden guitar and a heavy usage of dynamics.

Their latest album, Another Language, was released in September, 2014, and entered the Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart at number 7.

This Will Destroy You was formed by guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller in San Marcos, Texas, in 2005. They had met through mutual friends, and played together in various different bands throughout high school before the line-up was finalized by around 2002.

Early iterations of the band featured Galindo on vocals and sounded like Radiohead, but after recording some tracks they decided the results were "awful" and didn't fit in with the rest of their music. After composing their next song "The World Is Our___", the band decided to write instrumental music instead. Chris King said in an interview with BBC Radio Foyle, "we were ... writing different kinds of songs and we wrote one [instrumental] song, and we were like, that works, let's go for it!"

The band's name originated from a song that was to be called "This Will Destroy You", but this was rejected for being too pretentious. The band found it "hilarious." When asked whether he wished the band had chosen a different name, King said to Rock Sound, "It's supposed to be a little bit obnoxious. There's something about people automatically hating you before you play that's kind of endearing. It gets to the point where it's over-the-top obnoxious. It's an attention-grabber and people will check it out I guess. Even if they hate it."

"There are songs on that record that we all really like, but I think it was not really the starting point that we would have wanted for the band. I think it pushed it into categories – not that we didn't want to be a part of, but that we hadn't planned on being a part of."

This Will Destroy You self-recorded and self-produced their first EP, Young Mountain, in 2005. They intended it to be just a demo, and sold it as a CD-R after their concerts. The release was reviewed by a number of critics and was generally praised. The band was contacted by Magic Bullet Records owner Brent Eyestone over the internet and he asked them to contribute a track to his label's It Came From The Hills Vol. 1 compilation. The band sent Eyestone a copy of their demo to thank him, after which he invited them to tour with Sparrows Swarm and Sing. This Will Destroy You then began to work with Magic Bullet on the basis of a verbal agreement; in keeping with the labels DIY attitude, no written contract was ever signed.