To the Bones

To The Bones

***Bio***

"To The Bones move with the force and efficiency of a machine. They make one hell of a racket, but it's nearly always melodic, the songs brutally concise" - The Guardian

To The Bones are essential. From glamorous Bolton, the four-piece play a feral mix of riffs and melody; imagine the Pixies tackling QOTSA and you're playing in the right ball-park.. The band write amazing, hook-laden rock songs that you'll find rumbling around your head days after your last To The Bones fix.

Having released a split single through Org Records at the start of 2008, To The Bones signed up with new label Medici Records in May. In July, the band released a double A-side made up of the scuzzed-up fuzzed-out melody of 'Sonic Mammoth' and the terrifying aural assault of 'Sharkie's Bone Symphony'. They received airplay from Zane Lowe and Bruce Dickinson at the BBC and were invited to record an Xfm session for John Kennedy. The NME, Rock Sound and The Fly gave them mentions – from out of nowhere had appeared a fearsome new force in rock. Even MTV2 noticed what was going on, playing the band's video on 120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball.

Having heard about the building buzz, producer Dave Eringa (Manics, Idlewild, Ash) offered his services to the band for free. In 24 hours, the band recorded and mixed their second Medici Records single. Entitled Rex, and released on September 29th, it's a hypnotic, mesmerising blend of crushing riffs and tribal, chanted melody. It's a song that demands an immediate re-listen – and then another, and another and another…

The release of low-budget debut album ‘Duke Type A’ saw the band garner praise from all corners. The NME praised its ‘histrionic slabs of exhilarating, white-hot squall’, whilst The Fly told us it was, ‘A thrilling, unpredictable debut - rough round the edges, and all the better for it”. Hell, even Steve Lamacq named it his Alternative Album of the Week on Radio 1.

January 2009 saw the band head into the studio once more. In March 2009, a re-recorded version of album highlight ‘Lips On Red’ hit the digital world. Recorded with producer Sean Genockey (Manics, Baddies, Reuben), this was to be the last take from the Duke Type A stage of the band’s journey. Following it's release the band continued to tour hard around the UK, performing The Great Escape Festival, Camden Crawl, landing support slots with The Living End, The Butterfly Effect, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, performing the Rocksound Cave at Guilfest and opening for Eagles of Death Metal at the legendary Brixton Academy. All this as well as their own headline shows.

August 2009 saw To The Bones land themselves on the bill of the world famous Leeds & Reading Festival where they performed the BBC Introducing Stages. As the late seasons of 2009 approach To The Bones are currently in hibernation, writing and recording brand new material. Watch this space!

***'Duke Type A' - The Debut Album Reviews ***

Steve Lamacq's Alernative Album Of The Week - Radio 1's In New Music We Trust ( 6.10.2008 )

"The Bolton four piece make the sort of righteous, riff-heavy noise that makes you wonder where QOTSA would have ended up if Josh Homme hadn't swapped Nick Olivieri for the Hollywood Hills.... ..Behind Duke Type A's juddering, jagged exterior lay some of the best throttle rock anthems we've heard all year... A thrilling, unpredictable debut - rough round the edges, and all the better for it" - 4/5 - The Fly.

"Bolton's To The Bones are a heavy metal Pixies homage who conjure up histrionic slabs of exhilarating, white-hot squall.... If the imagery is fantastical, the riffs are plain fantastic." 7/10 - NME

"Bolton quartet To The Bones' debut rocks with a timeless cool, ramming classic post-punk, grunge and rock influences into 10 fantastic tracks. With smatterings of Motorhead, Bleach-era Nirvana, The Fall and Joy Division in the mix, 'Duke Type A' is a real treat." 8/10 - Rock Sound

"With debut album ‘Duke Type A’, the group have landed a knockout punch... ‘Duke Type A’ delivers mischief and barbarity in equal measure...With just 10 songs in little over half an hour, the band have produced the most urgently arresting rock debut in years." 4/5 - City Life, Manchester

***Live Reviews***

Stealing the show, the Bolton quartet's breed of grime rock makes an instant impact on the audience,improving in both velocity and ferocity as the set progresses......Rocksound will eat their own hat if this lot don't start going places very quickly after this. *9/10* Rocksound.

To The Bones are natural, their sound and style is something that’s naturally innocently evolving in to something rather special –we were expecting them to be good, we weren’t expecting anything near this serious step up to the plate...Think Motorhead voiced alternative Mudhoney/Melvins/early Nirvana bite, a Liars edge.Organ Zine

Rhys.G.Bradley carries a guitar for much of the set, grinding out their brand of furious, blisteringly tight, deathly rock. To The Bones are as easy to handle as a fistful of razorblades...All four of them engage heavily in the rock and roll mantra....To The Bones are a band best served up hot and face to face, at equally ear damaging volumes; but as 2008 closes I can clearly see that this may be one of the few last opportunities to see them this close. ManchesterMusic.co.uk

***Press Clippings***

"Their last single's video featured the band in various states of torture dripping with fake blood. It's an 18 rated masterclass in softcore gore that befits their psycho-Stooges roar... Don't mess with To The Bones or they might just break yours." - NME

"To The Bones move with the force and efficiency of a machine. They make one hell of a racket, but it's nearly always melodic, the songs brutally concise" - The Guardian

“Marvelous urgency and intelligence – all layered fuzzy guitars, a pounding rhythm section, impassioned vocals and the unlikeliest hooks… To The Bones are sure to become a significant name in UK independent rock… Keep your eyes and ears open.” - Rock Sound

"Sounds a bit like 'Bleach' Era Nirvana... Good times!" - NME ('Rex' appears on the NME Stereo - 30th April 2008)

"Manchester quartet 'To The Bones' make guttural, feral fury-rock and their debut single is a ferocious blast of QOTSA-esque roariness" - The Fly

"To The Bones make scuzzed up, fuzzed out, full blooded future rock filled with enough experimentation to make it intriguing and enough hooks to make it compelling. It’s surging, frenetic stuff that needs a mosh pit and a sweaty grin to be truly appreciated – thankfully, they are on the right track to producing large versions of both." - Chris Long, BBC Introducing.

"The skuzzy rock n roll of To the Bones has the prime-time bass-driven intensity of early Joy Division and the death-defying screaming thrills of pre-big time Nirvana. They are quite wonderful." - John Robb, Manchester Confidential

".. The kind of bite that is lacking from so many bands music these days... 11/13" - Room Thirteen Magazine