Torrential Downpour
Clifton, New Jersey, United States | SELF
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"Next up Torrential Downpour, constructed themselves onto the stage. If I where to tell you that TD is a little loud that would be like telling you the sun is kinda hot. If I were to say that they were sort of intense that would be akin to saying Sam Kinison is a little intense. Torrential Downpour is Costa (Drums), Cece (Bass) Volpe (Guitar) Prkr (Vocals/Samples). Holy Crap! These dudes melt faces and serve them on toasted awesome with a side of IDONTEVENKNOWWHATTOSAY. Prkr uses his voice as a sample during the songs as well as vocalizing at the same time. This ain't no cut copy paste style of rock and roll. It involves railroad spikes and ......guns that shoot railroad spikes. You don't believe me? Well then see for yourself! It's Armageddom without the Erhnam Djinn, this is destruction after construction!" Zac Clark - Rockertycoon.blogspot.com - www.rockertycoon.blogspot.com
"I stuck around for the rare time signature, but the Moby Dick of Jersey bands was about to take the stage inside: Torrential Downpour.
A self-described “entity unto itself,” Torrential Downpour were something like noise-ologists, and their mission seemed to consist of pulling the listener out of his/her comfort zone and disintegrating his/her brain with toxic reverberation. I scoffed at the two-dollar earplugs for sale at the bar, but I coughed up the dough five seconds into the set as the sting of the amplifiers laid waste to my aural perception.
Even through the chaos, these boys were able to form discernable melodies, which ran the gambit of style from spaghetti western to Tarantino soundtrack and Jonathon Davis growl-scat. Still, when vocalist/sampler Prkr forced his way through the band’s hardcore stride and insanity took over, several members of the audience began to scream at the top of their lungs, “Fuck my ears! Fuck my ears!”
A show like this usually leaves me staggering aimlessly into the street, wondering if I’ll ever regain my senses, and Friday night was no exception. I got on the wrong bus and ended up in the middle of nowhere with an angry sidewalk cat and a couple in multi-colored rave pants." Ben Salvo - Knocksfromtheunderground.com - www.knocksfromtheunderground.com
"Brutally Poetic" - East Coast Rocker Magazine
"Ideal prescription for music lovers of schizophrenia" - abysszine.com
Discography
Torrential Downpour (April 2009)
Songs from this release can be streamed from our myspace page
www.myspace.com/torrentialdownpour
Connected Through (TBA 2011)
Songs from the upcoming album are available to stream from our myspace page.
www.myspace.com/torrentialdownpour
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Bio
Torrential Downpour, an entity unto itself, dreams and reshapes its own existence to live vicariously through the musicians it harnesses. Structured by the imagery of Man, Torrential creates its arms, legs and body through the percussive force of Peter Costa. Using guitar and piano, Jason Volpe transforms his energy of pure love into a massive sonic force, manifesting the heart and stomach of this holographic being. The lungs and throat, sustained only by vocal manipulator Prkr, naturally regulates breathing and filters unwanted toxins and energy resonance. All of this falling apart without the apt sense and control of bass player Matt Cece as the brain and eyes. Together, using a battery of harsh and hauntingly beautiful soundscapes, a voice and language are given to Torrential Downpour. A voice that struggles for its place in the collective unconscious. But through all of this, the soul always remains the same. A beauty that is unthinkable and unstoppable. A version of love you have yet to discover. Torrential is everything you've heard or haven't. Everything that is or isn't. Torrential Downpour is a reflection of you...because in truth, you are everything.
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