Horatuis D is an obvious knock-off of Tenacious D. Our english teacher, for which we did the project that brought us together, was named Mr. DeHoratius, so we decided to make fun of him and call ourselves Horatius D. Funny.

UPDATE: We have, in fact, played some songs live now. We played War and Peace and March of Fire at a live show in august 2005 to great effect; it even surprised us how much more impactful both the songs were when played in a live situation. No word yet on if we'll ever try the more difficult pieces, such as Urbs Ex Machina or Bloodflow.

We think it allows listeners and consumers to have easier access to a wider variety of music than ever before, something very important to musical artists. It's unfortunate that this valuable musical tool is being pulled apart, with pirating on one side and the obstinate record companies on the other.

It depends on the individual label and the people who run it.

We first formed as part of a project in a Medieval Literature class in which we did a project to write a rock soundtrack to Dante's Inferno. We haven't played any live gigs to date, and we're both going to different schools come fall of 2005.

Nine Inch Nails
A Perfect Circle
Spinal Tap
Jefferson Airplane
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
John Coltrane
The Mars Volta
Incubus
Led Zeppelin
Stone Temple Pilots
Foo Fighters
The Police
AC/DC
Rage Against The Machine
System of a Down

Gavin: Anywhere the sun sets and there's rum to be had.
Alex: Walpole, MA (NOTE: Alex has never been to Walpole, but hopes to save up the money for a future trip.)

For electronic parts of our songs (as well as the general sequencing) I used samples run through Acid 4.0, though I rarely, if ever, use it as a looping program. The "chopper," combined with the program's wide variety of FX plug-ins, allowed us to get some pretty unique sounds. I haven't contemplated how to recreate these sounds live yet. As for standard equipment, the guitars (Epiphone Les Paul Elite Hollowbody) and bass (Fender P-bass, stock) are both run through a stock Behringer V-Amp2 and directly in to the mixer, sometimes with amp/cabinet sims, sometimes without. The drums were recorded with various Shure microphones.

Contact us if you want to buy a cd. The $5 cost goes to pay for the cds themselves, as well as cover art and additional production costs.