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defbyvolume
DefbyVolume
NEWS
DefbyVolume,s 1999 album'State Of Man' is now
available(CD)as well as MP3 'downloads'of
some of it and tracks off the next CD'Test Of Time'which is unfinished, so these tracks may 'Mutate' and change as time goes on!!!
available(CD)as well as MP3 'downloads'of
some of it and tracks off the next CD'Test Of Time'which is unfinished, so these tracks may 'Mutate' and change as time goes on!!!
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Performs Structured Musical Mayhem, The concept is to make bold statements, Painting Emotions with Sound, Sounds that rip your heart out or caress you.
John Castellain is the mainstay guitarist,
Composer,Producer.
Many musicians have helped nurture it into becoming an on going Studio Project.
DefbyVolume has existed for 7 years,Five years spent carefully crafting compositions into the first Album 'State Of Man'
and 2 years working on Test Of Time.
That doesn't mean thats the only project I have worked on during that period, it simply means that it has taken that amount of time, in between other projects, to bring together the ideas that have continually been evolving .The ultimate aim is to first please ourselves, and if others like what they hear,...even better!but there will be no compromise in artistic integrity!
Why this name?
DefbyVolume describes what loud music does to you...it sends you deaf, it is ironic and even humorous, but true!
Do you play live?
The Band has done radio interviews, where live alternative arrangements have been performed.
John is well known around Melbourne(Australia) and has worked with many National and International musicians,apart from DefbyVolume.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It has enabled musicians(especially) to get noticed and heard(MP3).It has radically changed the music industry for the better.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
DefbyVolume would be willing to discuss, with a major 'label' ways in which we could help each other, and would, if a favourable agreement could be reached, 'Sign on the dotted line!.
Band History:
John castellain has been in many Australian Bands over the last 20 years,and toured with David Lee Roth with supporting band 'Afrodisa'in 1988.Steve Vai and Drummer Greg Bissonette(Joe Satriani)were backing David Lee Roth.John Castellain has worked as a Session Musician(Many Instruments),Producer, Arranger,Composer and has worked in many Studios around Australia including David Briggs'Production Workshop'('Little RiverBand')studio as well with other well known Australian Artists.DefbyVolume employed some of them to contribute to compositions that have all been recorded in Johns 'in-house Studio',including Peter Quince(Redhouse). DefbyVolume's aim now is to get the music heard!,and Perform Alternative
Arrangements(Electric,Acoustic,Solo,Band,etc).
Your influences?
Thats easy everything We,ve ever heard!, here goes then, Hendrix,Napalm Death,Zappa,Pantera,Rush,Steve Morse,Judas Priest,Captain Beyond,Candira,Joe Satriani ,Beethoven, Mozart, and more Hendrix,etc,etc.
Favorite spot?
Anywhere I find genuine friends
Equipment used:
A lot of computer based effects and and sounds used in unconventional ways mixed with a healthy dose of overdriven Marshalls.
Anything else...?
DefbyVolume is constantly re-inventing itself,that is why the music varies so much.We've had mixed reviews because its hard to put the music in one Genre!..So What!..Who wants to churn out the same mass produced 'safe' music anyway??, we are not trying to produce copies of other musicians, thats not to say ideas belong to one person only!(like some believe),look at the advances, both positive and negative that come about through 'Knowledge'...no one owns Knowledge, but we can all share it.Like for example the Computer has revolutionised the way people make music, and has made it in reach of everybody.knowledge,and taking 'ideas; and reinventing them is what its all about!.
