Mettaya X
Mettaya = Nirvana X Metallica / Black Sabbath
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Welcome To America Welcome To America
An audio cluster bomb aimed straight at the heart of the elite.
The Harness The Harness
After a long recover from our equipment meltdown last year, the epic 'f*ck work' sludge anthem gets a proper mix and master. Sabbathy goodness!
Blistering Sun Blistering Sun
ALL NEW 2010 version, fully mastered, almost nothing at all like last year's version.
I Am Nothing I Am Nothing
The stoner/doom masterpiece I've been threatening to drop for years - what other song has the Archangel Gabriel, Satan, AND Yoda all making guest appearances?
Sunset Over Babylon Sunset Over Babylon
Ambient metal instrumental, a meditation on the destruction of the world that was, and the beginning of the world that is to be....
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Mettaya is all about new music from familiar origins. While the ingredients are common, it's the care in their proportion and seasoning that makes the dish so tasty. Heavy metal used to it's highest purpose, no pun intended. A rethinking of what heavy music is, was, and could be, daring to tread where few 'heavy' musicians would even be caught dead thinking about.
Mettaya is the 'heavy' sister band to Radiosmack, also Dan fronted and lead, the no-holds-barred counterpoint to the 'lighter' (ish) Rock/Traditional sounds of that band. You may just like both!Band/artist history
Mettaya is the brainchild of a lost man's decade living in the shadows of the gutters of the 'richest nation on earth.' Through muck and grime, 8 days of freezing rain, 50 mph headers into oak trees, having died twice, only to find his way to Venice seeking out the last remaining scents of the psychedelic magick that Morrison sought while there, found the secret missing link of Rock and Roll in the form of Sky Saxon and his Seeds.
"Soon, I discovered, that this 'rock thing' was true...
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil....
Jesus was an Architect, previous to his career
As a prophet..."
Dan soon found himself the sole person to answer an ad reading "Magick partner in crime wanted, Crowley, Acid, Les Pauls and Marshalls..." which happened to be submitted in...Venice. He wondered if it'd been the same blonde beach bum who'd come up to Lilith at the same time he was buying acid off of her to score some for himself. Looked like a lead singer, at least...
Sure was. Mettaya now temporarily had it's own 'toxic twin' and many psychedelic adventures followed - culminating first in Dan and Steve taking a 'guided tour of LA County Jail' after Dan nearly killed the big skinhead bouncer at Hinano's, long known to be a Morrison haunt in his own acid addled beach days. Dan is still proud of his sole jaunt to the joint having been getting kicked out of one of Morrison's favorite bars.
The real culmination was to come. At a self-styled commune on Penmar Avenue, full of 'pods' and silly half-assed seekers thinking a bongload of smoke and a trip to Burning Man once makes them a 'freakin' radical, meyannnnn', what did Dan find but Dave Waller via a jam partner/weed hookup at the house. Dave 'just so happened' to be the former road bass player for The Temptations. Things were getting weird, but as Dan was leaving the weird house and heading back into the van, and Dave needed a place to stay (and found no refuge at the house), we all piled in the van, guitars, basses, amps and all. "Cozy" doesn't quite describe it.
Eventually a drummer - notable only for having learned to play while in Federal Prison on a bank robbery rap, and having evaded police for months on a bicycle - was added, and a few trips in the thrice illegal van to the rehearsal room on Robertson showed the potential in the room. Add a real drummer, we thought, and we might really have something here. Like a Morrison fronted Sabbath with slamming, slapped bass lines. Hmmm.....
Turns out Dave was a commodity - he was who got Dan on the Seeds bus, and many others on the bus ended up getting on in one way or another via Dan's actions. We were all backing up Sky Saxon and almost NONE of us really knew who he was or what he was famous for! Turns out for such a Doors-focused jaunt, they'd stumbled upon a gem - the underground(ish, relatively) band whom the Doors got their "Singer, Guitarist, Organist, Drums, and No Bass" lineup from, and when combined with Arthur Lee's Love, essentially constitutes the other musical chromosomes that eventually made up the Doors. As was the wont of the Twins, they'd bypassed the obvious and sought out the occulted origins of the profane.
Eventually this lineup was to be scattered to the wind, as was the entire "Seeds at Goodstock" endeavor. Dan and Dave became temporary members of the 'Seeds' club, though only Dave got to perform live with Sky. Steve eventually went back to Sufi camp to contemplate his naval (and how someone with such a 'mellifluous voice' could be so routinely flat). Dave still haunts the beach looking for a gig worthy of his pedigree. Dan was left to compose and perform all parts alone, stepping up to the plate on vocals and bass as well as guitars and initial drum sequences, aided in production by yours truly, Cain Robertson.Have you performed in front of an audience?Mettaya is looking for permanent members in the Los Angeles area for drums and bass guitar, and live shows will follow.
Your musical influences
Black Sabbath, Sepultura, Acid Bath, Ministry, Nirvana, Meshuggah, Agents of Oblivion, The Doors, Massive Attack, Tricky, AWOL One, Life Sex & Death, heavy rock spiced with psychedelia and acid-laced industrial veins, fuck smashing guitars, worry more about yourself and your proximity to the whirlwind. A bomb waiting to go off.What equipment do you use?
Dan only uses the Cream of the Crap. "My entire rig could be bought for less than the price of many single guitars or amps."
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