Drawing Flies

DRAWING FLIES are five guys from Boise, Idaho that decided to play death metal. The town has not exactly had a great deal of local death metal acts in its history, in fact its only recognizable musical exports are Paul Revere and The Raiders, Septic Death, and Built to Spill (Septic Death is probably remembered by most people as Pusheads band, not the purveyors of extreme punk that they were). Presently the Boise scene is riddled with trendy neometal rap acts that regurgitate the sounds from college radio stations and, of course, MTV. DRAWING FLIES has demolished all of that by establishing a roaring death metal onslaught that defies trends and asks for Boise to find a place on the extreme music map. DRAWING FLIES began sometime in March of the year 2000 with guitarist John Kuehne Jr. and drummer Brent Kelley. John had been working on some metal songs during the sudden abundance of free time he had, and Brent and he began fleshing out ideas. Brent and John had worked together in a punk band called Freak in a Jar from 1992 to 1996. After about 4 years jumping in and out of various musical projects, the two decided to reunite and head in a much different direction. The intent was to create extreme music with one foot firmly planted in conventional metal ideals, and the other in the progressive death metal movement. After a couple of months into it, bass player Zakk Hoyt joined the band followed shortly by vocalist Gus Field and second guitarist Dave Lopez. All the members of DRAWING FLIES have known each other for years, but this was the first time the five of them united in the same project. A mere seven months after the initial idea was just being tossed around, the band began playing local gigs in town. The response was surprising. The band did not clear the rooms as they initially thought they would. Instead, people began returning to their shows again and again. Now, over three years since the bands formation, they have completed two full-length discs in hopes of reaching a larger audience and bringing their unique form of extreme music to other eager listeners.

We've played many local shows as well as through the Northwest. The most unique show would have to be when we performed at Snake River Correctional Institution to masses of metalhead inmates in Oregon.

Carcass, Death, Slayer, Mr. Bungle, Iron Maiden