RIVAL (CHICAGO)
The scratches of paint
Dressed elegantly in steel
The concrete of vicious loves
Is enough to die for
This home reaks of effluence
The air spins with resonance
And here in my comatose
I can sense their descent
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
RIVAL is noise. Formed from the concrete of a stretch of land that produces more decibles than ten Kiss concerts, this place is their only rival. Major airports, train depots, highways...a constant pounding of sound that can only be minimized, never ignored. RIVAL is just that. But what the members of RIVAL learned out of this constant earshot was that while noise and sound gave birth to them, it was also their biggest wall to climb. They struggled to find a way to turn noise into sound, and sound into music, and to battle their noisy habitat with the music of a band trying to break free. They incorporate their environment into their music - an industrialized place inhabited by fire ants, a place of no beauty - and they turned that into the most melodic yet brutally heavy songs any concrete nation can appreciate. It is an attempt to find beauty in everything, and to create music that is as intriguing in its approach as the quest for beauty is in its audacity. The band formed in late 2004 with the intention of a lightning fast ascension into the sky that is the music industry, and they have not stopped since. Writing songs such as "My Only Rival" and "Revel on This", the band surgically examines the intricacies in music, pushes speakers to see how loud they can get, and attempts to find beauty in everything. The lyrics are mainly the baby of Frank Cahoj, the guitarist in the band. In addition to his struggle with his environment, his struggles at home and in his experience with divorce create a mood that sings of power struggles, the loss of innocence, and the ironic protection of death. RIVAL is on a mission...to escape the boundaries of their concrete prison, to push music to its limits and sound back to its core, and to find beauty in everything.
Your musical influences
The Mars Volta, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Glassjaw, Converge, Dreamtheater, Incubus, Nine Inch Nails, and many many more.
What equipment do you use?
Fender Amps. Ibanez and Fender Guitars.
