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Band history:

Today Is The Day is the extremely experimental and widely influential brainchild of Steve Austin. The band saw its beginnings take root in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1990s when Today Is The Day released their debut EP, entitled How To Win Friends And Influence People, in 1992. This self-financed release garnered the attention of Amphetamine Reptile Records (AmRep) who signed the band (at this time consisting of Austin on vocals and guitar, Brad Elrod on drums, and Mike Herrell on bass) in February 1993 and released the full-length version of Supernova later that year.

In September 1994, Today Is The Day saw its popularity in the metal underground gather steam with the release of their sophomore album, entitled Willpower. That same year, Willpower was followed by the Clusterfuck '94 split EP with labelmates Chokebore and Guzzard. Today Is The Day made another appearance on 7" that year, as they contributed to the tenth volume of AmRep's Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets 7" series with Brainiac and Steel Pole Bath Tub.

Today Is The Day's eponymously-titled March 1996 effort furthered the band's legacy within the metal community. This album was the first Today Is The Day release recorded at Austin's own studio, Austin Enterprise, in Nashville. For this release, Steve Austin shifted the band's sound slightly and opted to replace bassist Mike Herrell with keyboardist Scott Wexton. Today Is The Day would be the band's final recording for AmRep.

In 1997 Today Is The Day left the AmRep fold and signed with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based metal label Relapse Records. Temple Of The Morning Star was released in September of 1997. For this release, Steve Austin built an entirely new lineup, this time joining forces with bassist Christopher Reeser and drummer Mike Hyde. In addition to Temple Of The Morning Star, Today Is The Day added to their 1997 output by contributing to the In These Black Days 7" series. Released by Hydra Head Records, this series is comprised of six volumes of Black Sabbath covers performed by the following bands in addition to Today Is The Day: Anal Cunt, Eyehategod, Converge, Brutal Truth, Coalesce, Cavity, Cable, Jesuit, Overcast, Cave In, Botch, Neurosis, and Soilent Green. For this series, Today Is The Day contributed their rendition of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, which can also be found as a secret track at the end of Temple Of The Morning Star.

For Today Is The Day's August 1999 release, entitled In The Eyes Of God, Steve Austin once again altered Today Is The Day's lineup. For this record Reeser and Hyde were replaced with bassist Bill Kelliher and drummer Brann Dailor, formerly of Rochester, New York's Lethargy and current members of Atlanta, Georgia-based Mastodon. This new lineup debuted live at the Milwaukee Metalfest and New England Hardcore Metal festival. Having moved to Massachusetts in 1998, this was the first Today Is The Day album to be recorded at Austin Enterprises' new location in Clinton, Massachusetts.

The years 2000 and 2001 were relatively quiet for Today Is The Day in terms of releasing new material. Live Till You Die was released in August of 2000, and included live tracks recorded during the tours in support of Temple Of The Morning Star and In The Eyes Of God, covers of songs by The Beatles, Bad Company, and Chris Isaak, and various odds and ends compiled from studio sessions held at Austin Enterprise during the late-1990s. In 2001 fans were treated to new Today Is The Day songs that were released on splits with Metatron and 16, the first glimpse of new material since 1999.

The new songs put out on the split releases in 2001 would prove to be but the tip of the iceberg, as these songs would appear on Today Is The Day's monolithic release Sadness Will Prevail. Sadness Will Prevail was released as a double album in September of 2002 and clocks in at approximately 2 1/2 hours. Taking roughly three years to record, mix, and master, Sadness Will Prevail is the band's most ambitious project to date. Despite the sheer size of Sadness Will Prevail, Today Is The Day also released their second live album, entitled Temple Of The Morning Star Tour, in 2002.

Today Is The Day returned in June of 2004 with an incredibly fast, brutal, and short album entitled Kiss The Pig. While Sadness Will Prevail plays like a progressive rock album, Kiss The Pig exists to be its predecessor's antithesis. Kiss The Pig was the last album released by Today Is The Day on Relapse Records.

In December 2006 it was announced that former Hate Eternal drummer, Derek Roddy, had joined the band and would appear on their next studio album due in 2007.

SuperNova Records:

2006 saw the launch of Steve Austin's own record label, SuperNova Records, which was founded in order to properly release material by Today Is The Day, among others. As of July 2006, SuperNova has released DVDs of live Today Is The Day shows from 1995 and 1996, as well as reissuing a remastered version of their Willpower record, previously released on Amphetamine Reptile Records. In addition to this, SuperNova Records is an outlet for Steve Austin's side project Taipan. Taipan's debut album, entitled 1002: A Rock Odyssey, saw its release via the SuperNova Records website in May of 2006. Taipan consists of Steve Austin on guitars/vocals, Chris Debari of Today Is The Day on bass, and Ironboss drummer Patrick Kennedy (American musician and writer). Other bands that call SuperNova Records home are as follows: Christine, Defcon 4, Diesel Theory, Roanoke, and The Orange Man Theory.

More Today Is The Day releases via SuperNova Records are slated for the near future, including a reissuing of 1993's Supernova, a second Taipan record, and Axis Of Eden, Today Is The Day's new studio album.



Influences, sound, and style:

Often categorized as noise rock by critics, by listening to their discography, Today Is The Day can be heard to have a rather large and diverse number of influences on their sound and style. While drawing from the "usual suspects" of heavy metal influences such as Black Sabbath, Slayer, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest, early Today Is The Day releases (particularly the first three AmRep records) showcase Steve Austin's love for eccentric rock bands such as The Jesus Lizard, Slint, and various Steve Albini projects. These influences can be heard in Austin's use of unique guitar tunings and riffs that were written in very unorthodox time signatures. In addition to this, Austin's style of playing atmospheric and spacy guitar leads has led to his being likened to progressive rock guitarists Robert Fripp and David Gilmour of King Crimson and Pink Floyd, respectively. Also, the band's use of blast beats, demonic or Satanic lyrics and imagery have shown the band's grind, death, and black metal influences from bands such as the legendary Darkthrone, Mayhem, Napalm Death, and Morbid Angel. Furthermore, in keeping with the band's eclectic and experimental nature, Austin is known to have an affinity for such adventurous musical artists as jazz great Miles Davis, the 1970s jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, and alternative rock songstress PJ Harvey.



Past and present members:

Vocals

* Steve Austin (1992-present)

Guitar:

* Steve Austin (1992-present)
* Mark Morton (2002)

Bass:

* Chris Debari (2000-present)
* Bill Kelliher (1999)
* Christopher Reeser (1997-1998)
* Mike Herrell (1992-1996)

Drums:

* Derek Roddy (2006-Present)
* Graham Leduc (2006)
* Jeff Lohrber (2005)
* Mike Rosswog (2004)
* John Gillis (2003)
* Marshall Kilpatric (2000-2002)
* Brann Dailor (1999)
* Mike Hyde (1997-1998)
* Brad Elrod (1992-1997)

Keyboards:

* Aaron Kotilainen (2005)
* Christopher Reeser (1996)
* Scott Wexton (1996)

Violin:

* Kris Force (2002)

Cello:

* Jackie Gratz (2002)



Discography:

1992

* How To Win Friends And Influence People EP self released

1993

* I Bent Scared (7") (Amphetamine Reptile Records)

* Supernova (Amphetamine Reptile Records)

1994

* Willpower (Amphetamine Reptile Records)

* Clusterfuck '94 (split with Chokebore and Guzzard) (Amphetamine Reptile Records)

* Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets Volume 10 (Split 7" with Brainiac and Steel Pole Bath Tub) (Amphetamine Reptile Records)

1996

* Today Is The Day (Amphetamine Reptile Records)

1997

* Temple Of The Morning Star Relapse Records)

* In These Black Days Volume 3 (Split 7" with Coalesce) (Hydra Head Records)

1999

* In The Eyes Of God (Relapse Records)

2000

* Live Till You Die (Relapse Records)

2001

* Today Is The Day/Metatron (Split) (Dark Reign Records)

* Today Is The Day/16 (Split) (Trash Art Records)

2002

* Temple Of The Morning Star Live (Blue Blood Records)

* Sadness Will Prevail (Relapse Records)

2004

* Kiss The Pig (Relapse Records)

2006

* Temple Of The Morning Star (Re-Issue) (Relapse Records)



Official Site: http://todayistheday.org/