 |
Bryan Scary | |
|---|---|
 Bryan Scary performing in 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Bryan Treitler |
| Born | January 27, 1983 |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) |
|
| Instrument(s) |
|
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels |
|
Bryan Scary (born Bryan Treitler) is an American musician.
|
Bryan Scary | |
|---|---|
| Bryan Scary performing in 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Bryan Treitler |
| Born | January 27, 1983 |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) |
|
| Instrument(s) |
|
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels |
|
Bryan Scary (born Bryan Treitler) is an American musician.
Scary's career in music began in Brooklyn, New York City. He received a degree in film production from New York University in 2005. As a film student, Scary wrote and directed several student films including Sunset Town in 2003, and The Gun Play in 2005. [1]
His musical debut and first album, The Shredding Tears , was released by Black and Greene Records on October 31, 2006. Scary played all instruments on the album save for the drums, which were played by Jeremy Black of Apollo Sunshine. In live performance Bryan Scary plays with his band, "The Shredding Tears."[ citation needed ]
In 2007 the band launched multiple tours nationwide. In September–October 2007, the band went into the studio to record their newest album Flight of the Knife . It was released April 1, 2008, on Black and Greene Records.
On May 14, 2008, Flight of the Knife was chosen as the "Editor's Pick" on iTunes and skyrocketed to the top-30 albums in a day. It was also ranked No. 6 in the "Rock Albums" section as well. On May 25, 2008, Bryan Scary won "Person of the Week" on www.mastergiraffe.com.[ citation needed ]
Prior to releasing their latest EP, Mad Valentines, Scary signed with Brooklyn based record label, Old Flame Records. The band toured with this EP in 2009.
Bryan Scary's third full-length release and second album recorded with his band (the Shredding Tears) is titled Daffy's Elixir. It is a wild west-themed conceptual album which was funded in part by money pledged from friends and fans through Kickstarter. More than $16,000 was raised towards production of the album. Bryan recorded fully orchestrated demos for his band members which were then worked out in rehearsals prior to the sessions. The recording sessions for the album began in Brooklyn, NY with producer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Phish) on February 25, 2010. Goggin had previously mixed the single "Red Umbrella" for Bryan Scary which was included on the Mad Valentines EP. Daffy's Elixir was released April 24, 2012, on Paper Garden Records/Lavaslope Records.
In 2013, Bryan Scary played keyboards and sang backing vocals on Ginger Wildheart's album, Albion . Additionally, Scary provided vocals on one track from Ginger Wildheart's side project, Hey! Hello!. In 2013, Scary provided vocals on Spacehog's fourth studio album, As It Is On Earth. In late 2013, Scary was featured on a collaborative single by Eyal Amir, "Bad News Jitterbug".
In January 2014, Bryan and his new band Evil Arrows (Bryan Scary, Everet Almond, Graham Norwood, and Adrian Perry), released the first in a series of EPs simply titled 1. The purpose of this side project was to allow Bryan to experiment outside of the style restrictions he had built up under The Shredding Tears and solo career. As of March 2015 the band has released 5 EPs (1,2,3,4 & 5). The first 3 EPs were released as a full-length LP in Japan on Rallye Records titled 1-2-3. The band has plans to release at least another 2 EPs from the original sessions which started in August 2013. All the recordings were done in a DIY style at the band's rehearsal space in Brooklyn.
In early 2015, Scary released a "collection of outtakes, demos, memos, and left behinds" [2] on his Bandcamp page, titled Scary's Closet, Volume 1. This compilation features unfinished projects from Scary's time writing and touring Flight of the Knife, as well as demos of Mad Valentines and Flight of the Knife itself. Around the same time, he launched a fundraiser on PledgeMusic for his new full-length Album titled BIRDS and he reached his set goal by 137% in May later that year. Though the project had an approximated release date for October that same year, it was delayed. Bryan Scary released Birds on June 6, 2019.
In 2016, Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears-alumnus Giulio Carmassi co-founded music and sound production company, Hummingbirds. [3] Under this company, they have composed music for several shorts, documentaries, and films. In 2017, Scary played piano and keyboards on Chris Catalyst's Life Is Often Brilliant . [4]
In October 2020, 'Flight of the Knife' was reissued on vinyl and cassette by Needlejuice Records. In early 2021, Scary released a follow-up to Scary's Closet, Volume 1.Scary's Closet, Volume 2 features unused demos from miscellaneous projects, as well as instrumentals for Flight of the Knife and Daffy's Elixir.
Bryan Scary has announced plans for a Birds sister album, though it has since been delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic limitations. Bryan has also announced on Twitter that he's simultaneously working on a different album with "no acoustic guitars, lots of synth, much darker tone than Birds, and a big emphasis on rhythm...glammy Krautrock vibes." Both albums are completely written and are in the process of recording, totaling around 38 tracks.
Bryan Scary has scored several short films and documentaries, often alongside bandmate Giulio Carmassi. Most notably, the pair wrote and composed the soundtrack for Sundance Film Festival comedy-drama Black Bear . Recently Scary and Carmassi composed and performed the soundtrack for the 2022 film Please Baby Please [5] .
Bryan appears as a cameo in the film Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007) written and directed by Jonathan Blitstein. The songs that were used in the film was Shedding Tears (All Over the Place), Blood Club, Stab at the Sun, Bottom of the Grave and Misery Loves Company.
Immature is an American R&B boy band, managed by record producer Chris Stokes. Its members include Marques "Batman" Houston, Jerome "Romeo" Jones, and Kelton "LDB" Kessee, all natives of Los Angeles, where the group was formed. The group released four albums under the Immature moniker: On Our Worst Behavior, Playtyme Is Over (1994), We Got It (1995) and The Journey (1997).
Lemon Demon is a musical project and band created by American comedian and musician Neil Cicierega in 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts. Lemon Demon's studio work is performed solely by Cicierega, who is the project's sole official member. A backing band is assembled for live performances, with previous performances consisting of Alora Lanzillotta, Charles Sergio, Anthony Wry, Dave Kitsberg, and Greg Lanzillotta.
Scary Kids Scaring Kids (abbreviated SKSK) is an American post-hardcore band formed in Gilbert, Arizona, United States, in 2002.
Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage, Furbowl and NonExist. He is currently working as vocalist with Hearse.
Found All the Parts is an EP released by Cheap Trick in 1980. It was released on a 10-inch disc as part of Epic Records' short-lived Nu-Disk series. The EP also contained a bonus promotional 7" single of "Everything Works If You Let It". Found All the Parts was re-issued in 12-inch format in 1983.
Ian Fowles is an American musician, author, and actor, best known as the current guitarist for the Orange County rock band The Aquabats, in which he performs under the stage name and persona of EagleBones Falconhawk. Prior to joining The Aquabats, Fowles was also one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Death by Stereo.
Honey Is Cool were a Swedish indie rock band from Gothenburg, formed in 1994. The band's final line-up consisted of Karin Dreijer, John Jern (guitar), Staffan Larsson (bass), Tina Weibull, and Fredrik Wennerlund (drums).
Take the Leap! is a studio album by the British singer Toyah Willcox, first released as Leap! in 1993 by Pony Canyon. It consists of new tracks as well as re-recordings of older songs from Toyah the band's repertoire.
Shades Apart is an American alternative rock musical group from Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. They are best known for their US radio hit "Valentine", "Stranger by the Day" and their cover of the hit song "Tainted Love."
Shaped by Fate were a five-piece metalcore band from South Wales, UK. They were lauded as "the future of British Metalcore" by Kerrang! magazine which described the band's music as "some of the tastiest, heaviest, most shredding metal this island's seen in a long time".
Black and Greene Records is an independent record label that was founded in 2004 by David Greene and Jeremy Black. Black & Greene Records is located and operated out of Los Angeles, California and San Francisco. The label works exclusively with Coyote Hearing Studios co-run by Jeremy Black. The label's bands have been showcased on HBO's Eastbound & Down and 90210.
Jucifer is an American doom metal duo, which was founded in 1993. The band's members are Gazelle Amber Valentine on lead guitar and vocals, and her husband Edgar Livengood on drums. Jucifer is notable for the extreme volume at which they perform, and the gigantic wall of amplification used for Valentine's guitar, as well as the dichotomy that has existed between much of the recorded material and their live shows. They are also notable for incessant touring beginning in the mid-1990s. In 2000 Jucifer moved into an RV and became completely "nomadic in nature", preferring to tour constantly, living in their tour vehicle, rather than following the normal practice of album release/tour/time at home.
The discography of Misfits, a horror punk band formed in Lodi, New Jersey, in 1977, consists of seven studio albums, three live albums, four compilation albums, four EPs, nineteen singles, one video album, five music videos, one box set, one demo, and one cancelled album.
Flight of the Knife is the second album by the Brooklyn area indie rock artist Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears. It is the group's first album as a full band, as the previous album The Shredding Tears had been a solo effort primarily composed by Bryan Scary. It was released on Black and Greene Records in April 2008, and rereleased by Needlejuice Records on vinyl and cassette in October 2020.
White Wizzard is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 2007. They have released one EP and four albums: Over the Top released in 2010, Flying Tigers released in 2011, The Devil's Cut released in 2013, and Infernal Overdrive released 2018. Throughout the band's history, it has undergone numerous lineup changes, with only Jon Leon remaining a stable member of the band. The end of the band was announced by Jon Leon in April 2018, however, he announced that he was reassembling the band in March 2019.
Red Fang is an American rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2005. It is composed of guitarist and vocalist Bryan Giles, bassist and vocalist Aaron Beam, guitarist David Sullivan and drummer John Sherman. The band has released five studio albums: Red Fang (2009), Murder the Mountains (2011), Whales and Leeches (2013), Only Ghosts (2016) and Arrows (2021).
EP's 1988–1991 is a compilation album by Irish-English shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine, released on 4 May 2012 via Sony. It features four of the band's extended plays for Creation Records—You Made Me Realise (1988), Feed Me with Your Kiss (1988), Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991)—and seven additional rare and unreleased songs.
Giuliano Giulio Giacomo Carmassi is an Italian multi-instrumentalist.
Knocked Loose is an American metalcore band from Oldham County, Kentucky, formed in 2013 and currently signed to Pure Noise Records. The band released its debut studio album, Laugh Tracks, in September 2016 through Pure Noise Records which was followed by A Different Shade of Blue in 2019. Their 2021 EP ATear in the Fabric of Life incorporated elements of death metal and was released to widespread critical acclaim.
Me Rex, stylised as ME REX, is a British indie rock band formed in London by songwriter Myles McCabe. Initially a solo endeavour, it has now expanded to a full band with the addition of Rich Mandell and Phoebe Cross. They have released one full-length album and multiple EPs.