Odd Crew | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Sofia, Bulgaria |
Genres | Progressive metal, alternative metal, groove metal, thrash metal |
Years active | 1998–present |
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Website | oddcrew |
Odd Crew is a Bulgarian metal band from Sofia, formed in 1998. The band consists of vocalist Vasko Raykov, guitarist Vasil Parvanovski, bassist Martin Stoyanov and drummer Boyan "Bonzy" Georgiev. The band has released seven studio albums and two live DVDs. Their latest album, Dark Matters Part II, was released in November 2023.
In Sofia in 1989, two 3-year-olds riding bicycles in their neighborhood accidentally bumped into each other. Both named Vasil, they became friends and together discovered bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Their shared passion for music and sound inspired them and soon Vasil Parvanovski started playing the guitar and Vasko Raykov began singing and playing the piano.
In 1995, the 8-year-old Parvanovski’s classmate, Martin Stoyanov, joined them. His initial desire was to be the drummer of the band, but this idea quickly vanished as he received a bass guitar as a present from his neighbor. So Martin became and remained the bassist of the band to present day.
In 1998, the parents of Vasil Parvanovski took him to visit a family friend, one of the most famous blues performers in Bulgaria, Vasko ‘Krupkata’ (the ‘Patch’). 12-year-old Parvanovski heard hard drumming coming from the basement of the house they were visiting, and that turned out to be the young son of ‘Krupkata’, the then 8-year-old Boyan ‘Bonzy’ Georgiev. Parvanovski was immediately impressed by Bonzy and proposed him to jam with the band.
1 August 1998 is the date of the first rehearsal for the four band members which remain unchanged as of today. The band was originally called Kaskadiori ("Stuntmen"). [1] They chose the name because they had a car accident on the way to the studio. One year after their formation the band recorded its first album - And It's Rock Again, released in the spring of 2000.
In 2001 Kaskadiori joined the blues band of Vasko "The Patch" and toured with him in the next several years. [2] During this period they continued writing songs and in 2005 they released the album On the Road. In 2006 they released another album called The River of Time. [3]
As the members of the band grew up they started writing heavier songs which quite differed from the past melody rock material. They gradually adopted music as a lifestyle and started using it as way to express themselves and talk to society. At that time the members of the band decided to substitute their present name (Kaskadiori) with another one which better reflected their new ideas about making music. On 1 August 2008, the band had a concert to celebrate their birthday and announced their new name - Odd Crew. Later that year Odd Crew released the album We Are What We Are. Suddenly the band attracted a lot of fans who shared their ideas and vision about united society having music as lifestyle. [4]
In 2009 Odd Crew had already played on every club stage in Bulgaria and went on the 11 Years of Brotherhood tour in various countries around Europe, including Hungary, Germany, Switzerland and England. During the time the band was not on the road they reconstructed their rehearsal room into a recording studio in order to experiment and improve their sound. Soon Butcher House studio was built and they recorded their latest album, A Bottle of Friends, released on 22 October 2010. Odd Crew released their first DVD on 29 December. [5] [6]
In 2012 Odd Crew released the album Beyond the Shell. It contains 15 tracks, including "Death Trap" and three instrumentals. [7] [8]
On December 27, 2014 the band started a crowdfunding campaign and announced that they were about to record their upcoming album ‘Mark These Words’. Throughout the campaign they managed to pre-sell over 300 copies of the album. ODD CREW recorded the album with Swedish producer Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Behemoth, Meshuggah) in ‘Dugout Studios’ (Uppsala, Sweden) and then sent the tracks to Floridian producer Jason Suecof (Black Dahlia Murder, DevilDriver) for mix/ mastering. The album was released in 2015.
In 2017, the band also released a live DVD – ‘Mark These Words – Live at Hristo Botev Hall’.
On 14 February 2018 the first video was released for the band's new album - "Same old me", directed from Supers4upen Motion Madness. [9] On 19 March 2018 The Lost Pages album was officially released. The album shows much more lyrical and acoustic sound than the previous studio albums.
On November 24, 2021 ODD CREW announced that the band signed a record deal with the German label Drakkar Entertainment for a worldwide distribution. Shortly after, also announced a new album and so ‘Dark Matters – Part I’ was released on May 27, 2022. The CD was recorded, mixed and mastered in ‘ButcherHouse Studio’ in Sofia and contains eight songs alongside black and white emotionally shattering videos to all of them . That concept clearly implies the new direction in which the band intends to grow in the future. The record sounds more progressive and doomy, and also more mature and brings ODD CREW’s most melodic songwriting tendencies to the fore.
In 2022 the full-length movie “Dark Matters – Part I – The Movie” was aired in movie theatres in Odd Crew’s homeland Bulgaria. The movie tells the story of the band, the story behind the new album and the making of all eight new videos.
ODD CREW announced that they plan the albums named ‘Dark Matters’ to be four.
In 2023 the band released three videos for “Dark Matters – Part II” . The album itself was out on November 10, 2023 and contains eight songs, recorded, mixed and mastered at ‘ButcherHouse Studio’.
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