Rusty Eye
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Rusty Eye is a Mexican/American heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 trio that was formed in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 in 1995. In 2004 Rusty Eye relocated to Hollywood, CA.

Biography

Rusty Eye was formed in 1995 in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 (Mexico
Mexico
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) by main founder Mr. Rust (born Pablo Armando Salido Casanova) on bass and vocals, Dr. Eye on guitars and vocals, Daniel Acosta on drums and Ken Harrington on lead vocals. It previously went by the name of Scarecrow and Poltergeist in 1993 and 1994 respectively. The name Rusty Eye relates to the "corrosion of perception".

After cutting several independent DIY demos, the band recorded their first LP titled Rust N’ Roll in 2000. Rust N' Roll was recorded with the lineup of: Mr. Rust (bass and vocals), Dr. Eye (guitars and vocals) and Leo Haze (drums). This album was released in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 in the year 2001 and in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in 2003 through the band's own Indie label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 Epoche Records. Miss Randall (born Julieta Randall) joined in 2003, replacing Haze on drums.

This lineup of the band relocated to Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 in 2004. The band's second production Cryogenic began in 2005 with guitarist Jonny Dee. In 2006, Dee was replaced with guitarist Baron Murtland. This line-up recorded their next LP Stendhal Syndrome. Like previous albums, it was released via the band's own Epoché Records in 2006 next to the live album Live at the Joint MMVI. Rusty Eye was awarded with the Best Metal Single of the Year with the single "Mr. Cannibal" by the L.A. Music Awards in 2006 and were listed in the Music Industry and Trade Magazine Music Connection Top 100 Unsigned Artists of 2006.

In December 2006, Murtland took a hiatus from Rusty Eye and was replaced with live session guitar players, the most notable being Jehu (a.k.a. Jay) from the Metalcore band Tomorrow Comes Today. Jehu appeared as the guitarist and played "The Chef" on the music video for "Mr. Cannibal"

In September 2008 Murtland returned to Rusty Eye. A cover of Circus of Power
Circus of Power
-Overview:The band formed in 1986 in New York City. A no-frills band heavy on tattoos, biker-band lyrics and leather, the band consisted of vocalist Alex Mitchell, guitar players Ricky Mahler and Gary Sunshine, bassist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Ryan Maher. The group played in New York for...

's "Mama Tequila" was recorded for the tribute album Working For The Machine - A Tribute to Circus of Power.

In March 2009, the band announced the upcoming release of Possessor, an album again showcasing the band's blend of differing metal styles and sounds, with a horror film influence. It was recorded at Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera is the drummer for industrial metal band Arkaea. He is a former member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory and Mexican death metal band Brujeria.-Biography:Herrera has been an avid gamer all his life...

 and B-Real
B-Real
Louis Freese, better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor...

's Temple Studios in Chatsworth, California where Randall's engineering skills were put to use as producer and co-engineer for the album.
Mixed by Jeremy Blair, the album included collaborations by horror film composer Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti is an Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s.- Biography :...

, from Goblin
Goblin (band)
Goblin are an Italian progressive rock band known for their soundtracks for Dario Argento films ....

, on "Mondo Cane" and "Wings of a Demon"; producer and guitarist/keyboardist Waldemar Sorychta
Waldemar Sorychta
Waldemar Sorychta , is a German heavy metal musician, songwriter, producer and artist who lives in Dortmund Germany since 1982.- Career :He initially worked with the German thrash metal band Despair, founded in 1986....

, from Grip Inc.
Grip Inc.
Grip Inc. is a groove metal band and a side project of drummer Dave Lombardo. The band was formed in 1993, and they are currently signed to SPV Records...

, on "Somnambulist Possession" and "Mandragora Screams"; and vocalist Alex Mitchell, from Circus of Power
Circus of Power
-Overview:The band formed in 1986 in New York City. A no-frills band heavy on tattoos, biker-band lyrics and leather, the band consisted of vocalist Alex Mitchell, guitar players Ricky Mahler and Gary Sunshine, bassist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Ryan Maher. The group played in New York for...

, on "The Serial Kind". The album's cover was illustrated by artist Joe Petagno
Joe Petagno
Joe Petagno is an artist known principally for creating images used on rock album covers, for bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Nazareth, Motörhead, Roy Harper, Marduk, Nightshade, and Illdisposed....

.

On May 14, 2009, prior to the release of Possessor the song "Mondo Cane" had its premiere broadcast on Mexico City's college radio Metal show Clinic Diafragma on Universidad Anáhuac's Radio Anáhuac. Possessor was officially released independently through Epoche Records on June 6, 2009.

On June 27, 2009, Alex Mitchell was asked during an interview about his vocal and Spoken word collaboration with Rusty Eye on "The Serial Kind", he stated: "It's pretty cool… you know what? It's one of the coolest things I've done, actually".

On December 12, 2010, Rusty Eye celebrated the 15th Anniversary of the band with the release of a live CD titled Live at The Rainbow MMX. The live performance was recorded in April 2010 and Rusty Eye became the first band to record a live album at the legendary Rainbow Bar and Grill
Rainbow Bar and Grill
The Rainbow Bar and Grill is a bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States adjacent to the border of Beverly Hills, California. Its address is 9015 Sunset Boulevard....

 in West Hollywood, CA. The album was produced by Miss Randall and was recorded with the band's mobile studio with the help of engineer Yuri Anysonian.

Currently Rusty Eye is working on an EP in Spanish Language, for the first time in their career. This recording will be composed of cover songs from Rock en Español
Rock en Español
Rock en español is the Spanish-language rock music. While the term is used widely in English, it is used in Spanish mainly to distinguish such music from "Anglo rock." It is a style of rock music that developed in Latin American countries and Latino communities, along with other genres like...

 artists from Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, specifically ranging from 1989 to 1992. Not a lot of information has been released and there's has not been a set release date for the project.

Style

The vast majority of reviewers agree that Rusty Eye is a band with an original style and has a way of seamlessly moving their music in multiple directions at once, often without sacrificing the integrity of the song itself. Because of this, attempts to pinpoint the sound and style usually lead to disappointment "Without compromise, they make records exactly how they want them to be. Their ambition is a beating baboon heart at the centre of all their thinking."

When asked what was the importance of spreading out musically and not pigeon-holing into any one style, Mr. Rust replied: "Many people have tried to label the sound: Progressive
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 Punk Metal, Horror
Horror punk
Horror punk is a music genre that mixes Gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid imagery and lyrics, which are often influenced by horror films...

 Thrash
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

, etc…" "…It’s even been hard for us to come up with a simple, brief and accurate description and it’s so impossible to satisfy everyone, so to keep things simple we just say we are “Heavy Metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

” and we let people figure out the rest by themselves." http://rustyeyeblog.com/archives/675#more-675 On another interview, Miss Randall said: "It has always been difficult to label Rusty Eye‘s style, because no one else is doing what we are doing”, "we’ve given up on labeling ourselves and let everyone decide for themselves. We are definitely metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

; that’s a given. Many others consider us to be progressive
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 because of the technicality and the artsy side of the music. But the fact is that we aim to deliver a naturally original style of music"

Many reviewers have described the style recognizing the elements that build the whole sound. For example, "the music is a colossal hybrid of metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 and punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 styles all interwoven into a resonance that sounds very natural, without any notice of the music being forced into the aforementioned styles. You will hear thrash metal
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 riffs, black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 style tremolo
Tremolo
Tremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...

 picking; punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 riffs toppled with highly 70’s influenced progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 crossed with a very strong NWOBHM approach. If that was not a sufficient amount of genre hopping, I still did not mention the highly immense underground metal influence of death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 as well as stoner rock
Stoner rock
Stoner rock or stoner metal is a subgenre of heavy metal, combining elements of psychedelic rock, blues rock, traditional heavy metal and doom metal. Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features a bass-heavy sound, melodic vocals, and 'retro' production...

.". "While most carrying the label of progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 tend to focus on one or two elements such as involved song structures or hybrid of styles, and exaggerating them to the point of hitting new territory, Rusty Eye takes little pieces of everything, almost like a jigsaw puzzle", "technical Thrash
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 riffing, odd changes or unexpected sections, a pinch of fancy bass work rivaling both Steve Harris
Steve Harris (musician)
Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he founded in 1975...

 and Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee
Gary Lee Weinrib, OC, better known as Geddy Lee , is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush...

, a touch of older hard
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 and Punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 influences, a seasoning of keyboard ambiences and Neo-classical
Neoclassicism (music)
Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint...

 tonality, and the occasional smatterings of both Black
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 and Death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 vocalizations"."A complex alloy of virtually every extreme music form".

Band members

- Mr. Rust. Bass & Vocals (1995–present)

- Miss Randall. Drums & Vocals (2002–present)

- Baron Murtland. Guitars (2006–present)

Past members

- Jehu. Guitar [from "Tomorrow Comes Today"] (2007)

- J Dee. Guitar (2005)

- Dr. Eye aka Rodrigo Xavier Gonzalez. Guitar & Vocals (1995–1996, 1999–2003)

- Rodrigo Tarrats. Guitar (1997–1998, 2001–2002)

- Sgt. Stoner aka Rodrigo Pacheco. Drums (2001–2002)

- Octane Insane aka Octavio Buzo. Guitar (2001–2002)

- Leo Haze aka Leonardo Jaso. Drums & Keyboards (1999–2000)

- Gian Cross aka Giancarlo Cruz. Guitar (1999)

- Daniel Acosta. Drums (1995–1998)

- El Perro aka Vidal Perez. Guitar (1996)

- Kenneth Harrington. Vocals (1995–1996)

US Discography

- Live at The Rainbow MMX (2010. Epoché)

- Possessor (2009. Epoché)

- Stendhal Syndrome (2007. Epoché) see also: Stendhal syndrome
Stendhal syndrome
Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome, hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art...



- Live at The Joint MMVII (2006. Epoché)

- Cryogenic Ep 3" Mini CD (2005. Epoché)

- Rust n' Roll (2001. Epoché)

Compilations

- Skratch Magazine Vol. 30 (2006) Includes: Cryonic Suspension & Zombie

- Metal Edge Magazine Sampler Dec. 07 (2007) Includes: Mr. Cannibal

- http://www.angelfire.com/music2/ULHONLINE/WFTM.htmlWorking for the Machine - A Tribute to Circus of Power
Circus of Power
-Overview:The band formed in 1986 in New York City. A no-frills band heavy on tattoos, biker-band lyrics and leather, the band consisted of vocalist Alex Mitchell, guitar players Ricky Mahler and Gary Sunshine, bassist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Ryan Maher. The group played in New York for...

] (2008) Includes: Mama Tequila

- FTU Compilation Volume 1 "Death Rides A Pale White Dude" (2010) Includes: Wings of a Demon

- Heavy Metal Magazine: Gates, Vol. 1 - Ascension (Webcomic Soundtrack) (2011) Includes: The Entity (Ghostly Lust)

Demo Discography

- Malpractice (1995. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Self-Determination (1995. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Aphotical Virtues (1996. Epoche) Out Of Print

- !ffOkcuF (1997. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Suffer The Neighbors [live] (1997. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Blasted (1998. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Wasted (1998. Epoche) Out Of Print

- St. Jerome's Acoustic Serenade (1999. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Menage a Trois [live] (1999. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Speaks of The Devil (2001. Epoche) re-released as "Rust n' Roll" Out Of Print

- Luvsong [Single] (2001. Epoche) Out Of Print

- Live at Rockotitlan [live](2003. Epoche) Out Of Print

Music videos

In 2007 Rusty Eye released the music video Mr. Cannibal by film director Alejandro Ordoñez. It was released on 10/14/07, a week after the controversial "Canibal de la Guerrero" was caught in Mexico City. This is just a coincidence.
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