And This Army

Hailing from the desolate coasts of South Brooklyn, And This Army is Andrew Lanza, Jason Bennett, and Brendan McDermott: three college educated young men with a penchant for fucked-up, dense, mutant rock and roll. Lanza and Bennett met in high school and played together in various incarnations during their early years. They later met Brendan McDermott, a singer/guitarist from upstate New York, who was working at Rhinebeck's Clubhouse Studio at the time. The three played together and felt, after a short search for a fourth member, that the sound they were looking for was there... as a trio. In early 2004, And This Army was born.

Their debut LP "FOE", produced by D. James Goodwin (Thursday, Murder by Death), was recorded in late 2005/early 2006 at Clubhouse Studio. Goodwin himself says, "These guys are fucking sick! This record is going to fuck some heads up. Recording was simple. Distort the piss out of everything and press record! This shit sounds huge and evil. I'm quite pleased. Hopefully we can find these guys a deal soon."

And This Army cut their teeth at many NYC venues including Northsix, Southpaw, and Sin-e, having become renowned for their blistering volume and clockwork tightness draped in paranormal-level sonic chaos. Their sound demands the attention of everyone and everything in its vicinity.

And This Army attracts (and deafens) a diverse audience from Brooklyn indie-rock aficionados to metal loyalists. The band's strange and unsettling combination of sounds comes from being influenced by so many seemingly incompatible sources such as Mission of Burma, Explosions in the Sky, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Sabbath.

And This Army soldiers on... not stopping until their mutant-rock sound of South Brooklyn is heard throughout the world.