The formation of Dystopain Plague was a complicated web—it was years in the making, involving a few different bands falling apart and combining.
Starting in 2011 with the band End The Cycle, consisting of members: Tim Ray (vocals), Derrick Mares (guitar), Andy Pearce (guitar), Brandy Pearce (bass), and Josh Shultz (drums).
End The Cycle split up and Tim and Josh went to punk act Scare Me Green, while the Pearce brothers formed Manifest Destiny, with new members: Alex Jackson (drums), Austin Emahiser (guitar), and Jordy Townsend (bass).
Manifest Destiny and End The Cycle also split up, and members from both eventually formed Dystopian Plague, with the current lineup:
Tim Ray (vocals), Austin Emahiser (guitar), Josh Shultz (guitar), Zack Zelman (bass), Alex Jackson (drums)
Dystopian Plague hails out of Findlay, Ohio; however, our members are scattered from Bradner, to Fostoria, to Findlay.
The beginning years of the band were slow, starting with just Alex Jackson and Josh Shultz attempting to form a band with many different players.
Alex eventually convinced Austin to join—a tremendous win for the technical side of things—and Josh simultaneously recruited both Tim (by asking him to "please come make scream noises for me”) and Zack (following a drunken Wrestlemania party).
The exact formation date is fuzzy, but it's safe to say we've been kicking around for three or so years now.
With the pieces finally set, progress was happening at a good pace. We filled our white board with enough songs to cover just about any set length for a local show and started playing out. We planted our flag in the local scene, made friends, and hopefully entertained onlookers with our blend of death metal.
There are some fairly obvious influences on our sound—anything from melodic death metal, to deathcore, to metalcore, to even nu-metal... we're here for the brutes smashing on zeroes and ones, while still trying to add some pretty melodies on the top end.
While clean sections are fairly sparse, we do try to add some breaks in the chaos for people to catch their breath, and while we are huge fans of breakdowns, we still try to add a solo here or there for the old school metalhead. Tim even dabbles in some clean vocals from time to time.
We have two songs available on nearly all streaming platforms (“Long Winter,” “The Flock Still Grows”), and are currently in the process of finalyzing our upcoming EP, featuring our set of seven original songs.
We are still writing new songs and planning on recording those as time permits, which is always a challenge as our families grow; every one apart from Josh either has kids or is about to, and family is always priority. The flock still grows.
After the recent live shows, we took a brief break for a new plaguebearer to enter this dystopian world: Congratulations Alex and Brittney.
Our next show is at Under The Surface Records on Friday, Oct. 10 at 134 South Washington Street, Tiffin, Ohio with Eremition and Scarsin.
Top 5 Bands that influence us
(each member picked one)
-The Black Dahlia Murder
-Whitechapel
-August Burns Red
-Danzig
-Deftones
Come out to a show and see if you can guess who picked who.
Connect With Dystopian Plague
https://dystopianplague.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/
Photo: Shaun Zeno
Logo: Caitlyn Tuohy
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