Bury Your Dead: “Bury Your Fucking Dead!”

If music had weight, you might need some help getting Bury Your Dead’s CDs out of the store. Along with heavy, pulsating breakdowns, and music that has you bobbing your head front to back and side to side, BYD has a sound all to their own.

Bury Your Dead consists of Mark Castillo (drums), Slim (guitar), Myke Terry (vocals), Eric Ellis (guitar), and Bubble (bass). One old saying that follows the band whereever they go is, “If it doesn’t kill you, it only makes you stronger.” This is certainly true, based on everything BYD has gone through. The band has broken up, gotten back together, went though 14 different bands members and 9 different vehicles. Yet, the guys are still together and stronger then ever.

Formed in 2001 in Boston, Massachusetts, BYD started off as a side project from a band called Hamartia which featured current BYD members such as Slim and Mat Castillo. The guys started to branch off from the technical sound to a more moshy, metalcore noise. They started playing Massachusetts and surrounding cities. News was spread about the band’s energy in their shows up and down the East Coast and soon thereafter they signed to Alveran/Eulogy records.

The band recorded and released their debut album titled You Had Me At Hello, which spread around the country like an infectious disease. A fan base had been established and tours started rolling in, one after the other. When the group finally made it home they all went their separate ways.

After months had past, the group started talking again about getting BYD back together and becoming a serious band again. In this time they had added their new vocalist, Mat Bruso and called in Eric Ellis as a second guitarist. Everything was coming together at the perfect time and in July of 2002 BYD was approached by Victory Records with whom they signed. They got back in the studio and really focused on writing a new album which would become Cover You Tracks. The group took a different approach to writing this CD in terms of doing absolutely nothing but writing the CD for two weeks straight. “We had so many ideas floating around in our heads, so we decided to shut out the outside world and do nothing but get these ideas put together into songs. Literally, for two weeks, we did nothing else but write Cover Your Tracks”. They finally entered the studio in June of 2004 and the CD was released on October 19, 2004.

Everything that the band had experienced and gone through had lead up to Beauty and the Breakdown. This album was taken on with a very different approach as well. BYD had named all of the songs and the album title after popular fairy tales. The album case was released looking like a story book as well. Aside from having, light, fairytale song names, the music that followed the names was something that one would only expect from “fairytales from hell”. Beauty and the Breakdown is jam-packed with cataclysmic breakdowns, eloquent riffs that will knock you off your feet, or have you on your ass thanks to that asshole in the mosh pit.

All in all, you have never seen an insane, good hardcore show until you’ve seen these guys live! With every song comes massive pile-ups on stage and countless kids screaming every last word. Truly something to be apart of and get into.

In recent news, BYD has announced the change of their vocalist… again. Everyone welcome Myke Terry to the band, former vocalist of Cassius. With that said, the group has been busy in the studio recording a new CD with Myke. “This new record is the best thing we have ever done collectively as a band. Everyone has been thinking about this since we put the last one out. We’ve gone through a lot. We’ve lost and gained a singer and all of these things have helped shape this record and make us stronger than ever” says the band. Expect a new CD in stores March 18, 2008 on Victory Records. BURY YOUR FUCKING DEAD!”