Orcanaut

It's Wednesday night in Denton, Texas.

Spring has sprung but you wouldn't be able to tell by the weather because Denton is in Texas and therefore unable to forecast.

Denton offers a first-tier cultural experience and answers the question: Where has the liberal youth of North Texas gone who can't afford to live in Dallas and/or want to move far enough away from their DFW parents to have an excuse not to see them as much?

Also, super cheap beer. Also, Fry Street.

The band members [or perhaps pod members in this case -- that's a whale joke] of Denton's premier stoner metal band The Orcanaut tune their instruments and mentally prepare themselves to practice their dark art.

Plug in cables. Adjust cymbal stands.

Everyone tuned? Everyone tuned.

After connecting power cords into the arsenal of amplifiers, after synchronizing their rhythms and lighting their cigarettes, this scraggly, cheeky, talented gang of misfit Millennials becomes The Orcanaut.

The first few chords audiologically embody the essence of The Orcanaut's self-identified stoner metal genre: loud, dirty, righteous.

Imagine grunge but happier -- but not sedate. It's also a little nutty because we all have ADHD and scream sometimes all the time.

Drummer Jake Mann puts wooden sticks steadily and confidently across his buffet of skins and brass. Guitarist Korbin Chase immerses himself into each song, becoming a bobbing human timekeeper as he ascends (or descends) into a plane of musical existentialism.

Vocalists Cameron Hinojosa and Hayden Kirkby belt out unintelligible hard, hard nothings in between riffs to the band's fifth member: the audience. Because the closer you get to this anti-sacrosanct jam band's energy, you can't help yourself but to thrash your favorite air instrument.

CREWW First Mate Alex Pietroforte and I know firsthand you don't have to have any foreknowledge of this band or even its genre to appreciate their music.
HOW DID CREWW COME ACROSS THE ORCANAUT?
My brother Cody and The Orcanaut's guitarist Korbin Chase aka "Uncle Chuckles" became fast friends in high school and roomed together in college before Cody joined the Navy in 2012. Perhaps it was their inclination to be exceptionally smart and stupid at the same time , all the time that drew them together. Or maybe it was their love for and affinity for guitar playing -- specifically psychedelic ballads from amazing artists who are probably dead now.

LINKS:
https://theorcanaut.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/the-orcanaut
https://www.facebook.com/TheOrcanaut

The Orcanaut: Cameron Hinojosa (Guitar/Vocals), Korbin Chase (Guitar), Hayden Kirkby (Bass/Vocals), Jake Mann (Drums) - Crewwmedia