StoneHaven Perspective on Louder

StoneHaven is a 4-piece rock band from Dallas, Texas. We were born just before the pandemic shut everything down, and began hitting it hard as things began opening back up. We believe in spreading messages of Freedom, Authenticity, and Raw Emotion. We work hard, play even harder, and hold riots masquerading as live shows. Our "used car salesman pitch" is, we party like the bands from the 80's, make music that we hope will stack up against our influences from the 90's, and give it our touch from our talents and our own lived experiences as young adults born in the early 2000's. We are blue-collar job, paycheck to paycheck, dirty, grimey, kids from the south and we hope to give a pretty good look into how that translates into our music.

Louder was written (almost) directly after we witnessed a bar-room brawl erupt during the middle of one of our sets in Dallas. There was disagreements betweeen a couple bands there to play the show as well as other patrons trying to get in the mix. The singer and guitar player had the drums and bass keep the soundtrack going while they got in the mix to try and break things up. After lots of shoving and a few good punches, everyone went there seperate ways and we finished our set. Just another day doing what we do where anything can happen.

One of our earliest influnces was quite an eclectic group. Black Label Society, Seether, and Marilyn Manson. As we grew up and grew as musicians we began getting into the works of Soundgarden, Alice in chains, Blind Melon, and the like but those original influences alway hold a special place in our writing and music style.

We generally tell people we fit in to the grunge era, Alice in Chains, Etc. However this song has a more southern to hard rock vibe and the drummer thought it was a good idea to bring more of a dance/ swing style approach to the drum track to give it a more unique sound. So subjectively, this may fit more along the lines with the post genre's of Monster Magnet or Shaman's Harvest .

Our style has remained semi-consistent since we began playing, Rhythm and lead guitar, drums, bass, and ripping vocals. We have sped up the songs just a touch with addition of new members. The major changes have been incorporating many many more vocal harmonies in the entire album that will be coming out in December. In previous studio recordings, we were tapped for time and budget so we never really got to explore all the atmospherric, or melodic elements of adding vocal harmonies. 

We explore freedom and raw emotion the most. We also delve into themes of spirituality and mortality often. We think the best art is an open questionaire to current events, accepted norms, and life's longest unknowns. We plan to continue exploring these themes further and pushing the envelope as we continue to grow in our personal lives and as musicians.

There was a lady we played a show for in Del Valle, Texas. It was an outskirt area of Austin and she was handling lights, sound, filming, and fog. We played our set and she loved it. You can hear in the video of her going "STONEHAVEN F***** YYYEEAAAHHH OOHH MY GOD!!!" and she then proceeded to dump a full gallon of fog machine liquid into one of the machine and it got so foggy nobody could see anything on stage or off. We think of her sometime's and hope she's doing well. 

Artists are no longer court jester's that exist to entertain royalty. They provide some of the deepest, thought-provoking commentaries on the human condition that you can find almost anywhere. There are many albums and artists that we believe shaped the outlook, and direction of the world, for good and bad. Art has always been the most important thing outside of the trade work that keeps the world running, and it will only continue to become more important as the world moves forward. 

Our singer is a certified electrician, and our lead guitar player is currently on deployment with the Marines. Our drummer is finishing his degree in business at SOSU, and our bass player is an anesthesiologist. 

We have many favorites and influnces, but our singer is adamant that the best song ever written is Valley of Kings by Egypt.