The United Sons of Toil are a band from Madison WI. It's precision Midwestern noiserock delivered by populist theoreticians. The Sons are a collective deeply rooted in the grinding noise and math rock that bubbled up from the Midwest during the mid '90s. This is not suggest that the Sons are a retro band in any sense, simply that the hoarse vocals, guitar damage, starts and stops, and sometimes-convoluted arrangements and time signatures hark back to a time when labels like Touch and Go, AmRep, and Dischord lorded over the indie-rock landscape.
The Sons are Bill Borowski (The Arge, Atalanta, Knuckeldrager) and Russell Hall (P'elvis, Pound WI). Jason Jensen is our new drummer and Chad Burnett (Houndrunner, Colony of Watts, Moggs) is our ex-drummer.
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