Calo
DeLiberato
© 2007 CALO (634479696817) (format: CD-R)
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Unique and aggressive hard rock, bordering on punk and metal with nonstandard time and section changes.
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CALO is a unique and aggressive 3 piece independent rock band from Cleveland, OH. Deliberato is their first full length album that moves smoothly from movement to movement in a continuous flow of sonic precision. Melodic and intense, each song sounds different from each other, which puts the band in between categories meant to define what that band sounds like.
Band: CALO
Dave Calo: Drums and samples.
Mike Calo: Bass and vocals.
Vince Deliberato: Guitar and vocals.
Genre: Hard prog-rock/ Metal
Label: None (independent)
Production portfolio: “De Liberato” LP, recorded at CALO Studios, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mixed, mastered, and released by CALO, November 2007
Availability/Contact: CALO’s “De Liberato” LP can be purchased on www.cdbaby.com.
You can also find out where CALO is playing or get special rates on booking, music, and other merchandise at www.myspace.com/calo or www.calomusic.com
History/Style: CALO was founded around Y2K, by three childhood friends from an east side suburb of Cleveland. Since then, CALO has kept moving forward, working hard and playing hard, for local venues such as the Maple Grove, and benefits such as the Kent State Cancer Walk. CALO currently retains all three of its founding members, in a line-up which has never changed. As a result of this cohesive, loyal union, CALO manages to pull off some tight, challenging, energetic chops, as if they are communicating telepathically.
The musical scape the group creates by weaving heavy, hold-fast grooves, with an unrelenting cadence, tasteful samples, and sometimes trippy, lead-rhythm, guitar licks, gives the band their unique sound. Vocally, the message is loud and clear and it is one of bucking ‘the man’ in the name of human freedom. It all comes together with enough technical dynamics to surprise even the learned ear, without becoming geek rock.
CALO has also built a very impressive studio, in Cleveland (CALO Studios), which, due to their ever-growing reputation for excellence, has kept them very busy recording other local artists.
CALO is currently working on a second LP which is said to further push the envelope, by not adhering to any genre, style, or profile while experimenting with everything in their arsenal.
Comparisons: Metallica, Clutch, Rob Zombie, Dink, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, etc.
Influences: Slayer, Faith No More, Jane’s Addiction, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, etc.
(Note: The high level of quality and production value that can be achieved on a modern basement project is well exhibited on CALO’s debut offering. Besides some well thought out, well executed, well captured and well rendered music, their “De Liberato” LP comes complete in a hard case, with inlaid lyrics, all-original layout work, by Vince Deliberato, and includes a bonus remix track geared at a more digital mind-set, by prize winning sound master, Dave Calo.)
Bio, arranged by Las Vegas Dave, December 2007
Reviews:
Casual listeners might dismiss Calo as another group of Tool imitators. That's because the first two cuts on its debut album are built from the bottom up. Besides, Calo's namesake sibs — Mike on bass, Dave on drums — construct some wicked tribal rhythms that are as complex as anything Maynard's crew ever recorded. But stick around awhile, and you'll hear other influences on De Liberato. Most inviting is the melodic punk of "Mass Direction" and "Omni on Anonymous." Meanwhile, many of the sample-heavy industrial tracks employ atmospheric noise blasts that drive home singer and guitarist Vince Deliberato's anti-religion screeds.
-Matt Gorey; Scene Magazine
Trying to sound something like the artier metal of System of a Down or Tool, Calo's latest effort, De Liberto, is an ambitious effort. As far as this three-piece goes, the more experimental these guys get, the better. The off-kilter percussion intro to "Contract" gives way to a Primus-like bass riff and some seriously atmospheric guitar work. Sometimes the band gives in to convention. A prototypical metal guitar chord progression and "live free or die" attitude is at the core of "Mass Direction," and the monotone vocals of "Amotion" make the song sound a little too much like Metallica. And yet the tunes still have some nicely avant qualities, thanks in part to heady time signature changes.
-Jeff Niesel; Free Times