Debut album, UK tour!!

Fronted by enigmatic bass-playing banshee, Grog, London-based trio Die So Fluid unleash their highly-anticipated album 'Spawn of Dysfunction', a psychotic discharge of punishing anthems, ethereal temperament and bile by the bucket-load.

Consisting of ten tracks, the Mark Williams-produced album demonstrates an innovative, monstrous hybrid of brooding, unrestrained metal sensibility fused with the bare-skinned raw essence of punk.

In between recording sessions for the album, the band have all moonlighted, with Drew scoring a documentary soundtrack, Al winning a Grammy…and Grog decided to have a bit of fun: first as former Spice Girl Mel C's bass player, then as Kelly Osbourne's bassist…culminating in an appearance on Top Of The Pops at Christmas with Kelly'n'Ozzy playing piano on the number one single, Changes!

SPAWN OF DYSFUNCTION is out NOW on Cartesian, distributed by Cargo.

www.diesofluid.com

Die So Fluid: About The Band…

Grog (vocals / bass) Drew Richards (guitar) Al Fletcher (drums)

DIE SO FLUID first surfaced in 2001, touring the country to support their debut EP, 'Operation Hypocrite'. They're on the radio, they're on the news-stands, they're supporting Drowning Pool and having a bitch fight online with Tairrie B. Swimmingly good progress. Then it's 2002 and they're about to release the equally riff-mungous 'Suck Me Dry'. Grog's teaching Daisy Donovan to sing the song on Channel Four and all looks good until the first day of the 'Suck Tour' when the inevitable shit storm strikes: I mean, no-one thought it was a great idea drinking Slayer's rider on the eve of a 21-date tour, but Grog did it anyway…and after just one show she was admitted to hospital, near death with acute pancreatitis. Two weeks later she's off the drip and playing Cleethorpes - sober - though Cleethorpes is about the last place you want to be sober…and coming to terms with the fact that from now on you've always going to have to be sober. And your guitarist is being wheeled on stage like a zombie because, after the 5am drive-backs on a diet of Red Bull and Ginsters, he gets a nasty case of shingles and, subsequently, M.E.. And you're driving around in borrowed cars because your tour bus got stolen and the tax man took the insurance money. Typically that's the time the rat's decide to abandon ship and suddenly you're struggling to hold it together on your own, and wondering if it even matters, considering the general climate of the world in 2002. Ironically for the band, third single 'Disconnected' - with the refrain 'don't let me get disconnected' - was the most requested song on Total Rock Radio for most of the time that particular breakdown was happening. Which was nice.

2003 was the year some people thought Die So Fluid died, but they were just doing day jobs - they had to raise money to finance the album! So Drew - still bed-ridden, with nought but a laptop - managed to score the soundtrack to feature length documentary 'The Mindscape of Alan Moore', Al managed to score a Grammy playing drums for Lee 'Scratch' Perry on 'Jamaican E.T.', and Grog, the most visible moonlighter of the three, was playing bass for Kelly Osbourne and piano for Ozzy, after a stint playing guitar for Mel C. Whilst Grog was off seeing how the other half live Drew enlisted the services of a shaman from Surinam, to lift the apparent curse on the band, and good things started coming our way. Good things like producer Mark Williams, who is fast being recognised as the next Terry Date (even by Terry himself). We found a label that didn't immediately want us to change our name. And the acclaimed photographers Paul Harries and Fin Costello documented the band's rebirth for posterity…

It wasn't all plain sailing, though, as 2004 started with bouts of clinical madness (you never think of yourself as a hypochondriac until you start to get ill all the time…), but as the Prozac wore off the band's baby finally took it's first breath: 'Spawn of Dysfunction' MAY be a couple of years later than planned…but it's also a couple years greater. It was recorded and mixed in thirteen days, and on one level is the sound of a battle-hardened metal three-piece kicking it in a basement, though on another it's the sound of the strength of simple dreams triumphing over the modern world.

Hence their name. For we all must go sometime, but if you've ever felt something deeply enough you can create from that feeling and leave behind a beautiful legacy. This is empathy. This is hope.

Hope you like it.

Die So Fluid, July 2004