The Beast of Nod began as a home studio collaboration between Paul Buckley and former guitarist Chris DiGiuseppe in 2011. The pair wrote and recorded a number of demos, including "Sentient Squirrel Death Machine" and "Ripped Off Face," which laid the groundwork for the future direction of the band. In 2013, Paul moved back to Boston and began looking for musicians to form a live lineup, and soon found local bassist Ryan James and drummer Leo Castano.
The first lineup was complete when Ryan found local guitarist Goreblaster Korpse-Harvest (Will Lunden) in 2014. Through the Summer of 2015, the four-piece lineup practiced five of the Albany-era songs and one song written by Goreblaster ("Pyre of the Star Monkeys") in preparation to record a six-track EP in the Fall, Enter the Land of Nod. During the Spring of 2015, Leo had left the band and been replaced by Nate MacMillen (ex-Scourge).
This iteration of the band was the first to play live: The band's first show was at the Spotlight Tavern in Beverly, MA on May 30, 2015. Although the band played a few more live shows in 2015, focus was already shifting toward writing new material. The band entered the studio again in Fall 2015 to record a five-track EP, Arrival, which consisted of three songs written by Goreblaster, one song from the original Albany demos, and one song which Goreblaster wrote based on a pair of riffs written by Chris DiGiuseppe.
The band emerged from the studio with a second lineup change: Ryan left the band and was replaced by Brendan Burdick. Armed with new material and a new bassist, for the first 5 months of 2016 the band played out more regularly. While the band took a breather in May to accommodate Nate's wedding and honeymoon, a chance meeting at a local show folded local virtuoso Norwood Pearson-Waclawik (Lure of the Animal) into the lineup as a second guitarist.
Since then the band has been consistently gigging and upgrading their live show including a custom light show and the new "mothership", which has now taken over second guitar duties since Norwood stepped down in late 2017. At the close of the year recording had finished for the full length, Vampira: Disciple of Chaos. In 2018 the band looks forward to the release of the full length, the first issue of The Beast of Nod comic book, new videos, and even more new music!
credits
from RPM Fest 2018 Compilation,
released June 4, 2018
Görebläster Körpse-härvest Lunden - Guitar
Paul Buckley - Vocals
Nate MacMillen - Drums
Brendan Burdick - Bass
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