Most Precious Blood (band)
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Most Precious Blood are band formed in New York City out of the ashes of an older hardcore punk band named Indecision. They blend the song structures of hardcore with the assault of heavy metal.
Originally, the band featured former Indecision guitarists Justin Brannan and Rachel Rosen, as well as on-again off-again Indecision vocalist Tom Sheehan. On their debut full-length for Trustkill Records, Nothing In Vain, Brannan played guitar and Rosen bass, Sheehan did vocals and the band featured a constant rotation of drummers, as no drummer has stayed with Most Precious Blood for too long.
In 2003, after Sheehan departed the band, while initially finding themselves without a vocalist, the band soon teamed up with former One King Down vocalist Rob Fusco, added Matt Miller on bass and moved Rosen to second guitar for their second album Our Lady of Annihilation, also on Trustkill Records.
One of the more striking features of the band is that all members are vegetarian or vegan and are animal rights advocates (Our Lady of Annihilation came with a small flyer for the animal rights organization PETA, for example). However Rob Fusco denies that Most Precious Blood are in any way evangelical, saying "I'm not going around trying to change people because people are going to change when they want to...if I said something that you found truth in, or that you found made sense, cool - I'm glad I was a catalyst to help you come to your own conclusions." [1]
The band is also known for trailblazing tours. MPB was the first American Hardcore band to tour South Africa. They've also been to 50+ countries throughout Europe, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand and all over the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
The bands mastermind, Justin Brannan, is also a published author, painter and folk singer. Rob Fusco, the bands vocalist and front man, is a master chess player and former chess instructor, Rachel Rosen, the bands CEO, co-founder and Brannan's musical confidant for the past decade, spends her free time doing autopsies for the NYC Medical Examiners office (Read: the morgue). Drummer Colin Kercz did time on drums with Age of Ruin and Damnation A.D. and currently lives in Australia. Bassist Matt Miller collects skateboards and has a mammoth beard.
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[edit] Lineup
- Rob Fusco — vocals
- Rachel Rosen — guitar, vocals
- Justin Brannan — guitar
- Matt Miller — bass guitar
- Colin Kercz — drums
[edit] Former members
- Tom Sheehan (vocals)
- Sean McCann (drums)
[edit] References
[edit] Discography
- Nothing In Vain (2001, Trustkill Records)
- Our Lady of Annihilation (2003, Trustkill Records)
- Merciless (2005, Trustkill Records)
[edit] Trivia
- Rachel Rosen and Justin Brannan appeared in minor roles in Threat, an independent film produced in the NYHC scene.
- The MPB track "The Great Red Shift" was contributed to the mashup album Threat: Music That Inspired The Movie, where it was remixed by Atari Teenage Riot frontman Alec Empire and dubbed "Pandemic."
