Killbozby doesn’t need to worry about another band having the same name.
It’s pretty unique.
Killbozby is anything people want it to be. Like a “robot of the future” or a “mercenary,” Shull says. “Really goofy stuff. Or he’s a killbot from the ‘Bozby Corporation.’
“It’s fun ways of looking at it. We’re all nerds. So at the end of the day if we can squeeze some of that nerdness into the music, we’re doing our job.”
Killbozby, which includes David White on drums and Eric Potasky on bass, released three demos June 8th: “No Dice,” “Late Night Honey,” and “Snake Pit.”
The band is “a blend of different genres. Punk to rock-and-roll to blues and metal. Justin Toland from Dirty Streets called it ‘weird rock.’ He recorded the three tracks.
“There’s nothing that’s off limits. There’s no preconceived notions what the sound should be. It’s fun. It’s light-hearted. It’s nerdy. It’s goofy. This is music for the wallflowers.”
“We’ve found a way to not take ourselves so seriously, but taking it seriously, if you know what I mean,” White says. “We have this air of nonchalance. Kind of makes it seem like we don’t care, but we very much do. It makes it more fun. It’s garage rock, man. We get in there. We thrash. We go at it.”
Potasky likes Killbozby “’cause it’s full of riffs. We get riffy with it, for sure. You can just throw us in a room and end up making a song that day. That kind of thing happens.”
All the members write songs, which, in general, feature “loose storylines,” Shull says. “Almost like we’re telling a story, but it’s really all over the place. We try to keep it like that, loosey-goosey when writing words.”
“No Dice” is about “someone who is overworked, underpaid, and under-loved.”
“Late Night Honey” is “pretty much just about getting fucked up. ‘Honey’ refers to cocaine, alcohol. Trying to get the honey.”
The upbeat “Snake Pit” is about a “weekend getaway party” at a lake. Everybody builds up the idea of the party and the setting, but the lake turns out to be “nothing but a snake pit. This shithole of debauchery, actually.”
Describing one of their stage shows, Shull says, “David was wearing full eyeliner, fishnets, and a dog collar.
Potasky is “your classic jeans, Thin Lizzy T-shirt, and some Vans. And he’s also the hair.”
Wearing “all black,” Shull says, “My energy is really intense. I’m all over the place. I’m up in the crowd hitting the guitar, making crazy faces. Like, ‘This guy is not okay.’”
They planned to record last summer, but Shull was injured in a car accident. “Somebody pulled out in front of us. I’d dropped my phone or my lighter. I was reaching for it and we hit a car and my neck snapped on the dashboard. Luckily, the guy driving the car called out my name right before it hit. I threw my arm up. If I hadn’t thrown my arm up, I’d probably be dead.”
Shull had spinal fusion surgery. “So, I have two pieces of metal in my C4 and C5. It’s the two vertebrae in the mid-neck area. The surgery went well. At first, I was losing feeling in my left arm. I couldn’t lift it up. I couldn’t pick up anything with my left arm.
“The day before the first show, I went to my orthopedic doctor and he took an X-ray and he said the bone has healed. So I’m not broken any more.”
Shull’s accident enhanced his stage presence. “I’m a little more stiff than I used to be. If anything, it just adds to the character of when we’re performing. The stiffness makes it a little stranger, you know.”
To hear Killbozby’s new releases, visit killbozby.bandcamp.com.
