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July 5, 2005 ... last update May, 15, 2010
OCCISION DEATH METAL BAND The meaning of the word 'Occision'
"Occision" doesn't mean just a killing and isn't just another word for death. Back about 2,005 years ago, around zilch, Roman soldiers terrorized as much territory as possible, and then some, and were known for their merciless slaughter. Imagine the fear that ran through a village when word came that Rome was on the march headed their way. Razed city gate pillars were replaced with mounds of heads and tormented, dismembered bodies of the citizenry.
Voices legions strong screamed-out a guttural, bloody oath as they
descended on targeted populations...that unanimous roar, that oath, was
the word "occision" and had meaning: take no prisoners, no one
escapes. Occision. Occision: what would happen if major power lines were grounded through your body...you would explode into nothingness in an instant; there would be no open casket for any to gaze upon your cotton stuffed cheeks and think how life-like your makeup was...dead and no body to show for it...ashes scattered by the sheer force of the explosion. Occision. Ultimately, Occision is the complete obliteration of life.
Occision Death Metal is the longest running Death Metal Band in Arizona and most everywhere else on this planet.
Occision was founded
by Charles and Byron Watson, guitarist and bassist respectively, along with
lifetime bro Jesse Johnson, drummer, in 1986 ... and began drawing crowds from the Phoenix
underground raging to headbang with these incredible musicians pouring out waves
that drove the pits into frenzies.
Occision is what this guy is and does; if you haven't seen Charles perform live, then the next best thing is to listen to his recordings to get a grip on the fact that the only faster guitar fret board record in the world wasn't accomplished by a human at all, but an electric drill with picks affixed to the rotating shaft...speaking of drills, this guitarist has been drilling holes in the matrix with lightning speed since the beginning of his career Charles Watson is a complex artist endowed with the full spectrum of emotional turmoil of the damned to the most serene meditative altered mind space imaginable; cerebral, yes; hardcore realist, yeah; his brutal honesty and decisive drive to push everything to the max is just what you hear when he plays the guitar; he's jaw-dropping friggin' awesome not only because he's got the guitar embedded in every fiber of his nervous system, when it comes to material, one has to wonder how he can continuously come up with the most incredibly original death blows and the most bizarre avant-garde screaming slaughter possible
W Charles Watson is one of the original three founders of Occision; he and his brother, Byron, and bro Jesse Johnson spent their illustrious youth in a recording studio discovering ways to manipulate the continuum; their first excursion out, they called themselves 'Crossover' and wrecked mayhem for three years before coming upon the word that aptly described the limitlessness nature of the music they were putting out ... Lovecraft and Beethoven were both rollin' over, disturbed anyone could be so untouched by the superficialities of civilization and be pouring out tunes that drove people into frenzies of violent madness tapping into the animal nature everyone else seemed to want to forget was there...Occision Occision built a deadly reputation as a definite hardcore Death band, no question about it; they are the longest running Death Metal Band in Arizona and just about anywhere else on this planet They spent the decade of the 90's performing in every dugout possible either as an instrumental trio or with a select few other musicians; if you hear more than three musicians as Occision on stage or on recording, then check out who they are because you know that fourth or fifth person represented has worked their asses off and obviously have some merit for being there...there have been those who tried and a rare few who have been able to cut it...Occision is, bottom line, absolutely mind-boggling Charles Watson is the primary composer; not to say that Johnson doesn't pick up an axe and grind out friggin' brilliant ideas or that Occision's bass player doesn't hammer what makes the bottom sink a sledge into your chest, but when it comes to the Fine Art of Music, it's Charles who whips out the scores in profuse fashion and knows what the hell scoring and arranging are all about; he's an adept at flamenco, classical, blues, jazz, younameit and shreds these genres beyond, well, imagine friggin' nylon strings melting and blues that make you so fuckin' depressed all ya wanna do is kill yourself; if ya happen to have studied music, then ya know what I mean; you can analyze some music and discover the band doesn't know shit; analyze Watson's compositions and you'll discover he's a bloody genius. The onslaught of the Aquarian Age finds Occision buried in hallowed hills operating out of a cave rumered to have a back door passage to Shambala; and since the Watson bros are Daoist martial art masters of the ancient Chinese Northern Shoulin systems, and a plethora of systems that proceeded from the ancient ones, one has to wonder if it isn't true; these guys were breaking bones and manipulating the energies before most anyone in the West had a clue such mysteries even existed
There's
something to be said for authenticity and being ahead of one's times;
considering the
incredible finesse and well tempered metal mindedness of Charles and
his guitar work, ya just gotta know there's something unique to being a fire
dragon wielding weapons like a warlord constituting an army's worth of
deadly force and who can fly sideways through the air, land a mortal blow with a
foot while slashing a swift
Experiencing Occision leaves you with a satisfaction that these guys give a shit about what they're doing and it ain't just some gig, won't be seein' costumes and face paint, it's a lifestyle, heart and soul, and like Charles Watson, every member of this band is a virtuoso musician bent on rendering the most hellacious terror in sound possible and leave the rest of it up to you
JESSE JOHNSON drums 1986 - present
This isn't your ordinary drummer...Jess is a friggin' arsonal of HD artillery...qualifies as WMD in the most brutal sense...a drumming machine powered by the most deadly life force wired directly to any assortment of bone shattering gear fine tuned to the point of no redemption Jesse Johnson is a drummer's drummer; Speed; Finesse; Gravitos; Clocked his shotgun and set the record for rapidfire and endurance...double bass others have to digitally reproduce to match and even then the difference is deadly clear between what technology and the human can accomplish when it comes to actually feeling the mind and soul behind the deafening beat regardless of whether one is in close proximity to the source by virtual replication or in the flesh A list of his equipment puts any drum shop to shame along with a few innovations no one else has even heard of yet, at least not unless you've heard Occision and even then there ain't no name for the ghastly heap of metal, wood, and skin wired into a mothership console handily tweaked by the drum god himself while in progress of razing the universe.
Granted, the decade of the 90's was severely assaulted by Occision hitting every stage and every dirt yard
and warehouse disaster with hardcore experiments in terror possible and
JOSH CUMMINGS bass & vocals 2005-2006
Josh Cummings is Occision's new bass player. Not new to the Arizona Death Metal scene, guitarist, drummer, and avid connoisseur of tribal body art tattooing, Josh is also a seasoned Renaissance rogue Djembe & Drombek hand drum player and custom motorcycle maniac mechanic who knows metal first hand. If that isn't enough, think of low frequencies razing everything in sight, a flat-out badass bass player crunching the bottom end of Occision's new songs with Josh's vocal voodoo like you ain't never heard before.
Occision has remained the ruling Death Metal Band of the underground. Their music has spread across the pond and to Asia with a finesse that has influenced the ongoing evolution of the global Death Metal movement we have today.
KILLING IS INSTINCT, THE PLEASURE LIES IN MURDER
OCCISION DEATH METAL 2004 CD
Byron Watson
Jesse Johnson
Tiffany Woods
Richard Medina FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE HUNGER OF THE NIGHTFEEDER THRONE OF THE PEDOPHILE LYING BLEEDING AT MY FEET WITHIN MY GRIP NO MOTIVE
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY TRENT PITTARD at ALIEN AUTOPSY RECORDS
OCCISION ON
MYSPACEOCCISION
on myspace.com/occision is run by Shawn Brian, former vocalist for Occision
and dutiful watchdog of USA Constitutional Rights ... The End GP |
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