BIO

Adopting part of their name from a book about nuclear crisis, Failsafe Nation packs the same level of tightly coiled urgency into their music as an imminent atomic strike. Formed in a small town in central NJ in 2000, Failsafe Nation displays a drive and fervor in their sound that belies their humble origins. The band’s back-story, much like their music itself, is without flash or gimmick… Local musician answers an ad in a local record store, and the rest is history.

While the music is not unlike their simple inception in its lack of bombast, it could hardly be called typical. The band’s new album, “Sweet Deceit” is a document of the group's hard work and commitment to their art, and showcases their aptitude for hard rock that is, at the same time, both challenging and accessible.

Recorded over the course of six weeks in their home studio, “Deceit” is an album full of intense rhythms and powerfully explosive guitar and bass that consistently push the envelope even as the feel remains solid. The listener gets the sensation that, although strapped into a comfortable and familiar seat, the ride is far from conventional. Its no coincidence that once the band took control of the recording sessions into their own hands, their sound became further realized. They now were afforded the chance to pour over the details to assure that their sonic vehicle was primed to explore new territory.

Whereas the band’s prior effort, entitled “An Agonizing Quiet Space”, showcased a band seeking to break some new ground with ample skill, “Sweet Deceit” displays a group commanding a powerful future-rock prototype with confidence and vision. “Our home studio was in our basement. It was very cramped, and full of drainage pipes,” recalls singer/guitarist Tim Coleman of the process. The band recorded non-stop, taking breaks only for sleeping and eating. “It felt like we didn’t see the light of day for a month and a half,” Coleman laughs, continuing, “With the recording of the previous record, we sometimes had to live with certain aspects of it, due to time and financial considerations. On this album, recording at home, we had the opportunity to explore our creativity. The success of our approach this time around definitely shows in the new material.”

The final product invokes archetypal hard rock sounds in new and exciting ways. Their music reflects a wide scope of influences, from the dark, experimental thrust of modern metal, to the forward thinking “grunge” sound of the "alt-rock" explosion of the last decade, and even to hints of 70's prog rock, sans the pretentious histrionics usually associated with the genre.

Failsafe Nation succeeds, where many others fail, in blazing new trails within familiar territory. The members of Failsafe Nation have chosen their methods carefully after all. For not unlike the fallout of a nuclear apocalypse, the effects of “Sweet Deceit’s” songcraft and musicianship may be just as forceful and widespread.