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Hometown	Spokane, WA
Genres	Metal, Death Metal / Grindcore
Band Members	Kyle McCarty- Vocals ; Jason Vessar- Guitars ; Sean ... » more
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Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:	Artist / Band Member Kyle McCarty kyletmccarty@gmail.com 509.714.4422
# Years Experience Performing Live:	11
Market Draw:	Home Market: 251-300; Tri Cities, WA: 101-150; Yakima, WA: 101-150; Seattle, WA: 76-100; Boise, ID: 76-100; Portland, OR: 51-75
Opener Experience:	Meshuggah, Cynic, The Faceless, Six Feet Under, Sworn Enemy, Animosity, Thine Eyes Bleed, GWAR, Job for a Cowboy, Otep, Losa, The Birthday Massacre, The Red Chord, Overkill, Warbringer, Better Left Unsaid, and more!
Performing Rights Society:	N/A
Discography:	Redshift LP—2012; A Supersize Cross for the Fast Food Martyr EP—2009; Purify, Burn the Earth LP—2006; Uncomfortable Skin EP—2005; Benign LP—2002

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BENIGN has been, literally, a metamorphosis for all those involved in the band since it’s conception in 2001. Their ever evolving and increasingly brutal stylings have attracted musicians from diverse backgrounds and tastes to combine their sounds and...

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Rock Finals Grand Prize Winner April 2020

Metal Winner, June 2020

Metal Winner, May 2020

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Crave Magazine Live Review-by Robin Steeley by Crave Magazine
Spokane’s Benign is up next and what a delicious treat they turned out to be. They immediately stepped up the energy in the room, bringing people in from the bar to the floor area. They deliver an onslaught of blistering, in your face metal that was very impressive. They have enormous stage presence as a whole and the vocals are remarkable. They have an ease with dynamic shifts and interweaving melody and include a sludgy, thumping seven string bass line to underscore it all and percussion is persistent and furious. Overall they make what they are doing appear effortless and if they have done it a million times. This band is a machine. I hope they will make the trip over to our area more often.

BENIGN- Redshift by By Dave Nicholls
Kyle from Washington based Benign recently got in touch, letting us know about their album, Redshift, which is due out on the 20th of April this year (my birthday too….don’t you know!). Having formed in 2001, the band say they’ve outlasted the shelf life of most bands by constantly outdoing themselves, basing their music in the metal spectrum but also allowing intriguing time signatures, catchy hooks and driving rhythms to form with their stuff. I figured that I should check out what was on offer as based on this, it’s sounding pretty good! The Serpent doesn’t leave any doubt in my mind that this is some serious stuff, launching you straight into a pummelling mix of hammering guitar lines, pounding drums and vocals raw enough to strip the paint off of your living room walls. Heavy sure, but there’s also a clear sense of rhythms running through things, allowing the blistering melee of raw aggression to soften before pummelling you in the face repeatedly. This is a theme which continues in Coprophagy, another track which is firmly rooted in metal yet somehow holds an equal amount of melodic rhythm along with the aggression. The backing track here is quite simply fantastic, hammering onwards at an obscene pace and giving you visions of the pits which are going to form when this is performed live – this is going to leave venues as nothing but the dusty foundations. Unbeliever picks up where the last track left off, launching you once again into a pit of destruction and making you thank them for the privilege. The double bass which echoes around in the background here adds a real sense of movement to things, keeping the track alive and making you want to turn it up ever louder and louder. If you’re looking for a band which is going to give you a live show which you’ll never forget, then I think this could be the one for you! Armistice seems to initially mark a change in the album, opening soft as it begins but soon launching back into the hammering pace of before. This time, the soft opening serves to further accentuate the raw power which you’re greeted by shortly thereafter, creating a sound which is sure to get you moving. Powerful yet somehow funky, this is another track which is suited for the live scene and is bound to have crowds going mad. This is something which 7:06 also seems perfectly suited for, opening as the last track ends and throwing enough double bass to deafen your neighbours out at you. Loud is going to be the only way to play this sort of thing, it’s got the power and aggression which when cranked up, is going to leave you feeling a damned site better about everything going on around you. This is possibly my personal favourite track from the album, but to understand why you really need to listen to it through headphones so you can hear everything that’s (cont.)

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