Chop Suey Presents Christdriver // Great Falls // ThacO//Ardent Vein

Christdriver: Seattle's only (late 90's) slow grinding doom band. Creating a huge wall of black-laden chaos and despair, and having risen from the streets of hardcore, they've set out to unleash their crazy experimentation on all who venture near. I first saw them at the Lake Union Pub one Friday night and was floored. That weekend they played three shows in three days and I made it to all three. I watched three people play some of the heaviest music one could find. Think of the sound that a nuclear bomb blast makes being played through a speaker system the size of two football fields, that might get you there. I have never seen a bass player break a string before, but Joe (Who?) Elliott managed to break two strings in two days. .. .. Where did you get the name Christdriver? Eric: We were looking for something that had a vague, non-contextual impact to it. Something that people would think had a meaning to it. One night on the way to practice Edward came up with Christdriver, but he said he didn't think we could use the name. I said why not? Edward said that if he saw that name on a flyer, he would go see that band expecting to see the heaviest band in the world and I don't think we could pull that off. I said, "Fuck that, were using it." Christdriver has different contexts and different meanings to different people. It's just a word we made up.