New Jersey metalheads and buds of Late Night Wallflower, The Binary Code, have signed with Tennessee’s Midgets With Machetes/Uprising Records. They have not only become a label-backed band, but they’ve also introduced me to the label with the weirdest name on the planet. The band plan on hitting the road soon with labelmates Cast Pattern, and releasing new material in the spring of 2009.
Check out their upcoming gigs after the jump.
The Binary Code are the answer to New Jersey’s endless amount of shitty Bruce Springsteen and Bouncing Souls clones. They are a unique combination of hardcore and metal heaviness, with an almost jazz or concert-violinist technicality. Both brutal as fuck and incredibly concise and intricate at the same time, they are on a mission to put all those dayglo-wearing “metalheads” to shame.
Give me a brief history of The Binary Code.
Jesse Bartholomew [Guitarist]: It’s a long history as far as members go. We’re kind of like the Steely Dan of underground metal. We’ve had so many different members since we started back in 2004. Basically, I met a couple of dudes who wanted to play the same stuff I was into. I worked in a music store selling instruments, and the dudes came in and heard what I was playing, and we got to talking, and that was the beginning. I was trying out for their band, and the bassist ended up wanting to form our own band with me. We lost touch for like three months before we formed the Binary Code. I went to Florida for my mother’s wedding, and my grandfather back in New Jersey passed away the day my mom married. So I came home to the funeral, after the wedding, and got a hold of the bassist.
Read after the jump for more with The Binary Code.
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