User:Disturbedheritic/Fluxx (Band)

Fluxx

Fluxx is a melodic death and groove metal band from sioux falls, south dakota. They started three years ago in sioux falls and have played with such acts as Three Inches of Blood, Boboflex, and Raising suns. They are progressive in nature but not to the point where technic clouds melodic and being memorable.

The begining

 * In 2003 now lead guitarist Frank Huerta found Ryan Phillips at friend’s house jamming on acoustic guitar. They hit it off quickly with the same musical interests.  They listened to bands like metallica, disturbed, and staind. (Mostly nu metal)  They started just messing around writing songs with no intention of starting a band but just learning from on another.  A couple years later they were still friends and had finally matured as musicians.   So they started writing songs more seriously and that’s when LJ came into the picture.  Lj was Ryan’s cousin so it was pretty easy to just ask him if he wanted to jam with Ryan and Frank.  They played and wrote songs for about three months and then went trying to recruit a singer.  This was tough because during this search for a singer, Frank, the main song writer and composer, was getting into heavier metal with bands like Lamb of God, and Devildriver.  It wasn’t till much later that he even liked death metal.  He simply just never got exposed to it.  So the first couple songs came out kind of groovy and mainstream sounding but, what was to come was going to be big.  “Some of our songs came out a little quick and easy in the beginning not really give us a chance to really analyze them.  I think those were just purely spontaneous creative connections between us.  Now our songs are much more drawn out and focused.” Frank said in an interview.   The technical level of their next couple songs sky rocketed from mainstream garage metal band to more of a death and groove metal band.  The sound evolved into something too heavy for the mainstream media but not heavy enough for the underground death metal fan base.  Jorrelle was spotted at a party by frank and he heard him just singing along with some mudvayne.  Jorrelle had little to no experience with playing in a band or even writing music himself but Frank saw potential for him to grow into the vocalist they needed for this band.   “No bassist ever made it through the tryouts.” Said frank in an interview.   That probably explains why it took so long to find a good one.