"On July 15th, 1998, Rob Morrison and Dave Warshaw moved from Seattle and Los Angeles to San Diego. On August 1st, 1998, Braden Diotte moved to San Diego (from Los Angeles). On August 2nd, 1998, together with Dylan Scharf, a San Diego native, Tarantula Hawk was born. Over the next four months, six-songs were written chronologically from start to finish, creating a concept album that not only illustrated the lifecycle of the Tarantula Hawk wasp, but also illustrated the progression of a band getting comfortable with their own sound. On February 23rd, 1999, what would become their self-titled debut album was recorded. On March 1st, 1999, Rob Morrison left the group to raise his son back in Seattle. The remaining members were unsatisfied without the attributes of Rob’s bass and noise accompaniment, and were also not interested in trying to replace him. Instead, each member took on an auxiliary instrument and new songs (and concepts) were eventually conceived.
Over the next four years Tarantula Hawk solidified itself as a force to be reckoned with within the underground music community, performing alongside such underground heavyweights as Neurosis, Crash Worship, High On Fire, Dystopia, and The Locust. Finally, after one year of intense writing and arranging, the trio completed their second album in mid 2002. Although the record remained aesthetically congruent with their previous effort, the new recording leads the listener into a deeper chasm of interpretive and creative perception by combining the otherworldly sonic imagery of their first LP with a much more familiar element...raw human emotion. Using a darker palette, that album explored a cumulative void within the players, expressing feelings that, for them, could only be conveyed through their music. Finally exorcised of their creative, philosophical, and existential dispirits, the group disbanded soon after."
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