Purveyors of: slow, brooding stoner-metal.
File next to: Kyuss, Sleep, Spinal Tap
Playing: WL 580 on Nov 9 @ The White House

TROG loves mood, and atmosphere, and bass. They love bass. Heck, they even have two bassists. No vocals. No guitars. All low end. There comes something really warm from that combination of instruments, all locked into a tight groove, chugging and crashing together. Escapism comes in a variety of forms, and TROG’s back-in-time, riff-laden, doom/stoner-rock takes you somewhere away from where you are. TROG is playing their debut show at the White House this Saturday, November 9th, and they are also releasing their debut cassette at the show entitled TROG ONE, which is also available on Bandcamp.

Being a group formed out of the proverbial ashes of other groups, what is the story of TROG’s inception? What motivated you to delve deeper into the groove?

TROG precedes us and will outlast us. Nothing prefigures TROG. TROG lives.

There is often the question of influence when it comes to heavy stoner metal. It can range from movies, to comics and pulp novels, to bands of the past. What influences TROG?

TROG predates motion pictures, comics, pulp, novels, and bands. TROG is currently developing wheel.

The last song on your EP references This is Spinal Tap. Are humour and improvisation aspects of your music?

TROG salutes the half-inflated dark lord. TROG concedes that Spinal Tap may have been influenced by TROG's music.

With this being your first show, you’re releasing a cassette tape. How did you go about recording this?

TROG's debut album, TROG, was carved on stone tablets and alchemically transmuted into magnetic oxide. TROG warlocks have encased them in cheap orange plastic for the ages. TROG is.

Why did you decide to release a tape at your first show? This seems like a pretty ballsy but awesome move.

TROG has fire. TROG has wheel. TROG has cassette tape sex appeal.