I have to say, I’m not that big on the double-drummer thing, but it works for them, so…ĭo you guys have that in your future? Find another drummer and have a double-drummer attack? They’re the ones with two drummers and a bunch of electronics going on and shit. I think I might’ve been watching that band HEALTH. I was glad when it rained that second day, for a little while. It was fun to play, but the heat aspect of it just knocked me on my ass. I felt out of it for two or three days afterwards - it was weird. We played Summerfest, and I stayed that entire day, and I caught some of Weezer’s set, and by the nighttime I was feeling kind of weird, almost like a little stoned. Dude…I didn’t feel right for a couple of days. Yeah I’d listened to the EP dozens of times by then, and I think Sam sent me some new stuff a while back, too, but that was first time I’d actually seen you guys. I wanted to tell you, actually - I was really excited about the Summerfest thing, about seeing you guys there, because that was the first time I’d gotten to see you all live. And we live way down on the southwest side, so… I guess it’s wherever the wind takes it to… I took my daughter to school yesterday, and I could smell smoke out in front of her school. Sometimes if you walk out in the morning, you can smell some of the smoke. Man…I can see the fires from my place over here the ones that’re out in Magnolia, I can see ’em. I think last night there was, but I think it might’ve been a smaller one they put out, something like that. Oh, okay - I thought there was one over near Katy, too, but… SCR: So, you haven’t evacuated yet from the fires and all that stuff?Īnthony Vallejo: Nah. After the well-received 2010 EP Peace Through Fear, Omotai’s headed for its debut full-length sometime within the next 12 months, and in between they’ll be demolishing stages far and wide.Īfter their recent “mini-tour” across the Western U.S., SCR was able to chat a bit with drummer Anthony Vallejo about the tour, the new album, and all things heavy. In the relatively short time they’ve thundered across Houston’s music scene, the trio has carved out a strange, heavy-yet-epic niche that straddles the line between raw noise, instro-rock, and all-out metal, seemingly doing it without even breaking a sweat (well, mostly). The group’s three members - vocalist/guitarist Sam Waters, bassist Melissa Lonchambon, and drummer Anthony Vallejo - are the friendliest, most unassuming people you’re likely to meet, at least separately, but when they get on a stage and strap on their instruments, they seem to join together, Voltron-like, to form this jaw-dropping monster that proceeds to blast out a sound that’s equal parts ISIS, Neurosis, Jesus Lizard, Mastodon, Pelican, and Sabbath, all with a crushing brutality. I’m just going to come right out and say it, folks: Omotai isn’t really a “band.” What they are, rather, is some sort of massive sonic beast birthed beneath the crust of the planet, way down where it’s dark and hot and inhuman.
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