Bang, Blackout, TBA

Formed in 1969, BANG is a highly influential, early hard rock band that's often cited as helping to create the genre of heavy metal itself.


With food, beer and America at the forefront, it only makes sense that guitar player/vocalist Christian Gordy and drummer Taryn Waldman would meet at Gordy's 2011 July 4th cookout in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn NY. Waldman, a former Hooter's waitress turned big time commercial film editor; and Gordy, a one-legged bartender/artist/BBQ enthusiast, were an oddball couple for NY's heavily-styled metal scene. But soon, the duo began rapidly banging out monolithic snail-paced riffs that could party as much as they could crush. BLACKOUT—referring to blackout drunk, a force that kills the light, or a mobster hit on an entire family—was the only appropriate title for the band.