Skrape

Nu Metal

Skrape was an Orlando-based nu metal/alternative metal music group which formed in 1997. The band ended in 2004 after getting dropped from their record label RCA, who had released both of their records. If you can't fuck or fight to it, it's no good, proclaims Skrape drummer and band co-founder Will Hunt. That's the context for us. It's gotta have rhythm and an incredible groove you can shake your ass to. Up the Dose has all that and more. The band's second album for RCA finds the Orlando-based quintet in a different musical head space from when they released 2001's brutal yet melodic New Killer America--which pummeled active rock radio in the States with the singles Waste and Isolated-- and rose quickly to become the twelfth best-selling album in Japan. A festival in Japan, a gig in Korea with that country's most famous band, Seo Taiji, and a U.S. tour with Disturbed found Skrape playing for thousands of fanatical converts. Skrape songs also found their way into video games, including Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 and their album cover even won awards. Skrape also created their own video for What You Say, performance intercut with Japanamation, subsequent to the clip for first single Waste. Clearly a motivated bunch of musicians, Skrape also take life lessons to heart, as gleaned in the sentiments expressed on Up The Dose. “Over the last few years there were a lot of highlights…and some lowlights, explains Hunt. And it all has to do with where we are at right now, which is a...