mower Details

Mower is an explosive live act launched from San Diego, California.  Singer Brian Sheerin and drummer Ryan Toth had been rehearsing and recording in a band for months and just when there were enough songs to play a full set, their bass player opted out of the group. 
 
 The search for a bass player turned up Chris McCredie, who had just traded snowboarding in Colorado for surfing in California.  With the new lineup ready to play shows, Sheerin suggested the name "Mower" to describe a powerful force, and with shows booked, the band adopted the name quickly. 
 
 Early Mower shows managed to spark interest within the local scene, but the band was eager to establish itself as the most intense live act to emerge from southern California.  McCredie had already toured and recorded with a punk band called The Undecided out of Breckenridge, Colorado and had often said he wanted to have his old singer, Dominic Moscatello, perform with Mower and drummer Toth liked the idea of two vocalists. 
 
 That idea met with some resistance as Sheerin had not intended to share vocal duties, but after a few practices with Moscatello, the energy and dynamic were undeniable.  The band knew they were onto something much different than other bands at the time.
 
 The song "Still Beside the Mask" was one of three songs that made up the initial Mower demo tape and the first to emerge from the McCredie/Moscatello/Sheerin union.  It was enough to start packing shows in San Diego and begin drawing attention to the band.
 
 As Mower's reputation for heavy music grew, so did their reputations for insane live performances and relentless marketing.  Live shows became consuming attacks.  An endless stream of provocative flyers and omnipresent black and white Mower stickers let San Diego know when the next gig would be, including local police, who used to send "cease and desist" letters to the band.
 
 In the beginning stages of Mower, the word overexposure was ignored, and Mower went on to play local radio shows, impromptu boardwalk parties on Memorial Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of July that drew hundreds of unsuspecting beachgoers.  The band also materialized on local magazine covers and in articles and even appeared on national television in an episode of The Dating Game.
 
 Mower began a frenzy of networking and managed to find their way onto some big bills traveling through San Diego.  Early shows with GWAR, hed(pe), System of a Down, Fear and a Vans Warped Tour date in 1999 raised eyebrows in the music industry and found the band entertaining management and record contracts.
 
 Momentum grew steadily and the list of prominent acts they had performed alongside grew with it.  Shows with Deftones, Linkin Park, P.O.D., Staind, Sprung Monkey, D.I., Nonpoint and others fueled the band's desire to tour and progress toward bigger things.
 
 Just as things begin to ignite, Mower found themselves enduring the first of several hardships that  would strike the band, including the exit of original drummer Ryan Toth and guitarist Alex Toth, broken bones, and more.  It wasn't until 2003 that Mower was able to sign to Suburban Noize Records, release their self-titled debut and begin touring nationwide.
 
 Many great things have happened since then.  Tours with Soulfly, Kottonmouth Kings, Phunk Junkeez, Adema and (hed)p.e. have helped build Mower's fan base across the United States.  The release of the Mower CD in Japan has given the band a small taste of international success, and arena shows with Disturbed and Kottonmouth