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Decyfer Down Biography
Lifting mattresses and spraying bugs is good, honest work.
But those aren't the gigs that keep hard rockers motivated over the long term
(even if they are grateful for work that supports families and musical dreams).
Now those efforts will go toward the hard work this new rock band will face
head-on, as they hit the road, leaving their North Carolina-base and welcome the
opportunity to partner with S/R/E Recordings and release their debut, End of
Grey, a surefire source of melodic hard rock that unabashedly stands on the side
of truth.
The roots of Decyfer Down go back to more of an acoustic outfit
than a rock band. Drummer Josh Oliver and guitarist Brandon Mills started the
band at a time when each simply needed to renew his life in God. For Oliver, it
was a case of being burned out on religion, while for Mills, it was a time to
surrender a life of parties and drugs and return to his faith. “We were just
trying to crawl our way back into a deeper understanding of God – for him to
heal the wounds we had in our own personal lives,” says Oliver. “The music began
to change and evolve as our walk with God did,” as underneath the acoustic
surface their love of rock music began to take over.
“I always loved
rock music; that’s where I came from,” says Mills. “But when I went through that
drug stuff, I pawned everything. The only thing I could afford to get out of the
pawnshop was an acoustic. As the years progressed, I felt God was giving me the
opportunity to get back to what I loved, to start over. I couldn’t have handled
getting back to the rock lifestyle before then.”
Eventually, Oliver’s
brother Caleb joined the band. “When it became Caleb, Brandon and me, we were
more confident spiritually and had good support around us. God was doing amazing
things and we knew he called us to do this type of work. We did seem to hit a
ceiling though,” says Josh. “Then all the sudden Chris came into the picture and
it was a whole new beginning. God took us from that broken, renewal atmosphere
to approaching people boldly with the truth.
The addition of
metal-driven guitarist Chris Clontz with Caleb Oliver moving out front as
vocalist and bass player was the birth of a new band. It gave the band a new
sound and purpose. The band found itself playing with mainstream rockers like
Cold, Puddle of Mudd, Breaking Benjamin, Theory of a Dead Man, Smile Empty Soul,
Authority Zero, Crossfade and Adema. New audiences, a new identity and a bolder
sound made for the right time for a new band name. “I kid you not…I opened the
dictionary and there’s the word decipher,” Clontz says. “We have three pages of
names and I open the dictionary and find this word.”
Decipher means “to
interpret,” and the moniker Decyfer Down fit perfectly, as the band aimed to
interpret truth based on God’s Word while stripping it down from religious
traditions and terms. States Josh, “We’re simply out to give a positive message
of hope that has truth streaming all the way down the middle of it.”
Its
focus made clearer, Decyfer Down resolved to be black and white about truth and
captured the confusing parts of their pasts in an album of songs appropriately
titled End of Grey. “The album represents the places we’ve been and struggles
we’ve gone through, and interprets that,” says Caleb, the band’s primary
lyricist. “All the songs go back to a theme of being real and honest, and not
being ashamed of talking about the truth.”
Passionate, powerful ideas
are placed inside the thick, heavy rock of Decyfer Down. Intense meaning
alongside the grooves and riffs certainly becomes cathartic to listeners and
band alike. “The song ‘No Longer’ is almost therapy for me as I can tell myself
that I don’t need to worry any longer about things in the past that I’m not so
proud of,” Caleb notes.
A common theme in Decyfer Down’s music is one of
crying out and fighting to reach that place of overwhelming passion for God, as
heard in “Bring Back the Sun” and “Life Again.” One step to reaching that
passion is found in killing one’s own desires, and the band battles honestly
with such struggles in “Break Free” and “Walking Dead.” “We’re supposed to be
dead to ourselves and ‘Walking Dead’ talks about killing your own desires,
intentions and self-nature, so that you can walk for that Person that brought
you back to life,” says Caleb.
The successes of Decyfer Down make the
song “Vanity” timely and important to the band. “This song is self-checking.
It’s about not letting the things in our lives and career dictate how we’re
going to treat other people and how other people are going to treat us,” says
Caleb, “that we’ll stay humble and remember what God has brought us out of.
People on the outside looking at us might think, ‘Oh, they got signed; they
probably think they’re untouchable, like rock stars.’ Which is totally
ridiculous because we’re anything but.”
A mission to reach people burned
by religion leads Decyfer Down to play clubs, while its desire to provide
churched kids with solid rock music with a genuine message keeps them on
Christian stages as well. Band members would attest that it’s only God’s plan
that could bring the band to this point in its career. “God gave us favor with
rock deejays, national bands, the whole mainstream scene where we live. They
know we’re Christians. We don’t act any different in any club than we do in any
church,” Clontz says. “People come up uninitiated and admit that they used to
attend church. Mainstream bands know that we are believers and they embrace us.”
“Their views of Jesus are pews and singing hymns and dressing a certain
way,” says Mills. “Then they see us and they know we’re believers and that this
is a God-driven band. They see us in a bar, not partying, but connecting with
them anyways, and suddenly, their views of Jesus change.” And it’s times like
these that Decyfer Down knows that it must be strong in its purpose – living the
truth of God while emitting solid rock music on whatever stage it finds
itself.