Local Music Review by Mike Lee: Sky Eats Airplane

Band: SkyEats Airplane
Album: "The Sound of Symmetry"
Sounds Like: Attack Attack!, Underoath
Home Town: Fort Worth, TX

Hey everyone this week we are reviewing the Ft.Worth, Texas based band Sky Eats Airplane. The band gained fame in 2006 with their EP “Everything Perfect” and then followed up with a release on Equal Visions Records entitled “Sky Eats Airplane” in 2008. The band toured the country and was blowing up on Myspace but unfortunately they lost some members including their singer and the future was looking bleak for the band for a while.

The good news is the band is back and stronger than ever with their new EP “The Sound of Symmetry”. It is a 3 song EP available on Shockhound.com. The title track “The Sound of Symmetry” is one of the best screamo songs if not the best I have ever heard. The band takes their math metal, electronica, and screamo to new heights that in my opinion have not been conquered yet.

The band's drummer Travis Orbin will give Neil Pert a run for his money and if you do not believe me go check him out on you tube. They twin guitar attack of Zack Ordway and Lee Duck has the massive sound of Meshuggah but brings the hooks that are extremely melodic yet musically extremely complex. The bands new singer Bryan Zimmerman also does a great job stepping up to the plate and filling the role of the front man.

I think if the band can continue to write songs like the ones on this EP the sky is the limit and we have only just begun to see the potential of this band. Sky Eats Airplane is touring all summer and hopefully will be releasing a full record in the fall! Go buy this EP on Itunes and please go see them live!

-Mike Lee