ONE MORE MUTINY

About One More Mutiny

One More Mutiny started in a basement with two people who couldn't shut up about how broken everything had gotten.Drummer Trevor Arellano and bassist/guitarist/composer Rusty Quinlan met seventeen years ago, when Rusty taught Trevor's high school History of Rock and Roll class. They stayed in touch across the years and eventually realized they shared the same politics, the same record collection, and the same low-grade fury at watching everything they grew up with get hollowed out and sold back to them as a worse, more expensive version of itself. They started jamming. The songs came out almost too easily, riffs and grooves landing on the first pass like they'd already been written. That kind of wavelength is rare, and they knew it.The sound is heavy and deliberate: deep, bass-driven low end, open and groove-heavy drums, melodic where it wants to pull you in and abrasive where it wants to wake you up. Think the patience and dynamics of TOOL and Karnivool with the protest-rock teeth of Rage Against the Machine and the modern weight of House of Protection. Angry, groovy, and built to say something.And it does have something to say. One More Mutiny is anti-establishment to the core, not as a pose, but as a response to living inside systems that treat people as line items. The drowning man at the center of their imagery, bound and sinking while he stares up at a surface he can't reach, is how a lot of people feel right now: betrayed, cornered, morally opposed to nearly everything happening around them, and unable to put it into words. The band's whole project is to put it into words. Or failing that, into a riff you feel in your chest before you understand it.One more mutiny. Because the last few clearly didn't take.