Chicago based groove rockers Domestic Godzilla formed in 2001. The band has a style and sound that really melds various genres together creating this beast of a band that has gained attention all across the Windy City of Chicago and afar. One of the most recognizable elements of the band is the vocal style of singer Scott Coca. Moments pass and you have these beautifully sang melodies, by the time you blink it slams into these break neck screams that haunt your ear drums. Chicago was usually always a tour stop for national acts and Domestic Godzilla often opened for some of those headlining acts. If you had to make comparisons the band sounds like a mixture of a much more brutal Incubus with elements similar to the band Flaw, and a dash of Nothingface. Chicago natives loved the band and showed up in hoards to see them live. Unfortunately the band ended up going into a hiatus. Fast forward to 2008 and Domestic Godzilla drummer Gino Colucci is now the founder of an independent record label called Converse Records. In 2013 he was able to release a Domestic Godzilla album of previous material that includes several live tracks. The album is entitled ‘Language Barrier’. It had been almost a decade when the two founding members (Gino Colucci & Scott Coca) were drawn together yet again to bring the beast back to life. The chemistry they built together writing songs all the way back in high school helped them reform and got the ball rolling again. They started to work on new material in the studio at Converse Records in 2015. Gino has now moved across the country to Arizona and Scott is still residing in the Chicagoland area. Thankfully the technology advantages the two are still able to keep Domestic Godzilla alive, and their new material shows that no distance can dull the chemistry these two have together.
Domestic Godzilla has now released their brand new track and lyric video for the song “O.C.D.”. On this track Scott Coca contributes the lyrics, guitars and his mesmerizing vocals, Gino Colucci adds his fierce pounding drumming style, bass and also was the engineer as well. When it comes to mixing and mastering those duties was all by Logan Mader the ex-Machine Head and current guitarist for the electrifying melodic death metal band Once Human. Gino Colucci had this to say about the journey that this song has went through from start to finish. “We are excited to get this song recorded finally. It was written well over 10 years ago. This song represents how we always imagined we should sound and sets the bar for all future releases. From the beginning we always had a DIY attitude mostly due to lack of funds. While we tracked everything ourselves, it was a dream come true when Logan Mader agreed to mix this song for us. That in itself is amazing. As busy as he is these days, to take on this project speaks volumes! Letting a true and accomplished professional and someone who inspired us to help shape the outcome took our recording game to a new level! We are excited to move on to the next. We will be tracking final guitars and vocals later this month for the next release which was written a little more recently.” The song still has Domestic Godzilla’s nu-metal feel and they are still able to conquer those vocal melodic moments surrounded by aggressively pulsating harsher tones. Though it’s been quite sometime since the bands formation they show within this song they aren’t rusty by any means.
