automatic animal

all Automatic Animal songs are available at the iTunes.com webstore.
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Automatic Animal: In the Shadow of Sound
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Automatic Animal: Self-Titled
iTunes link to our HERBERT recordings.
CLICKHERE HERBERT: Chrysalis
CDs available at CDBABY.com



Santa Cruz, California - Cousins Steve Ilse and Mike Anderson formed the band with Mat Fitzsimmons under the legendary name Herbert. After the addition of Trevor Stuart and Brent Eichler, Automatic Animal was born. An amalgam of vast influences and experiences, the band will take you on ride through the organic, inner workings of the mechanized machine. The newest album entitled "Modern Alchemy" was produced and recorded by Scott Reeder(x-KYUSS).



What people are saying about AUTOMATIC ANIMAL:
Metro Santa Cruz - Local metal band Automatic Animal has gained a great amount of currency in the past few years carrying on the work that the members started nearly a decade back with Herbert. This is heavy, straight-ahead rockin' metal, nothing ironic or emo about it in the slightest, and is all the more compelling for that. While many are trying to make either overly clever, self-referential metal for hipsters or turning the genre into an over-processed, slick and mechanical affair, the boys in Automatic Animal embrace their hesher roots and tear into beefy, muscular rock that brings to mind both the bluesy squall of Led Zeppelin and the dusted heaviness of Kyuss. It's dirty grindhouse rawk, the kind that will make the weak-blooded blanch at Automatic Animal's full-frontal, four-on-the-floor metal. If you're looking for a damned good excuse to pound some tall cans and bang your head to some prime riffage, Automatic Animal will give you a few. - (PD)
Transworld Surf Vol. 8 No. 10 - Straightforward metal-rock from Santa Cruz. From the ashes of Santa Cruz's finest metal band, Herbert, the new kings of NorCal rock are Automatic Animal.
Vinnie Apicella - .a booming breakthrough of words and music that make an immediate impact to your nostalgic trip through the land of lost guitar rock and arena fillers.stomp and groove the way supergroups like Zep, Rush, and Sabbath used to do emPower chords and grinding riffs play through titanic drum rolls and light acoustics to accentuate magnetic tunes.AA leaves it on the table and the listener gasping for breath with an enthusiastic yet unlikely blend of heavy rock and psych styles that go prog and punk at the extremes and fuse them all together remarkably well.



Your Music Magazine - Haunting lyrics, rippin' guitar solos and a driving percussive foundationwill adrenalize your inner demon, pumping red-hot blood through your veins. - Mike Garing



Automatic Animal have shed their skin and reformulated their sound to be a cross section of heavy music's history without sounding trite, overwrought, or ever losing a connection to their past. It's a rock record through-and-through with enough guts to revel in its own unique sound without sacrificing any integrity - Christopher Kelter
Powerslave.com - These guys certainly dont waste any space here, opting to pull in riffs ready made for each song in all the small spaces.Automatic Animal has this space-aged style to them, with that hard rock turned metal barrage that never blows the doors off in terms of aggression or full force metal, but it is their execution and delivery that steals this proverbial show. This is definitely a band that owns a sound that carves a small niche quite nicely. Dont expect abrasive music here, but rather really well defined music and wise lyrics in a complete picture.
Automatic Animal walks a fine line between underground, proggish metal and radio-friendly hard rock, shifting back and forth like a lizard on hot quicksand.Automatic Animal ride the razor's edge with their own unique take, incorporating their own blend of tasty sounds. - Kevin McHugh