Live Band

Shawn: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards & Programming
Steve: Guitars and Vocals
Bill: Bass & Vocals
Crummy: Drums & Vocals

Biography:

Marazine, though, hasnt been quite so unwavering in its style. In the few years that the band has been around, Marazine has tightened its sound and better fused a range of influences that runs the rock spectrum of techno, metal, glam, prog and punk. Marazine captured the spirit of the latest incarnation on As the Pitch Maintains, a five-song (plus two short instrumental segues) EP. The bands gloom fully blossoms on the opening track, Theres No Tomorrow. Better Place glows with future-shock aura. The title track and Take a Step nicely combine the trios many interests, popping a metallic guitar lick here, laying down a glam-style psychedelic vocal melody there, and so on.

In 2006 Shawn was asked to play bass & keys for the band the Evacuation Plan. A project created and written by Piggy D from Rob Zombie, Wednesday 13 & Amen. It Also including Dave Pino from Waltham, Damone & Seemles on lead guitar & Joe Letz from Amen, Genitorturers & Combichrist on Drums.

Reviews: Marazine As The Pitch Maintains is available at Newbury Comics, CD Baby & many Independent record stores.

Marazine has played with: Kill Hannah, Dope, Twisted Method, Wednesday 13, Trash Light Vision, Deadstar Assembly, Double Drive, RA, Slunt, White Lion, Enuff Z Nuff, Kings X, Strata, Chris Slade(From ACDC), Joe Leste(From Bang Tango & Beautiful Creatures), Dizzy Reed(Guns & Roses)& Bella Morte...Favorite Locals: Wretched Asylum, Mongrel, Tommy Coma, Q, Automatons and many more...

Press:

Piggyd.com Piggy D & The Evacuation Plan

In the ever changing, exciting, revolving world of Piddy G, come s news of new developments in the band line up. Our old pal Jon McGarry will not be able to join us in these first few dates and for the rehearsals. He had some prior bookings to see to first. Taking his place is the extremely talented, multi-tasking mofo known as Shawn Marazine.
Shawn will take over all bass, keys and backup vocal duties.

Shawns' band MARAZINE, is really fucking cool! They opened for us (W13) a year ago up in Mass... I believe it will be a year to the day at the same venue when we play this year. Weird? The band is really excited to have him aboard, so we know you will welcome him with open arms.....Journey stlye..

CD Review for Nomasonha September issue 2005

Band: Marazine Title: as the pitch maintains Lapel: Marazine Records Released: 2005 7 songs reviewed by Jennifer K. Faucher I had the amazing luck of catching Marazine play in a cool-ass little club called The Crypt. Maybe it was the full moon, but the combination of music and environment was nothing less than amazing. I had to review this cd. I’ve been kicked in the ass by more than one cd that has not lived up to the live show; but in Marazine’s As The Pitch Maintains I was not one bit disappointed. Like driving rhythm? Like otherworldly guitar playing? Like archaic samples that sound like your dead great-great grandmother calling you on a victrola? Yeah, this is for you. I could listen to this cd all day; and I have. The songs are simultaneously melodic and heavy. There’s a sense of early 90s industrial in the programming and mid 70s Bowie (who gets a nod with the final track "Bob and the Spiderz From Marz") permeates the entire album. Checkout the website at www.marazine.com and then go see them live and pick up this cd.

Lucky dog.Wednesday 13,Deadstar Assembly,Marazine

Hollow Image, from Maine was on the stage when we got to the Lucky Dog around 9. Five bands, including two national touring bands for a $10.00 cover was cool with me but it may have kept some people away as there were around 50 people there. There were plenty of seats at the bar so I got a Glenfiddich from Erick and sat down.

The band was dressed in their Hot Topic best, lots of black, baggie clothes and black eye liner. Hollow Image is a four piece, guitar, drums, bass, and vocals. The drummer played an electronic kit with real cymbals that sounded amazing. The bass player was underage; he looked 18 tops but was really good. Then there was the singer. Have I mentioned how much I hate unintelligible lyrics screamed into a microphone? Overall the music reminded me of Lamb of God or a heavy Rob Zombie. Dark metal is how I would describe them, not death, not speed just dark and well played. Not a fan of the screaming which is a shame because Wretched Asylum were up next.

I give this band credit for putting on a good show and having a female bass player that looks crazy, in ripped clothing (a nurse’s outfit of sorts), covered in blood. Always a turn on for me. If only she were animated. The rest of the band was dressed as escaped mental patients but that doesn’t explain the spitting blood thing. Musically they were not as good as Hollow Image, similar music style, but their stage show was better. The singer screamed a lot. Oh how I love that. I stood in front of the stage( not close enough that I would get blood on me, the girl in front of me was not so lucky) and tried to pick out one word from one of their songs and could not. I described them to Erick as Fitchburg’s answer to the Deadites.

Around this time more people started to show up. I was surrounded by people clad in black. Lots of Goth girls of all shapes and sizes if you like that sort of thing, a varied crowd of guys, young and old (older than me even). It reminded me of an Attrition show I saw at Mama Kin way back when. There were two people in the crowd that stood out. A girl in blue jeans and a red sweatshirt seemed really out of place, although she stayed the whole night, and a girl who looked EXACTLY like Roger Lavallee’s girlfriend Amy. I would turn and see her and get freaked out every time. It was weird.

Marazine were on next. Three piece band, two guitars and a drummer. Marazine are my new favorite local band. (I don’t consider The Curtain Society local) The singer sounded like Brett Michaels and sang actual songs! No screaming just words that you could understand. He also played actual notes on his guitar. Really. No grinding, dark, heavy, repetitive Korn crap. Actual chords and solos even. They are hard to describe. The Band was very tight and professional, dressed in black, eye makeup with a good stage presence. The music reminded me of Stabbing Westward or Orgy with a hint of GNR. They used a backing track for the Bass and also had some keyboard mixed in as well. Very good sound, well played, and easily the best local band I have seen in a long time. We bought two CD’s and chatted with the other guitar player for a bit. I suggested that they play with the Deadites at Halloween or before. Seriously, check these guys out.

Deadstar Assembly are a Goth/Industrial/New wave type band from Florida. Really good if you like that stuff. Lots of keyboards layered over guitar/drums/bass with a charismatic singer. They all look the part…lots of black, face makeup, spiked hair etc. Prodigy came to mind then they played a cover of “Send me an Angel” and I was at a loss. The crowd loved them, I thought they were really good and wondered why they weren’t famous yet. Perhaps it’s the cussing. There was too much of that.

Wednesday 13 from murderdolls was last. The band combines LA metal with horror themed songs. Good vocals, tight band, good stage show. I really got into it and thought that it was strange that there were only about 100 people left in the club. Not much to say about them. If you like the “rock and shock” thing they you would love them. They do it well.

I need to say that it blows my mind when I see a good show like this. It really emphasizes the point that a band needs to be REALLY GOOD to even come close to making a living playing music. Deadstar Assembly and Wednesday 13 are really good and have a particular audience that they cater to, and they aren’t selling out 300 capacity clubs. Weird.

Scott McLennan
Entertainment Columnist

With no intention of being a “political” band, Marazine ended up using the results from last November’s presidential elections to fuel its new record, “As the Pitch Maintains.”

“We felt forced to speak out about what was going on. A lot of the lyrics talk about the state of things and how they affect us, affect music and affect our freedom,” said Marazine’s Shawn Lamoray. “At the election, I felt things would take a turn. And that didn’t happen, so we’re here as the pitch maintains.”

Marazine, though, hasn’t been quite so unwavering in its style. In the few years that the band has been around, Marazine has tightened its sound and better fused a range of influences that runs the rock spectrum of techno, metal, glam, prog and punk.

The Marazine lineup has also gone through rotations, settling now upon Lamoray on vocals, keyboards, bass and guitar, Steve Patterson on guitar and Matt Haney on drums.

Marazine captured the spirit of the latest incarnation on “As the Pitch Maintains,” a five-song (plus two short instrumental segues) EP. The band’s gloom fully blossoms on the opening track, “There’s No Tomorrow.” “Better Place” glows with future-shock aura. The title track and “Take a Step” nicely combine the trio’s many interests, popping a metallic guitar lick here, laying down a glam-style psychedelic vocal melody there, and so on.

Lyrically, Marazine isn’t necessarily naming names, but there is no denying its angst with the world as the songs roundly reject the status quo.

Lamoray produced and engineered the record, crafting it with a cohesive feel right down to the droning maintained pitches that open and close the record.

Lamoray said the band has been tagged a “gothic industrial” act mainly because audiences hear synthesizers, electronic percussion (and programmed bass parts since the band gave up looking for a human bass player it could rely on) and see a band dressed all in black whose members are not adverse to wearing a little makeup. And the assessment hasn’t been all that accurate.

“Our direction is to be open-minded, or free to try out anything,” Lamoray said. “We want to work with whatever comes to the plate. It’s a challenge for us to work with something different on every song. And we’re all interested in so many kinds of music. People think I’m from the industrial age, but I grew up a skate punk.”

Marazine is playing Wednesday at the Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St., Worcester, on a bill topped by Wednesday 13, singer for the electro-thrash outfit Murder Dolls. Deadstar Assembly, Wretched Asylum and Hollow Image are also playing the club that night.