MUSIC

Rudyard's presents One Red Martian.

 Some of today's greatest rock bands, including Muse and Kings of Leon, incubated their unique sonic signatures far away from big city "scenes" and have preserved them with close-knit, unchanging line-ups. Following in this formidable tradition comes One Red Martian: three brothers and a childhood friend who first made music in rural Upstate New York.

Though they relocated to Dallas in 2008, ORM's unusually organic coming-together as teenagers four years earlier (the oldest member of the band is still just 21) has forever shaped them. "That's a huge part of how we got to where we are today," says singer/guitarist Jimi Woodul. "It's even more intense than that now, because we're better musicians and we're more dedicated... [But] in many ways it's very much similar to when we were just up in my family's barn playing music."

One Red Martian fuse influences from their parents' record collections (Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, classic blues) with more contemporary fare (from Josh Ritter to Rage Against the Machine) into what they intriguingly dub "intensely lyrical ballad rock" and "genre-busting piano metal".

"We want our songs to really say something," says Jimi. "But, at the same time, we also want to be the heaviest piano band ever. We were very influenced by Ben Folds and Muse, but we wanted to take it a step further and make it as heavy as we can while still retaining some real substance in the lyrics and having extreme dynamics."

"We're so committed to doing this, [but] it's not really like we're committed to success - It's that we really, honestly want to make really great music...and nothing really gets in the way of that."