ROCKWiRED MAGAZiNE iNTERViEWS BULLETPROOF MESSENGER

MARCH 29, 2010
OUT OF THE BASEMENT
JESSE DOWNiNG AND VOLEY MARTiN
OF BULLETPROOF MESSENGER
TALK TO ROCKWiRED
ABOUT THEiR LATEST CD ARM YOURSELF
GROWiNG iNTO A FULL-FLEDGED BAND
AND THE TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES SONGWRiTiNG EASiER
iNTERViEWED BY BRiAN LUSH
The potent mixture of BULLETPROOF
MESSENGER’s heavy metal thunder and digital beats originated in a basement back in the year 2000. After having perfected this bold sound, DJ / programmer MATT LITWIN and guitarist VOLEY MARTIN were anxious to get it out there for people to hear. The one obstacle was that this edgy sound didn’t have a serviceable vocalist. After three years, vocalist MARCUS KLAVAN came knocking and BULLETPROOF MESSENGER was ready to roll. Having been tapped by INCUBUS to open for them on a world tour, the band quickly gained a reputation for getting a crowd energized. That very synergy was captured on the band’s much-too-long-in-the-making 2006 debut album ‘THE CRUCIAL LINE’. Four years later, BULLETPROOF MESSENGER has grown in musicality and band members with the release of their sophomore album ‘ARM YOURSELF’ and the expanse has co-founder VOLEY MARTIN looking back in disbelief. “For the first album we had years of stuff that had built up and we just went through the best songs that we had and spent hours and hours a day until the sound got where we wanted it to be before we could go into the recording studio.” says MARTIN “For the second album, we signed up for the SELLABAND thing where a band can reach up to fifty thousand dollars in investment money. We ended up reaching fifty-thousand dollars in ten months so we had to work under the gun a little bit. Despite not being around as much, I was still involved in the writing process over the internet. The big difference between both albums is that the first album was two people where as ARM YOURSELF was a true band effort.” (READ MORE)