Biography

Since forming in 2005, Washington, DC-based riffonauts Caustic Casanova have planted their flag on the side of genre-agnostic exploration, taking each song and following it wherever the hell it needs to go. The refinement of their thrillingly unpredictable music, which careens from sardonic noise rock to proggy sludge in the vein of Baroness or Torche, and from the gargantuan heft of Melvins or Boris to fleet guitar heroics and flashes of dark-hued post-punk, has progressed relentlessly over 5 albums and 4 EPs. On their brain-frying new album, "Glass Enclosed Nerve Center", they gather even more sounds into their hyperkinetic core and explode them outward in a kaleidoscope of progressive, exuberant heavy rock. After a number of proudly DIY releases, Caustic Casanova caught the attention of kindred road dogs Kylesa, who released CC’s 2015 album "Breaks" on their Retro Futurist label. The then-trio criss-crossed the country, bringing their pure rock fury to the riff-thirsty masses on 17 regional and full North American tours. 2019’s triumphant "God How I Envy the Deaf" saw the band using those road-honed chops to thrash out a heavier, even more joyously swaggering set of righteousness as they linked up with the heavy music tastemakers of New York imprint Magnetic Eye Records. Caustic Casanova is eager to bring "Glass Enclosed Nerve Center", the band's second MER release, into a world still in desperate need of hot licks and undeniable hooks.