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The duo apparently met at a Sonic Youth concert, but sometimes fabricate the details of how they met. Their name originally started as just "Death from Above' but had to be changed for legal reasons with DFA Records.
They started in 2001, despite having 1979 in their name, which is actually Sebastien Grainger's birthdate. They released their first full length album - "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine' in 2004 with Last Gang Records.
Their video "Blood On Our Hands" won a VideoFACT award at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 2005. They also played their song "Romantic Nights" on the "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" show.
In 2006 the band decided to officially split, Grainger claimed it was because of some musical differences in style and taste.
Sebastien Grainger was also in a band around that time called "Bad Tits" strangely enough, which was also a duo that began playing shows early on in 2010. Later on Grainger announced that the band's name had changed to "Deserts".
But in 2011 Death from Above 1979 announced that they were reforming. On September in 2012 they announced a Canadian tour where they planned to play new material. In July 2014, the duo released a new single called "Trainwreck 1979" and announced their new album "The Physical World" that would include new songs and a tour to support it.
Death from above don't disappoint!
I've seen them thrice now, before the breakup, at Brooklyn waterfront and at 9:30 club last night. Obviously they played a lot from the physical world since that's what the tour is for. The new album was iffy. it was a departure from their earlier work and a bit lighter and… accessable; the performance was amazing and the new tracks are much heavier live!
They also played classics and the opener band was a red herring; they had to put a opener for some reason for the venue or something. Much to the crowd's delight the played all night! Double encore! I'm just a little disappointed because my friend told me afterwards they've been performing a MSTRKRFT encore… regardless they kicked ass!
Actually, there was one little hiccup: I'm pretty sure in the first song (turn it out!!!! Right?!?!) right when the drums come in Sabastien Grainier missed a beat, just one. It was fine. Oh and the pit was virtually nonexistent tons of people just got annoyed. Some guys took it upon themselves to elbow and push me all night, but they couldn't bring me down. That's just dc these days; fucking lame.
All in all, fucking amazing!!!!
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