BLACK LODGE
Rocking in the vineyards
The hills were alive with the sound of music last Friday night but it didn't resemble anything Julie Andrews might have performed. The industrial rock band Black Lodge set up their equipment at Dog Hill Vineyard in Buellton and rocked out into the early-morning hours filming a music video for their song "Devour." The video is being released Sept. 2 in advance of the band's appearance at the legendary West Hollywood music club The Viper Room.
Black Lodge is the three-year-old band founded by Johnny Royal, who plays lead guitar, performs back-up vocals and is the songwriter. Daniel Sahagun gets the credit for lead vocals, Nero Bellum is on bass and synthesizer and Raanen Bozzio is on drums. The industrial rock genre pulls from rock, electronic and synthesizer music and counts Nine Inch Nails as one of its best-known proponents. Black Lodge toured all of 2013, clocking 20,000 miles, according to Royal.
"This is the best group of musicians I've ever worked with," said Royal, who earned a degree in classical music and classical guitar at St. Vincent College, where he double majored in finance, and then won a scholarship to continue his studies at The Juilliard School in New York City.
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