Scorched Vatika

Metal ((call the subgenre whatever you (meaning any listener) want)) | Murfreesboro, TN

Bio:
In 2018 we started after Adam Corso (guitar and vox) and Alec Freuchtl (bass and vox) left a previous act together and saw a similar vision. Our homebase is the original capitol of Tennessee, Murfreesboro! Through the most glorious, archaic, and always practical Craigslist, Lane Spicer (lead vocals and lyricist) joined in April 2018. Ryan Houser (Drums) joined in July and the foundation was laid; however, there was a missing link. Adam had the most experience of us all and let us know after we had finished a handful of songs that he wanted to find someone else to share in guitar duties as he had carried vocal and guitar duties in many projects. The search began, and our first try out rounded things out. Jack Crowley (Guitar, Vocals, and Piano) joined in December of 2018. Originally we called ourselves Stolen Valor and after finding a band in New York City going by the same name, we wrote as many names with SV initials and set up a whole bracket system to determine the name of the band. Ultimately we landed with Scorched Vatika. Between the 5 of us there is a 19 year difference from oldest to youngest. What has came from this is a healthy mixture of styles, tastes, oddness, and perspective that has helped us craft a strange sound. The first year and half of our lives together as a band we laid the groundwork down, consistently practicing 2-3 times a week in a 12×8 storage unit for $150 a month. John Law only came knocking one time. There we finished our 1st album Tremble which debutted in January of 2020 as well as the beginning stages of our 2nd album Dirge. Dirge on the other hand became a long drawn out project that we felt we owed our best efforts to with as much time to complete it as necessary. "The storage unit days" were beautiful, swelteringly hot, miserably cold, and often smelly and sweaty. Though we are all in different stages of life we have always found a way to balance things out. We decided we would up our practice space up and signed up for a membership at Ridenour Rehearsal Studios in Murfreesboro. To date I believe we are the 2nd longest tenured band to consistently be members at Ridenour. We constructed a major chunk of Dirge there and called it a home away from home throughout the pandemic. Just recently our Drummer Ryan has nearly completed his upstairs into a sound proof practice space. Thus chapter 3 seems to have started for the band as we are now practicing mainly at Ryan's house. We started gigging in the fall of 2019 and were loving every minute of it! We recorded Tremble with Producer Randall Scott Peterson in Gallatin, TN at Ovation Studio. After we released Tremble in 2020 we were orchestrating quite the collection of shows across the Eastern US, then Covid reared its ugly ass. Through quite the testing of our collective faith in each other we faced many trials that shaped our desire to write an album that looks at death from all angles. That was the last subject Lane wanted to write about but it ended up being the right answer. Randall Scott Peterson recorded us again throughout the pandemic over many spread out weekends. Now that Dirge has been released in July of 2022, we are venturing forth for our next battles. This is only a small taste of our story... We would love to share it in more detail; however we are not great self promoters, we try to let our music and especially our live performances speak for themselves. We are very dug into the thriving music scene in Murfreesboro and end up playing more shows there than Nashville (prideful shoutout to The Crossroads!). Our next steps are getting better and promoting ourselves, Christmas, writing, and to start playing out of state. Other than that, we exist for ourselves and our love for each other, where the music goes is simply our entertainment.
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