Biography


Reg Rubio- Vocals
Allen Cudal- Guitars
Audie Avinido- Guitars
Nido Avenido- Bass
TJ Brillantes- Drums

The band called Greyhoundz, and their Audience is hungry for the "Pigface" mantra, tight groove, guitars turn lower than than normal, raging like over-revved engines. They jump, crouch, and simply embody the engines of their music. The Band is tight, as their hip-hop influenced attire loose. Loose pants, tight grooves, and violent body moves.

It is the middle of 1999, and Greyhoundz are preparing their debut album under Sony Music Philippines(Epic Records). Their reputation for being tight aggressive band has been well amplified, a demo CD featuring "Pigface" helped cement the notoriety. The song got airplay on Nu-107 and an apprearance on the "In The Raw" was chanced upon by Sony Music'c Wally Chamsay, who was simply blown away by what he heard. Not bad for a band whose highest goal was to play at the now defunct Club Dredd.

Greyhoundz was performed by the Avenido cousins and named after their father/ uncle's former band. Friends from school and childhood augment the line-up, Rubio as the newest memeber. The band initially had a

vocalist who scrumbbled in rock-star delusion a little too early, and was not very open to different approaches to vocal treatments such as rap. Theymet Rubio at Dredd; he was in the Band called Chaddish Magoy, which, by his own account, had an excellent guitarist but a week rythm section. Greyhounds was already a tight band by that time, after saying good bye to theie original vocalist, invited Rubio to the fold. The Band memebers' original influences included Pantera, Pearl Jam, Guns 'n' Roses ang Ugly Kid Joe, but collectively, they take sonic and visual cues from Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Deftones.

The bnad's most well-known song so far, "Pigface" captures the Greyhoundz assault and is reflective of the newer heavy music of hip-hop and hard funk rhythms, throat-bursting vocals, and detuned guitars sometimes processed to emulate turntable-scratch textures. It is a style Difficult to label conventionally and this tends to put the band in the rather delicate situations.

Greyhoundz has reached their goal and surpassed it, growing as they prepare for their first album. They are louder Scarier, Angrier, and Packed with Ball-Rattling power.