WarClown bio In early 2011, current members keith feulner and jared homant of the national band DISARRAY came across some time off as founding member and metal legend Chuck Bonnett III was on tour with a booming side project of his. we decided to just jam some fun stuff in the mean time to keep chops up. the theory was to combine the aspects of thrash, hardcore, and tech metal that we love and just have fun with it. it was a strange trip trying to find a guitarist that had the tone and style we had planned. that is until jared introduced Tommy Clabough. tommy is a classical influenced giutarist in the likes of vai, satriani, and sculnick. T.C. had introduced a whole new level of playing to us that forced everyone to step up to the plate. although still in the early stages of writing, there are 4 songs in pre production and ended up in a tech/prog metal genre with some fusion aspects. all have many influences showing like slayer, exodus, dream theater, origin, satriani, and vai. keith feulner, drummer, was born and raised on long island, n.y. in the n.y.h.c. and thrash scene era. schooled by the long island drum center and local legend jeff barlow. these all reinforced the groove in every song and how to get a riff to move. most influence came from a texas band intoduced as a child sometime around the mid to late 80s called watchtower. although growing up with players like bredon cohen for vision of disorder from the 3rd grade, and all the hard hitting groove of the hardcore and thrash scene, watchtower invoked a technical aspect to playing not heard in bands before. after leaving the l.i.n.y. metal giants Overdrive around 1996 and moving to the knoxville area, keith joined the nashville based band Disarray on eclipse records and nrvd records. keith has been seen well over a million views in videos like Big Smo-kickin it in tennesse official video, live moccasin creek project tour videos, live Disarray show dvds, and many online drum clinics, instruction and solo videos. still an active member today, Disarray is writing the 5th full album. he is a founding member of WarClown. keith proudly uses pdp/dw drums, sabian or mienl cymbals, vater 3a sticks, iron cobra pedals, rocNsoc seat, evans heads, alesis drum module, roland triggers, shure/cad/audix mics, and behringer processors. jared homant, bassist, born in michiganand raised in maryville, tn. jared has been a co-founder of the band facelock, toured and recorded the 1st album with dig6down, had a good run with the knoxville band galaxie on a reunion tour, and co fronts the nashville based hardcore/thrash band Disarray along side keith feulner and chuck bonnett III on eclipse records and nrvd records. jared is also a professional musician as is part of many other genre bands such as Moccasin Creek, and charlie bonnett III solo band and has a very successful career underway. he is also a founding member of WarClown. jared homant also sights all the legends like sabbath, devildriver, testament, early metallica, bls, and such as his influences and it show in the very Steve harris runs and hard groove he installs on anything put to him. he loves shrubbery, long walks on the beach, and the first crap of the day. jared homant proudly pounces a bi-amped GK rig with a bbe maximizer, yamaha active bass, monster cables, and is very good with his fingers..... tommy clabough, guitarist, is our newest member, and most important as there would be no WarClown without the twist of fate that brought him by one day to jam. the direction was very clear where we were going with the new band the second tommy played. "i, for one, put my sticks down in awe hearing tommy just warm up. he was everything you could want in a guitarist!" drummer keith feulner explains. tommy has studied classical, spanish, flamenco, and still loves the greats like death, metallica(early), yngwie, petrucci, megadeth, slayer, and still lists mozart, beethoven, bach and more with that. and it shows! TC can shred the sickest death metal while next bar throwing soulful melodic runs and sweeps with almost effortless movement. tommy is a native of blount county. has been through a few bands in the area such variance, 3randomwords, bloodlord, dv8, feed, omega rage, and mortified death, only now to be able to come out of the shell they threw over him to let all thought out riffs and notes fly. several WarClown songs are based on or from demos that tommy and friend/drummer rico had previously recorded. claboughs guitar of choice is a fernandes vortex flying V, d'adario strings with .60 picks, through randall head and cab, with a line 6 as a processer. We proudly introduce Brad Parker, formaly of Downslave, into our frontman spot as vocalist. Brad brings a new energy and style to compliment the prog rock/metal that we produce and not only has a great understanding for music, but has accomplished a ton already in his music career. The full album is being finished at this time and we are very excited to get this to you. it really is a huge milestone for the southeast scene.