The Orbitsuns
The Orbitsuns | |
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| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Outlaw Country |
| Years active | 2000-present |
| Labels | Three One Three |
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The Orbitsuns are a country music band formed in Detroit, Michigan in 2000. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Vinnie Dombroski, bassist Bob Hecker, drummer Jimmy Paluzzi, guitarist Jeremy "Leroy" Bilitz, and vocalist Liz Fornal. They released five full length albums throughout their career. The Orbitsuns are best known for their Dollars and Dice album, released in 2006 by Three One Three Records. The Orbitsuns has done many concerts in Detroit throughout their career, The Orbitsuns are more known as a local band.
History[edit]
Riding their tired old horses across Detroit, their saddlebags stuffed with bourbon, cigarettes, Coney Island hotdogs and worn Johnny Cash cassettes, are the Orbitsuns, the Motor City’s finest purveyors of low down and dirty outlaw country. Summoning the spirits of all of their brethren, the Orbitsuns are as outrageous as Iggy, as blue collar as Seger, as dark as Alice, as revolutionary as the MC5 and as boundary crossing as Kid Rock.
This is country, folks, but not as you know it. Front man Vinnie Dombroski made his name with alt-rock giants Sponge in the ‘90s, smashing into the charts with hits like “Plowed” and “Molly (16 Candles)”. Sponge was formed out of the ashes of the hard rock band Loudhouse, and they were signed to Sony Records for their first two albums (Rotting Piñata and Wax Ecstatic) and were the opening band on the first night of the Kiss reunion tour in 1996. That band is still a going concern proving that the singer is as prolific as he is talented. It was 1996 when Dombroski discovered his talent for writing fire n’ brimstone, honky-tonk hoe-down from Hell cow-punk music, and before long he found himself with a gun case full of songs that would shake the dust from the oldest Stetson, but wouldn’t fit comfortably Sponge’s repertoire. The obvious solution was to form a new band entirely, one that could roam from dive bar to social club, avoiding the spit n’ sawdust on the floors to bring the party to everyone from the hipsters to the ignored. The band, completed by and Jackson Smith on guitars and pedal steel, Bob Hecker on bass and Jimmy Paluzzi on drums are one of the hardest working in Detroit, and in this town that’s really saying something. Debut album Redneck Disco was originally released in 2001, simultaneously introducing the world to a band which had been honing it’s incendiary live show since it’s inception a couple of years before.
Discography[edit]
Studio albums:[edit]
- The Orbitsuns (2002)
- Dollar and Dice (2006)
- Redneck Disco (2008)
- First Drink of the Day (2010)
- Give The Orbitsuns What They Want (2012)
- Xs Over Our Eyes (2015)
Singles:[edit]
- Detroit Cold (2011)
- Drunk in the Pew (2011)
- Go Get 'Em Tigers (2014)
