Sweet Cyanide

The "attitudinal, artistic, freakish, creative, obnoxious, ingenious, and roguish" band Sweet Cynanide flies into Orlando from New York for the Florida Music Festival on May 16.

The four-member group performs "timeless, pop-based songs with a heavy, dark modern twist - that’s often twisted," singer/guitarist Sal Scoca said. “I want Sweet Cyanide to sound like we just got dropped here from space. As a kid, I really believed KISS was KISS and Bowie was his persona. I want people to feel that strongly about the uniqueness and power of Sweet Cyanide.”

Sweet Cyanide was formed only last year as a fusion of members of two other bands. Scoca and bassist Angelo Fariello from Crashbox while drummer Mike Bambace and guitarist Joe Salvatore were formerly with Moment Theory.

“All four of us are literally insane—but each in a totally different way,” Fariello revealed. He went a bit further and described Scoca as "an evil genius, getting inside your head and making you believe you’re orange."

Their debut album, "Sweet Cyanide," was tracked primarily at a "haunted studio in New York," Scoca admitted. He pointed out that there was a "mysterious humming sound" on the song "Black & White" that emerged after recording, apparently from the acoustics, although they may not have ruled out any other sources of the ghostly reverberations.

“I write full records; I need that great opening song to get a record going. My mind works in mysterious ways,” Scoca said. “I took a mental trip to Italy to write the song "When We Were Young" with the thought if the world was going to end tomorrow, what would I do?" Scoca added that "it was recorded in my bedroom with two mics, and you can hear my dog’s collar jangling in the song."

"Sweet Cyanide are on a path of sonic construction, crushing the boundaries that were placed on all mankind, taking no prisoners, and leaving no ear behind. You have been warned."

For more information on the band, visit http://www.sweetcyanide.com/.