{"id":3220,"date":"2015-01-05T02:32:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T02:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2015-01-05T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T02:32:34","slug":"reverbnation-winner-haster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/reverbnation-winner-haster\/","title":{"rendered":"ReverbNation Winner ~ Haster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sRg56O9USs\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_3215\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3215\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/David-Heida-head-shot-225x191.jpg\" alt=\"David Heida\" width=\"225\" height=\"191\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Heida<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We selected alternative metal and hard rock band Haster as our ReverbNation contest winner because we love their hit single <em>Within These Walls<\/em>. I had a fabulous time interviewing David Heida, the band\u2019s founder and lead guitarist. The rest of Haster includes Patrick Nolan on rhythm guitar and vocals, Jarret Stockmar on vocals, Mondo Salazar on bass and Brian Tew on drums.<\/p>\n<p>I just had to learn more about <em>Within These Walls<\/em>. David explained: \u201cThat\u2019s our newest single. We should have our music video out right around the New Year. We\u2019re just finishing up the editing. This is the song off our new album <em>Let It Go<\/em> that most people relate to, and it gives us our biggest reaction when we play live. We love playing it, and it fits perfectly with what we\u2019re doing with our imagery and our band\u2019s message. It\u2019s a perfect in-your-face rock song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I also love Haster\u2019s single <em>Medicine<\/em>. It\u2019s softer than most of their music, so I asked David to tell me about this song too. \u201cThat is the first single off our new album <em>Let It Go<\/em>. \u00a0It\u2019s the ballad of the record. When we wrote it, we were hoping for it to be a hit. The song translates to everybody. Everyone who hears it has their own reaction to the song. We tried to extend that to the video, the reality of the world and escapism. <em>Medicine, <\/em>for us, is music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is the Haster story? According to David, \u201cWhen I started Haster, I had just gotten out of another band. The first person I met was Brian Tew, our drummer, through a mutual friend at work. The biggest hiccup with my previous band was that we could not keep a drummer. With Brian, we glued right away and became instant friends. He\u2019s an insane drummer, which was what I was looking for. We played together for a couple of months. Then, through Craigslist, we found Jarret Stockmar, our lead singer. He perfectly fit the mold. Within a month, we were in the studio recording our first album <em>Searching<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3219\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-posing-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Haster posing\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/>The original members of Haster spent the next two years playing songs off <em>Searching<\/em> with another bass player. David explained, \u201cWe ended up finding Patrick Nolan through another band, when his band was falling apart. We were able to add that new element of rhythm guitar and his vocals on the new songs we were creating. In the course of playing through our new album <em>Let It Go<\/em>, we lost our bass player. Right before we went on tour at the end of this summer, we ended up getting the bass player from the local band Stereotype: Mondo Salazar. It\u2019s a great group of guys. We all get along perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David believes that Haster works because: \u201cWe started a band because we wanted to become friends, and the music comes second. It\u2019s hard to do the business and friendship stuff. That\u2019s what music is. It\u2019s a business, but you want to have fun doing it. You don\u2019t want to think of it as a job, even though it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love the way Haster mixes storytelling with an edgy rock sound. When I asked David how he would describe Haster\u2019s music, he laughed and told me: \u201cIt\u2019s weird, because some people think we\u2019re super heavy and some people think we\u2019re super light. We\u2019re pretty much that all metal band, where we can go super heavy if we\u2019re playing with super heavy bands or we can go softer if we\u2019re playing with an indie crowd. We\u2019re a hybrid of Korn, Breaking Benjamin, A Perfect Circle, Tool and a lot of bands from the early 2000\u2019s. We grew up on the early 2000\u2019s music, so you hear a lot of that in our music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David says he\u2019s a product of the grunge movement; Brian was more into classic rock; Jarret was into heavier rock and new metal; Patrick was into industrial type music.\u00a0 No wonder Haster is a hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>On their website, Haster states that they started as a band, but they\u2019re becoming a movement. What does that mean? David told me, \u201cWe try to do as much as we can on every level. Social media is a huge thing for us. We go out to shows, we promote. In a way, our fans give back to us the same energy we give out. It\u2019s motivated us to keep going and pushing ourselves to create the best music. It\u2019s crazy when you arrive before a show and see people waiting outside. We\u2019ve been able to get our music out all over the world. We even sent music to a bus stop in Kenya.\u201d\u00a0 Haster goes out of their way for their fans and they love them back. Awesome!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3217\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-Let-It-Go-cover-225x225.jpg\" alt=\"Haster - Let It Go cover\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-Let-It-Go-cover-225x225.jpg 225w, https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-Let-It-Go-cover-225x225-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-Let-It-Go-cover-225x225-38x38.jpg 38w, https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-Let-It-Go-cover-225x225-186x186.jpg 186w, https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Haster-Let-It-Go-cover-225x225-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Haster has mastered social media. David explains, \u201cAt any moment, you can talk to any one of us in the band. We\u2019re on Facebook; we\u2019re on Twitter; we\u2019re on Instagram. We answer emails all the time. We send out free sticker packs whenever there\u2019s a holiday. If you ask us for stickers, we\u2019ll give them to you. We want people to share our music, listen to it and enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haster even records podcasts. \u201cEarlier this year, we started Mind Control Radio, which are podcasts available on iTunes and Amazon and our website. If you email us with questions, we\u2019ll answer them on the show. Our fans are picking up on this. It\u2019s just another way to interact with our fans and let people get to know us outside of the heavy music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What advice does David have for other indie bands: \u201cKeep pushing yourself and work social media. \u00a0That\u2019s the best and easiest free advertising you can get. I know it\u2019s hard to continually promote the business of being in a band, where you\u2019re not really making any money or seeing anything on a daily basis. If you keep at it, when you finally hit that pay dirt, you\u2019ll see the benefits of all the hard work you\u2019ve done. We\u2019re just now seeing the tip of the iceberg of all the hard work we\u2019ve done, and we\u2019re looking forward to everything that\u2019s coming our way in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s up next for Haster? \u201cWe\u2019ll be releasing our video <em>Within These Walls<\/em> from <em>Let It Go<\/em>. Then, we\u2019re going to try and play a bunch of shows. We\u2019ve already started our next record. Hopefully, we\u2019ll release that sometime in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would love to see Haster live in Portland. David, let me know the next time you\u2019re in town.<\/p>\n<p>Amused Now ReverbNation Contest Winners<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3216\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/David-Heida-plays-guitar-231x325.jpg\" alt=\"David Heida plays guitar\" width=\"231\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/David-Heida-plays-guitar-231x325.jpg 231w, https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/David-Heida-plays-guitar-231x325-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/>David Heida, Haster<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/haster.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haster.co<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Hasterband\" target=\"_blank\">@Hasterband<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hasterband\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/109121428652727091281\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/hasterband\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Kahn, Founder of Amused Now \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/amusednow\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Amused_Now\" target=\"_blank\">@Amused_Now<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmusedNow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/106372266016264510992\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/amusednow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/amused-now\/id916561789\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We selected alternative metal and hard rock band Haster as our ReverbNation contest winner because we love their hit single Within These Walls. I had a fabulous time interviewing David Heida, the band\u2019s founder and lead guitarist. The rest of Haster includes Patrick Nolan on rhythm guitar and vocals, Jarret Stockmar on vocals, Mondo Salazar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[703,708,702,704,709,707,706,705],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-david-heida","tag-hard-rock","tag-haster","tag-let-it-go","tag-medicine","tag-metal","tag-searching","tag-within-these-walls"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ReverbNation Winner ~ Haster - Amused Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Heida, founder and lead guitarist from alternative metal and hard rock band Haster, shares the band&#039;s back story and plans for 2015 with Amused Now.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/reverbnation-winner-haster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ReverbNation Winner ~ Haster - 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