Radiosmack is the 'tuneful' offshoot of the split of Mettaya into two bands - Mettaya keeps on as the purveyors of psychedelic metal and industrial, and Radiosmack is now the home of the less pounding, visceral songs - more about making a genuinely new chapter in rock and roll history for the first time since (dare we say it) "grunge" came about. Dan was invited into what was touted as a 'neo-Grunge' band within days of arriving in Venice in 2006; he didn't think much of the idea at the time. "I really think genres, this whole 'categorizing music' thing, is both pointless and out of control. I've seen so many craigslist ads over the years now where people try to create some 'new genre' when they should be concentrating on writing and performing music people want to hear for whatever reason, instead of trying to make your crappy death metal band seem original by calling it 'blood metal' or something. "However, that spirit, of wanting to take modern music and infuse it with the best of what was in the traditional canon, in ways the older artists never intended, in the pursuit of a new, visceral form of rock and roll, is entirely the point here." Radiosmack delivers by offering songs soaked in the suffering of real life, both personally lived and witnessed, yet rendered by someone who refuses to just become a cynic and be done with it. "I want this band to be more fun than Mettaya, maybe a hair less high minded, more to the point. Maybe I'm gettin' old," (he's a ripe old 30 now) "but this is the band for people who don't want to scream. Cry, drown in a bottle of brown liquor maybe, but it just comes from a different place than the aggro and political thrash of Mettaya, and I felt like both styles of songs were suffering from a lack of people's ability to understand that it's all rock and roll, all from one heart and mind. But I guess I'm stuck like Al from Ministry with 13 bands to keep track of."