Floorbound Wants To Party, Not Murder Anyone

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com.

Justin Flores

​Floorbound is a rock group. They howl and scream and thump and bang and combine the interesting parts of whine rock and heavy rock. Some of them are hairy and bearded and some of them are not.

The video of theirs that got sent to us in their "This Is Why Floorbound Should Be Artist Of The Week" email was a Home Alone homage that included a scene where one of their members attempts to crush an attractive woman's skull with a can of paint. Thankfully, he is unsuccessful.

So we reached over to the sirs to talk about that, Journey, whether it's better to look like Tall Verne Troyer or Normal Size Chris Daughtry, and the implication that they've eaten forest animals. Keep it moving.

Rocks Off: Tell everyone everything they need to know about Floorbound in exactly six words.

Floorbound: Meaty, Potato-y, Rock and Roll Goodness.

RO: The video you sent, if we're to understand it correctly, is about you guys trying to get all revenge-y on a woman that has wronged you, right? There's a scene in there where you attempt to crush her head with a paint can. Did that seem equitable? You get heartbreak, she gets murdered?

F: I don't know that we're condoning murder, per se. It was more along the lines of a "let her know we mean business" smack.

RO: We were a little disappointed that [your song] "Only The Lonely" was not a Journey cover. That said, we think it's in that song that you all have the best, most interesting line. It states: "You only want me 'cause you're lonely. I only want you 'cause I'm me." So, question: Why did you write that? What was going on?

Floorbound, "Only the Lonely"

F: Usually, our lyrics are metaphor-heavy, because we try to convey a feeling, as opposed to focusing on single words. But, sometimes there's no better way to portray a feeling than to state it directly. A girl was hanging around, waiting on something better. I saw through it and called her out, in song form.