Shaolin Temple Of Boom

Shaolin Temple of BooM (SToB) is the brainchild of Los Angeles musician/artist David Alvarez (vocals, guitar, bass, keys, programming). SToB's music melds the industrial, machine-driven aspects of modern music with the raw, emotional human elements of pre-digital-era rock. It's influences include Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Queen, etc. SToB won the Wonka Battle of the Bands hosted by trueAnthem (http://www.trueanthem.com/Wonka) in 2009. The competition consisted of many up-and-coming bands, some of which are already touring in the Warped Tour and garnered over 33 million impressions in a heated battle of the bands. SToB recieved an average of 200,000 plays daily on its trueAnthem player (http://www.trueAnthem.com/stob) during the competition and has over 100 thousand downloads to date. 2006 SToB was invited by EVE TV for its premiere, and showcased the song "Into Nothing." EVE TV is the largest multi-player game on one server in history, and SToB was listened to by over 30,000 people. Flux/Viacom then invited SToB to create its own community via its website while Flux was still in its beta format (SToB was the only unsigned band invited to do so). This community is now home to over 2000 members. In 2007, Engl Amps endorsed David Alvarez and promoted this endorsement in music magazines across Europe, including the largest music magazine in Germany, "Rock Hard". In 2008 SToB released the EP "Deus Ex Machina" and began radio play on regular rotation on XM Radio's "Squizz channel."