“Think a 3 piece Mr. Bungle with Patton’s vocals taking a a turn for the better, add some laser beams and dreads, turn it all up to eleven, stand the fuck back and enjoy.” – Ground Report – NYC
“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
“Soaring vocal harmonies are there one minute and replaced with a throaty growl the next. “Pure Sketch” is a sure-fire modern rock radio hit as the post grunge frame work gets stirred up into a tasty seventies inspired soul/funk soup.” – Metal-Rules.com
“Bloody well are entertaining. All dreadlocks and fricking samurai swords, giant pants and flying limbs. Not a speck of the stage was left untouched by this bands chaotic feet.” – Cord Masgazine
“The album itslef is a blend of hardcore, punk, ska, rock & metal, a recipe for brilliance. I urge everyone to check out this band, you may just re-evaluate your existence.” – Infinitbasement
“Ninjaspy, the band we’d all been waiting for. The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Gergia Straight (Vancouver Weekly) -Live Review
We live in an age of misunderstanding. Music is chained to the image of its creators, and ninja are commonly perceived as heartless human weapons whose skills, like those of artists, are cheaply bought and sold. In most music, there is a deviation from real human connection. In life, there is an imaginary division of mind, body and spirit. True freedom of expression is strangled by social choke holds imposed by tides of opinion. To survive this one must adapt, evolve and re-connect themselves to their human nature. One must reunite music with dancing, mind with body and thought with action. One must become each moment, invisible yet vivid. Become nothing, and not be broken down.
In 1999, three brothers began making music together. Joel, Adam, and Tim Parent, (the Triad in Blood) at the ages of 15, 13 and 11 respectively, came to the end of the century with distinctly different musical preferences despite a lifelong proximity. The trio, being so diverse in influence, opted not to unify a functional idiom for their evolving mix of music. Instead they chose to simply include all of their stylistic preferences in one colossal cauldron. The result was a seven year soup of ska, grunge, hardcore, metal, reggae. funk, surf and jazz that eventually became known as Ninjaspy in 2006.
Ninjaspy picked up momentum immediately, playing relentlessly in their hometown of Vancouver, Canada, and touring several times across the vast country. They often left audiences aghast; reeling in disbelief of what they had just witnessed, whether it was out of disgust or admiration, or both. In correlation with a commitment to real, reciprocal human connection and zero-ego, high-energy, free-expression dance pit parties, support for Ninjaspy grew with every show.
Alongside prolific producers GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, RHCP, Mudvayne) and Ben Kaplan (Atreyu, Haste the Day, Shakira), Ninjaspy released their debut album πature (Pi Nature) in the fall of 2007. Pi Nature and Ninjaspy live had one predominant similarity: From start to finish one scarcely knew what to expect. From downbeat to breakdown, reggae, ska and hardcore were forcibly wed, and there was much rejoicing. Since its release in 2007,
Pi Nature has sold over 2500 copies both independently and internationally. The band has completed several headlining Canadian tours, appeared on The Warped Tour and Taste Of Chaos festivals, and shared the stage with bands like Protest the Hero, Coheed & Cambria, Thursday, Cancer Bats, Grimskunk, Death By Stereo, 3 Inches of Blood, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Brutal Truth, Divinity, Bring Me The Horizon, Neuraxis, Pierce The Veil, Powerman 5000, The Dreadnoughts, & more.
In October 2009, Ninjaspy’s international foothold was strengthened when Zestone Records released Pi Nature across Japan. 2010 took Ninjaspy across the Pacific to tour Japan with Death By Stereo. Now the Triad in Blood have returned home and settled down to write and record a follow up to Pi Nature with GGGarth Richardson and Ben Kaplan in Vancouver. The new album, which will see release in 2011, will continue bear the message that true freedom through music and dancing is here for all people.