Alterity

An earthy, passionate blend of traditional and original electric juke joint & Detroit street corner Delta Blues flavored with the many roots music styles from the southern states of the USA. Alterity’s main focus is to bring back the blues and better modern music. And to restore faith in humanity.

What does Alterity mean ?
In the phenomenological tradition it is usually understood as the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed, and it implies the ability to distinguish between self and not-self, and consequently to assume the existence of an alternative viewpoint.

As a band, ALTERITY is adapting this ideology to morph old school Delta Blues with elements of traditional heavy metal, psychedelic desert rock and stoner rock creating a mid tempo groove laden bass sound featuring heavily distorted guitars, melodic vocals, droning synthesizers and retro production techniques.

Alterity originated as 2 piece band, guitar/vocals(Wyatt Leonard) and drums(Flip Longley). The two founding members met at the Denver School of Rock in 2011, become friends, sharing very similar tastes in music and quickly decided to start their own project, Alterity. Their major influences would be Jack White, Son House, Robert Johnson, Junior Kimbrough, North Mississippi Allstars, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep, OM, Eagles of Death Metal, Mississippi Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Led Zeppelin, and several other old timer Delta Blues / Electric Blues artists.