Virtualized: Herring – SLUG Magazine : vimarsana.com

Virtualized
“We wanted a name that was simple and didn’t give any indication of what genre we played in. Sometimes when you hear the name of a band, you know exactly what genre they’ll be in, and we wanted to avoid that so we could go in any direction we felt like,” says
Devin Richie, addressing the name of SLC band Herring.
Ultimately, this quote embodies exactly what Herring represents through their sound a unique separation from genre labeling. The five-member ensemble creates sounds that do not fit into one specific category. “What you hear especially with the new songs we’re writing is the unification of all our ideas into a song that makes us excited,” says band member