LlamamalL Records
Welcome to the homepage of LlamamalL records. It's not a real record label. It's just a name that Stephen has been sitting on for years in case he ever gets really serious about the business part of doing music. Why don't you check out some of his projects?
Active Projects
Regdar and the Fighters
Regdar and the Fighters is a "solo" project consisting of Steve (nicknamed Fighter #1), a DDR pad-controlled laptop, and whatever guest musicians he has with him any given day.
We play glitchy, catchy nerd punk and sing songs about time travel, the zombie apocalypse, and space aliens.
Status: Active
Nuclear Bubble Wrap
Steve joined with up comedy rock legends Nuclear Bubble Wrap not long after moving to Nashville. Basically, he would go to their shows and say "hey, why is your drummer playing bass and your iPod playing drums? I play bass. You could have your drummer play drums and me play bass." Finally, they let him do just that.
Status: Active
Polly's Pocket
After Blue Matches went on hiatus, Steve teamed up with the former vocalist Michelle Marston to start a 90s cover band. They recruited the rest of the lineup, and now play marinas and Taco Bells all throughout the Nashville area.
Status: Active
Allofher Twitch
Somehow Steve tricked James Hughey of AoHT into thinking that he was cool, so James asked him to play bass for him while his normal bassist was pregnant and not gigging. Then the other bassist sneakily said "a ha! You've got another bassist! I don't need to play any more shows!" So now Steve's the full-time bassist, I guess
Status: Active
Moonlight Drowns
Several bands after Blue Matches, former guitarist Steven Edwards recruited Steve to play bass in his new pop-punk/emo project. They do angsty songs about girls and wanting to die
Status: Active
Fake Punk Bands
Raptor Vomit
Stephen's 4th and most triumphant Fake Punk band. The premise here is: "what if Snake Vomit were way more punk rock and also no one else was in the band
Somehow, this has resulted in a real-life record label carrying their albums
Status: Active
Snake Vomit
Steve's 3rd and most competent Fake Punk band. Snake Vomit consists of Sir Arthur Conan Vomit - a guitarist who can't play because he has nerve damage; Kitty Vomit - a bassist who can't play because she's using borrowed gear that may or may not work and certainly isn't tuned correctly; Raptor Vomit - a drummer who can't play because he's drunk and doesn't know how; and Bear Vomit - a vocalist who is actually good at being a vocalist.
Status: Unknown
1337Band
Steve's second and most fired Fake Punk band. Steve joined 1337 band as drummer for the recording of their third album. Shortly thereafter, he unilaterally fired the vocalist and guitarist - who were also the founding members and primary songwriters. Later both the guitarist and vocalst moved to Japan where they continued to perform occasionally under the name.
Status: Hiatus
We'd Sell Out For $50 Bucks
Steve's first and most rehearsed Fake Punk band: Stephen started We'd Sell Out in 2007 as a one-off punk side project with To Slay Zombie Newton drummer Kevin Renstrom. This was where he first built The Abomination, a modified shortscale bass that allowed him to function as both the guitarist and bassist.
Their goal was to records authentic, aggressive "death to the establishment" punk with an authentic, positive "death to the establishment" Christian message.
They recorded 22 songs in under a week.
Every few years since then, they've gotten back together to record another dozen or so
Status: Hiatus
Inactive Projects
Lipstick Generation
Lipstick Generation was a theatrical glam rock band started by Greg Troyan in Cleveland before moving the project to Nashville. Steve joined on bass in 2013 and remained the only consistent member besides Greg until 2020 when Greg retired from music to focus on writing
The band is technically called just "Lipstick", but has the username Lipstick Generation in most cases because the SEO of a band named "Lipstick" in the 2010s was an impossible prospect.
Status: Hiatus
Blue Matches
Blue Matches was an alt-rock/pop-punk band out of Nashville. They were active from 2009 to 2019, with Steve being bassist from 2012 on
Status: Hiatus
Homo Deprecatus
After everyone in To Slay Zombie Newton went their separate ways, Steve started two studio projects: Regdar and the Fighters and Homo Deprecatus, with the former being for fun, jokey songs; and the latter being for serious, introspective ones.
After a few years, Steve gave up on maintaining two solo projects that were more or less identical except for what kind of things he was singing out. Now he just maintains the old HD recordings for archival purposes
Status: Defunct
To Slay Zombie Newton
Started in late 2003, To Slay Zombie Newton was Stephen's college band. He quickly recruited dorm-mate Kevin "Kivar the Malificent" Renstrom on drums and friend Andrea "Wilky" Ropella (nee Wilkins) on guitar to play his preferred form of nerdy pop punk. The band called themselves Highwall 48 because they were terrible at names.
Soon, they recruited bassist Brian Hon to play lead guitar. ("Lead guitar is just bass guitar transposed up two octaves!") They used this as an excuse to change their name to the much less terrible To Slay Zombie Newton. In 2004, Andrew Wurm recruited himself to pretend to play keyboard and pump his fist 5 minutes before a show. Later he learned the songs and actually played keyboard.
While recording their debut album in 2006, Wilky injured her shoulder. She was replaced by Matthew Biederman, with Wilky sometimes returning for vocal duties live.
After most of the band graduated in 2007, the band went on hiatus except for the occasional reunion show.
Status: Defunct
LlamamalL
In high school, Steve recorded an album's worth of material and distributed a few dozen copies on CD-R
Status: Defunct