BIO

Terminus Victor music is both immediate and insidious. More generally described as a blend of rock, alternative rock, and post-punk with a dash of shoegaze. Joy Divison, My Bloody Valentine, Slint, HUM and more are influential ingredients in the wall of sound recipe cooked up by Scott Kimble [Bass/Vocals], Don King [Guitar], and Terry Wathen [Drums]. This band's tastes become known through their music and lyrics that communicate powerful yet vulnerable expressions of raw emotion, insecurities and empathy with the pain and beauty of life as common people. Post-grunge anti-rockstar, Kimble, with his omnipresent dark hat and black fingernails casts a shadowy figure, and he has a ghost like ability to disappear from a room when he was standing here just a second ago. Like a dedicated chef and his staff that work unseen in the kitchen, Kimble savors the process to create songs that taste good to the ears and are memorable to the palette. His creative mindset suffuses into his home kitchen where he makes a burger taste better with mouth watering recipes like his Yucky Burger with teriyaki and Zeke Burger with tzatziki sauce.

When he reappears on stage, Kimble plays a modified three string bass with roaring rhythmic style as he sings a range of dynamic to soaring vocals. He is mindful to empower his band mates with space to add their flavors to the mix. Kimble's lifelong friend, King, is his counter opposite. Nattily adorned in a suit and tie, he joyfully kneads the fret board amplified by chiming stereo guitar tone. Their opposite worlds of artful and technical minds are a combination where each feels enriched by the other through mutual influence. Round out the three course menu with Wathen who has a forte to find sought-after drum treasures and collect them from forgotten and dusty places. He always arrives with a superb sounding flavor-of-the-day snare selected from his floor to ceiling stacks. Originally from Chicago, he is a life long drummer who bonds the chemistry of the band with precise dynamic temperatures that underscore his band mates riffs. Together through hundreds of performances, this band blends their secret ingredients of sounds and songs that build and share delectable energy, excitement and interconnection with audiences.

Terminus Victor is from the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana, IL. Kimble and King started as a duo in 2000 with a ferocious explosive drum machine named 'She'. Like Steve Albini’s breakthrough rock act, Big Black, (the also drummerless) Terminus Victor explored/exploited the notion of combining man and machine. After ‘She’ moved to Portland in 2006, Wathen joined the band. Fans who loved the 100% performance energy level with ‘She’ measured a boost to 150% with the addition of Wathen's dynamic drumming. At the same time, politely retracting not to offend the work done with ‘She’.

Nicknamed TVic, this band thrives on inspiration “the music is in here [point to heart] and it has got to come out!”. Their creative process rolls on with a new menu of songs nearly completed for their next planned record and future release. This band is tight and performs with fervent passion and intensity for energized audiences of tens to hundreds. TVic gets invited back to venues and festivals like repeat invitations to Cobrafest by Matt Talbott of HUM and benefit shows like the annual Great Cover Up for community causes like Girls Rock, CU One-to-One Mentoring Program and benefit shows to raise healthcare support for people. Terminus Victor lives by their motto that whoever comes to a show was meant to be there and each person will be given TVic’s best.

NOTABLE FACTS / INFO

Music industry notable highlights:

2/20/21 - Live Video performance ONLINE PRF Thundersnow 2021 Music Festival

2/14/20 - Performed at PRF Thundersnow 2020 Music Festival

7/15/19 - Indoor Stage headliner at Cobrafest 2019

7/6/19 - w/ Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (Virgin Records) at Audiofeed Music Festival 2019

6/1/19 - w/ Acquaintances (members: Jered Gummere [The Ponys, Bare Mutants, Richard Vain], Patrick Morris [Don Caballero, The Poison Arrows], Stephen Schmidt [Thumbnail, Chino Horde], Justin Sinkovich [The Poison Arrows, Atombombpocketknife, Thumbnail], and Chris Wilson [Titus Andronicus, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Hammered Hulls, Hound, Shake Ray Turbine]) in Champaign

7/2/16 - w/ HUM (RCA Records) at Cobrafest 2016

10/28/09 - Top 20 Album of the Decade in Champaign-Urbana - Under Surveillance by Terminus Victor

2/6/04 - w/ Poster Children (Warner Bros Reprise Records; Creation[UK]) at Empty Bottle in Chicago

4/24/04 - w/ Menthol (Capitol Records) in Champaign

6/4/04 - w/ Menthol (Capitol Records) in Indianapolis

2/15/05 - 2005 Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place

11/1/03 - WILL TV Channel 12 Broadcast Live @ 12midnight on Studio X Live Music Show by Brian Paris

6/28/03 - Video recorded Terminus Victor Show by Lepers TV at The City Museum in St. Louis

"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. " [-Igor Stravinsky]