Crumb Catcher is a band that was put together because singer/guitarist Marc has been writing songs for a long time and playing where he can acoustically. They're like Minute Men meets Johnny Paycheck meets Against Me meets Black Sabbath, man I don't know how to explain it. That's not a good description. Just listen to it. But luckily for him an old friend named Nathan let him record an album at his home studio. The album is called "Fired". Another longtime friend and drummer named Derek recorded the drum parts. That guy started out playing coal buckets and trash can lids as a kid. For real. This guy Todd mixed it and this guy Rusty did guitar tech stuff with pedals. That was real cool.
Then he met this guy named Seth who agreed to play drums live with him. Then they met this guy named Matt who said he would play bass with them. Dude is wild. He picked it up fast though and he never really played bass before. He played banjo. They worked out five new songs together and got tight. The live show was kickin'. Seth moved to Hollywood. He won a scholarship by playing his drums. That takes skills. Longtime friend Dean joined. He slid in it like an old shoe. They are rocking to this day. And ya know most of this happened in less than a year.

Portable Hero accomplishes a sound that is both familiar and indescribable fusing metal, jazz, punk, funk and progressive rock into high energy pop songs.

The band was founded in April 2011 by Singer/Songwriter Joshua McKelvey and lead guitarist Chris Cloud after working together at a bookstore. Joshua McKelvey is a classical trained Horn player but heavily influenced by jazz, pop, funk, and R&B. Chris Cloud is currently studying classical guitar but is also influenced by 90's alternative, and progressie rock.

Nicholas Adrian aka Sir Nicholas joined the line-up after impressing Josh at local music store bringing with him progressive metal and funk influences. The last puzzle piece fell into place with the pop, rock and funk drummer Ralph Butcher.

Bedowyn infuses down tuned elements of classic metal, thrash, doom and Sabbathesque riffs into a powerful and multi-facetted sound accompanied by lyrics about mankind's dark side and the human struggle.

Heavy and motivated, Bedowyn are currently writing in preparation for recording their first album, while continuing to play live.

For fans of: Black Sabbath, The Sword, Thin Lizzy