Two tons of fun

When listening to the Two Ton Boa song “Porcelain Throne,” you’ll instantly understand the motivation behind vocalist and bassist Sherry Fraser’s use of heavy bass, soaring vocal melodies and rhythmic spontaneity.

Joined by her husband and pianist Scott Seckington, as well as drummer Nate Carson, Fraser has fine-tuned her craft with multidimensional songwriting, which has adapted since her start over a decade ago.

“Really Two Ton Boa is Sherry Fraser. This has been her project since the late ’90s. And she has gone through different musicians…from some pretty great bands,” Carson said. Examples of these past musicians include members from the bands Fits of Depression and The Need.

Carson was a fan of the band prior to joining as the group’s drummer. After following their music and catching them live on a Northwest tour, he knew that joining Fraser and Two Ton Boa would be exciting, as well as a learning experience.

“I was a fan of the band for a long time and they came on board with my booking agency Nanotear about four years ago. And right at that time they had a lineup shift and asked me to join on drums,” Carson said.

Since then he has toured with them both locally and nationally, including an East Coast tour with the Dresden Dolls where they played shows to new audiences and larger venues.

“It was the biggest shows any of us had ever done,” Carson said. “It was a really fantastic experience. You don’t often have the luck of a major artist like that bringing you out on the road, and then having their audience accept you…for a week we got to be rock stars and sign autographs for 45 minutes after every show.”

When it comes to writing, Fraser does it all and eventually applies the talents of Seckington and Carson.

“Really Sherry writes everything,” Carson said. “And that includes everybody’s parts. It’s her baby and her brainchild and she’s the only one of us that has a gold record so we do what she wants us to.”

The depth of musicality has been a part of the bands vision from the beginning, which has given them the chance to form it into an art that sounds simple yet is rich in complexity.

“I think it is really heavy pop music,” Carson said. “[Fraser] wants me to hit hard and play loud, but at the same time, there are these gorgeous vocal melodies over everything and soaring choruses.”

Two Ton Boa has come out with two albums—a self-titled EP, as well as a full-length album titled Parasiticide.