Brian Zaharias is an indie Illinois-based musician who goes by many different names under many different, yet similar projects. He is an artist who runs musical projects like Dr. Bryant's Funhouse, Soul After, God Hungry, and Strom. He has released many, many studio albums over a short period of time, and yet.. there's not much about him to find out about due to his small and discreet nature.
The earliest piece of information we can find about him is this article
which explains he started practicing guitar in the year 2000, with his instructor being the lead bassist of Blue Öyster Cult. He also played with a local funk-metal band, the name of which being unknown.
He made a small amount of music for the band Strom in 2016, as well as being in the band God Hungry and "collaborating" both bands for three songs, released on ReverbNation. He worked for strings on Strom, as well as being an instrumentalist, vocalist, and producer. He would do tracks with Strom featuring God Hungry, as well as a couple of televangelists.
Along the way, something happened that caused Strom and God Hungry to stop releasing music, and Brian seemed to not have touched on music making until 2022, when he released three singles for two new bands at the end of March in 2022. He now continues to release new music often, even releasing two whole studio albums within a short span of time.
He often makes music centered around politics and Jesus Christ and other religious topics. His music style is often varied, as one song he touches upon indie rock like Jack White, or funk metal like Primus, or psychedelic rock, or even rapping or jazz. He may even make less musically and more narratively driven songs to make a political point about something, with his right-wing leaning views, usually dunking on topics about the coronavirus and the government's managing of it.
Known Projects:
- Unnamed Funk Metal band (2000)
- Strom (2016)
- 2 Witnesses (2016)
- God Hungry (2016)
- Soul After (2022)
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse (2022)
Discography
- God Hungry - "I" (???)
- God Hungry - Nothing New (???)
- Soul After - Hollow Weakness (2022)
- Soul After - Enough (2022)
- Soul After - Zion (2022)
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Lies (2022)
- Soul After - Don't Rock the Boat (2022)
- Soul After - Shores of Freedumb (2022)
- Soul After - Romans (2022)
- Soul After - Body Snatchin (2022)
- Soul After - Slow Ascent (2022)
- Soul After - Say On (2022)
- Soul After - "I" (2022)
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Anger Management (2022)
- Soul After - 4T DAZE (2022)
- Soul After - Babylon Crumbles (2022)
- Soul After - Built on the Rock (2022)
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Built on Rock (2022)
- Soul After - Self Improxication (2022)
- Soul After - Psalms (2022)
2016
- Strom - How can we deny? (ft. God Hungry)
- Strom - Ask (ft. God Hungry & Andrew Wommack)
- Strom - We don't yet Know (ft. God Hungry & Crefio Dollar)
2022
- Soul After - Sew Laughter
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - FAQ
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Thumbs Up
- Soul After - Hidden
- Soul After - Purse Severe
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Round and Drowned
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Mind Rape
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Stay Normal
- Soul After - Co Lapse
- Soul After - Suez Side Ill
- Soul After - Sue A Psy Doll
- Soul After - Diss EEs
- Soul After - Dew Ego
- Soul After - Lame Ants Germs
- Soul After - Rawness (later became a song on Babylon Crumbles)
- Soul After - Gas Lit
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - uncle suicide
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Teddy
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Quest Shuns
- Soul After - Deliver Me
- Soul After - SuperNatural
- Soul After - Lull i buy
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Lullibuy
- Soul After - Bankers Brrritches
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Sir Culls
- Dr. Bryant's Funhouse - Fruit Bowl
- Soul After - Familiar
- Soul After - Tree Son
2023
- Soul After - Buffoon
- Soul After - The rest of you
- Soul After - Me no care.
- Soul After - Spaz
- Dr Bryant's Funhouse - Spazzz
- Soul After - One Thing still remains
- Dr Bryant's Funhouse - Co-Cain
- Soul After - Debriefed.
- Soul After - Bornt
- Soul After - Authoritwhat
Trope On:
- Album Intro Track: “Yummy” in Lies, which is a 52 second breakdown of what to expect from the album.
- Album Title Drop: I gets title-dropped very frequently in "mary". Yes, it's a very common word, but it's done very deliberately in the song.
- all lowercase letters: Brian often, intentionally or not, doesn't capitalize all of the words in his songs and albums, leading this to happen quite often.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: "distracted", which consists almost entirely of the words "I am distracted".
- Call-Back: Brian often reuses certain images for his cover art. He uses the same image of him holding a cigarette in “FAQ” and “Me no care.”, as well as an image of him with duct tape on his mouth in “Stay Normal” and “Rawness”.
- Driven to Suicide: "uncle suicide" has Brian's character killing himself after finding out his uncle killed himself.
- Epic Rocking: "Guit Gone Plucker" from Shores of Freedumb is 7 minutes and 8 seconds long. That's seven minutes of pure elevator music.
- Establishing Character Moment: “FAQ” serves as an introduction to Brian, as well as “Sew Laughter”.
- Face on the Cover: "FAQ" and "Me no care.", "Stay Normal" and "Rawness", Lies, "Buffoon"..
- Fan Disservice: The cover for Self Improxication has a shirtless fat man.
- Genre Roulette: Including, but not limited to, Rock, Indie Rock, Symphonic Rock, Industrial Rock, Progressive Rock, Funk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Heavy Metal, Gospel Music, Hip-Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz, Electronic Music, Classical Music, Soul, and Elevator Muzak. One thing that will usually stay consistent are the themes of Christianity. Sometimes he even combines some of these styles in one song.
- Instrumentals: Shores of Freedumb is an album full of them.
- Motor Mouth: Uses one in "Broken Smoke".
- Mythology Gag: "I", as well as being the name of a Soul After album, is also the name of a God Hungry album.
- For another God Hungry reference, in "Half Masked" Brian states he is "Hungry for God".
- Radio Voice: Has one in "uncle suicide".
- Re-release the Song: "Rawness", originally released as a single, made another appearance on Babylon Crumbles.
- He also rereleased "Lame Ants Gerbs" on Body Snatchin, renamed "Lame Ants Terms".
- Brian tends to release the same song or album across both Soul After and Dr. Bryant's Funhouse, usually with a small change to the cover art or name.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Done intentionally with a lot of song names, such as "Quest Shuns" (Questions), "Suez Side Ill"/"Sue A Psy Doll" (Suicidal), and "Diss EES" (Disease).
- Saved by the Church Bell: Averted. The church bell is used in "They don't See", yet the song is about being unable to find God.
- Shout-Out: The intro section of "Teddy" simply repeats the line "Run, Forrest, Run".
- Take That!: "Thumbs Up" is a Take That! against Youtubers and content creators who only care about profit and become a coward when confronted with their problems.
- The Pearly Gates: Has a track with this name in Lies.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Often done when naming a song intentionally incorrectly, like “Suez Side Ill”.
- You No Take Candle: How Brian speaks in "Me no care.".
