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Happy Birthday....

Please join us in wishing a "Happy Birthday" to our bass player Shane Rummage, the Thrash Bandikoot!

Nothing like joining a band during a Pandemic. You bust your ass learning a lot of songs, get your gear together, then have all the practices and shows cancelled.

Shitty year Bro, but you ROCK! Happy Birthday. \m/ \m/

Motive March 2020

One of our Motive members has a family member who is Immunocompromised. He and his family have chosen to Self-Quarantine. We respect and honor his decision. There will be no Motive "Live Streams" or gatherings at this time. We were about to announce a ton of shows, TWENTY FOUR SHOWS to be exact! We have shows at the end of April, maybe those will happen, if not, we hope our May shows happen. Then, we have an 18 Date US Tour lined-up for September. We hope to play ALL of these shows, we shall wait and see... Until then, if you want to enjoy Motive, support Motive, please visit one of these online options:

www.motiveaz.bandcamp.com www.youtube.com/motiveaz www.store.cdbaby.com/cd/motive5 www.reverbnation.com/motiveaz https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KF9xrfsfbJSkQNSdSn12W

Motive 2020!

We've done it, we found our guy. A Bass Player NOT in another band, a Bass Player all to ourselves! Please welcome Shane Thrash Bandikoot to the Motive camp. Shane is a fresh face to the AZ Metal scene, and has worked hard to get it all together. Please make him feel welcome, we need him big time!

Some of you know Motive was a two guitar band back in the day, well, we are again. Please welcome the one and only Michael Montana to the family. Michael plays in the AZ band Ironkill, and teaches guitar at the School of Rock Scottsdale. There are many guitarists in AZ, but we needed the RIGHT guy, a Pro, Michael is that guy. We are grateful he has joined our band.

Being out of it for the last 4 months wasn't easy, but it was necessary. Plenty of show announcements and some new merch coming soon. Prepare yourself, we are ready!

Motive #1

Motive is #1 on Reverbnation, THANK YOU GUYS!

Thx U Motiveheads!

\m/ Horns Up Motive Fans \m/

We want to apologize for not being on Reverbnation much lately, but now that we are back, we are BLOWN away by the response, #2 in ARIZONA!!!

THX U Guys so much! We posted some new videos/pics, hope you enjoy them, and we'll have some big announcements soon, stay METAL... \m/ \m/

NEW Motive videos!

\m/ Horns Up MOTIVEHEADS \m/

Sorry we haven't been on here in awhile. We were told it's a dead media, but if you are still here, and we are here, then it aint dead! We have new videos and songs posted now, and will have some more news coming soon... We miss this page. \m/ \m/

\m/ Horns Up \m/

Our first show of 2016 is going to be a rager for sure! Saturday, August 27th at the Rebel Lounge with Autumn's End, Lago, and Singularity. It's only $10.00 and you can get tickets at ticketfly, we have a link on this page. Get ready for some serious AZ Metal.

Hey

Motive was about to announce a show, we had it all set, the date, club, bands, and even the flyer/poster, then... Amon Amarth, Entombed, and Exmortus was announced for the same night, Friday April 8th. We tried to switch our show to the next night, Saturday April 9th, but not everyone involved was able to switch. We tried to fill some holes, it just wasn't right, so we have cancelled a show we never announced. Does that suck, yes, it was gonna be awesome, hopefully we will play with the bands, we planned on playing with, in the future. The big Amon Amarth show stole the night(15 minutes apart), its cool, we never announced ours, so the smart move was to cancel. Good news is, we have seven songs done on the drums for the Motive Demo, I will be Graduating soon, and Motive will play out and record a full length CD this year. Promise. Hopefully.

\m/ Motive Steve \m/

Demo and a show

Seven songs done on the drums, we will push it to possibly twelve songs. We write songs that are 3 - 5 minutes long, so twelve songs isn't "too much" its a perfect healthy chunk. Motive will announce a show soon... \m/

Demo

We have six songs done on the drums, more songs to do, possible show announcement as well.