Tarby is musical project by George DesRoches. The name of the project is derived by an older band that George fronted called “The Random Band”, which was abbreviated as “TRB” – thus the abbreviation would be pronounced “Tarby”. Unlike The Random Band, Tarby has been a solo project for most of it’s career, though at times it has had other members, such as Nick DeSimone. Tarby was originally based in Rhode Island, but is currently based in California, and was also based in Oregon for a period of time.

Tarby first gained prominence in the musical community through their participation in the Toast Beard musical competition, which gained them fame in the brony music community after their song “Something Broke” won one of the contests. They gained further fame in the brony music community for contributing the song “Rejected” to Balloon Party, and have collaborated with numerous other brony musicians. Their album Everfree managed to gain addition outside of the Brony music community after it briefly topped the bandcamp charts. Officially Everfree remains Tarby’s only LP, but they have released numerous other albums and songs.

Tarby is primarily an industrial metal project, but they also take significant influence from progressive rock, EDM, hard rock, and alternative rock. The style of The Random Band was alternative metal, but after being inspired by EDM artists in the Brony music community Tarby was inspired to move towards an industrial metal sound that integrates EDM influence into the original alternative metal base. Influences that Tarby has citied include Nine Inch Nails, Dream Theater, Tool, Porcupine Tree, The Devin Townsend Project, The Foo Fighters, Pendulum, and Lamb of God.