The plumbing shop along Norway’s Main Street is filled with heavy metal. 

“We have done all this on our own,” said vocalist Ian Truman about the band’s success. No agent, no publicist, just four members and a head “roadie” (Garrett Hersey) who once drank 88 Red Bulls in 12 days to get the band to Miami and back. 

The band is coming down from Oxxfest, a hardcore concert that featured Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Pop Evil, God Forbid, Emmure, Battle Cross and a slew of bands from across New England. 

They have just re-issued their first full-length album, “Rise,” originally released in 2006.  

“We are learning old songs that we have not played in years,” said guitarist Matt Truman during a jam session in Norway.

Dead Season practices in the front room of E.R. Truman Inc., a Main Street plumbing and heating shop owned by Truman’s dad, Ed. 

The shop walls are covered in band memories: a poster signed by members of “Godsmack,” three years’ worth of Battle of the Bands awards, an oversized check for $10,000 for winning the RockME project and a letter from a young fan who wrote: “I am angry about cancer, who killed my 10-year-old sister.”

Dead Season rocked Oxxfest with the song “Cancer,” the disease that Truman’s mom, Peggy, died from in 2008.

“We are incredibly tight, as tight as brothers can be,” Matt Truman said about him and Ian. The brothers started the band in 2003 and have released four albums since, plus two EP’s. 

Bassist Steve Church of Auburn and drummer Andy Hackett of Lewiston round out Dead Season.