They are influenced by bands such as: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam.

Van der Spuy's father worked at the Wynberg Military Base and arranged a bunker for the band to rehearse and write.

After having written pages of suggested names, Louis drove past a billboard of a local news paper which read "TAXI VIOLENCE rocks the Western Cape".

In 2005 Taxi Violence won a national battle of the bands (RBF Studios Emerging Sounds Competition) and turned down the subsequent prize of a record deal as it did not allow them creative control over their music.

The opening track "Unholy" contains a Bill Hicks clip which was used by permission of Arizona Bay Production Company Inc.

South Africa's first really original rock record since Nude Girl's Neanderthal.- GQ magazineThe first single "Untie Yourself" reached number four on 5FM's Top 40 – 2007 and earned the band a slot at My Coke Fest (2007) which saw them share the stage with 3 Doors Down, Hoobastank, Staind and Evanescence at My Coke Fest 2007.

The Turn was self-produced and recorded by the band at Kill City Blues, the studio owned by singer George van der Spuy.

The album did well on local campus radio stations and contains crowd favourites, "Devil 'n Pistol" and "Venus Fly Trap".

But it puts down a marker in the dusty landscape of South African rock, a parched environment that is made that little bit greener by the passion and truth that is Taxi Violence.The Turn is a driving, urgent-sounding piece of road rock that sounds like the ultimate road trip movie being fed directly into your ears.The single "The Turn" reached number 1 on the MK charts in November 2010 The music video for The Turn, directed by Ryan Kruger, won two awards at the Wirral International Film Festival 2010 in England.

Once they were ready to record, the band teamed up with Brendyn "Rusti" Rossouw at Heritage Sound Studio in Cape Town.

George would go on to pen the lyrics for "Between The Heavens and the Deep Blue Sea" and the album was dedicate to Hubert van der Spuy.

A A music video for "Unholy (unplugged)" which features model /actress Tanit Phoenix was directed and filmed by Jason Falkov.

In 2013, the unplugged version of Devil 'n Pistol was used in the feature film Spud 2: The Madness Continues, starring John Cleese.

Writing sessions took place in the basement of the house that Louis and Rian were renting and then pre-production completed at Kill City Blues Studios.

The album also features a cover version of "God's gonna cut you down", a song made famous by Johnny Cash.