They are not bloodmill, blue milk or bloomhills — they are Bloomill, and they are one of the only bands without a merchandise table at local Mount Pleasant shows.

The band is composed of Mount Pleasant senior Alex Ball, Central Michigan University alumnus C.J. Opperthauser, Farmington Hills resident Evan Sherman and senior Stephen Sherbrook, also of Farmington Hills.

Bloomill, a band that defines its own genre, does not have a studio-recorded CD to sell.

"We all have very, very distinct influences," Sherbrook said. "For some reason when we all get together and play, they all turn into whatever sound we are."

Bloomill began as a project between Opperthauser, Sherman and Sherbrook in 2007 when the three attended high school together in Farmington Hills. After playing with a band called That Mustache Feeling, of which Ball was a member, the four found a connection.

Bloomill's manager, Temperance senior Tom Mayer, is responsible for booking shows and keeping the website updated.

He said listeners should not focus on labels, but rather enjoy the unique sound of the band.

"They sound pretty sweet," he said. "They're combining a bunch of different things I've never heard combined before."

Some of the members' influences include blues, progressive, jam bands, metal and rock 'n' roll.

Opperthauser said if he were to label Bloomill's sound, it would be "jam blues rock 'n' roll rock progressive metal."

"We're just enough jam band to make jam bands like us, and we're just not enough jam band to make people that usually think that jam bands jam for too long not think that we jam for too long," Ball said.

France senior Alexandre Dominguez has been to every local show Bloomill has performed at since first hearing of them in February.

"I'm a musician and I love their sound," he said.

Bloomill plays between three and five shows a month in and around Mount Pleasant, including venues such as Rubbles Bar, 112 W. Michigan St., Wayside Central, 2000 S. Mission St. and Riverwood Golf Resort, 1313 E. Broomfield Road. Though Ball, Opperthauser and Sherbrook all live in Mount Pleasant, Sherman has to commute to performances, which cuts practice time down to an hour and a half before shows.

"I think there's one summer we're still coasting off of," Sherman said. "We practiced pretty much every day for the entire summer for hours on end."

In addition to performing shows, Bloomill is in the beginning stages of recording their first CD.

"It's going to be a combination of songs you've never heard and songs you haven't heard in two years," Sherbrook said.

Opperthauser said the hardest part of relearning old songs is working Ball into the old material — which was written for three performers.

Though all the members of Bloomill said they appreciate the free beer and the $10 to $17 they make from each show, they all agreed they play for personal reasons.

"I love playing music," Sherbrook said. "I grew up listening to music and I always wanted to know what they were doing. I'm an engineering student, and I just like knowing how things work"