The Contortionist

The Contortionist is an American progressive metal band from Indianapolis, Indiana, which was founded in 2006 under the name of Achilles Rising, is renamed a year later in At the Hands of Machines and since another name change in 2008 under its current name occurs. The band attributed to the Djent movement.

History

The singer Jake Morris, the guitarist Robby Baca and Cameron Maynard, as well as the bassist Christopher Tilley and drummer Joey Baca met while in high school and founded in 2006 the band Achilles Rising. After a name change in 2007 in At the Hands of Machines, the band released with Sporadic Movements their debut EP, which drove the band itself. Shortly after, the band was renamed The Contortionist 2008, the singer Jake Morris left the band in the summer and was replaced by Dave Hoffman, who henceforth supported the band in addition to singing at the keyboard. In September of the same year, the band released their second EP, which was called Shapeshifter. A year later, with the third Apparition EP of the band, with which the band the first time distanced himself from Deathcore and the Technical Death Metal approached more.

In March 2010 the band signed a record deal with the American record label, Good Fight Music. During the recordings of their first studio album of the singer Dave Hoffman left for personal reasons the band, after which Jonathan Carpenter, a good friend of Hoffman's what the band already knew from their creation time and had which helped in the production of the third EP Apparition, the band joined the band. The end of August the band released their debut album with exoplanet, which had to Jonathan Carpenter as a result of the change of members within a month made ​​a few changes during the recordings to bring his own style to the album. Between April and May 2011, the band on the side of Arsonists Get All the Girls, A Plea for Purging and volumes toured the U.S., followed up by more in the summer tours of North America with bands like Structures, Periphery and Textures. Then the band went in November with the band The Storm Picturesque on their first tour outside of America Australia.

After another U.S. tour alongside Jeff Loomis, Chimp Spanner and 7 Horns 7 Eyes, the band released in July 2012 with Intrinsic their second studio album, which unlike its predecessor, the French record label Season of Mist in Europe was available. After the band had played a tour of the United Nations, among others, Born of Osiris, Unearth and Obey the Brave in November, the singer Jonathan Carpenter left the band after he had engaged and expecting a child. He was temporarily replaced by Michael Lessard of Last Chance to Reason, which was between March and April on two U.S. tours with bands like After the Burial, Glass Cloud and Within the Ruins helped out as a singer and later introduced in June as the new singer of the band.

Style

The band used seven- guitars, which are tuned a semitone down (A # D # G # C # FA # D #). The lyrics on the two studio albums deal with science fiction themes, the whole band especially interested in what. Here, the texts translated mainly deals with the question of how people's lives will make beyond Earth in the distant future.

Others

The guitarist Robby Baca and drummer Joey Baca are twin brothers.

Disokografie

Albums

  • 2010: Exoplanet (Good Fight Music )
  • 2012: Intrinsic ( North America: Good Fight Music Music/E1, Europe: Season of Mist )

EPs

  • 2007: Sporadic Movements ( self-distributed )
  • 2008: Shapeshifter ( self-distributed )
  • 2009: Apparition ( self-distributed )
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