Pelican (Band)

Pelican is an American post-metal instrumental band. She founded in 1999 in Chicago and grew out of members of the band Tusk. The band is now based in Los Angeles. Your former label, Hydra Head Records, heard Aaron Turner, the singer of the band Isis. In 2009 Pelican switched to the label Southern Lord.

Style

Pelican are often compared to bands like Isis, but are purely instrumental, and therefore more akin to the new wave of instrumental bands such as Mono, Red Sparowes or This Will Destroy You. Bassist Bryan Herweg said in an interview that in his view, a singer, the band would have limited, and in the case of a strong, screaming man would Pelican as a metal, has been considered in the case of a thin man as Emo. As an instrumental band they had set no genre boundaries. By dispensing with vocals there are no fixed themes, however, are represented by the artwork of publications repeatedly conclusions to determine nature as a leitmotif.

Band History

Pelican were founded by Laurent Lebec, Trevor de Brauw and brothers Larry and Bryan way here in Chicago.

Discography

Albums

  • 2003: Australasia
  • 2005: The Fire in our throats will beckon the thaw
  • 2007: City of Echoes
  • 2009: What We All Come To Need
  • 2013: Forever Becoming

EPs

  • 2001: Pelican
  • 2005: March into the Sea
  • 2007: Pink Mammoth
  • 2009: Ephemeral
  • 2012: Ataraxia / Taraxis

Splits

  • 2005: Pelican / Playing Enemy Split
  • 2005: Mono / Pelican Split
  • 2008: PLCN / TAAS - Split with These Arms Are Snakes
  • 2008: After the ceiling Cracked
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