Revocation (band)

Revocation is an extreme metal band from Boston, Massachusetts (USA). The band was formed in 2000 by guitarist and vocalist David Davidson, bassist and vocalist Anthony Buda and drummer Phil Dubois - Coyne. Originally named the band Cryptic Warning, but changed its name in 2006. They released two studio albums to date, Empire of the Obscene and Existence Is Futile, and are to Relapse Records.

History

Founded in 2000 David Davidson, Phil Dubois - Coyne and Anthony Buda, the band Cryptic Warning, which was heavily influenced by Guns N 'Roses and Metallica. They took 2002 to the first demo and played their first gigs in Boston and outside of Massachusetts. A second demo Internally Reviled was admitted in 2004. In 2005, Cryptic Warning her debut album Sanity's on aberration, but the quality of this recording was not very good. Remembering these recordings Davidson said. "We did not take this album on with someone who liked Metal, so we do not get the sound we wanted the largest reference in the Discography our producer was The Cult Many of our fans. love these shots - our old-school fans who are always at our shows -. . however we were with the production of this recording actually not satisfied It felt like a failure at "

The band decided in 2006 to change its name to Revocation; Davidson said: "I think if you look at it closely, we have made ​​many mistakes with Cryptic Warning We were younger and we did not really know what we were doing, so it was like a new beginning Revocation and we could settle our old mistakes. . " After changing the production line took Revocation on a demo with three songs called Summon the Spawn and 2008 they went back into the studio and recorded their first studio album, Empire of the Obscene on. The album was released without the help of a label, and the band also financed its own tour itself, which attracted the attention of various labels. Revocation signed a contract with Relapse Records.

The band played some local concerts before they recorded the second album Existence Is Futile, which was released on 29 September 2009. The album was described by Allmusic as " one of the best pure metal albums of 2009," during the spin magazine called revocation as one of the bands on which you should keep an eye 2010. In October 2009 the band played at the CMJ Music Marathon.

2012 founding member Anthony Buda decided to leave the band to pursue new projects. His successor in the band 's Brett Bamberger.

Style, influence and reception

Music critics to show that the style of guitarist Davidson is an important aspect for the sound of Revocation. The Exclaim! Magazine described the skilful guitar playing by Davidson follows: " Typically, most bands with mechanical flair and overdone solos just three seconds interesting That is as long as you need to understand that any guitarist dominates the band, the. his youth spent with masturbation, rather than something to do with others, and now he uses his talent to other guitarists (whose guitars have six strings ) to impress. " Davidson developed his technique by going to the Berklee College of Music, where he specialized in polyrhythm for jazz. This brought him expertise in playing and songwriting, while " were some atonal aspects of jazz him a different perspective on composing and guitar solos. "

Davidson called Slash, Dimebag Darrell, and Marty Friedman as its main influences. According to Davidson, the band have a wide range of influences, consisting of bands like Exhorder, Dark Angel, Megadeth, Pestilence, Atheist, Gorguts, Forbidden, Spastic Ink, Martyr, and Exodus.

With regard to the rhythm of the band critics are divided; whereas, according to About.com Buda and Dubois - Coyne " their own brutal brand of within seconds of coming to a halt precision play, combined with a relentless intensity ", which Decibel Magazine commented to Davidson's solos that "the rest of the band fails to to compensate for this. " In contrast to these opinions, Allmusic says: " Perhaps the most amazing thing Revocation is probably that they are a trio. "

Discography

• 2006: Summon the Spawn ( EP)
• 2008: Empire of the Obscene
• 2009: Existence Is Futile
• 2011: Chaos of Forms
• 2012: teratogenesis (EP)
• 2013: Revocation