The Safety Fire

The Safety Fire is a progressive metal band from London, which is often associated with the Djent movement.

  • 4.1 albums
  • 4.2 EPs
  • 4.3 Singles

History

Creation and publication of Sections (2006-2010)

In the fourth year of secondary school, the school friends Derya Nagle and Lori Peri formed the band at the age of 15 years. Shortly thereafter, a friend of Derya Nagle guitarist Joaquin Ardiles came adds to the band. As a drummer also joined Calvin Smith of the band, which went with Lori Peri in elementary school and has been at the time of the formation of the band at another school. As a singer, Sean McWeeney band won for himself, which starred previously in another band, so that, except for Calvin Smith, all went to the same school.

In March 2009, the band released their first EP under the name Sections, which the band chose, as the band members while studying the formation phase of the EP at different universities and this was making it difficult to work on the publication. The EP was only digitally available and on the first song of the EP, which also named Sections and was derived from which the name of the EP, was a guitar solo musician Graham "Pin" Pinney, who was then at the already defunct band Sikth played, and Martin Goulding from the band linear Sphere heard. The contact came because Derya Nagle taken already at earlier times guitar lessons with the two and they had due to its integrated into the development process of EP.

Record deal and release of their debut album (2011-2012)

In February 2011, the band played as part of "The League of Extraordinary Djentlemen " tour alongside Periphery and Monuments their first tour outside the UK. When the band played in Hamburg their second concert of the tour, the vans the band broke, so the band was forced to take the train to the next concert in Berlin, where they used the instruments of the other bands to play their concert at can. It was followed by an appearance at the Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth in July 2011, where the band alongside bands such as Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer was represented. To have In August 2011, the band announced at the German record label InsideOut Music signed a record deal through which they will release their debut album. The band decided after a few conversations with other record labels for InsideOut Music, as it had specialized in bands from the genre.

Between March and April 2012, the band was together with Jeff Loomis, Protest the Hero and periphery on their first tour of the United States of America. At the same time appeared with some delay in early April with Grind the Ocean 's first studio album of the band after it should actually be published in February. The album was, as the EP, recorded in his own studio by Derya Nagle, from where he had already produced the music of bands like Rise to Remain and The HAARP Machine. In summer 2012, the band appeared on both the Download Festival and Hevy Music Festival and the Brutal Assault on.

Second studio album Mouth of Swords (since 2013)

Currently the band is working on their second studio album, which bear the name Mouth of Swords and is to be published in early September. In addition to on a song Tommy Rogers, the singer of the band Between the Buried and Me, occur as a guest musician.

Style

The band stands out especially for its change of distorted and clean guitar parts, while primarily orient the clear parts of the songs to elements of pop and jazz. The vocals of Sean McWeeney also takes place in the exchange between guturalem and clear vocals. The texts of the songs are mostly of social issues and are influenced by literature. So the song Sections example, is based on Dante Alighieri's Inferno.

During the recordings of the first EP Sections used Derya Nagle an electric guitar the brand Black Machine, while Joaquin Ardiles played on a guitar by Schecter. Today, both use electric guitars of the brand Wirebird representing copies of the Telecaster series from Fender. Both guitars are fitted with pickups of the brand Bareknuckle and, in addition to the dropped- D tuning, with some songs tuned to an unusual guitar tuning, in which the low E string, with a tuned according to the standard tuning guitar, on an A is voted down ( AADGHE ). The idea came from the bands Pantera and Sikth, which also used this tuning in some of their songs.

Others

The band is known for their edgy designs on their merchandise products. These are all designed by Derya Nagle specially.

Discography

Albums

  • 2012: Grind the Ocean ( InsideOut Music)
  • 2013: Mouth of Swords ( InsideOut Music)

EPs

  • 2009: Sections ( self-distributed )

Singles

  • 2012: Huge Hammers ( InsideOut Music)
  • 2012: Floods of Colour ( InsideOut Music)
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