Tech/Extreme Prog Metal
United States
The story of CANVAS SOLARIS began in 1999, playing a strange, experimental form of extreme death/thrash metal, influenced by mainly VOIVOD, CARCASS and GODFLESH. The early line-up, namely Nathan Sapp (guitars, vocals), Jimmy McCall (bass guitar), Brad Jeffcoat (vocals) and Hunter Ginn (drums), recorded two demos and played several shows in South-Carolina. Jeffcoat and McCall left the band in 2002 and the group added Ben Simpkins (guitar, bass guitar, keyboards) to the line-up and began writing much more experimental instrumental technical, jazz-inspired progressive music. In June 2003 they released their first Ep, "Spatial/Design". The group scaled back from live appearances and one year later arrived their first full-length album "Sublimation".
"Sublimation" is demonstrating the talent of the members, a fantastic technical metal album heavily influenced by SPIRAL ARCHITECT, WATCHTOWER, SPASTIC INK, CYNIC, FATES WARNING, RUSH and even KING CRIMSON and THE MARS VOLTA.
Recommended for fans of complex, instrumental technical music.
ALBUMS:
2008 - THE ATOMIZED DREAM
Musicians
- Nathan Sapp / guitars
- Chris Rushing / guitars
- Hunter Ginn / drums
- Donnie Smith / analog synth
- Gael Pirlot / bass
1. The Binaural Beat (5:09)
2. Reflections Carried to Mirror (4:20)
3. Chromatic Dusk (3:53)
4. Patterns Spiral into Swarm (4:54)
5. Heat Distortion Manifest (5:41)
6. Photovoltaic (8:32)
7. Solar Droid (4:33)
8. The Unknowable and Defeating Glow (10:19)
Total Time 47:37
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