Rings of Saturn (band)
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Rings of Saturn | |
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| Origin | Bay Area, California |
| Genres | Deathcore, technical death metal |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | Unique Leader |
| Members | Ian Bearer Lucas Mann Joel Omans Sean Martinez Ian Baker |
| Website | facebook.com |
Rings of Saturn is an American deathcore band from Bay Area, California. The band was formed in 2009 and was originally just a studio project, however, after gaining a wide popularity and signing to Unique Leader Records, the band formed a full line-up and became a full-time touring band. Rings of Saturn is known for their highly technical style of deathcore, which is heavily influenced by alien life and outer space both lyrically and musically. They have released two full-length albums.
History
Rings of Saturn was formed in 2009 in high school only as a studio recording project with Lucas Mann on guitars, bass, and keyboards, Peter Pawlak on vocals, and Brent Silletto on drums. The band posted a track titled "Abducted" online and quickly gained listeners. The band recorded their debut album, Embryonic Anomaly, with Bob Swanson at Mayhemenness Studios in Sacramento, CA.[1] The album was self-released by the band on May 25, 2010. Four months after releasing Embryonic Anomaly, the band signed to Unique Leader Records.[2] In the months following the band's signing, Joel Omans was added as a second guitarist and the band graduated high school which led to their embarking on tours.[3] Embryonic Anomaly was re-released through Unique Leader on March 1, 2011.[4] In December of 2011, Brent Silletto and Peter Pawlak both left the band on their own decisions, mainly to seek out a different lifestyle.
Rings of Saturn, which at this point only included Lucas Mann and Joel Omans), toured with many different touring members before forming their current line-up which added Ian Bearer, Sean Martinez, and Ian Baker on vocals, bass, and drums respectively. This line-up recorded their second album, Dingir, with the same producer from Embryonic Anomaly.[5] The album was originally scheduled to be released on November 20, 2012, but due to legal issues, the album release was pushed back to February 5, 2013. In response to the legal push and a pre-production version of the album leaking on the internet, the vocalist, Ian Bearer, uploaded the finished album on his YouTube channel and put up the entire album for download via Total Deathcore.[6]
On November 17, the band posted on Facebook and explained what exactly the legal issues were that halted the release of Dingir.
- "For those of you who are curious as to what our "legal issues" were that halted the production of Dingir, and pushed it's official release date from Nov. 20th, 2012 to Feb 5th, 2013, we are able to explain them now. A third party was legally fighting us for the rights to our name using a loop hole method that renders the protection of our copyright obsolete in that specific circumstance. After butt loads of money was dropped in attorney and legal fees, we were able to keep our name as well as take precautions to ensure that this sort of thing never happens to us again. During this time, someone leaked an unfinished, poor quality pre-production version of our album months before our new release date. In light of the album being pushed back, and the leak, we decided to just stream the entire high quality finished version of the album on Youtube for everyone, as well as make it available for download, and put up the guitar tabs on ultimate-guitar.com for people who were interested in learning our songs. We know you guys had been waiting for the album long enough, and we would rather have you all jam out to the high quality finished album, than a poor quality unfinished product. This third party that was trying to steal our name away from us, and got our albums release date pushed back will not be named, because we know that you guys will go absolutely apeshit on them for doing that to us. We have full trust that you guys will support the band and still pick up a copy of Dingir when our album drops on Feb. 5th, 2013 so that we can hit the road again on tour, and hang out, and play for all of you guys! We are currently working on pre-order packages, a music video, and something else special for everyone that we will be releasing starting on our album's original release date of Nov. 20th, 2012!"[7]
Musical style
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Rings of Saturn plays a type of extreme metal known as deathcore. The style of deathcore that the band plays is heavily influenced by technical death metal and is characterized by very fast and technical guitar sweeps with an added harmony effect, fast tempos, ambient elements, and lyrics that deal with space invasion and extraterrestrial life. The band has jokingly self-classified their genre as "aliencore".
Members
- Current
- Lucas Mann - lead guitar (2009–present)
- Joel Omans - guitars (2010–present)
- Sean Martinez - bass guitar (2012–present)
- Ian Baker - drums (2012–present)
- Ian Bearer - vocals (2012–present)
- Former
- Ron Casey - drums (2011–2012)
- Peter Pawlak - vocals (2009–2011)
- Brent Silletto - drums (2009–2011)
- Colin Waldo - bass (2011)
- Jeff Hughell - bass (2011)
- Jack Aldrich - bass (2011–2012)
- John Galloway - vocals (2011–2012)
- Alex Hernandez-Bent - drums (2012)
Discography
Studio Albums
- Embryonic Anomaly (2010)
- Dingir (2013)
References
- ^ http://www.indiemerch.com/uniqueleaderusa/item/14163
- ^ http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=149996
- ^ http://altrocklive.com/blog/2011/02/rings-of-saturn-gets-a-new-guitarist/
- ^ http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=62483
- ^ http://www.thecirclepit.com/2012/10/rings-of-saturn-dingir-album-review.html
- ^ http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=85839
- ^ http://www.facebook.com/RingsofSaturnband/posts/452017221511704