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The Unravelling is an eclectic progressive rock/metal band
from Calgary, Canada. Described by Pure Grain Audio as “overflowing with a
bloodthirsty passion”, the Unravelling's music ranges from the engaging and
inviting to the aggressive and controversial (Their Tibetan protest video for "Fire
Breather" went viral on Youtube with over 60,000 views). A confidante of the band
remarked that "The Unravelling sounds like the illegitimate love child of Lisa
Gerrard And Zack de la Rocha". Suite 101 says "This is a band who can combine the
alternative stylings of Tool with the adventurousness, ambition and refusal to
compromise of The Dillinger Escape Plan". Music Connection Magazine named them in
their top 25 new music picks of 2009. They have opened for acts such as Helmet and
Bison BC, topped the CJSW Metal charts, and were nominated for 3 2010 Alberta Metal
Awards, winning in the best album production category.
The project's founder and instrumentalist, Gustavo De Beauville, composes and
records the music while singer Steve Moore (also of Post Death Soundtrack) writes
the lyrics and vocal parts. In order to take their music from the studio to the
stage, they have recruited three other professional Calgary musicians, solidifying
The Unravelling's live line up. Having moved to Calgary from Barbados in 2006, Gus
spent the greater part of 2007 composing the material for the first album. "Until
meeting Steve in the fall of 2008 - I had not met any musicians who were this
driven and hungry for progress. He definitely inspired me to be as industrious as I
could in the pursuit of music." says De Beauville.
Their debut full length album "13 Arcane Hymns", a psycho-analytical concept album
in the tradition of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", Nine Inch Nails's "The Downward
Spiral" and Faith no More's "Angeldust", was released May 13, 2010. The "13 Arcane
Hymns" artwork was done as a collaboration between Gustavo De Beauville, Gil
Katerynych, and Shaun Friesen, who has also collaborated with Tool visionary Alex
Grey. The album features many reoccurring lyrical themes, particularly the theme of
being buried alive and presumed dead, then crawling your way out, and "moving
forward". Metalunderground.com called the release "a surprising firebomb of an
album", while Pitch Black Magazine called it "a 13-track emotional and
industrial-infused metal masterpiece".
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