Directed by Doug Cook
CD available for FREE at www.theunravellingmusic.com
The Unravelling is a progressive rock/metal duo from Calgary, Canada. Described by Pure Grain Audio as "overflowing with a bloodthirsty passion", their 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 100,000 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 Unravelling's music video for "Move Forward Until You Are Dead", directed by Doug Cook, was given a worldwide exclusive on the popular website Metalsucks.net, and their release "13 Arcane Hymns" was listed in Suite 101's "Top Heavy Metal Albums of 2010".
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. 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 artwork was a collaboration between 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". The band has been featured in Magnet Magazine, Music Connection Magazine, Culture Magazine, Metalsucks.net, SMNNews, Suite 101, The Calgary Herald, FFWD, Metalunderground.com, ReGen Magazine & Pure Grain Audio.
Information on The Unravelling as well as a free download of "13 Arcane Hymns" can be found at at www.theunravellingmusic.com.
PRESS:
"The Unravelling definitely gets its graphic message across."
- Magnet Magazine
"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; if there's any justice in the world of music, then '13 Arcane Hymns' is just the beginning of something big for The Unravelling. And if this effort is anything to go by, then the band won't settle for anything less - they will move forward until they are dead."
- Philip Sim, Suite101.com
"Put simply, Moore is a working man's thinking man's metal singer. Moore has met his aural complement in Gustavo De Beauville, the founder and main instrumentalist of The Unravelling. The Barbados expat is a fine guitarist and arranger, but his biggest talent is for synthesis. On The Unravelling's debut album, 13 Arcane Hymns, Tool's layered textures and Machine Head's grooves are streamlined into free-flowing compositional nuggets."
Etan Rosenbloom, METALSUCKS.NET
"The weapons-grade riffage and wailing vocals make a serious impact. Fans of NIN, Skinny Puppy and God Lives Underwater will revel in these songs of both alienation and guarded optimism."
- Music Connection Magazine
"13 ARCANE HYMNS is an extremely dynamic, compositionally interesting and full engaging listen. If you are looking for something more cerebral, dark with class and quality to spare, and that is waaay outside the traditional metal realm (but still heavy as hell) you will need to check out The Unravelling. 4 out of 5."
- Metal-Rules.com
"The time it took for them to create also allowed for them to perfect -- a real rarity for most debut albums. 13 Arcane Hymns does not come across as a debut album. The Unravelling is helping us change our mind about metal music."
- Mike Cullen, CULTURE MAGAZINE
"A 13-track emotional and industrial-infused metal masterpiece"
- Pamela Porosky, Pitch Black Magazine
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Omg just awesome, so intense
Synyster1001 9 months ago
Awesome!
kryptonife 1 year ago
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treecybeast 1 year ago