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Gorguts Is A Technical Death Metal/avant-Garde Metal Band That Formed In 1989 In Sherbrooke Quebec Canada. They Have Released Five Full-Length Albums To Date And Released Their First EP 'Pleiades' Dust' In 2016 Which Consists Of A Single 33-Minute Song. The Band Has Experienced Numerous Lineup Changes And Musical Transformations Since Their Inception With Founding Guitarist/vocalist Luc Lemay Being The Only Remaining Founding Member. In 2005 Following The Suicide Of Drummer Steve MacDonald The Band Broke Up. Lemay Later Revived The Band And Returned With Colored Sands In 2013 And A New Lineup Featuring Colin Marston Kevin Hufnagel And John Longstreth. The Original Lineup Of The Band Featured Luc Lemay Guitar/vocals Sylvain Marcoux Guitar Eric Giguere Bass And Stephane Provencher Drums In Sherbrooke Quebec Canada. They Recorded A Demo In 1990 Entitled ...And Then Comes Lividity And Then In 1991 Released Considered Dead On Roadrunner Their First Full-Length Album. The Release Featured A Guest Guitar Solo By James Murphy And Guest Vocals By Chris Barnes. Two Years Later In 1993 They Released Their Second Full-Length Entitled The Erosion Of Sanity. Similar In Style To Their Debut This Album Had Showed Gorguts Had Indeed Developed In Musicianship. However This Album Was Overlooked And Became An Unheard Classic For Many Years. The Band Fell Silent For Five Years. Many Assumed Gorguts Was No More Until 1998 When Luc Lemay Unveiled A New Lineup And Unleashed A Classic In Avant-Garde Death Metal Obscura Which Many Will Agree Is The Most Technical Chaotic And Downright Lucid Metal Album Ever Recorded. Filled With Irregular Beats Discordant Riffing And Complex Song Arrangements Obscura Turned Out To Be Either Indigestible By Many Or Seen For Its True Beauty By Few. Three Years Later Gorguts Returned Once Again With From Wisdom To Hate. Some Consider This Release To Be A Digression From Obscura But It Was Still Much In The Same Avant-Garde/technical Vein. Dan Mongrain Of Martyr Was Recruited For The Second Guitarist On This Album Contributing To The Writing Process And Lead Guitar Work As Well. After Being Out Of Print For Many Years Roadrunner Records Re-Released Their First Two Albums On A Single Disc And Galy Record Re-Released Their 1990 Demo Along With Many Other Demo Tracks Throughout The Years. In October 2002 Drummer Steve MacDonald Hanged Himself After Suffering From Years Of Depression. The Band Split Up In 2005 And Reformed In 2008. As Of December 2008 A Demo Track Of Gorguts Featuring Guitar And Programmed Drums Which Was Previously Unheard By The Public Surfaced Online And Lemay Himself Confirmed An Upcoming Reunion Featuring Colin Marston Kevin Hufnagel And John Longstreth. While The New Gorguts Has Been Performing Live And Writing New Material Lemay Stated That The Band Would Not Be Entering The Studio Until The "late Fall" Of 2010. The Band Is Currently Signed To Season Of Mist. The Band's Fifth Album Colored Sands Was Released On August 30 2013 Although It Was Released Digitally A Month Earlier After A Leak Of The Material Online. A Concept Album About The History Of Tibet Colored Sands Was Rapturously Received In Many Publications And Appeared In Many Year-End Best-Of Lists. The Band Cited Porcupine Tree And Opeth As Influences On The Album's Lengthier Compositions As Well As Dmitri Shostakovich And Krzysztof Penderecki On Its Neoclassical String Interlude "The Battle Of Chamdo". In 2014 John Longstreth Whose Schedule With Origin Was Incompatible With Gorguts Departed The Band. His Replacement Patrice Hamelin Had Already Been Performing Live With Gorguts Since 2011. In 2015 Obscura Which Had Been Out Of Print On CD For Decades Was Re-Released By Both Century Media And Season Of Mist. It Also Received A New Vinyl Pressing From Season Of Mist It Had Previously Been Released On Vinyl By War On Music . Century Media Also Reissued From Wisdom To Hate Also Previously Released On Vinyl By War On Music On Vinyl. A Two-CD Set Of Both Albums Was Issued By Mazzar Records In 2016. The Band's First EP Pleiades' Dust Was Officially Released On May 13 2016. A Concept Album About The House Of Wisdom In Baghdad During Europe's Dark Ages It Consists Of A Single Track Divided Into Seven Movements. The Band Cited Deathspell Omega As A Musical Influence This Time Around. Reception Thus Far Has Been Almost Unanimously Positive.

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