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Artist: Elysia
Album: Lion Of Judas
Label: Ferret Music
Playtime: 28:04 min
Genre: Metal
Rip date: 2008-05-19
Street date: 2008-06-10
Size: 49.20 MB
Type: Advance
Quality: 232 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Named for the final resting place of warriors in Roman Mythology, the
Sacramento, CA based Elysia create epic battle hymns for the metal and
hardcore set. Excessively brutal but socially conscious vocalist Zak Vargas
espouses on society’s ills from a youthful viewpoint. Starting the band when
he was fifteen, Zak has literally grown up in Elysia and he says it shows on
their forthcoming album to be released this summer on Ferret Music. “When we
first started we got comments about our first demos as being misogynistic and
I think this record shows how we’ve grown as people and adults in the
musicianship and lyrics. We have a two part song on the album that talks
about woman’s rights and values, which I felt was important to address in our
music.”
The band has just finished recording with Kurt Ballou at God City Studios in
Salem, MA. Zak comments “We were very excited to work with Kurt, I can’t
imagine going with anyone else for this album.” Recording all new material
written right up until they went into the studio Zak says “We’ve been playing
some of these new songs live and some people have said it’s music that moves
you emotionally. Though we weren’t directly influenced while writing the
music, listening to it now it reminds me of Converge’s material on the
Poacher Diaries split in that it’s brutal and composed but also very
emotionally charged.” In addition to the socially minded songs a theme of the
upcoming album is betrayal and very personal. “I write about losing
relationships but not just with friends but about losing a relationship with
God like on our song Lion Of Judas.”
Though the band plays metal, they consider themselves to have the attitude of
a hardcore band in their live performances leaning heavily on audience
interaction to create the spirit that their punk heroes did. The band are
about to embark on a string of dates with This Is Hell and Ruiner. Following
that is a March tour with The Warriors, The Ghost Inside, Stray From The Path
and Fate.
Initally forming five years ago Elysia was originally a recreational outlet
from high school where they could live out their hardcore fantasies. “We
definitely sucked back then” Vargas admits “Our first show was playing for
all of our friends and it went over better than it should have.” From there
the band chipped away at their own identity while playing shows repeatedly.
“Back then the Sacramento scene was composed of a lot of older folks, so we
were these kids banging away and not getting much acceptance at first.
Eventually all those older kids phased out and a new scene built up behind
us.”
Playing regionally around Northern California the band began to carve a name
for themselves playing mini-tours with bands like Impending Doom and Molotov
Solution. “It sounds weird but we built a following and never really played
with any sizable bands, it was us playing for locally based bands and their
friends and they turned on to us and told their friends and it built from
there.” Their draw in the Golden State currently is as high as 400 kids for
headlining shows.
The band Self-released their debut full-length Masochist in 2006.
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01. Lack Of Culture ( 2:45)
02. Flood Of Kings ( 2:01)
03. Box Of Need(les) ( 3:38)
04. Crown Of Thorns ( 4:11)
05. Plague Of Insects ( 3:26)
06. Pride Of Lions ( 2:03)
07. Curse Of God (Pt. 1) ( 2:21)
08. Fountain Of Life (Pt. 2) ( 2:42)
09. Lion Of Judas ( 4:57)
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[Ofrecido] Elysia - Lion Of Judas (2008)
