Chaos Divine
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| Chaos Divine | |
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| Origin | Perth, Western Australia Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000.... |
| Genres Music genre A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music... | Progressive metal |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels Record label In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,... | Firestarter Music & Distribution |
| Studio Albums Discography Discography is the study and listing of the details concerning sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified musical genres... | 2011 - The Human Connection 2009 - Avalon |
| EPs Discography Discography is the study and listing of the details concerning sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified musical genres... | 2006 - Ratio | Members |
Simon Mitchell David Anderton Ryan Felton Ben Mazarol Michael Kruit | |
| Former members | |
| Chris Mitchell | |
Chaos Divine is a progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
band from Perth, Western Australia. The band consists of vocalist David Anderton, guitarists Simon Mitchell and Ryan Felton, bassist Michael Kruit and Drummer Ben Mazarol.
Chaos Divine's signature is very much what the name suggests - a blaze of thick riffage with a brick wall-sized sound that at times spirals into hypnotic melodies. Drawing influences from the heavy, progressive and melodic elements of bands such as Opeth
Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years...
, Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
and Soilwork
Soilwork
Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork .Their sound is a fusion of the classic...
, this quintet forges a unique blend of brutal polyrhythmic metal and ambient contemporary rock.
Biography
Since 2005, the band has released two studio albums.The 2006 Ratio EP, which saw the band tour nationally, was publicly voted as the second-best Australian metal release of it’s year on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
’s Full Metal Racket
Full Metal Racket
The Racket is an Australian heavy metal radio show airing on alternative youth broadcaster Triple J. It is hosted by Andrew Haug, who is also the drummer for Melbourne metal band Contrive...
Program.
In late 2008, Chaos Divine completed their debut full-length debut album Avalon, recorded at Melbourne’s Sing-Sing Studios and released nationally through Firestarter Music. The album went on to win the West Australian Music Industry Awards
West Australian Music Industry Awards
The Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
(WAM) Industry's 2008 Song of the Year Award in the Heavy Rock/Metal category with the track 'Refuse the Sickness'. Chaos Divine was also among the top-five finalists nominated for the Metal/Hardcore award at the National MusicOz awards held in Sydney and broadcast live to a national television audience, in both 2007 and 2008. Avalon was also voted in the top 10 international metal albums of the year by Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
.
In 2009 the band joined the country’s largest national music festival, the Big Day Out
Big Day Out
The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...
, and went on to tour Europe with an appearance at the Progpower Europe
ProgPower Europe
ProgPower Europe is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the Netherlands since 1999. The last edition, the 13th, was held at Sjiwa in Baarlo on September 30 – October 2, 2011...
Festival in The Netherlands with a run of further dates through Belgium. Later that year, the band picked up five Australian Heavy Metal Awards (including best band) with a live performance at the Forum in Sydney during the awards show.
In just over four years, Chaos Divine have played alongside acts such as Slayer
Slayer
Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
(USA), Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...
(USA), Devil Driver (USA), Static-X
Static-X
Static-X is an American industrial metal band from Los Angeles, California. They were formed in 1994. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released six albums, their most recent being Cult of Static, which was released on March 17, 2009....
(USA), Obituary
Obituary (band)
Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1984 in Tampa, Florida under the name Executioner, then changed the name's spelling to Xecutioner, and later changed their name to Obituary in 1988. The band comprises vocalist John Tardy, drummer Donald Tardy, guitarists Trevor Peres and Ralph...
(USA), Mastodon
Mastodon (band)
Mastodon is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999. The band is composed of bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor...
(USA), Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music....
(SWE), Evergrey
Evergrey
Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998. Their most recent album Glorious Collision was released in 2011.-Lyrical themes:...
(SWE), Hacride
Hacride
Hacride is a French heavy metal band. Formed in 2001 with musicians coming from an array of different bands, musical backgrounds and styles their sound has evolved from the raw extremities and odd time signatures of technical death metal to one that is more progressive and...
(FRA) and Trivium
Trivium (band)
Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999. Signed to Roadrunner Records, the band has released five studio albums, eleven singles, and twelve music videos...
(USA), to name only a few.
On March 25 2011, the band released their second full-length album, The Human Connection through Firestarter Music and Distribution. Recorded in Perth, Western Australia, the album was mixed and mastered by renowned producer Jens Bogren of Fascination Street Studio, Sweden (Opeth
Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years...
, Symphony X
Symphony X
Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from Middletown, New Jersey.Founded in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo, their albums The Divine Wings of Tragedy and V: The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community...
, Katatonia
Katatonia
Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström .-1991-1993:The early Katatonia releases, such as the EP Jhva Elohim Meth.....
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Studio Albums
- Avalon (2008)
Tracklisting:
| Track # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Contortion |
| 2 | Our Delusion |
| 3 | Refuse The Sickness |
| 4 | Avalon |
| 5 | Cages |
| 6 | Brand New Eyes |
| 7 | The Carnal Thirst |
| 8 | Rapture |
| 9 | Narcosis |
| 10 | Alone in the Sky |
- The Human Connection (2011)
Tracklisting:
| Track # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | One Door |
| 2 | At The Ringing Of The Siren |
| 3 | The Beaten Path |
| 4 | Chasing Shadows |
| 5 | Beautiful Abyss |
| 6 | Silence |
| 7 | Invert Evolution |
| 8 | Astral Plane |
| 9 | No Road Home (Solastalgia) |
EPs
- Ratio (2006)
Tracklisting:
| Track # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Disposable |
| 2 | Still Bleeding |
| 3 | Emancipation |
| 4 | At Both Ends |
| 5 | Obsidian Eyes |
Music Videos
- "Refuse the Sickness" (2008), from the album Avalon
- "Cages" (2009), recorded live at the 2009 AAHM Awards
Awards
Ratio was voted the second best Australian metal release of 2006 by the listeners of Triple JTriple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
’s Full Metal Racket
Full Metal Racket
The Racket is an Australian heavy metal radio show airing on alternative youth broadcaster Triple J. It is hosted by Andrew Haug, who is also the drummer for Melbourne metal band Contrive...
program,
Ratio was voted the best Australian metal release of 2006 by the shows presenter, Andrew Haug
Andrew Haug
Andrew Haug is a radio announcer and heavy metal musician from Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the most prominent figures on Australia's largely underground heavy metal scene....
.
WAM Song of the Year
WAM Song of the Year
WAM was originally formed as the Western Australian Rock Music Industry Association Inc. in 1985, with its main aim to develop and run annual awards recognising achievements within the music industry in Western Australia...
2008 Song of the Year Award in the Heavy Rock/Metal category with the track 'Refuse the Sickness'.
MusicOz top-five finalists nominated for the Metal/Hardcore award in both 2007 and 2008
Western Australian Music Industry Awards 2009 Best Hard Rock/Metal Act nominee
Western Australian Music Industry Awards 2010 Best Hard Rock/Metal Act nominee
Avalon was also voted in the top 10 international metal albums of the year by Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
in 2009.
In 2009, Chaos Divine won 5 awards (best band; best album - Avalon; best song - Refuse the Sickness; best production - Jarrad Hearman, Avalon; best vocalist - David Anderton) at the first national Australian metal awards show for the Australian Association of Heavy Metal.
Members
- Ryan Felton – lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
(2005–present) - Simon Mitchell – lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
(2005–present) - Ben Mazzarol – drums (2005–2007, 2008–present)
- David Anderton; lead vocals (2005–present)
- Michael Kruit; bass guitar (2005–present)
External Links
- www.chaosdivine.net
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