Renowned for his unique bass playing, Dominic 'Forest' Lapointe (Beyond Creation, Augury, Teramobil, etc) has released a new playthrough video for the Beyond Creation track "Coexistence". This progressive tech death epic can be found on the band's The Aura album, available through Season Of Mist Records.
It is no secret that Montreal is a hotbed of metal innovation, encompassing a wide spectrum of brutality, technical innovation and avant-garde ideas that many scenes do well to envy. Still, genre conventions being what they are, many musicians are left with that nagging question in the back of their minds... “what if we just went all out, no boundaries?” Enter: Teramobil.
Comprised of Dominic 'Forest' Lapointe (Augury, Beyond Creation, etc) on 6-string bass, Mathieu Bérubé (Unhuman) on guitar and Alexandre Dupras (Unhuman, The Plasmarifle) on drums, Teramobil is an uncompromising amalgam of technical metal, progressive rock, jazz fusion, psychedelic trips and... pretty much anything else you can think of!
Jokingly dubbing their instrumental style “InYourFaceExtremeDoomCountryMathTechniCore”, Teramobil have, since beginning writing in the fall of 2010, come up with a full serving of challenging music that above all remains clear, concise and listenable despite its extreme level of complexity. The band's first offering, in the form of the 6-song EP Multispectral Supercontinuum, saw the light of day in March 2013. It will be followed by a full-length album in the near future.
Teramobil have managed to generate an immediate buzz about their live show by earning opening slots for such acts as Beneath The Massacre and Behold The Arctopus, all the while showing they can go toe-to-toe with these established acts without breaking a sweat.
Fans of the aforementioned Behold The Arctopus, as well as Animals As Leaders, Blotted Science, Converge and more: you have been notified, a new wave of exploration is here, and it's called Teramobil.
Pic by Pascal Loiselle From Left to Right: Kevin Chartré, Simon Girard, Philippe Boucher, Dominic ''Forest'' Lapointe
Season of Mist recently announced the signing of Montreal progressive death metal masters BEYOND CREATION. Founded in 2005, BEYOND CREATION self-released their debut technical death metal masterpiece, 'The Aura,' in 2011 which will be reissued with an exclusive bonus track by Season of Mist on April 12th in Europe and May 14th in North America for a special price!
Guitarist Simon Girard,commented: "We are very proud to be part of the excellent Season of Mist family! SoM have clearly established themselves as one of the master labels of the metal genre. We've been listening to awesome bands from their roster for many years, so it's a very pleasant surprise to have this opportunity. The hard work we've always put in will continue at a new level through our collaboration with SoM and we can't wait to see where it will all propel us from here!"
BEYOND CREATION will be touring as part of the upcoming Decibel Magazine Tour which is headlined by CANNIBAL CORPSE, NAPALM DEATH and IMMOLATION, and co-sponsored by Season of Mist.
21 May 13 Vancouver, BC (CA) Commodore Ballroom
22 May 13 Calgary, AB (CA) MacEwan Ballroom
23 May 13 Edmonton, AB (CA) Starlight Room
24 May 13 Regina, SK (CA) Riddell Centre
25 May 13 Winnipeg, MB (CA) The Garrick
26 May 13 Minneapolis, MN (US) Mill City Nights
28 May 13 Chicago, IL (US) Bottom Lounge
29 May 13 Detroit, MI (US) Harpos
30 May 13 Buffalo, NY (US) Town Ballroom
31 May 13 Toronto, ON (CA) The Phoenix
01 Jun 13 Montreal, QC (CA) Club Soda
02 Jun 13 Boston, MA (US) Royale Below can be seen the official video for Omnipresent Perception taken off "The Aura".
Fans interested in finding out more about Beyond Creation can visit the band's Facebook page.
I asked myself: “What kind of metalhead am I?” I could not believe when I first heard Beyond Creation. It was enough to hear the first few minutes of a single song to realize the massive music monster that stood before me. “How come I never heard them before?” is the question that comes to mind. I mean… with a first album they broke the scale of what a work of death metal should be and still were able to innovate what is very difficult within a genre that continuously presents bands that try to be increasingly brutal and fast to gain focus.
Once again I was attracted by brilliant musicians who left me stupefied with their ability and ingenuity not only in the musical structure they compose but also as individuals. They are a progressive/technical death metal quartet (Simon Girard - vocals/guitar; Kevin Chartre - guitar; Dominic “Forest” Lapointe - bass; Guyot Begin-Benoit – drums) from Québec, Canada called Beyond Creation and with their first album release (“The Aura”) in 2011 they left many metallers stunned. Their appearance was totally unexpected, manly for being a jovial band formed in 2005 that after a demo that has not received close attention created a full-length that deeply hit the metal community with its brutality and for having a fresh sound.
The production of the “The Aura” was at least professional, one of the best productions of death metal I ever heard. The whole sound is crystal clear like water, every instrument is perfectly audible including the fretless bass and all of them protrude together and solo magnificently. The term overlay does not exist in this death metal composition there´s not a single note muffled and instruments superposed by others. Other impeccable factor in the album is that both the melodic and heavier parts are well distributed and fit seamlessly in all the songs creating the perfect atmosphere without it being necessary the use of a background.
The progression of the music is thrilling; the songs are able to unleash a vast arsenal of influences, techniques and rhythms and always mutate to something new with a stronger character be it heavy or calm, raw or melodic, pure death or progressive. With a well varied composition it would be expected that sometimes the progression had failures and the music would lose its natural evolution with phrases that wouldn´t make sense or wouldn´t fit but this is not the case. They show us a labored sound with a very complex construction that brings the best of the style that never fell in the error of progressing in the wrong direction always maintaining the vitality and roots of the work.
Sometimes they remind bands such as “The Faceless” and “Obscura” for being a death metal that embraces influences of “Animal as Leaders” (progressive metal) and the harmony of technical melodies with the help of the fretless bass, that at first can be questionable but after being heard carefully becomes a powerful ally for the musical ambient, with the help of the keyboards to give that deep texture and the drums that stay incredibly strong and always present, being heavy when the music requires it or being in a relax mood when the guitar or bass have a powerful line.
Other times they appear to be a ravenous formation like “Necrophagist” with hungry to discharge a fierce current of fast and brutal death metal to make you hair stand on end with an outstanding performance of the guitar, bass and drums that sound very technical and smooth and does not exaggerate by repeating riffs or beats, doing crazy fast flourished solos, instead the instruments stays faithful to what the music is and delivers a wide range of styles and techniques with hungry for destruction.
Still Beyond Creation delivers a sound that is unique despite the similarities with other bands and I even risk to say they are one of the best technical death metal bands in the world.
01. No Request for the Corrupted
02. Coexistence
03. Chromatic Horizon
04. Omnipresent Perception
05. Injustice Revealed
06. Le Détenteur
07. The Aura
08. Social Disability
09. Elevation Path
10. The Deported
Fans interested in finding out more about Beyond Creation can visit the band's Facebook page.
One melee with the words, ideas and its paradoxes... albuns that are news, the reviews at "HeavyHardMetalmania.net", always with its watermark, Pedro Ribeiro, with love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. "The wisdom is found in the extremes, all extreme Metal here!"
Montreal's rising-star progressive death metal wizards Beyond Creation have just released the new official music video for their song, "Omnipresent Perception". The track is from their debut album,The Aura. The video clip can be seen below.
"This video was created in collaboration with Obnoxious Entertainment, a brand-new production company from Montreal," comments BC singer/guitarist Simon Girard. "'Omnipresent Perception' contains a simple and direct message: we are free to trust in whatever we want, but we should first trust in ourselves, and make sure we do it the right way! We are very happy with the end result of this video and we hope people will have as much watching it as we did making it."
Fans interested in finding out more about Beyond Creation can visit the band's Facebook page, as well as Obnoxious Entertainment's officialwebsite.
