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Gorguts Members
Gorguts is a Canadian death metal band formed near Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1989. The band has gone through various membership changes since its inception; its only constant member has been guitarist-vocalist and co-founding member Luc Lemay, who remains the driving force of the band. To date, they have released five full-length albums and one EP. Their most recent release, ''Pleiades' Dust'', was released on May 13, 2016. Their latest full-length album, ''Colored Sands'' was released in 2013 and was nominated for a Juno Award. Musically, the band is known for its complex, dense form of technical death metal, and has become "one of the most advanced, experimental, and challenging groups in the entire genre." History Formation, ''Considered Dead'', and ''The Erosion of Sanity'' (1989–1993) Gorguts was formed in 1989 by Luc Lemay (vocals and guitar), Sylvain Marcoux (guitar), Éric Giguère (bass guitar) and Stephane Provencher (drums); the band name was suggested by one of Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François River, Saint-François and Magog River, Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and Census geographic units of Canada, census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. With 172,950 residents at the Canada 2021 Census, it is the sixth largest city in the province and the 30th largest in Canada. The Sherbrooke Census Metropolitan Area had 227,398 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Quebec and 19th in Canada. Sherbrooke is the primary economic, political, cultural, and institutional centre of Estrie, and was given its nickname as the ''Queen of the Eastern Townships'' at the beginning of the 20th century. There are eight institutions educating 40,000 students and employing 11,000 people, 3,700 of whom are professors, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrovision
TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. Now operating as Xperi, the company is primarily involved in licensing its intellectual property within the consumer electronics industry, including digital rights management, electronic program guide software, and metadata. The company holds over 6,000 pending and registered patents. The company also provides analytics and recommendation platforms for the video industry. In 2016, Rovi acquired digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc., and renamed itself TiVo Corporation. On May 30, 2019, TiVo announced the appointment of Dave Shull as the company's new president and CEO. On December 19, 2019, TiVo merged with Xperi; the combined firm operates as Xperi. History Macrovision Corporation was established in 1983 by Victor Farrow and John O. Ryan. The 1984 film '' The Cotton Club'' was the first video to be en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Lemay Gorguts
Luc or LUC may refer to: Places * Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, a commune * Luc, Lozère, France, a commune * Le Luc, France, a commune * Luč, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement People and fictional characters * L.U.C., stage name of Łukasz Rostkowski, Polish rapper and music producer, creator of the film score for the 2023 film ''The Peasants'' * Luc (given name) * Luc (surname) Academia * Leiden University College The Hague, a liberal arts & sciences honours college in the Netherlands * Limburgs Universitair Centrum, now University of Hasselt, Belgium * Loyola University Chicago Other uses * Land-use change * LUC, cryptosystem based on Lucas sequences See also * Château de Luc, a French castle-ruin in the town of Luc in the Lozère ''département'' * Luc-en-Diois, France, a commune * Luc-la-Primaube, France, a commune * Luc-sur-Mer, France, a commune * Saint-Luc (other) * Luk (other) Luk or LUK may refer to: Surname Luk or Loke is the Cantonese romani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockdetector
MusicMight (formerly RockDetector) was a rock music website that provides artist and product information through a global website and an ongoing book series. Based in New Zealand, the site was founded by British writer Garry Sharpe-Young, and was backed by a small team of international writers who contribute to the site. Database contents The database covered many styles and ages of rock music, such as thrash metal, black metal, death metal, radio rock and nu metal Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, with a metal umlaut) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop music, hip hop, funk, industrial music, industrial, and grunge. Nu .... As of December 2007, the database had over 59,400+ bands listed. The site included over 92,000 releases in the database and almost 659,000 songs. The site also had an international concert guide of over 300,000 concerts, archiving from 1965. The site also featured ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Depressive Disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive depression (mood), low mood, low self-esteem, and anhedonia, loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities. Introduced by a group of US clinicians in the mid-1970s, the term was adopted by the American Psychiatric Association for this syndrome, symptom cluster under mood disorders in the 1980 version of the ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (DSM-III), and has become widely used since. The disorder causes the second-most years lived with disability, after low back pain, lower back pain. The diagnosis of major depressive disorder is based on the person's reported experiences, behavior reported by family or friends, and a mental status examination. There is no laboratory test for the disorder, but testing may be done to rule out physical conditions that can cause similar symptoms. The most common time o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Wisdom To Hate
''From Wisdom to Hate'' is the fourth album by Gorguts, released on March 6, 2001 through Olympic Recordings and Season of Mist. The musical style can be considered a compromise between the previous album '' Obscura'' and the older albums '' Considered Dead'' and '' The Erosion of Sanity.'' This is the only Gorguts album to feature drummer Steve MacDonald. MacDonald had a history of recurrent depression and committed suicide in 2002, which eventually led to the break-up of Gorguts in 2005. Steeve Hurdle went on to form Negativa, which Lemay joined at Hurdle's invitation in 2006. Luc Lemay reformed Gorguts in 2008 with a new lineup and released a new album entitled ''Colored Sands'' in 2013. Release history The record label War on Music reissued the album on vinyl in 2011. Century Media reissued the album in 2015 with expanded liner notes by Luc Lemay on vinyl and CD along with ''Obscura.'' Musical style and writing The album's style has been described as somewhere betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyr (band)
Martyr is a Canadian death metal band from Trois-Rivières, Québec. Their musical style consists of mostly progressive use of melodics and variations of thrash and death metal influences. History Formed in 1994 by brothers Daniel (guitar, vocals) and François Mongrain (bass), along with Pier-Luc Lampron (guitar) and François Richard (drums), Martyr recorded a demo tape in September 1995 titled ''Ostrogoth''. In September 1997, the drummer François Richard left the band being replaced by Patrice Hamelin, the full-length debut '' Hopeless Hopes'' was self-released in November that same year. Martyr independently released their second album, '' Warp Zone'', in 2000. Lampron had left the band and was replaced on the guitar by Martin Carbonneau. In 2007 the band released an album, '' Feeding the Abscess''. In 2008 the band released a video, ''Havoc in Quebec City''. Daniel Mongrain joined Voivod in 2008, under the nickname "Chewy". Martyr went on hiatus in 2012 due to dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obscura (album)
''Obscura'' is the third full-length album by Canadian death metal band Gorguts. The album was released on June 23, 1998 through the now-defunct Olympic Recordings, but has since been reissued by a number of labels, in particular Century Media Records, Century Media in 2015. Since its release, ''Obscura'' has come to be regarded as one of the most important albums in the technical death metal genre, and as "one of the most complex and technical records in the genre, due to its unprecedented dissonance and experimentation brought by the band's late guitarist Steeve Hurdle." Lyrically, the album touches on Spirituality, spiritual and existential themes, representing a further departure from the band's previously established approach. Luc Lemay has described the album as "the record that defined our sound." History Following the release in 1993 of their second full-length ''The Erosion of Sanity,'' the band took part in a European tour with Blasphemy (band), Blasphemy. The band's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atheist (band)
Atheist is an American death metal band from Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1987. The band's original lineup consisted vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kelly Shaefer, lead guitarist Rand Burkey, bassist Roger Patterson and drummer Steve Flynn. The band is known for its highly technical playing style, and its 1991 album '' Unquestionable Presence'' is regarded as a landmark of the technical death metal genre. The band gained a following largely within its own genre. After disbanding in 1994, the group reformed in 2006 and has since released one studio album and a live DVD. History The band was originally formed in 1984 in Sarasota, Florida, firstly under the name Oblivion and later as R.A.V.A.G.E. (which stands for "Raging Atheists Vowing A Gory End"). Kelly Shaefer stated that on two occasions early in the band's career, the police were called on the band by the management of the clubs they were performing at, leading them to be "drag edout" of the venues. Shaefer recalled th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1988, now based in Tampa, Florida. The band has released sixteen studio albums, two box sets, four video albums, and two live albums. The band has had little radio or television exposure throughout its existence, although a cult following began to build with the releases of their early albums, including '' Butchered at Birth'' (1991) and '' Tomb of the Mutilated'' (1992). As of 2015, they achieved worldwide sales of two million units for combined sales of all their albums. Cannibal Corpse received its best "first week" sales of all-time and first Top 10 on the ''Billboard'' Top Album Sales Chart with their fifteenth studio album '' Violence Unimagined'' (2021), which entered at No. 6 with 14,000 copies sold. Cannibal Corpse has seen several lineup changes throughout its run, with bassist Alex Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz being the only constant members. The band's current lineup includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Erosion Of Sanity
''The Erosion of Sanity'' is the second full-length album by Canadian technical death metal band Gorguts. The album was released on January 19, 1993, through Roadrunner Records. Though it is now considered a milestone in the genre, the album's release coincided with the decline of death metal's popularity as a genre, and Roadrunner decided to drop the band from their roster. The band subsequently entered into a five-year state of limbo in which they ceased touring, during which all members except Luc Lemay left. Gorguts later returned with a new lineup, releasing their third full-length album '' Obscura'' in 1998. The album was remastered and re-released with ''Considered Dead'' as part of Roadrunner's Two from the Vault series, in 2004. It was re-released again in 2006 with two bonus tracks. Track listing Personnel Gorguts * Luc Lemay – vocals, guitar, piano (2), logos, production * Sylvain Marcoux – guitar, production * Eric Giguere – bass, production * Stephane Prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
