Tim Roth (born December 6, 1975) is the guitarist, backing vocalist and only remaining founding member of Canadian
melodic death metal
Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...
and
progressive metal
Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal music, heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression" and amplified electric guitar, guitar-driven sound of the former with t ...
band,
Into Eternity. Roth is very much the mastermind of Into Eternity, plays the majority of their guitar solos and also was originally the lead vocalist. His primary guitar is an
Ibanez
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S470, and has said that he does not use amplifiers in studio recordings, but uses instead a program called Amp Farm.
He has been playing guitar for 32 years. He has a somewhat unconventional style of playing revolved on his unique alternate picking style and sweep/tap arpeggios. His vocal style consists of high pitched clean power metal vocals and a more
black metal
Black metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include Tempo#Beats per minute, fast tempos, a Screaming (music)#Black metal, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted Electric guitar, guitars played with tr ...
oriented shriek (complementing the deeper
death metal
Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...
growls of his co-vocalists). He has posted several videos on
YouTube
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teaching viewers how to play Into Eternity songs and the bands musical style in general.
Discography
Into Eternity
* 1999/2000: ''
Into Eternity''
* 2001: ''
Dead or Dreaming
''Dead or Dreaming'' is the second full-length studio album by Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity. It was released by DVS Records in 2001 and re-released by Century Media Records on 2002.
Track listing
* All songs written, ...
''
* 2004: ''
Buried in Oblivion
''Buried in Oblivion'' is the third full-length studio album by the Canadian metal band Into Eternity, released on February 10, 2004, by Century Media Records
Century Media Records is a German heavy metal record label with offices in German ...
''
* 2006: ''
The Scattering of Ashes
''The Scattering of Ashes'' is the fourth full-length studio album by Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity. It was released on October 3, 2006, by Century Media Records.
It is the first album to feature vocalist Stu Block, an ...
''
* 2008: ''
The Incurable Tragedy''
* 2018: ''
The Sirens''
See also
*
Stu Block
Stuart Block (born November 26, 1977) is a Canadian singer who is the lead vocalist of progressive death metal band Into Eternity and a former lead singer of heavy metal band Iced Earth. Before joining Into Eternity in 2005, he began his music ...
*
Into Eternity
References
External links
Official SiteCentury Media RecordsOfficial Into Eternity Myspace Page
1975 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian heavy metal guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
21st-century Canadian guitarists
21st-century Canadian male singers
21st-century Canadian singers
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