Embodied Torment - Biography
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2013-
Logo updated in 2013.
Logo updated in 2013.
Biography
Embodied Torment was founded in 2011, as Matt Chaco (vox) and Cindy Chaco (nee Switzer) (drums) joined forces with Casey Ryle (guitars), Joaquin Chavez (guitars), and David Ko (bass). After an initial phase of playing a fairly traditional form of death metal, represented by their early demo, the quintet gradually focused on the most brutal and extreme elements of their sound. Ryle departed in mid-2012, which saw the band continue on as a four-piece and record their 'Kyphonism' promo, which represented their new sonic direction.
After their first tour in November of 2013, their performances gained them the attention of rising death metal label New Standard Elite, with whom they signed on in June 2014. After an intensive period of writing, the band emerged in May 2015 with their debut full-length release, "Liturgy of Ritual Execution." Built on a traditionalist framework of extreme, blasting death metal, the album weaves hymns of brutality with a dark atmosphere that is uncommon in the genre. Tracks such as Oubliette, Epoch of Suffering and Thrones of the Slain display a vision of dismal and brutal music reaching beyond the confines of Brutal Death Metal without compromising the extremity that characterizes the core of their sound.
In June of 2015, to practice the liturgy in front of the roaring throng, Embodied Torment took part in the New Standard Elite USA tour featuring Disentomb, Cerebral Effusion, Delusional Parasitosis, and Iniquitous Deeds. The band subsequently toured with labelmates Omnipotent Hysteria and technical brutal death metallers Face of Oblivion in 2016 before entering a period of inactivity.
In 2022, founding guitarist Joaquin Chavez, drummer Cindy Switzer, and bassist Mark Chandler (ex-Orchidectomy) - who had toured with the band in 2016 - brought Embodied Torment back into action. When Switzer was unable to commit to the recording and live schedule, the band recruited Alex Cohen (Contrarian, Involuntary Convulsion, Malignancy (live)) and vocalist Andrew Smith (Splattered). This new lineup recorded the Archaic Bloodshed EP and returned to the stage with a series of performances in California and the Eastern United States.
After their first tour in November of 2013, their performances gained them the attention of rising death metal label New Standard Elite, with whom they signed on in June 2014. After an intensive period of writing, the band emerged in May 2015 with their debut full-length release, "Liturgy of Ritual Execution." Built on a traditionalist framework of extreme, blasting death metal, the album weaves hymns of brutality with a dark atmosphere that is uncommon in the genre. Tracks such as Oubliette, Epoch of Suffering and Thrones of the Slain display a vision of dismal and brutal music reaching beyond the confines of Brutal Death Metal without compromising the extremity that characterizes the core of their sound.
In June of 2015, to practice the liturgy in front of the roaring throng, Embodied Torment took part in the New Standard Elite USA tour featuring Disentomb, Cerebral Effusion, Delusional Parasitosis, and Iniquitous Deeds. The band subsequently toured with labelmates Omnipotent Hysteria and technical brutal death metallers Face of Oblivion in 2016 before entering a period of inactivity.
In 2022, founding guitarist Joaquin Chavez, drummer Cindy Switzer, and bassist Mark Chandler (ex-Orchidectomy) - who had toured with the band in 2016 - brought Embodied Torment back into action. When Switzer was unable to commit to the recording and live schedule, the band recruited Alex Cohen (Contrarian, Involuntary Convulsion, Malignancy (live)) and vocalist Andrew Smith (Splattered). This new lineup recorded the Archaic Bloodshed EP and returned to the stage with a series of performances in California and the Eastern United States.