Beyond God - Biography
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2016-
Biography
We are Beyond God, a female fronted symphonic metal band from The Netherlands. Our music incorporates elements from heavy metal, classical and symphonic music. Heavy guitars and drums are combined with symphonic string and brass ensembles. This results in dark, atmospheric compositions where both heavy guitar riffs and symphonic orchestrations are melted into one. The most important aspects in our music are beautiful and even catchy vocal lines, ranging from a 'pop' to operatic singing style.
What makes our music stand out from other symphonic metal is that the heavy metal side of the music is at the service of the symphonic and classical side. The starting point for creating our music are the symphonic orchestrations, rather than layering guitar riffs with some strings.
Beyond God was founded by Ferry Guns in 2008. His main focus was to write the basic symphonic orchestrations. Ferry, being a drummer, soon added drums to these orchestrations. After a while he started searching for musicians that could contribute to Beyond God and to turn the basic orchestrations into the symphonic metal songs they are now.
In 2011 Peter den Bakker (bass guitar), Cynthia Knoch (vocals) and Twan Smolders (guitar) joined Beyond God. In 2012 we worked out Ferry's musical ideas into complete songs. Besides working on the music, 2012 was a busy year where Beyond God matured from a project of ideas into a full grown band. A demo EP was recorded, a website has been developed and artwork was designed.
Early 2013 our debut EP has been released and doors were opened to enter the stage. In september 2013 Peter den Bakker has been replaced by new bass player Lukasz Kubaszak. Peter couldn't combine Beyond God with his other band Ex Libris, his job and his personal life. In Lukasz we've found a worthy replacement.
In 2014 we concentrated on playing gigs and working on our full length album. 2015 will be an important year for Beyond God. We will be playing live shows on a regular basis and we will release our first album. Furthermore, early 2015 Meryl Foreman replaced Cynthia Knoch as our frontlady. We are on an exciting journey and we can't wait to see where it takes us!
Source: ReverbNation
What makes our music stand out from other symphonic metal is that the heavy metal side of the music is at the service of the symphonic and classical side. The starting point for creating our music are the symphonic orchestrations, rather than layering guitar riffs with some strings.
Beyond God was founded by Ferry Guns in 2008. His main focus was to write the basic symphonic orchestrations. Ferry, being a drummer, soon added drums to these orchestrations. After a while he started searching for musicians that could contribute to Beyond God and to turn the basic orchestrations into the symphonic metal songs they are now.
In 2011 Peter den Bakker (bass guitar), Cynthia Knoch (vocals) and Twan Smolders (guitar) joined Beyond God. In 2012 we worked out Ferry's musical ideas into complete songs. Besides working on the music, 2012 was a busy year where Beyond God matured from a project of ideas into a full grown band. A demo EP was recorded, a website has been developed and artwork was designed.
Early 2013 our debut EP has been released and doors were opened to enter the stage. In september 2013 Peter den Bakker has been replaced by new bass player Lukasz Kubaszak. Peter couldn't combine Beyond God with his other band Ex Libris, his job and his personal life. In Lukasz we've found a worthy replacement.
In 2014 we concentrated on playing gigs and working on our full length album. 2015 will be an important year for Beyond God. We will be playing live shows on a regular basis and we will release our first album. Furthermore, early 2015 Meryl Foreman replaced Cynthia Knoch as our frontlady. We are on an exciting journey and we can't wait to see where it takes us!
Source: ReverbNation