The Faceless - Are Officially Singer-less
As was rumored on the webernet for eons, The Faceless frontman Derek Rydquist has left the US technical death metal band.
Derek Rydquist officially confirmed his departure on [url= http://lambgoat.com/news/view.aspx?id=16255]Lambgoat[/url] earlier today: "As you Internet sleuths have deduced, I have left The Faceless. I left the band a couple months ago, and we were waiting until they had everything sorted out on their end before saying anything about it, but I guess I'll take it upon myself to break the news. I am no longer emotionally or artistically fulfilled by being the vocalist for the group, and that's how I arrived at my decision. Touring's luster has worn off, and I have found myself reconsidering the role I would like to take in creating and presenting music. Also, being a 'professional musician' was kind of ruining my love for music because when you rely on this stuff to make you money, as with anything, it is easy to become bitter towards it. Not that it was all bad, I had the best times I will ever have being in this band, but it is time for me to move on.
I'd like to thank the band and the friends I've made through the band for making this not only a life altering experience, but a life shaping one. There is an immense amount of talent in this band, and the new vocalist they have is doing a great job, so please keep supporting The Faceless. I can now join you in anticipating the new album.
If you're interested, I'm now playing in another group with some dudes from some awesome bands. Check it out at this location. We're mixing the album right now, so we should have some music up soon."
Just in case you're wondering, Geoff Ficco (Kamikabe, Orgone) has apparently been singing for The Faceless since Rydquist's departure.
Derek Rydquist officially confirmed his departure on [url= http://lambgoat.com/news/view.aspx?id=16255]Lambgoat[/url] earlier today: "As you Internet sleuths have deduced, I have left The Faceless. I left the band a couple months ago, and we were waiting until they had everything sorted out on their end before saying anything about it, but I guess I'll take it upon myself to break the news. I am no longer emotionally or artistically fulfilled by being the vocalist for the group, and that's how I arrived at my decision. Touring's luster has worn off, and I have found myself reconsidering the role I would like to take in creating and presenting music. Also, being a 'professional musician' was kind of ruining my love for music because when you rely on this stuff to make you money, as with anything, it is easy to become bitter towards it. Not that it was all bad, I had the best times I will ever have being in this band, but it is time for me to move on.
I'd like to thank the band and the friends I've made through the band for making this not only a life altering experience, but a life shaping one. There is an immense amount of talent in this band, and the new vocalist they have is doing a great job, so please keep supporting The Faceless. I can now join you in anticipating the new album.
If you're interested, I'm now playing in another group with some dudes from some awesome bands. Check it out at this location. We're mixing the album right now, so we should have some music up soon."
Just in case you're wondering, Geoff Ficco (Kamikabe, Orgone) has apparently been singing for The Faceless since Rydquist's departure.
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| sbgmetal Posts: 867  |
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| morsus Posts: 20  |
Written by sbgmetal on 20.05.2011 at 23:05 the band is awesome. if you like death metal or extreme metal in general, you should check them out 
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| I_Die_Often Posts: 697  |
I am not sorry to see him go... I am not a fan of this band
---- Old enough to be your Daddy... speaking of which... you look familiar... do I know your mother???
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| I_Die_Often Posts: 697 |
Written by morsus on 20.05.2011 at 23:49 I love death metal and extreme metal, but this band is more of a crappy "core" band IMO. I have ranted about my dislike for them many times.
---- Old enough to be your Daddy... speaking of which... you look familiar... do I know your mother???
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| qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1547  |
Planetary Duality is a good tech death album, "core" influence almost went out on. The guy has a good voice for this kind of music.
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| Kuroboshi Posts: 1201  |
This band is pretty dull, and their singer was pretty lousy, so I guess it's for the best.
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| Sepulchre Lord Hypnos Posts: 190  |
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| The Voyager The Table Posts: 152  |
Written by ExhumedShadow on 21.05.2011 at 00:56 +2, echoed my thoughts for both of your paragraphs
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| psykometal A staff guy... Elite Posts: 6101  |
Written by The Voyager on 21.05.2011 at 02:42 +3 Their first album did have some deathcore influences on it and that's where the grand misconceptions of them being a " deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens" band came from but with Planetary Duality they left all that behind and are now more of an amalgamation of tech/prog death styles, think if Cynic and Obscura got together to write an album and that's about what PD sounds like. As for the title of this piece of news, how are they singer-less? The news states 2x that they have a vocalist, that does strike me as being very singer-less...
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| DoomGuard Posts: 368  |
Written by psykometal on 21.05.2011 at 06:06 Since i've seen them live 3 times and listened to them a few times I can throw them in that deathcore pot, cause that's exactly what they played live....right? I can do that safely right? cause they came out and played breakdown metal, not really...metal metal...lol
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504  |
Title gave me the impression they'd decided to take the instrumental path. Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, IMO...
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=28982]wind up[/url] on Sundays
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| Thryce Retired Staff Elite Posts: 4346  |
Written by [user id=28526] on 22.05.2011 at 13:07 You're both idiots.
---- Your favorite band sucks.
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| Elodie Artour Slania Posts: 1175  |
Written by Thryce on 23.05.2011 at 11:21 I don't see what's so wrong about people having a different sense of humor/being totally misguided. 
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