Echoes of Eternity
is a progressive metal band based in Los Angeles. Their debut album The Forgotten Goddess
, was released in February 2007 on Nuclear Blast records. The band's follow up album, As Shadows Burn
, is set to be released on September 25, 2009 via Massacre Records in Europe and Nuclear Blast in the US.
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History
Echoes of Eternity was founded in 2006 by South Carolina natives Kirk Carrison and Brandon Patton . Carrison met vocalist Francine Boucher while attending
Full Sail recording school in Florida. The two began dating and moved to
Los Angeles together following their graduation in 2001 to seek work in recording studios. After a few failed music projects, Carrison urged longtime friend and guitarist Patton to move to Los Angeles and form a band. The two enlisted
Canadian-born Francine on vocals, who had previously created and recorded her own work with the intention of scoring films. The band then added bassist Duane Cowan, who had recently relocated from
Japan to Los Angeles.
The group recorded a three song demo, which was sent out to producers and labels, and eventually found its way to noted producer and guitarist
Roy Z, who expressed interest in the band. Z initially wanted to produce the band, but was busy with other projects, and passed the demo along to
Nuclear Blast records, who signed the band in 2006.
[1]
The band entered Raven's Work studio in June 2006 to begin work on their debut release. Carrison, who was an assistant engineer at Raven's Work, was afforded studio time at night and on the weekends to record, although the studio is primarily used for
television commercial audio post production. Produced by Raven's Work engineer Eric Ryan, the resulting album blended elements of
American thrash metal with
European style female-fronted
gothic metal.
On February 20th, 2007, Echoes Of Eternity released their debut album
The Forgotten Goddess
on
Nuclear Blast Records. Press response to the album was mixed, with
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
Martin Popoff stating that he was "not thrilled with the high-strung,
ProTooled, synthetic, stiff nature of the riffs and the drumming",
[2] while Jeff Maki of Live-Metal.net said the album features "beautiful melodies galore, backed by a start-stop machine gun
double bass attack and a classic metal guitar sound."
[3]
Echoes of Eternity added second guitarist Sam Young in 2007, and filmed a video for the song "Voices in a Dream" with director
Ole Carlson. In June 2007, the band embarked on a US tour opening for
Symphony X and
Sanctity, in the fall they toured with
Edguy,
Into Eternity, and
Light This City and later toured with
Trail of Tears and
Unexpect.
In the fall of 2008, the band separated ways with guitarist Sam Young and brought in long time friend Bryan Eagle. Eagle has done numerous projects with both Carrison and Cowan in the past including a Demo for there Scream In Agony project with guitarist Nick Meehan that is expected to be finished in the fall of 2009.
Echoes Of Eternity completed the recording of their second album,
As Shadows Burn
, with producer
Logan Mader in January 2009. In July 2009, the band announced signing with the German underground label
Massacre Records for European distribution. The label is set to release
As Shadows Burn
in Europe on
September 25,
2009, with an American release by Nuclear Blast soon after.
Lineup
- Francine Boucher - Vocals, songwriter
- Brandon Patton - Guitars, songwriter
- Duane Cowan - Bass
- Bryan Eagle - Guitar
- Kirk Carrison - Drums
Discography
- The Forgotten Goddess
- 2007
- As Shadows Burn
- 2009