History
Into Eternity was formed in 1997 by founding members
Tim Roth, Scott Krall and Jim Austin and later released an
eponymous, independent album in 1999, with the addition of Chris Eisler and Chris McDougall. The band signed to
Century Media Records a year later and then re-released their debut album. In 2001, the band returned with their second album
Dead or Dreaming
, an album which saw a more pronounced integration of
progressive and
death metal. The trend continued on 2004's
Buried in Oblivion
and even further on 2006's
The Scattering of Ashes
.
[1] Into Eternity performed on
Gigantour 2006, which kicked off in
Boise,
Idaho on
September 6,
2006.
[2] According to
Soundscan, the latest album sold a little over 2,000 copies in the
US during its first week of release.
[3] During the summer of 2007, Into Eternity (along with progressive metal band
Redemption) toured in support of
Dream Theater during their North American leg of the Chaos in Motion tour.
[4] Their new album entitled,
The Incurable Tragedy
, which is a
concept album, was released on
August 25,
2008 in
Europe and on
September 2, 2008 in
North America.
Musical style
The band employs a wide range of elements across the metal spectrum, including
classic or melodic metal styling,
thrashing riffs,
power metal-style
clean vocals [5] [6], high to low-pitched
death growls and
black metal shrieking
[7], fast tempoed death metal drumming with
blast beats and sometimes interwoven with
acoustic guitar playing
. Into Eternity provides a sound that is considered to be rather difficult to describe, but the most common description of Into Eternity's music is progressive death metal.
Band members
Current members
- Stu Block - Lead vocals (2005-present)
- Tim Roth - guitar, Backing vocals (1997-present)
- Justin Bender - guitar (2006-present)
- Troy Bleich - bass, backing vocals (2004-present)
- Steve Bolognese - drums (2006-present)
Former members
- Jim Austin - drums (1997-2006)
- Chris Eisler - guitar (1999)
- Christopher McDougall - keyboards (1999-2001)
- Scott Krall - bass and backing vocals (1997-2005)
- Daniel Nargang - guitar, clean vocals (2001)
- Chris Krall - clean and death vocals (2003-2004)
- Rob Doherty - guitar and death vocals (2003-2005)
- Collin Craig - guitar (2006)
- Dean Sternburger - vocals (2004)
- Adam Sagan - drums (2005)
Discography
Studio albums
| Date of Release
| Title
| Label
| Heatseekers peak
| US sales
|
| 1999
| Into Eternity
| DVS
|
| -
|
| 2001
| Dead or Dreaming
|
| -
|
| 2004
| Buried in Oblivion
| Century Media
|
| -
|
| 2006
| The Scattering of Ashes
| 45 [9]
| 18,000
|
| 2008
| The Incurable Tragedy
| 17
| 1,900 [10]
|
Music videos
- "Spiraling into Depression" (2004)
- "Severe Emotional Distress" (2006)
- "Timeless Winter" (2007)
- "Time Immemorial" (2008)
References
- Into Eternity official website
- Into Eternity official website
- Pyro Music
- Metal News - Dream Theater Announce Philadelphia Live Date ( Metal Underground . com )
- Allmusic review of ''Buried in Oblivion''
- http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=412
- Allmusic review of ''The Incurable Tragedy''
- Into Eternity official website
- Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Into Eternity
- INTO ETERNITY: 'The Incurable Tragedy' First-Week Sales Revealed