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Australian deathcore ring

Thy Fine art Is Murder
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Thy Art Is Murder performing at Stone am Ring in 2018
Background data
Origin Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Deathcore
Years active 2006 (2006)–present
Labels Human being Warfare, Nuclear Blast, Halfcut, Skulls and Bones, UNFD
Website thyartismurder.net
Members
  • CJ McMahon
  • Sean Delander
  • Andy Marsh
  • Kevin Butler
  • Jesse Beahler
Past members
  • Brendan van Ryn
  • Lee Stanton
  • Gary Markowski
  • Josh King
  • Mick Low
  • Tom Brown

Thy Art Is Murder is an Australian deathcore band from Blacktown, Sydney, that formed in 2006. The band consists of vocalist Chris "CJ" McMahon, guitarists Sean Delander and Andy Marsh, drummer Jesse Beahler and bassist Kevin Butler. Thy Art Is Murder has released five studio albums since germination.

Their 2008 EP Space Expiry, reached position no. 10 on the AIR Charts upon release,[i] and their 2d total-length album Hate debuted at no. 35 on the ARIA Charts,[2] making them the first extreme metallic ring to ever achieve the Top forty of this nautical chart.[3] The album also reached no. ane on AIR[iv] and both no. two and no. four respectively on the United states and Canadian iTunes metal charts on its week of release.

The band'due south following albums Holy State of war (June 2015) and Honey Pathos (August 2017) charted on Usa Billboard 200. Man Target was released in July 2019.

History [edit]

2006–2010: Formation, EPs and The Adversary [edit]

Founding member and guitarist Sean Delander

Formed in 2006, in the Western Sydney locality of Blacktown, the group originally consisted of vocaliser Brendan van Ryn, guitarists Gary Markowski and Sean Delander, bassist Josh King and drummer Lee Stanton. Building on a loyal following amidst fans of deathcore in Western Sydney, they recorded a three runway demo This Pigsty Isn't Deep Plenty for the Twelve of Y'all. They returned to the studio in 2008 to record the EP Space Death, which gained them further attention for van Ryn's sacrilegious and misogynistic lyrics and vocal titles. The EP reached number x on the AIR Charts.[one]

Following two years of relentless national touring, it was appear in 2008 that van Ryn was most to depart from the group. It was initially claimed that he left the grouping due to creative differences and an inability to go along up with their evolving death metal sound.[five] However it was subsequently claimed in 2013 that van Ryn was replaced because "he couldn't sing [anymore] and he had a massive attitude problem."[6] Thy Art Is Murder searched for a year for a new vocalist, until finding Chris "CJ" McMahon from Sydney metalcore band Vegas in Ruins. The band were so impressed with his death growl vocals that he was incepted into the band during 2009. Bassist Mick Lowe replaced King shortly before the ring began tracking demos for their beginning full-length anthology The Adversary. The demos recorded in 2009 included early versions of the songs "Engineering the Antichrist" and "Cowards Throne". In 2010, the group began recording the album's final recording sessions and released the album on xvi July 2010.[vii] [8] [nine]

Thy Art Is Murder supported the release of The Adversary with Canadian deathcore band Despised Icon'southward Australian leg of their Farewell Bout, which also included The Scarlet Shore.

2011–2014: Detest [edit]

Founding member and former drummer Lee Stanton

2011 saw further line-up changes, notably the departure of founding member and lead guitarist Gary Markowski. Delander decided to switch duties from guitar to bass, making fashion for Andy Marsh and Tom Brown to join on guitar. Following the band's first European tour in 2012 with War from a Harlots Oral cavity and As Claret Runs Black the band traveled to Belleville, NJ in the United states of america to record their 2nd album with producer Will Putney at the Machine Shop recording studios.

Following their Australian tour with Fear Factory in September 2012, Hate was released on xix October 2012. The starting time single, "Reign of Darkness", had been premiered earlier on radio station Triple J's The Racket on 18 September.[10] [xi] [12]

The album debuted at No. 35 on the ARIA Charts,[2] making Thy Art Is Murder the get-go extreme metal band to ever to intermission the top xl.[3] The album besides reached No. 1 on AIR.[4] The album was met with a mix of some positive and some negative criticism. Kevin Stewart-Panko of Decibel Magazine awarded Hate a score of ane out of 10 and criticizing the band for not going "out of their manner to push the envelope or add a modicum of originality or value to metallic every bit a whole."[thirteen] In January 2013, the band performed at the Sydney Large Day Out festival; the just other extreme metal band ever to exist featured on the line-up was Blood Squeegee in 2004. Post-obit their 2nd European tour in February and March[14] Thy Fine art Is Murder signed to Nuclear Blast on 24 January 2013 for distribution of Hate outside Australia. On 13 March 2013, Triple J appear that Thy Art Is Murder would be headlining the Detest Across Australia tour with Cattle Decapitation, King Parrot and Aversions Crown.[15]

On eleven Apr 2013, Sumerian Records officially announced that the group had just lost the opening back up on the United States' annual Summer Slaughter Tour. The announcement was met by some controversy due to the fact that the group was to exist called by a voters' poll and American deathcore ring Rings of Saturn had in fact won the vote past one%.[sixteen] [17] [eighteen] Eventually, promoters chose to include both bands.

On 17 June 2013 the band revealed they would be touring beyond Australia with Parkway Drive as part of their 10 Years of Parkway Drive tour.[xix] The same solar day, the band lost out to Bleed from Within at the Metal Hammer Gilt Gods Awards where they had been nominated as Best New Band.[twenty] On 15 Oct 2013 the ring were nominated in the All-time Hard Stone/Heavy Metal category for the 2013 ARIA Awards, somewhen losing out to Karnivool.[21] The ring headlined their second always tour through North America in November and Dec 2013, dubbing it the Hate Beyond America. The bill featured support from I Declare War, Fit for an Autopsy, The Last 10 Seconds of Life and Kublai Khan with many dates selling out. The band headlined in Europe in Jan and Feb 2014, selling out most venues. Support came from Heart of a Coward, Aversions Crown and Aegaeon. The band was announced on the lineup for Download Festival 2014.

Vocalist Chris "CJ" McMahon

The band made Australian news headlines in tardily February 2014, when McMahon encouraged fans to become onstage during their assail Brisbane leg of the Soundwave Festival tour.[22] [23] [24] Promoter AJ Maddah subsequently tweeted his decision to have the band off the rest of the tour calling them "disrespectful arseholes" and claiming that McMahon had told the crowd that "in that location are yard of you and dozens of security. Smash them. All of you get on the stage".[25] Fan footage uploaded on YouTube revealed that Maddah'south version of McMahon'south pre-vocal voice communication were embellished.[26] The following day both the promoter and the band tweeted that Thy Fine art Is Murder would be allowed to play the residuum of the tour.[27] McMahon afterward commented on the incident, saying "it's simply all bullshit... I just wanted the oversupply participation, wanted people to try and make their way up on-stage and have a crazy evidence"; however, he also noted that "AJ [Maddah] was only doing what he thought was the right affair given the information that he was given" and that the incident provided "costless publicity and exposure in the news" for the band, so it "helped [them] rather than hindered [them]" in the end.[28]

The band appear their participation in the Mosh Lives tour, headlined by Emmure, travelling the United states in March and April 2014. The band headlined a brusque Canadian tour with Sworn In in April 2014. The ring played New England Metal And Hardcore Festival in April 2014. The band too took part at the Summer Slaughter the same yr. Vocalizer CJ McMahon commented on the band's activity, claiming they are "one of, if not the nearly hardest-working touring bands" and saying that "[there'south] no other fucking band on the face up of this earth that will bout equally much as we practice".[28] They likewise supported Born of Osiris on their Tomorrow We Dice Alive tour in November 2014 in North America with ERRA, Within the Ruins and Betraying the Martyrs.

2015–2018: Holy State of war and Honey Pathos [edit]

On 31 March 2015 it was announced that Thy Art Is Murder's then-upcoming album would be titled Holy War and would be released on 30 June in N America via Nuclear Blast Amusement. It was recorded in hugger-mugger over the winter with producer Will Putney.[29] Thy Art Is Murder, alongside other bands, supported Slayer on 2015's Mayhem Festival, which toured the U.S. from June to August.[30] Holy State of war had a successful kickoff calendar week of sales, charting at No. 7 in Commonwealth of australia and No. 82 in the U.S., beingness the fourth Australian ring to nautical chart in the U.S. too as the first Australian extreme metal band to chart.

They supported Parkway Drive on all of their worldwide bout in support of Ire through 2015 and 2016. The band announced on 21 December 2015, that vocalist CJ McMahon had decided to leave the band to focus on his family due to his inability to afford touring. After some teaser posters, in 1 July, the band confirmed work on a split album titled The Low Sessions shared with the deathcore bands Fit for an Autopsy and The Acacia Strain. It was released exclusively on vinyl. The same day, the band premiered a music video for the song "They Will Know Another" from the album. In 2016, guitarist Sean Delander filled in for the late Tom Searle on the Architects Australian tour.

On 14 January 2017, former vocalist McMahon rejoined the band onstage at Unify Festival in Tarwin Meadows, Victoria, where he confirmed his render to the group, and that the evidence was for the fans a "celebration that is me coming back to join my brothers in globe domination."[31] The band released their 4th studio album, titled Dear Desolation, on 18 Baronial 2017.[32]

In an interview in Oct 2017, guitarist Andy Marsh confirmed that had McMahon not returned that they would've recorded Dear Desolation with their at the time fill-in vocalist, Nick Arthur (of Molotov Solution). In the same interview, he as well shared that the band had started planning a new split up EP to follow-upward 2016's The Low Sessions.[33]

2019–present: Human Target [edit]

On 1 April 2019 information technology was revealed longtime drummer Lee Stanton had departed the band and their fill-in Jesse Beahler of the American death metal band Jungle Rot had taken his place full-time.[34] On 26 April 2019, the ring revealed their new album would be titled Homo Target and released the championship track single. The album was released on 26 July 2019 through Nuclear Smash Records.[35]

On xxx October 2020, the band released a unmarried titled "Killing Flavour" which guitarist Andy Marsh explained was about Thanksgiving revealing "Killing Season touches on the darkness surrounding the origins of Thanksgiving, and while that subject is relevant at this time of yr, we want you to think of the atrocities both past and nowadays that deserve acknowledgement."[36]

Musical fashion and influences [edit]

Thy Art is Murder's music has been described by music critics as deathcore,[37] [38] which draws from both metalcore and death metal. Vocalist CJ McMahon mentioned in interviews with Bluestribute TV and Aggressive Tendencies that the band, individually, has different inspirations and musicians that influence their particular writing and performance style. He added that the band all together are influenced past bands like Decapitated, Gojira, Meshuggah, and Behemoth. The band have often cited Behemoth equally a major influence on their style whom McMahon has referred to as "the best band on this planet."[39] Guitarist Andy Marsh has said that "We are big fans of music that can evoke a feeling and mood, but often that music isn't very in your face and heavy. Behemoth are amazing at capturing that synergy in just the right fashion and information technology is that ethos that inspires us."[40] Their ring's album, Hate, expresses the band'south dislike of organized religion.[41] The band's third full-length album, Holy State of war, discusses a range of themes, from their anti-organized religion and anti-extremism to animal rights, state of war, and greed.[twoscore]

Members [edit]

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

Thy Art Is Murder discography
Studio albums 5
Music videos 13
EPs 2
Demos one
Split albums one

Studio albums

EPs

Demos

Music videos

Awards and nominations [edit]

ARIA Music Awards [edit]

The ARIA Music Awards are a set of almanac ceremonies presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987.

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External links [edit]

  • Media related to Thy Art Is Murder at Wikimedia Commons
  • Official website
  • Thy Art Is Murder at AllMusic
  • Thy Art Is Murder at Nuclear Boom

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