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Ancestors
Ancestors is a five-piece psychedelic doom metal ensemble from Los
Angeles. Ancestors transmogrifies the epic nature of seventies
psychedelic and progressive music into a form that also incorporates
vintage, doom and drone metal.
The unique song construction used by Ancestors starts with an
improvisational method that takes root from the eclectic zeniths of
the members perception, and a vision for a structural framework that
provides a sonic architecture of an omnipotent grand presence. Then,
adding disparate transitions that show the insatiability of their
songwriting, all of these spellbinding algorithms culminate in
overwhelming pieces that transcend from motif to motif.
Justin Maranga, Nick Long and Brandon Pierce began a three-piece
project in the summer of 2006, then shortly after added Englishman
Chico Foley, who had met Brandon shortly after taking up what was at
the time a temporary residence in Los Angeles. The band then finally
found its final member, J Christopher Watkins, who majestically met
the band's need for an organist.
Their debut LP, Neptune With Fire — a conceptual, two track record
with a title track that tells of a metaphorical character and his
cosmic, psychological ordeal through war, celebration, remorse and
revelation — is to be released in 2008 on new boutique label North
Atlantic Sound (formed by Tony Presedo of Tee Pee Records, and Dave
Sweetapple of Wabana Records). Artwork for the record was delivered
by psychedelic visionary Arik Roper, the artist behind such record
covers as Sleep's Dopesmoker, and the upcoming new Earth LP: The Bee
Made Honey in the Lion's Skull. Artwork on the vinyl release will be
presented with gatefold packaging.
Combining the embrace of the grand storytelling featured in conceptual
space and psychedelic rock songwriting, the soul of hard rock and
vintage metal, and the transmundane ethic of epic, Ancestors induces
catastrophic experiences in the listener.
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