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Australian deathcore band

Thy Art Is Murder
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Thy Art Is Murder performing at Rock am Band in 2018
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Origin Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Deathcore
Years agile 2006 (2006)–present
Labels Human Warfare, Nuclear Blast, Halfcut, Skulls and Bones, UNFD
Website thyartismurder.internet
Members
  • CJ McMahon
  • Sean Delander
  • Andy Marsh
  • Kevin Butler
  • Jesse Beahler
Past members
  • Brendan van Ryn
  • Lee Stanton
  • Gary Markowski
  • Josh Rex
  • Mick Low
  • Tom Dark-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 v studio albums since germination.

Their 2008 EP Infinite Decease, reached position no. 10 on the AIR Charts upon release,[1] and their second full-length anthology Detest debuted at no. 35 on the ARIA Charts,[2] making them the get-go extreme metal band to always reach the Top twoscore of this nautical chart.[iii] The anthology also reached no. i on AIR[4] and both no. 2 and no. four respectively on the US and Canadian iTunes metal charts on its week of release.

The ring's following albums Holy War (June 2015) and Dear Desolation (August 2017) charted on US Billboard 200. Human Target was released in July 2019.

History [edit]

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

Founding member and guitarist Sean Delander

Formed in 2006, in the Western Sydney locality of Blacktown, the group originally consisted of vocalist Brendan van Ryn, guitarists Gary Markowski and Sean Delander, bassist Josh King and drummer Lee Stanton. Building on a loyal following among fans of deathcore in Western Sydney, they recorded a three track demo This Hole Isn't Deep Plenty for the Twelve of You. They returned to the studio in 2008 to record the EP Infinite Death, which gained them farther attention for van Ryn'due south sacrilegious and misogynistic lyrics and song titles.[5] The EP reached number 10 on the AIR Charts.[1]

Following two years of relentless national touring, information technology was announced in 2008 that van Ryn was nigh to depart from the group. It was initially claimed that he left the group due to creative differences and an inability to keep up with their evolving death metallic sound.[half-dozen] However it was later claimed in 2013 that van Ryn was replaced because "he couldn't sing [anymore] and he had a massive mental attitude trouble."[7] 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 then impressed with his death growl vocals that he was incepted into the band during 2009. Bassist Mick Lowe replaced Rex shortly before the band began tracking demos for their first full-length album 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 anthology'due south final recording sessions and released the album on 16 July 2010.[eight] [9] [10]

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

Hate (2011–2014) [edit]

Founding member and one-time 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 showtime European tour in 2012 with War from a Harlots Mouth and As Blood Runs Black the band traveled to Belleville, NJ in the The states to tape their second album with producer Volition Putney at the Machine Shop recording studios.

Post-obit their Australian tour with Fright Manufactory in September 2012, Detest was released on 19 Oct 2012. The kickoff single, "Reign of Darkness", had been premiered before on radio station Triple J'southward The Racket on 18 September.[11] [12] [13]

The album debuted at No. 35 on the ARIA Charts,[2] making Thy Art Is Murder the first extreme metallic band to always to break the top 40.[3] The album also reached No. one on AIR.[4] The album was met with a mix of some positive and some negative criticism. Kevin Stewart-Panko of Decibel Magazine awarded Detest a score of one out of ten and criticizing the ring for not going "out of their style to push the envelope or add a modicum of originality or value to metal as a whole."[14] In January 2013, the band performed at the Sydney Big Twenty-four hour period Out festival; the just other extreme metal band ever to be featured on the line-upward was Blood Squeegee in 2004. Post-obit their second European tour in February and March[15] Thy Art Is Murder signed to Nuclear Blast on 24 January 2013 for distribution of Detest exterior Commonwealth of australia. On thirteen March 2013, Triple J announced that Thy Art Is Murder would be headlining the Detest Across Australia tour with Cattle Decapitation, Rex Parrot and Aversions Crown.[xvi]

On 11 April 2013, Sumerian Records officially announced that the group had just lost the opening back up on the United states of america' annual Summertime Slaughter Tour. The announcement was met past some controversy due to the fact that the group was to be chosen by a voters' poll and American deathcore band Rings of Saturn had in fact won the vote past ane%.[17] [18] [xix] Eventually, promoters chose to include both bands.

On 17 June 2013 the band revealed they would be touring across Australia with Parkway Drive as part of their 10 Years of Parkway Drive tour.[twenty] The same day, the band lost out to Bleed from Within at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards where they had been nominated as Best New Band.[21] On 15 October 2013 the band were nominated in the Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal category for the 2013 ARIA Awards, eventually losing out to Karnivool.[22] The band headlined their second ever tour through North America in November and December 2013, dubbing it the Hate Across America. The bill featured support from I Declare War, Fit for an Autopsy, The Last Ten Seconds of Life and Kublai Khan with many dates selling out. The band headlined in Europe in Jan and February 2014, selling out most venues. Back up 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 ring fabricated Australian news headlines in late February 2014, when McMahon encouraged fans to get onstage during their set on Brisbane leg of the Soundwave Festival bout.[23] [24] [25] Promoter AJ Maddah after tweeted his decision to take the band off the rest of the tour calling them "disrespectful arseholes" and claiming that McMahon had told the crowd that "at that place are thousand of you and dozens of security. Smash them. All of you get on the stage".[26] Fan footage uploaded on YouTube revealed that Maddah's version of McMahon'southward pre-song speech were embellished.[27] The following twenty-four hours both the promoter and the ring tweeted that Thy Fine art Is Murder would be immune to play the rest of the tour.[28] McMahon later on commented on the incident, maxim "it's just all bullshit... I just wanted the crowd participation, wanted people to attempt and brand their style up on-phase and have a crazy prove"; however, he also noted that "AJ [Maddah] was only doing what he thought was the right thing given the data that he was given" and that the incident provided "gratis publicity and exposure in the news" for the band, so it "helped [them] rather than hindered [them]" in the end.[29]

The band appear their participation in the Mosh Lives bout, headlined past Emmure, travelling the United states in March and April 2014. The band headlined a brusque Canadian tour with Sworn In in April 2014. The band played New England Metal And Hardcore Festival in April 2014. The band as well took part at the Summer Slaughter the same twelvemonth. Vocalist CJ McMahon commented on the band's activity, claiming they are "1 of, if not the most hardest-working touring bands" and saying that "[in that location's] no other fucking ring on the face of this earth that will bout equally much every bit nosotros practice".[29] They too supported Born of Osiris on their Tomorrow We Dice Live tour in November 2014 in North America with ERRA, Within the Ruins and Betraying the Martyrs.

Holy State of war and Love Desolation (2015–2018) [edit]

On 31 March 2015 it was appear that Thy Art Is Murder's and so-upcoming anthology would be titled Holy War and would be released on 30 June in North America via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Information technology was recorded in secret over the wintertime with producer Will Putney.[thirty] Thy Art Is Murder, alongside other bands, supported Slayer on 2015's Mayhem Festival, which toured the U.Due south. from June to August.[31] Holy State of war had a successful first week of sales, charting at No. 7 in Australia and No. 82 in the U.S., being the fourth Australian ring to chart in the U.S. too equally the outset Australian farthermost metal band to nautical 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 vocalizer CJ McMahon had decided to get out the ring to focus on his family due to his inability to afford touring. After some teaser posters, in one July, the ring confirmed piece of work on a carve up album titled The Depression Sessions shared with the deathcore bands Fit for an Autopsy and The Acacia Strain. Information technology was released exclusively on vinyl. The same twenty-four hour period, the ring premiered a music video for the song "They Will Know Some other" from the album. In 2016, guitarist Sean Delander filled in for the belatedly Tom Searle on the Architects Australian bout.

On 14 January 2017, former vocalizer McMahon rejoined the ring onstage at Unify Festival in Tarwin Meadows, Victoria, where he confirmed his render to the group, and that the show was for the fans a "commemoration that is me coming back to join my brothers in world domination."[32] The ring released their 4th studio album, titled Honey Pathos, on eighteen August 2017.[33]

In an interview in October 2017, guitarist Andy Marsh confirmed that had McMahon non returned that they would've recorded Dear Desolation with their at the time make full-in vocalist, Nick Arthur (of Molotov Solution). In the aforementioned interview, he also shared that the band had started planning a new split EP to follow-upwards 2016's The Low Sessions.[34]

Homo Target (2019–nowadays) [edit]

On 1 April 2019 it was revealed longtime drummer Lee Stanton had departed the band and their backup Jesse Beahler of the American death metallic ring Jungle Rot had taken his identify full-time.[35] On 26 April 2019, the band revealed their new album would be titled Human Target and released the title track unmarried. The album was released on 26 July 2019 through Nuclear Blast Records.[36]

On October 30, 2020, the band released a unmarried titled "Killing Season" which guitarist Andy Marsh explained was about Thanksgiving revealing "Killing Flavor touches on the darkness surrounding the origins of Thanksgiving, and while that subject is relevant at this time of twelvemonth, we desire y'all to think of the atrocities both past and nowadays that deserve acknowledgement."[37]

Musical style and influences [edit]

Thy Art is Murder's music has been described by music critics equally deathcore,[38] [39] 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 fashion. He added that the ring all together are influenced by bands similar Decapitated, Gojira, Meshuggah, and Behemoth. The ring have frequently cited Behemoth as a major influence on their style whom McMahon has referred to every bit "the best band on this planet."[40] Guitarist Andy Marsh has said that "We are big fans of music that can evoke a feeling and mood, simply ofttimes that music isn't very in your confront and heavy. Behemoth are amazing at capturing that synergy in just the right way and it is that ethos that inspires us."[41] Their band's album, Detest, expresses the band's dislike of organized faith.[42] The band's third full-length album, Holy State of war, discusses a range of themes, from their anti-religion and anti-extremism to brute rights, state of war, and greed.[41]

Members [edit]

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

Thy Fine art Is Murder discography
Studio albums 5
Music videos 13
EPs 2
Demos 1
Separate albums 1

Studio albums

EPs

Demos

Music videos

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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 Blast

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