Coprofago
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Coprofago is a technical death metal
band formed in Santiago, Chile, in June 1993. The name of the band is taken from Greek
"copro", or "feces", and "fago", meaning "eat." Sebastián Vergara, Pablo Alvarez, Pablo Solari, and Ignacio Suit founded the band.
demo that sold out immediately, getting the attention of some magazines in Chile, but generally without good reviews. With the addition of Marcelo Ruiz on drums and Felipe Castro on bass, the band released 1997's Images of Despair, later 2000s Genesis, and started to get more attention. They were invited to share stage with the death metal
band Krisiun
, local band Criminal, and other Chilean bands. A growing reputation and praise from bands like Atheist
, Darkane
and even Watchtower
members led to a deal with French label Sekhmet, which release the Genesis album in Europe.
A few weeks before the European release, Marcelo and subsequently Pablo moved to Sweden, which led the band to a period of inactivity until mid 2003, when they came back and started to write the music for their following album, Unorthodox Creative Criteria, released on July 2005. The album was a rather uncommon mixture of death metal
with progressive rock
bordering at times on jazz fusion
.
Technical death metal
Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...
band formed in Santiago, Chile, in June 1993. The name of the band is taken from Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
"copro", or "feces", and "fago", meaning "eat." Sebastián Vergara, Pablo Alvarez, Pablo Solari, and Ignacio Suit founded the band.
Biography
Coprofago was formed while all founding members were still in school. They recorded a standard death metalDeath metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
demo that sold out immediately, getting the attention of some magazines in Chile, but generally without good reviews. With the addition of Marcelo Ruiz on drums and Felipe Castro on bass, the band released 1997's Images of Despair, later 2000s Genesis, and started to get more attention. They were invited to share stage with the death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
band Krisiun
Krisiun
Krisiun is a Brazilian death metal band, founded by Alex Camargo , Moyses Kolesne , and Max Kolesne . Since its formation, in 1990, the group recorded two demos, Evil Age in 1991, and Curse of the Evil One in 1992, and self-released an extended play titled Unmerciful Order in 1993...
, local band Criminal, and other Chilean bands. A growing reputation and praise from bands like Atheist
Atheist (band)
Atheist is a technical death metal band from Florida, founded in 1984, whose music combines metal riffs with subtle Latin music arrangements and jazz fusion.- History :...
, Darkane
Darkane
Darkane is a melodic death / progressive thrash metal band that originated in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1998. Their music contains ample thrash elements interspersed with acoustic interludes and symphonic features, such as the in studio use of synthesizers and occasionally full orchestras and choir...
and even Watchtower
Watchtower (band)
WatchTower is an American progressive metal band based in Austin, Texas. The band were influenced by late 1970s progressive rock and acts such as Rush and UK as well as the burgeoning New Wave of British Heavy Metal...
members led to a deal with French label Sekhmet, which release the Genesis album in Europe.
A few weeks before the European release, Marcelo and subsequently Pablo moved to Sweden, which led the band to a period of inactivity until mid 2003, when they came back and started to write the music for their following album, Unorthodox Creative Criteria, released on July 2005. The album was a rather uncommon mixture of death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
with progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
bordering at times on jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
.
Current members
- Pablo Alvarez – guitar, guitar synth, keyboard, vocals
- Sebastián Vergara – guitar, keyboard, vocals
- Felipe Castro – bass (1993–1999, 2004–)
- Marcelo Ruiz – drums (1995–)
Former members
- Rodrigo Castro – bass (2000–2003)
- Pablo Solari – bass (1993–1996)
- Ignacio Suit – drums (1993–1996)
Discography
- Images of Despair (1999)
- Genesis (2000)
- Unorthodox Creative CriteriaUnorthodox Creative CriteriaUnorthodox Creative Criteria is the third studio album by Chilean technical death metal band Coprofago. The album was originally released through Sekhmet Records with 10 tracks. This was rushed because of the outbreak in various festivals with the band...
(2005)