The Burning Of Eterna City is a Nintendocore

Nintendocore

Nintendocore is a music genre that fuses aggressive styles of modern rock with chiptune and video game music...

 band founded in 2010.They are known for having all music made by Computer, being a Virtual Band

Virtual band

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 as well as having members from all over the world. They are also known for incorporating numerous genres such as Electropop, Chiptune

Chiptune

A chiptune, also known as chip music, is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers and video game consoles, as well as with other methods such as emulation. In the early 1980s, personal computers became cheaper and more accessible than they had previously...

, Deathcore

Deathcore

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, and elements of Symphonic Music. They released their debut
album And Onward They March With Broken Legs

And Onward They March With Broken Legs

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 in 2011.

Formation And DTYFLB

The Burning Of Eterna City was started in December 2010 by Jessie Martin, who is also known as the Dark Ambient

Dark ambient

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 musician TakeMeToTheMorgue

TakeMeToTheMorgue

TakeMeToTheMorgue is an Dark ambient Artist from Stuart, Virginia He is known for his numerous collaborations and lengthy albums.-Formation and "The Machine":...

, had recently gotten into the "Nintendocore" scene that had slowly developed over numerous social network sites. He decided to start a satirical band to show the cliché and often silly nature of the genre as a whole, naming the project, The Burning Of Eterna City ( referencing to Eterna City of the Pokemon

Pokémon

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 series, a common theme in nintendocore

Nintendocore

Nintendocore is a music genre that fuses aggressive styles of modern rock with chiptune and video game music...

). For the first half of the bands history he alone led the group, but as a joke.

In early 2011 he began work on a short EP

Extended play

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 which he titled "Dance Till Your Fucking Legs Break", which he later admitted was also a joke and was meant to sound generic and lacking of musical talent. Much to his surprise the EP actually became popular on social networking sites like Myspace

Myspace

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. After it’s release, he realized that he could actually do something with this project and decided he would get serious and try to change the scene of the genre.

Post EP And Debut Album

In mid- 2011 he came across Lead programmer Thorn Rich ( of nintendocore

Nintendocore

Nintendocore is a music genre that fuses aggressive styles of modern rock with chiptune and video game music...

 band Falcon Pawnch!! ) and decided to try to make a legitimate song with him. The song titled "Hate Is The Most Beautiful Emotion" was an almost immediate success in the underground nintendocore world, and incorporated new elements to the bands sound, three weeks later, Thorn Rich Joined the band as a permanent member and they began work on a serious album. After finishing half of the album, Jessie decided to add new members to broaden the band’s sound. In the following months, they added electronica

Electronica

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 producer Hazel Vazquez, electronica

Electronica

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 / Hip hop

Hip hop

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 artist Ricky Donaldson, and Nintendocore

Nintendocore

Nintendocore is a music genre that fuses aggressive styles of modern rock with chiptune and video game music...

 musician Derek Johnson completing there line up. They became known for their unique and often different take of the genre itself, one major difference was they became a virtual band

Virtual band

In music, a virtual band is any group whose members are not corporeal musicians, but animated characters...

, with the only group photo of them being animated, another thing was the use of classical

Classical

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 and symphonic elements, and for not a single member in the same state, and in Ricky's case the same country.

In late 2011, they released their debut album And Onward They March With Broken Legs

And Onward They March With Broken Legs

And Onward They March With Broken Legs is the debut album from nintendocore band The Burning Of Eterna City. As of now, it is the only album released by the band and was very well received by the underground music world- TrackList :...

. The album was a success and increased the bands fanbase extremely. It also gained the attention of Net label Torn Flesh Records, and they where later signed

Hiatus

In October The Burning Of Eterna City officially went on hiatus. Frontman Jessie Martin said of the sudden hiatus “I temporarily left the band to pursue my new band, And The Coffin Smiled Back. We might release new material, but is not certain at this time.”

Members

Jessie Martin - Vocals

Thorn Rich - Guitar

Guitar

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,Drums,Synths and all Classical

Classical

The word classical has several meanings. In general, these meanings refer to some past time, works of that era or later works influenced by that time...

 Prgramming

Ricky Revenge - Techno

Techno

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 Programmer

Hazel Vazquez - Techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 Programmer

Derekk - Chiptune

Chiptune

A chiptune, also known as chip music, is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers and video game consoles, as well as with other methods such as emulation. In the early 1980s, personal computers became cheaper and more accessible than they had previously...

Programmer