BIOGRAPHY
The band was founded by guitarists Gabriel and Nathan Hutchinson, and their interplay — part throw-down duel and part harmonious collaboration — is a large part of what makes the music so engrossing. They jab in a blur of hard punches, they bring the fiery shred, they spin webs of atmospheric melody. Gabriel is also responsible for keyboard additions that enhance the music with beats of electronica and soaring ambience.
The Hutchinson brothers’ technically demanding and melodically soulful excursions are anchored by a solid rhythm section (bassist Tristan Tait and drummer Jordan Trevan) that’s hardly by-the-book. In addition to charging the music with weight, they add inventive flourishes to the head-spinning nature of the journey.
Vocalist Ben Garner is the final piece of the Elysian puzzle, providing jagged mid-range howls and deep roars.
Elysians music is powerful, driving and extremely confident.
They blend their passion for straight up metal and progressive rock in a way unheard of in the current national and international heavy music scene.
Elysian have been intent on carving their name into the minds of metal followers across Australia, building a strong home fan base in Melbourne and have done even more so with the rest of the east coast of Australia with constant live performances.
Following a strong start with their live shows, mid-way through 2010 Elysian released their self-produced debut EP and digitally released it through tunecore. With this 3 track EP, Elysian have built their own musical path by focusing their songs around intense moods and head pounding grooves creating an overall experience for the listener.
Tracks like "Conquest" and "The Climb From Fear" emphasis the bands dynamics and progressive side, while the speed metal track "The Machine" and its take no prisoners approach has quickly become a live show stand out.
Early in Elysian’s career, the band signed with Booking Agency “Assidian” which gave them heightened focus and created opportunities that bands a few months old would never encounter. During this time, Elysian embarked on their first tour with “Ignite The Ibex” and “Alice Through The windshield Glass” on the "Harbingers of Storm" tour, which covered the east coast of Australia as a strong unit of high quality acts.
2011 has already been an exciting time for Elysian. On the back of Bassist Tristan Tait receiving an endorsement from MTD Kingston Basses and KSD Strings, Elysian were also honored to be asked by “Synthetic Breed” to join them on their “Perpetual Motion Machine Tour” which again took them out of Melbourne and across Australia.
In recent years the Australian metal scene has exploded wildly onto the worldwide stage with bands such as Karnivool, Psycroptic and Circles all turning international heads; the latest band to want a piece of the pie is Melbourne based melodic deathsters Elysian, who are released their aggressively punchy debut album, Wires of Creation, worldwide on March 26, 2012. The release storms its way through eleven tracks of hook laden, flowing dark melodies, technical solo interludes and snarlingly evil vocal work. Guitarists Gabriel and Hutch play like the best guitarists of popular Metal bands, and yet, are much less famous. Mixed and mastered by the band themselves “Wires Of Creation” has constructed a journey that is rich with emotion and forged by a legitimate heaviness…
Guitarist Gabe Hutchinson comments: “Our main goal was to create a dynamic experience from start to finish whilst maintaining heavy songs. Overall it's a really heavy melodic death album but at times soars into things like an instrumental Pink Floyd-esque song with an electronic feel or a intricate percussive section. As a band, we grew up listening to music that incorporated acoustic ballads with blazing shred songs all in the one album, and it wasn't called progressive; it was called a good album. Some bands aim to have their songs sound disjointed by dramatically switching between genres; that’s not what we have done, the whole album flows, it attacks and it releases, its aggressive but gives you time to breath and take it in.”
Status: Active
Years Active:2006-Present
LINE UP
Ben - Vocals & Percussion
Gabriel - Rhythm & Lead Guitar
Nathan - Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Tristan - Bass
Jordan - Drums
Country of Origin: Australia
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Genre: Progressive/Melodic Death Metal
Current Label: Unsigned/Independent
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Genre: Progressive/Melodic Death Metal
CEO: Gabriel Hutchinson - elysianaus@gmail.com
Agent: Ben Fogarty - assidian@hotmail.com
Press Contact: Lisa Coverdale (Hold Tight! PR) - lisa@holdtightpr.com
Bookings: Bookings: assidian@hotmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElysianMetal
Bandcamp: http://elysian.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/elysianaus
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/elysiansmetal
Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/elysianaus
Merch: http://elysian.bigcartel.com
Wires Of Creation (Full-Length Album - 2012)
Released March 26, 2012
