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Shoulder of Orion

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General Info

  • Genre: Metal / Progressive / Rock

    Location Cambridge, London and South East, Un

    Profile Views: 11237

    Last Login: 1/11/2013

    Member Since 10/5/2005

    Record Label Betelgeuse/Copyleft Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Shoulder of Orion is a progressive metal band based in Cambridge, UK. .. The eponymous debut album is now available to order on CD (as part of a limited pressing), for just £4.99 shipped, from http://shoulderoforion.110mb.com/index.html The album is still available to listen and download FOR FREE in full, in high quality mp3 at http://soundcloud.com/betelgeuse-records/sets/shoulder-of-orion as well as being available (including FLAC) from http://copyleft-records.com/ (If you'd like to use an alternative download method/location please send us a message!) Album review from The Nerd Deal: "Nerds love metal, nerds love categories; ergo, nerds love categorizing metal. Symphonic death, melo-death, progressive death, doom, black, trad, fantasy, folk and power are a few that I can think of off the top of my head. Also, metal is almost disasterously conservative; the True Believers seem to know what they want to hear from a given genre before listening to a song. Clearly, these rules ought to be punched. Or, maybe, shouldered. By my second favorite constellation. Shoulder of Orion: Fuck rules. The 15-minute opening track leaps across the heap of subgenres like a hotly pursued ninja across poorly animated ancient houses. If that ninja went from kissing your earlobe to kneeing your groin. Perhaps I'm confusing ninja and geisha again. Regardless, these Brits fucking destroy. And they've given away their newest album for free. That's waffle fries cheap. Sometimes this band sounds like it would be filling arenas with airy ballads, but then death (growled) vocals come out, the blast beats begins and yes, you do actually hear thunder striking. If you do not have massive speakers, please listen on headphones to get the full effect. I'd liken it to the best kind of rough sex — in a Norwegian thunderstorm. Jesus Christ. There's even a cowbell."

  • Members

    David White - Lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals, synths Dave McCall - Lead and rhythm guitars Justin Topham - Lead bass Jonathan Hoey - Lead drums

  • Influences

    Disillusion, Nine Inch Nails, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Queen, Opeth, many more

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Winterstar and Lunarborn

Bio:

Shoulder of Orion is a progressive/black metal band based in Cambridge, UK.

Shoulder of Orion's third full album, Lunarborn, is released on June 6th 2012. This is on myspace in full or you can listen and download (for free) at http://soundcloud.com/betelgeuse-records/sets/shoulder-of-orion-lunarborn and any number of other places including Spotify, Youtube, iTunes (if not now, very soon).

Difficult second album Winterstar is also available and can be streamed and downloaded at http://soundcloud.com/betelgeuse-records/sets/shoulder-of-orion-winterstar

The eponymous debut album is still available to order on CD (as part of a limited pressing), for just £4.99 shipped, from the Shoulder of Orion site.

The album is still available to listen and download FOR FREE in full, in high quality mp3 at Soundcloud, as well as being available from Copyleft Records, Spotify and, apparently, iTunes

(If you'd like to use an alternative download method/location please send us a message!)

Album review (of 'Shoulder of Orion') from The Nerd Deal in 2010:

"Nerds love metal, nerds love categories; ergo, nerds love categorizing metal. Symphonic death, melo-death, progressive death, doom, black, trad, fantasy, folk and power are a few that I can think of off the top of my head. Also, metal is almost disasterously conservative; the True Believers seem to know what they want to hear from a given genre before listening to a song. Clearly, these rules ought to be punched. Or, maybe, shouldered. By my second favorite constellation.

Shoulder of Orion: Fuck rules.

The 15-minute opening track leaps across the heap of subgenres like a hotly pursued ninja across poorly animated ancient houses. If that ninja went from kissing your earlobe to kneeing your groin. Perhaps I’m confusing ninja and geisha again. Regardless, these Brits fucking destroy. And they’ve given away their newest album for free. That’s waffle fries cheap.

Sometimes this band sounds like it would be filling arenas with airy ballads, but then death (growled) vocals come out, the blast beats begins and yes, you do actually hear thunder striking. If you do not have massive speakers, please listen on headphones to get the full effect. I’d liken it to the best kind of rough sex — in a Norwegian thunderstorm.

Jesus Christ. There’s even a cowbell."

Member Since:

October 05, 2005

Members:

David White - Lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals, synths

Justin Topham - Lead bass

Jonathan Hoey - Lead drums

Influences:

Enslaved, Emperor, Disillusion, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Queen, Opeth, many more

Record Label:

Betelgeuse/Copyleft Records

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