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Formed from the remnants of '''Devoid''' by Felton, Kruit and Simon Mitchell, Chaos Divine is a Perth band playing a catchy and well-constructed blend of modern metal stylings featuring alternating harsh/clean vocals, polyrhythmic drumming and solid guitar work. During 2006, the band completed work on its debut CD while playing supports with '''Fear Factory, Devil Driver''' and '''Dark Tranquillity'''. After the release of the CD, drummer Ben Mazzarol was replaced by Chris Mitchell. Late in the year, "Ratio" won second place in the annual ''Three Hours of Power'' listener's poll for Best Australian Metal Release.
I Exist is a band from Canberra playing a mixture of hardcore and bottom-heavy sludge. Originally formed in 2008, the band issued a self-released EP the following year before linking up with Resist Records for the full-length follow-up in 2010. [[Pod People]] guitarist Josh Nixon joined the band after this as I Exist developed a massive triple-guitar assault with stylistic similarities to bands like '''Eyshategod''' and '''Iron Monkey'''. 2011 was the group's busiest year, with their excellent second album released just ahead of a national tour with '''Doomriders''' in July and appearances at most of the mainland [[Bastardfest]]s in September/October.
Chaos Divine began 2007 with a support to '''Trivium''', followed in April by a Perth show with '''Slayer''' and '''Mastodon'''. The band began recording their full length album ''Avalon'' in Melbourne in February 2008; it was released on September 12. Mazzarol rejoined the band in the meantime. The album went on to win the West Australian Music Industry’s 2008 Song of the Year Award in the Heavy Rock/Metal category with the track "Refuse The Sickness". Chaos Divine was also among the top-five finalists nominated for the Metal/Hardcore award at the National MusicOz Awards. The album was also voted in the top 10 international metal albums of the year by Triple J and in early 2009, the band played the Perth leg of the Big Day Out. Chaos Divine was also nominated for the 2009 West Australian Music Industry award for best hard rock/metal act.
 
In October 2009 Chaos Divine played the 2009 Progpower Europe festival and some other shows in Belgium. At the Australia Metal Awards the following month, the band won five awards including Best Vocalist, Best Album (for ''Avalon''), Song of the Year (for "Refuse the Sickness") and Best Overall Band. Most of 2010 was spent working on the follow-up to ''Avalon'', ''The Human Connection'', which was released late March 2011. Later in 2011, Chaos Divine appeared at [[Bastardfest]]s in Sydney and Perth.


===Discography===
===Discography===

Revision as of 21:08, 22 January 2012

I Exist
OriginCanberra, ACT
GenresSludge metal, hardcore
Years active2008 - present
LabelsResist
Associated actsPod People, Blood Duster
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/iexistcbr?ref=ts
MembersSimon Murphy, Josh Nixon, Aaron Osbourne, Sam Provost, Jake Willoughby, Alex Young

Band Members

  • Current Line-Up
    • Simon Murphy (drums, guitar, vocals)
    • Josh Nixon (guitar)
    • Aaron Osbourne (guitar, vocals)
    • Sam Provost (guitar, vocals)
    • Jake Willoughby (vocals)
    • Alex Young (bass, vocals)
    • Adrian Kelly (occasional live guitar)
  • Former Members
    • Chris Mitchell (drums) (2006-2008)

Band Information

I Exist is a band from Canberra playing a mixture of hardcore and bottom-heavy sludge. Originally formed in 2008, the band issued a self-released EP the following year before linking up with Resist Records for the full-length follow-up in 2010. Pod People guitarist Josh Nixon joined the band after this as I Exist developed a massive triple-guitar assault with stylistic similarities to bands like Eyshategod and Iron Monkey. 2011 was the group's busiest year, with their excellent second album released just ahead of a national tour with Doomriders in July and appearances at most of the mainland Bastardfests in September/October.

Discography

Albums:

2010 I: A Turn for the Worse Resist
2011 II: The Broken Passage Resist

EP:

2009 Three Nails and Book of Flaws self release

Split:

2011 Bad Romance (split with Phantoms) Commonbond
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