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CANOPY BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Canopy | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Sweden | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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LABEL
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Currently unsigned | |
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GENRE
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Death metal | |
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STYLE
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Melodic | |
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2005-01-23, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2007-01-16, 04:22 | |
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| Band biography |
Of course we wanted a full line-up, but that was a hard thing, especially back in those days. Some people where contacted, but nothing happened. Sadly, I grew tired of In Flames and also moderately tired of At the Gates, and the project was kind of left behind. This little lack of interest in the more melodic side of deathmetal from my side had a couple of solutions coming up later though, during late 2002, both Opeth and Edge of Sanity was introduced to me, and the flame of melodic death metal was lit once again, in a bit different way maybe.
I was involved in Tobbes band "harvest" for awhile (allthough I did a kind of crappy effort, had some problems with my flow and tightness in fast music back then). Harvest was currently testing drummers, and one of them was Peter Lindqvist. Well, neither me or Peter actually ended up playing in harvest. But when me and Erik was, yet again, on the lookout for a drummer I decide to contact Pete.
We met up for a jam at my place since I had bought a drumkit (for fun or something like that) and we did som ATG-tunes. So the beginning of the actual Canopy was an ATG-tribute.
The three-piece kept blasting of some ATG-songs for a while longer Peter was actually on the edge of quitting, since he didn't get that much out of travelling for over two hours to play some ATG-tunes without bass/vocals. Anyway, that was solved by the introduction of some own material, and the band was actually formed.
After summers end we decided to somewhat "go serious" Simply by getting a rehearsal space outside of my house and getting a bassplayer. Some candidates appeared online, and Daniel Ahlm was the first one to try out.
The setlist was Twilight from Edge of Sanity and Jonatans song "55", later known as During Day One. It went well and the band was a four-piece.
We rehearsed on a weekly basis now, adding new songs as time progressed. Peter actually did some leadvocals to fill the vocal-less void.
A vocalist was really needed. We put up some adds on the net asking for a "growler in style of Mikael Åkerfeldt, Dan Swanö and Dave Vincent". The first one to try out was a guy named Jimmy, he had a great hardcore-screaming vocal style, but unfortunately we weren't looking for hardcore screams really. A month later or something like that, around late February, Fredrik found Peter's add online and tried his vocals in Canopy. It worked out and we kept rehearsing at fridays, now as a five-piece.
We later booked a gig for the 22nd of May, and two weeks before that gig all the songs didn't even have lyrics or vocal-arrangements. Somehow, with a little tricks and some hard work, we managed to (almost entirely) finish the songs for the gig, and the gig went pretty good for being the first.
Since we knew we would all be dwelling at different places most days of the summer we decided to let our rehearsalspace go for a while. Instead, we began to have recording session when timed popped up. Unlike most demo recordings we didn't work very intense, instead we used a little time when we had time to keep the recording active. First of was the drums, then bass, then rhyrthmguitar, then vocals. then a couple of forgotten guitar overdubs and finally mixing and mastering. We recorded everything by ourselves, and most of the equipment was our own too. As I write this the demo is not yet realeased, but some people have been able to pre-listen and the reactions have, in most cases, been very good. I myself have a hard time judgeing by now, since I tracked and mixed the whole thing with the results of being very tired of our own demo. But I do look forward to another live-delivery and of course another demo!
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