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UMBRAE BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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UmbraE | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Mexico | |
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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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Doom metal | |
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2004-12-27, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2004-12-27, 00:00 | |
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| Band biography |
At this point, they found themselves in the need for another axeman, and after testing a bunch, they got in touch with one Victor Hernandez, at the time playing bass and vox on a Black Death Metal band named Mortigena, despite being a gifted guitarist. He came over and agreed to work with Mac and Ivan after just one rehearsal. He also introduced them to an ex-bandmate named Galia Mireles who had played keyboards in different projects and the four of them went on a search for a bass player. Oddly enough, they ran into another guitarist who agreed to play bass for them, so, Julio Rodriguez joined the band.
After only a few months of rehearsal and landing a couple of songs that Ivan and Mac had composed on their own they gathered a very ecclectic compilation of original songs, as they were still getting to know each other as musicians and as human beings. Thus they allowed themselves to be very experimental, trying to find the right combination of their very different musical angles. They entered the recording studio with the only desire of listening to themselves in other than a live tape. Here, they changed the name of the band to the current one and named their creation Infamous Revelations.
Also at this point, Galia decided to leave the band and was replaced by Alex Sanchez. The newborn CD soon became an essential in their country´s underground, and this gave them the chance to get on small tours across their country, mostly as a support act. Then, Infamous Revelations got to the far exit of Mexico and to the ears of a man who got interested in it enough to make it a part of his label. The band considered Concreto Records´ proposal to be more honest than a handful of other labels´ including some foreign ones and Infamous Revelations was released on this label almost a year after it was recorded. Then they embarked on a quest to play whenever they could to support IR and this took them to play in some of the most important cities in Mexico.
After a year of touring and a lot of local gigs, and also the departure of their second keyboard player, they went to the recording studio once more. They only wanted to put on record a couple of new songs and to pay homage to one of the most influential bands in the mexican rock scene. They recorded the EP Beaten, which included two new songs named Beaten and White Path to Damnation and a cover of the song La Barranca from the band of the same name. Lacking a keyboard player, the keys were recorded in an acceptable manner by Mac. Beaten was completed with a handful of live songs from different events, but it was never released on a full scale. Until now, it remains a collection of rarities in the hands of the most close fans.
For almost a year, real life got in the way. They never stopped playing, but they had to spend the cash they got for it in paying bills and getting new equipment, so they could not gather enough silver to enter the recording studio again.
It all changed in the winter of 2003, when they entered the gates of Virtual Studio to record for the first time under the guidance of a producer. David Quicho, frontman of the prog-metal unit Dimension shaped the sound of the band and recorded 9 songs that show a very definite evolution in the quality and identity of the band. The new album is just as hard to categorize as IR, but its subtlety and emotion make it a lot easier to listen to.
So far, the band remains an independent unit for freedom´s sake. But they know All That Is Lost is a name-making record and are willing to put their utmost effort in helping it cross borders. As said before, this story goes on.
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