Into Eternity

[Scoot]

Great, great progressive metal band. And they're CANADIAN!!! :thumb:

It begins with an idea, on which a strong foundation is built. Whatever arrangement the foundation lends its strength to, a structure is formed and its presence is cultivated and established. The presence may be difficult to understand at first, but ultimately, its aesthetic beauty changes the inner-workings that make the perceiver—previously blind to the stunning final product—suddenly gifted with amazing sight.

Despite societal advances in the acceptance of difference, what deviates from an established “norm” can either be viewed as something detestable or—in extraordinary cases—it can create a flurry of momentous praise simply because it borders on awe-inspiring other-worldliness.

The musicians who constitute INTO ETERNITY are not of this earth. Anyone who loves music can clearly see this. They are carefully chosen, active, human conduits of non-conformity. They stand as heralds for hybridization, advocating that we dare ourselves to stare in a direction we were too afraid to peer into without the reassurance of seasoned confidence.

Sometimes the most incredible advances begin with the humblest of circumstances, and INTO ETERNITY begins, simply, with three friends in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Tim Roth, Scott Krall, and Jim Austin. All three show an early affinity for music making and first pick up their instruments during the very formative years of their early teens. While their tastes in music range from progressive, hardcore, and death metal in the vein of Rush, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Death, and Nevermore, they are determined to create music together, but can’t decide which style to play. Instead of following the often-traveled road of reaching a compromise (and sacrificing a bit of what each genre has to offer), the giant leap of faith is made in everyone’s talents to create their own path and combine all three.

Daniel Nargang, soon joined the nucleus, a self-taught stringed instrument specialist who began to take formal classical guitar training at the Royal Conservatory of Music and keyboardist Christopher McDougall soon followed, studying piano at the Academy of Music but ultimately abandoning the structured classroom environment to pursue his own theories. With such a young line-up, the mystery remains to be revealed of how such an experienced, infectious depth of sound could emanate from the combination of Roth’s and Nargang’s guitars. Ultimately, Dead Or Dreaming valiantly charts the astounding journey of disentanglement from society’s bland, expected normality and defiantly—yet invitingly--proclaims a usurped prerogative to create on one’s own terms.

No more perfect symbiotic relationship could have been asked for and delivered at the right moment: just as you are about to resign yourself to the belief that it’s all been done, a new music theory emerges and feeds an audience so desperately yearning for something beyond the confines of this world that one must suspend all belief to accept it.

Musicians
* Stu Block — clean/death vocals
* Jim Austin — drums
* Troy Bleich — bass/backing vocals
* Tim Roth — clean/death vocals and guitar
* Collin Craig — guitar


If there was another thread, I apologize, but I'm not looking through 16 pages to find it.

So, how many fans do we have on here?

[Drunken Viking]

I like em too...

Their guitarists own hard.

[eug008]

Great band, awsome guitar work and their vocalist covers a wide range of styles.

[Scoot]

Their vocalists are amazing (I believe the guitarist and bassist also sing).

[Drunken Viking]

Yeah, they all do the harmonies.

[Mother]

I like this band a lot .. I have Buried into oblivion. What should I get next?

[eug008]

Their new album is pretty pwn, especially with their new singer.

[Scoot]

I really like their new album.

[VomitStainedCretin]

Ive only heard a few songs by them, but Buried In Oblivion/Black Sea of Agony are an amazing combo. Cyber Messiah is great as well.

[Huber]

I'm going to sift through the DU e-mails and finally check these guys out. I've put it off for to long now.

[Scoot]

NP: Spiralling Into Depression

[Shattered_Future]

Great, great band. Doesn't get enough respect.

Seeing them in 9 days on Gigantour.

[Sleepy]

They've got talent, and they use it very, very well. I still need to find Dead or Dreaming someplace or another. Buried in Oblivion and The Scattering of Ashes are both excellent, though.

I heard a couple people who saw them on Gigantour say they were sloppy live, though.

[Daven]

Surrounded By Night is one of the, if not, the best song they ever done. It's sooo good.

[3FingeredHoek]

Great band. I'm kind of dissapointed with the new album though. It just doesn't live up to Buried in Olivion.

[Cocaine]

The new album both disappoints and exceeds BiO. You'll see what I mean when I post my review.

Now boasting the addition of Chris Krall on death and clean vocals, and Jeff Storry on guitar, you’ll be intrigued by their music’s innate hostility yet you’ll revel at the beauty of their technical interludes, as demonstrated in “Selling God”; you’ll surrender to the emotional growls yet rejoice at the arrival of their three-part harmonies in “Shallow”; you will slip blissfully into the atmospheric realm they create (and proudly care take) in “Elysium Dream” and your epiphany as a privileged perceiver will be to realize that imagination and innovation have never been so innocently mathematical. INTO ETERNITY’s drive is a specific geometry; the strength of their musical bonds rival the chemical bonds of the rare earth metal Promethium (whose name is derived from the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from the sky and gave it to humankind); and theirs is a universal language of cartography of all that is possible in the realms & geographies of sound.

Um. Chris Krall left like well over a year ago.

[Shattered_Future]

Bitch, I was gonna review it. :mad:

The new one is a bit more consistent, but the music just isn't as good. All the members don't live up to their full potential.

[Cocaine]

You can review it too! Duh! The more the merrier.

The new one is more consistant, but not as many stand out moments. Some stuff is a little...rushed and forced, like Tim's soloing.

You have to update that lineup bro. It's like, totally different

Stu Block - Vocals
Tim Roth - Vocals, Guitars
Troy Bleich - Bass (touring)
Jim Austin - Session Drums

[Darkness]

I love the new record alot. Are some of the older ones worth getting? They're at my CD store...

[Berner]

I've been preaching about these guys for years on here. Too bad they aren't what they used to be. Their old guitar player Danny is my guitar tech.

[DanD]

they're pretty cool, my band opened up for them a year ago

i didn't really like the new album though, i thought it was boring

[Scoot]

The new album has a lot more screaming on it. Which I like, but yeah, the solos need to be toned down a bid. He's missing a few notes.

[Cocaine]

He's just playing to Malmsteem-like.

Stu is an amazing vocalist, he just tries to do a little too much on the album I think. You still need to update the first post.

[Scoot]

Updated.

[ArcLite]

They've got talent, and they use it very, very well. I still need to find Dead or Dreaming someplace or another. Buried in Oblivion and The Scattering of Ashes are both excellent, though.

I heard a couple people who saw them on Gigantour say they were sloppy live, though.

I saw them with Hypocrisy and Dark Tranquillity and thought they were outstanding live. Better than album even, especially Stu's singing.

[Scoot]

http://www.myspace.com/officialintoeternity

For anyone who hasn't heard them.

[VomitStainedCretin]

Went on their Myspace and checked out the three songs up (I hadnt heard those tracks yet). Severe Emotional Distress was my favourite, Spiralling Into Depression was good, but I wasnt a huge fan of the Beginning of the End. For one thing, the apocalypse lyrics on it were pretty cheesy.

[Toaster]

I don't think these guys are that great. I'm seeing them in a few days so I got Buried in Oblivion and familiarized myself with it.. and I can't say I like it. It's just really predictable and all the song structures seem overdone and sort of cliche. I liked a few songs off the album but overall, it's disappointing. And their clean singer needs to lay off the harmonies in a big way. Every time a chorus comes around I want to plug my ears.

[3FingeredHoek]

I love the vocal harmonies. :/

[Scoot]

WTF...the vocal harmonies are what make them original...:/

[Shattered_Future]

Went on their Myspace and checked out the three songs up (I hadnt heard those tracks yet). Severe Emotional Distress was my favourite, Spiralling Into Depression was good, but I wasnt a huge fan of the Beginning of the End. For one thing, the apocalypse lyrics on it were pretty cheesy.

Into Eternity writes horrible lyrics, plain and simple. For me, it doesn't matter. The music is so damn good.

I think the vocal harmonies could be toned down a bit, but they're pretty good.

[Moses]

I don't think these guys are that great. I'm seeing them in a few days so I got Buried in Oblivion and familiarized myself with it.. and I can't say I like it. It's just really predictable and all the song structures seem overdone and sort of cliche. I liked a few songs off the album but overall, it's disappointing. And their clean singer needs to lay off the harmonies in a big way. Every time a chorus comes around I want to plug my ears.

........:eek:

[SailAway]

I like what I heard, I'm definately going to check them out on gigantour. A week from today!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shattered_Future]

You're going to the PNC show too?

[Tyr]

I've only heard The Scattering of Ashes and I liked it. I've been meaning to check Buried in Oblivion soon.

[Daven]

Buried In Oblivion is pretty good, but i prefer TSoA.

[Scoot]

Damn, I wish Gigantour was coming to the rest of Canada. :(

[Servus_Tenebrae]

I've seen these guys twice: once with Opeth and Nevermore and another with Stratovarius, both last year. They were really good live. I'm glad I saw them.

[Atica]

Into Eternity is an amazing band, I love their music: instruments, voive, and lyrics. My favorite song in TSoA is Surrounded by night.

[Cocaine]

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review_9387

Check it out!

[Toaster]

........:eek:

Yep.

I'm definitely gonna pick up TSOA. They have a lot of potential obviously, but they went nowhere with it on Buried.

Haha, truly, their lyrics are horrible. @whoever said that.

[Sleepy]

Yep.

I'm definitely gonna pick up TSOA. They have a lot of potential obviously, but they went nowhere with it on Buried.

Haha, truly, their lyrics are horrible. @whoever said that.

Quite true.

Into Eternity is what a lot of people shove off as a 'technical wankery' band, and to some extent, they are.

I still enjoy them all the same.

[Cocaine]

I wouldnt call it technical wank. TSoA has it's moments of unnecessary shred, but on the whole they're based on melody and harmony.

[Sleepy]

I wouldnt call it technical wank. TSoA has it's moments of unnecessary shred, but on the whole they're based on melody and harmony.

A lot of technical wank bands have melody. Pretty damned good ones, at times.

[Cocaine]

I just dont like the term "wank", I relate it to senseless and unnecessary, whereas IE's technicality is tastefully done 99.9% of the time.

[Sleepy]

I just dont like the term "wank", I relate it to senseless and unnecessary, whereas IE's technicality is tastefully done 99.9% of the time.

I like the term wank because it rolls off the tongue nicely, but hey, everyone's different.

I <3 my melodic-technical wank.

[Cocaine]

It's good to clarify. Glad we're on the same page.

[Shattered_Future]

Yeah, they don't "wank", persay. They just use their technical elements rather nicely.

Very good live too.

[Cocaine]

I hear they're actually better since that assclown bailed on them, since he apparently wasn't all to into his performance.

[Shattered_Future]

They weren't sloppy by any means, unlike what I've heard.

[Moses]

I think wank doesn't necessarily mean it's impressive or fast. Check out the solo for Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd for an example of what I mean.

[Toaster]

To me, a Slayer solo is the essence of wank.

[Cocaine]

To me, a Slayer solo is the essence of terrible
Fixed.

[Toaster]

Well I can't disagree there.. but what I mean is that a typical John Petrucci solo wouldn't be "wank". It would just be a really technical, show-offy, hard to play solo. Wank is CC DeVille.

[Sleepy]

Fixed.

Hahahaha.

It's so true, just don't let Butcher or Ollie hear, else they'll raise hell.

/Me just gots Dead or Dreaming in teh mail

[Gittermonkey11]

I saw these guy about a week ago at gigantour and I just saw them again last night. They were great both times, not sloppy at all.

[Cocaine]

I just watched some live clips of them, with the second guitarist who bailed. He was the only one who sounded off, and even he wasnt sloppy.

[Po0sH]

I saw them at Gigantour. I talked to Troy for a couple minutes. He is a cool guy. Really nice.

[VomitStainedCretin]

Hey guys, in your opinion, if I get an Into Eternity album, which one should it be?

[Mother]

Buried In Oblivion

[Shadows Within]

I have to admit i wasn't keen on the new album myut i gave it a good listen last night and i easily think its there best now, stu is friggen incredible.

[pate]

I have to admit i wasn't keen on the new album myut i gave it a good listen last night and i easily think its there best now, stu is friggen incredible.

I agree with both points.

[SailAway]

That guy can really shred, its too bad he wasn't there for gigantour :(

[pate]

...but he was there.

[Shattered_Future]

Yea, Tim Roth writes all the music and played all the guitars on the new album. He basically is the band.

[pate]

Yeah, along with the drummer whose name escapes me.

[Daven]

The drummer is called Jim Austin.

[pate]

Thank you. He helps Tim with the writing, right?

[leomondaine]

Mad old fckin Bump,

I just played a show with these guys and Echoes of Eternity tonight

the most amazing thing ever, pics within a couple days

[DanD]

yeah, I played with Into Eternity a few years back (probably mentioned something about it earlier in the thread)

way cool guys

[VomitStainedCretin]

Mad old fckin Bump,

I just played a show with these guys and Echoes of Eternity tonight

the most amazing thing ever, pics within a couple daysYour band's not called Eternity something by any chance is it? That would be seriously amusing if it is, i.e. a bill of three bands all with Eternity in their name.

[leomondaine]

nah it was really funny though, Stu from IE was saying onstage "Theres Alot of Confusion Between, Into Eternity and Echoes of Eternity, But people know that Into Eternity is the band with the hot singer" haha (if you didnt know Echoes has a REALLY good looking girl singer)

[Shattered_Future]

She's really not all that good looking in my eyes...

[pate]

Agreed, but Stu's still funny.

[Deth]

I've seen them twice and each time they put on a fantastic show. The second time I saw them was about 3 days after their guitarist left, and Tim picked up the slack and you wouldn't have even noticed his absence.

[Shattered_Future]

I saw them twice. They were very good at Gigantour and not good at all when they supported Dream Theater. I think it had more to do with their sound than anything, but the vocals sounded way off in parts and it was completely muddled, except for the drums, which were much too loud.

[Angmar]

I would love to see them. They were one of the bands that got me into extreme metal.

[The Door Mouse]

I saw them twice. They were very good at Gigantour and not good at all when they supported Dream Theater. I think it had more to do with their sound than anything, but the vocals sounded way off in parts and it was completely muddled, except for the drums, which were much too loud.

I saw them open for Dream Theater, and they were pretty bad :/

[pate]

I saw them twice. They were very good at Gigantour and not good at all when they supported Dream Theater. I think it had more to do with their sound than anything, but the vocals sounded way off in parts and it was completely muddled, except for the drums, which were much too loud.

I missed them by like 30 minutes at Gigantour. Damn waiting for friends.

[Deth]

Did you get to see Overkill though?

[pate]

No. I got there just as they left the stage. I was so ****ing pissed, man.

[DJTeeLay]

The only song I'm familiar with from this band is 'Timeless Winter.'
I remember liking it.

[Moses]

Um... I don't understand how they sound anything like Incubus whatsoever... And Incubus is never lame even the new **** is good.

[NemesisDivina]

I would love to see them. They were one of the bands that got me into extreme metal.

same here.

[Eliminator]

lol

[NemesisDivina]

that doesn't mean i still like them eliminator... i dropped out of that phase a while ago.

[pate]

They most certainly did not get me into extreme metal, and I still like them.

[NemesisDivina]

congrats on 7k pate...

they got me into extreme metal and possibly opened me up to other things, but they just don't do anything for me now. the drum tone on scattering of ashes bothers me so much... especially the bass. buried in oblivion is easily my favorite

[pate]

I really don't give a **** about tone.

The new one is my favorite, followed by BiO.

[NemesisDivina]

i usually don't either, but there's just something about the bass pedal that seems like it's covering up the rest of the music. maybe it's just too high in the mix, idk. but i own both scattering of ashes and buried in oblivion.

the video for timeless winter is pretty cool

[Shattered_Future]

No, it's just the drum tone sounds like ***. Plain and simple.

BIO is much, much better. All the parts on it were so much more interesting than on the new one.

[pate]

I like the vocals on the new one more, of course, and I also like the music more on it. But BiO still owns.

[Darkness]

I agree, I think pretty much everything is better on the new.

Haven't listened to it in a while though, maybe later today.

[leomondaine]

some pics from an off date show of the edguy show with just Into Eternity, Echoes of Eternity and my band

**** i cant post photos here

me playing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_f9179705fd8572bd4fe72d5f9fb2a0af.jpg

me and Tim
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_cfa5da6dffaed825aa39f7a042b52ca5.jpg

Me and Troy (he wore our band's shirt while they played that ruled)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_d968a07540e4b97d7f5b6ca6a876c299.jpg

My band and stu doing a power-metal falsetto scream
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_7ab2615d5ff044067c47654deb42e607.jpg

[Darkness]

Wow, that's really cool man.

[pate]

Cool stuff.

[Interviewer/surveyer]

I am going to say one thing about this band.

I have seen them twice, once opening up for Dark Tranquility, and once opening up for Dream Theatre.

Stu Block is easily the greatest live vocalist I've ever seen, period. When he hits the note, he ****ING hits it perfectly. I honestly think his recorded vocals sound terrible and don't do his voice an ounce of justice. Terrible mixing job is what it boils down to.
I highly recommend everyone to at LEAST see this band live once, and watch and listen to Stu very closely, it's absolutely amazing. I've seen a lot of good bands live, but Stu is by far the best live vocalist in my opinion.

[Aakon_Keetreh]

some pics from an off date show of the edguy show with just Into Eternity, Echoes of Eternity and my band

**** i cant post photos here

me playing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_f9179705fd8572bd4fe72d5f9fb2a0af.jpg

me and Tim
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_cfa5da6dffaed825aa39f7a042b52ca5.jpg

Me and Troy (he wore our band's shirt while they played that ruled)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_d968a07540e4b97d7f5b6ca6a876c299.jpg

My band and stu doing a power-metal falsetto scream
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/lowalkoroc/l_7ab2615d5ff044067c47654deb42e607.jpg


lucky bastard

[Shattered_Future]

That's pretty cool.

I think Stu has his on and off nights. Either that, or the mixing when they toured for Dream Theater was ****ing terrible. Probably the second.