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Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Eclectic Metal |
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DISBANDED
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Last update/review:
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August 23, 2015
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Unexpect
The highly eclectic Canadian band Unexpect debuted in 1999 with
a self-financed effort entitled
Utopia, itself a unique and
hard-to-describe album but almost conventional compared to their
following works.
Essentially a black/gothic metal hybrid, the album featured
complex riffing, a host of vocal styles, and a general flair for
the dramatic.
It wold be five years before the band, with a modified lineup,
managed to record again, putting out a stopgap EP
(
We, Invaders), followed by
In A Flesh Aquarium in 2006 and
Fables Of The Sleepless Empire in 2011.
By this time the band had truly gone off the rails,
the albums being over-the-top
cavalcades of experimental metallic weirdness, containing songs
so twisted and yet not without a central purpose.
This was a baffling band, and most assuredly a difficult one to
grasp, but the efforts are well rewarded.
After several years of inactivity they formally disbanded in August of
2015.
Last Lineup
Leïlindel (Roxanne Hegyesy)
vocals
Syriak (Eryk Chapados)
guitars/vocals
Artagoth (Stéphane English)
guitars/vocals
ChaotH (Frédérick Filiatrault)
bass
Leïlindel (Blaise Borboën-Léonard)
violin
ExoD (Stéphane Primeau)
keyboards
Landryx
drums
Former Members/Guests
Elda (Véronique Michaud)
vocals
Zircon (Mathieu Phaneuf)
bass
Merzenya (Olivier Genest)
keyboards
Le Bateleur (Charles Crépeau)
violin
Discography
Utopia
1999
independent
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- Vespers Gold
- Constellation And Mysticism
- Metamorphosis
- Shades Of A Forbidden Passion
- Palace Of Dancing Souls
- The Fall Of Arthrone
- Ethereal Dimensions
- The Flames Of Knowledge Forever Lost
- In Velvet Coffins We Sleep
- The Revival
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Elda
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Syriak
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Artagoth
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Zircon
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Merzenya
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Le Bateleur
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ExoD
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(MCD) We, Invaders
2003
Galy
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- Novae
- Rooted Shadows
- In Velvet Coffins We Slept
- Chromatic Chimera
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Leïlindel
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Syriak
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Artagoth
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ChaotH
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Le Bateleur
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ExoD
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Landryx
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In A Flesh Aquarium
2006
The End
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- Chromatic Chimera
- Feasting Fools
- Desert Urbania
- Summoning Scenes
- Silence_011010701
- Megalomaniac Trees
- The Shiver - Another Dissonant Chord
- The Shiver - Meet Me At The Carrousel
- The Shiver - A Clown's Mindtrap
- Psychic Jugglers
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Leïlindel
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Syriak
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Artagoth
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ChaotH
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Le Bateleur
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ExoD
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Landryx
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2006 Readers' Album
#69
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Fables Of The Sleepless Empire
2011
self-released
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- Unsolved Ideas of a Distorted Guest
- Words
- Orange Vigilantes
- Mechanical Phoenix
- The Quantum Symphony
- Unfed Pendulum
- In the Mind of the Last Whale
- Silence this Parasite
- A Fading Stance
- When the Joyful Dead are Dancing
- Until yet a few more Deaths do us Part
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Leïlindel
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Syriak
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Artagoth
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ChaotH
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Leïlindel
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Landryx
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2011 Readers' Album
#65
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