"I have never noticed any noise coming from the Whirlwind cable I bought back in '86, and as you can hear on the album, I use high gain." - Glen Drover |
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The band EIDOLON dates back to 1993 - when guitarist Glen Drover and drummer
Shawn Drover made the decision to start up a recording studio and concentrate
on musical recordings.
At the time, EIDOLON was a neo-metal instrumental band writing non-vocalized recordings - and, although it proved to be a challenge, it was soon realized that a real band needed to be formed in order to make a true musical statement. So in 1995, EIDOLON completed the line-up to accomplish this goal. In 1996, the first album, "Zero Hour" was released on EIDOLON's own label, and through different forms of distribution, was released in Canada, America, Japan, Australia and parts of Europe. The record received great reviews in many rock magazines, in the above-mentioned countries. In 1997, EIDOLON would soon start writing and recording what would soon be their 1st full concept record - 1997 saw the release of "Seven Spirits" . Like it's predecessor "Zero Hour" the album also received great reviews. Making "Seven Spirits" was a good learning experience for the band, and One they may do again in the future. |
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In 1998, EIDOLON would start writing and recording their 1st release for Metal
Blade Records
"Nightmare World"
. The band decided to look out for a bigger record label with larger
distribution. Metal Blade had expressed interest in EIDOLON since "Zero Hour"
-and so a deal was done!
The year 2000 would see the first worldwide release of EIDOLON, "Nightmare World" and the reviews have been great! The band has done countless interviews throughout the world - and all reviews have been quite favourable and positive. "Nightmare World" was more dynamic, in the way of mixing and balancing power, aggression, and melodic textures to the album. Opting not to tour for "Nightmare World", EIDOLON returned to the recording studio to prepare for what would be 2001 "Hallowed Apparition" , their 2nd Metal Blade release! The record was a more direct, total Heavy Metal assault - thus, keyboards were nullified and acoustics were kept to a bare minimum, for no reason other than to do something different than what was done previously. "Hallowed Apparition" received great reviews throughout Europe, and the band got an invite to play one of the biggest festivals in Europe - Germany's Bang Your Head festival ! Sharing the stage with the likes of Judas Priest, Megadeth, Stratovarius and many others, it was a great experience for the band! In 2001, EIDOLON would start recording their 3rd album for Metal Blade Europe- "Coma Nation" This record is by far, the most varied in style, while staying within The boundaries of heavy metal. From speed metal, to epic style material, to slow sludge metal, keyboards and acoustics were brought back to enhance the music created on their latest slab of molten metal! Visit the Eidolon official website at: www.eidolon-nightmareworld.com |
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