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Altered Symmetry

Bogota

Biography

Altered Symmetry is a progressive metal band from Bogota, Colombia; the band was founded on 2006 by Miguel Martinez and Julian Cadena. The band name “Altered Symmetry” comes from the necessity to alter the symmetry exposed by commercial artists today, their music chooses to break rules and to experiment with many different musical elements. Bands like Rush, Queensryche, Dream Theater, Pantera, Metallica and Megadeth among others, have been a great influence of the band, this mix of styles al...

Altered Symmetry is a progressive metal band from Bogota, Colombia; the band was founded on 2006 by Miguel Martinez and Julian Cadena. The band name “Altered Symmetry” comes from the necessity to alter the symmetry exposed by commercial artists today, their music chooses to break rules and to experiment with many different musical elements. Bands like Rush, Queensryche, Dream Theater, Pantera, Metallica and Megadeth among others, have been a great influence of the band, this mix of styles allows them to create their own sound, even altering the music symmetry from the artist they admire and respect. The band’s history goes back to 2008, when (under another bandname and being Miguel and Julian the main songwriters) the band participated in two of the most important festivals in the city of Bogota: “Rock bajo la septima” and “Exporock 2008” and won out the best band award on both of them. On January 2009 the band released their first EP “No Regrets” it received great reviews locally and overseas, the songs “No regrets” and “Left Unsaid” had been very well received by the press and public in general. On August 2009 the band releases “Over Calculated Fear” a six song EP were the songs “Over Calculated Fear” and “As Hard as I try” had been well received by the media. During May 2010, while the band was working on their debut album, with Arley Gomez as front man the band released “Covered”, a four song EP with covers from bands not bonded to the progressive style, this allowed the band to experiment with the songs adding progressive elements that had always been a main characteristic of the band. For 2011 the band will release “Prologue” a full album with lyrics based on short literature were the influence of autors like Anton Chéjov, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens is shown. About the band members we can say that Arley has an amazing voice, great melodic sense and an amazing writing skill, Miguel as a guitar player is always doing unexpected things, heavy riffs with the right notes, full of ideas with own identity are the elements that give strength to the band, Julian Bass gives body to the band’s sound, appears when needed, has a wise use of space, and becomes a main element for the band sound.

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