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Vale of Pnath (Music)

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Vale of Pnath is an American technical/melodic death metal band. While not huge, they have a small but devoted fanbase and have begun to find wider recognition, and their focus on melding technical wizardry with dark, brooding melody will likely be picked up by a larger crowd once they finally receive the attention that they've been working towards for so long.Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2006 by David Lercher (vocals), Vance Valenzuela (guitar), Alan Parades (bass), and Jeremy Portz (drums), they quickly added Mikey Reeves as a lead guitarist not long after forming to complete the lineup. Roughly a year after forming, they recorded a debut EP with Dave Otero; released in 2008, the EP was not an explosive hit, but word got out that they were a band to watch. A month-long West Coast tour soon followed, and after returning, the band immediately began work on a full-length. Lercher and Parades wound up leaving sometime around then as well; in their place came Ken Sarafin and David York, respectively, and the band signed with Willowtip Records. Portz also left in 2009 and was replaced by Eric W. Brown, but when it came time to record the full-length, Brown was unable to make the sessions and Portz sat in once again as a session player. In August of 2011, The Prodigal Empire dropped to a very warm reception and the band was hailed as a promising new name. Various tours followed, and in this time, Sarafin and York left as well. In the former's place came Stevie Boiser, and the latter's spot was filled by a returning Parades. Their biggest tour came in 2013 by way of a full US run with Gorod, Inanimate Existence, and Kamikabe, but bad planning and terrible promotion on multiple dates forced the band to drop off near the end. They soldiered on, however, and writing eventually began for their second full-length. 2014 went uneventfully aside from writing and day jobs, but 2015 proved to be more eventful; a run with Vital Remains came around the beginning of the year, but Reeves wound up leaving at some point and serious personal issues also forced Boiser to leave later on. A brief revolving door of guitarists followed, as Harrison Patuto took Reeves' spot only to have his own set of personal issues force him to depart; thankfully, Eloy Montes stepped up. Boiser, meanwhile, was replaced by Reece Deeter after a semi-lengthy search, and the band buckled down on finally getting that second album out. Unfortunately, however, Willowtip could only pay for half of the recording costs, and the band opted to put up a Kickstarter around the end of 2015 that was ultimately successful. A second full-length is slated for sometime within the first half of 2016.
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New Sound Album: Accursed is a Genre Shift to blackened death metal, with the tech downplayed to a good degree.
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Special Guest: Portz was this on The Prodigal Empire due to Brown's incompatible schedule, and the band has had guest solos from Malcolm Pugh, Mike Low, Mathieu Pascal, Nicolas Alberny, and Ryan Glisan (ex-Allegaeon). As for live session members, Mikey Wilson (Mouth of the Serpent), Gabe Seeber, Anthony Michelli (Ritualistic), Sanjay Kumar, Brandon Vallejo (both of Perihelion), Dylan Walker, Alex Haddad, Travis Bartosek, Donny Burbage (Aether Realm),Bryce Butler, and Bryce Lucien (Seeker) have all served as fill-ins. Greg Paulson (Aenimus) was originally supposed to be the fill-in on the tour that Alex Haddad wound up doing, but he wound up having to back out.
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What Could Have Been: Spiros Antoniou (Septicflesh) was originally supposed to handle all graphic design-related matters on II but was apparently so slow with actually getting the work done that they had to drop him and find someone different.
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Revolving Door Band
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Revolving Door Band: It's not a consistent flow of members, but the past couple of years have brought numerous lineup changes. 2015 was particularly bad, as they lost one vocalist and two guitarists in the same spot, and while it's not clear if the entire band left or if they just couldn't make the tour (save for Montes, who officially has left), they reached the logical extreme of this on their fall 2017 tour, where literally everyone in the band save for Valenzuela was a fill-in. At this point in time, the lineup is Vance, Ken, Gabe, and Austin Rolla, all of whom save for Austin are also in Abigail Williams, who themselves are legendary for their unstable lineups and hazy statuses of members.
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Sequel Song: "Unburied" is this to "Cerulean Eclipse" and continues the story from that song.
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Melodic Death Metal
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Melodic Death Metal: Started off as melodic tech, but made a Genre Shift to blackened death metal on Accursed.
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Epic Rocking: "Unburied" (7:40) and "Cerulean Eclipse" (6:00).
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Undead Abomination: The being in "Cerulean Eclipse" is some sort of extremely powerful undead fiend who starts the song as Sealed Evil in a Can, but is beginning to break out. "Unburied" picks up where the being is feeding off the souls of the dead to gather enough energy to finally break free and to unleash a horde of restless dead.
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I Am the Band: Vance Valenzuela, who is the main songwriter and undisputed band leader.
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Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: Eric W. Brown is known for the incredible amount of bands that he drums for and also for the equally sizable amount of electronic projects that he has.
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Black Metal
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Black Metal: The band has always some noticeable elements of melodic black metal, and Accursed was a full jump into blackened death metal.
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Ascended Extra: Brandon Vallejo was this for all of a few months before he wound up leaving; he was originally going to at least track Accursed as a session member even after he left, but that fell through and Andy Torres wound up doing it instead. Ken Sorceron also wound up becoming this, as Vance became a live member of Abigail Williams in 2019, and Ken returned the favor in early 2020 and joined Vale of Pnath full-time.
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: They are indeed named after the location from the Dreamlands in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Technical Death Metal
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Technical Death Metal: They started out as this and maintained this sound up to II, but shifted towards blackened death with some tech elements on Accursed.
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