Despised Icon
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Despised Icon is a band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada which plays a combination of metalcore, grindcore, and death metal commonly called deathcore. They are noted for use of two full-time vocalists, one who sings low to high pitch screams (Alex Erian), and the other for the extremely low growling (Steve Marois).
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[edit] Band members
- Alex Erian: Vocals (used to play Drums) (ex-Neuraxis, ex-In Dying Days)
- Steve Marois: Vocals (ex-Apocaliptic Script)
- Eric Jarrin: Guitar (Heaven's Cry, ex-Necrotic Mutation)
- Yannick St-Amand: Guitar(ex-Nihilistic Mass Refracters)
- Sebastien Piché: Bass (ex-Apostasy)
- Alex "Grind" Pelletier: Drums (ex-Deuterium)
[edit] Former Members
- Marie-Hélène Landry: Vocals
- Kevin McCaughey: Live Vocals (approx 35 shows when Steve Marois was ill)
[edit] Discography
- 2002 - Consumed by Your Poison LP (Galy Records)
- 2004 - Syndicated Murderers EP
- 2005 - Split CD with Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus (Relapse Records)
- 2005 - The Healing Process LP (Century Media Records)
- 2006 - Consumed by Your Poison Rerelease (Century Media Records)
[edit] Trivia
Their first show in the United States was in Port Huron, Michigan at the Noruh Grotto.
Despised Icon have played with bands such as The Red Chord, Hatebreed, Deicide, The Black Dahlia Murder, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Aborted, Killswitch Engage, Morbid Angel, and Behemoth.
The band takes influence from Dying Fetus, Between the Buried and Me, Nile, Pantera, Suffocation, and Hatebreed.
Alex Erian played drums in Neuraxis and on Despised Icon's "Consumed By Your Poison".
Eric Jarrin plays guitar in the prog band Heaven's Cry.
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