Despised Icon
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Genre(s) | Grindcore Metalcore Deathcore |
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| Label(s) | Century Media Galy Records Relapse Records |
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| Website | Official website | |
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| Alexandre Erian Steve Marois Eric Jarrin Sebastien Piché Alexandre Pelletier |
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| Former members | ||
| Yannick St-Amand Marie-Hélène Landry Kevin McCaughey |
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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
•Alexandre Erian - Vocals
•Steve Marois - Vocals
•Eric Jarrin - Guitar
•Sebastien Piché - Bass
•Alexandre Pelletier - Drums
[edit] Former Members
- Yannick St-Amand - Guitar
- 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 Re-release (Century Media Records)
- 2007 - The Ills Of Modern Man LP (to be released May 22, 2007, through Century Media Records)
[edit] Trivia
Their first show in the United States was in Port Huron, Michigan at the North 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, Behemoth, Ion Dissonance, Pig Destroyer, Rotten Sound, Napalm Death, and Job For A Cowboy
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.
The band is currently (as of January 2007) recording their new album at the Projecson recording studio, in Rouyn-Noranda.
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