Colin Marston

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Colin J. Marston (born September 13, 1982) is an American musician and record producer residing in Brooklyn. He graduated from New York University with a BA in Music technology in 2004, and runs The Thousand Caves Recording Studios, located in Woodhaven, Queens, while not on tour with one of his four active bands. He is perhaps most famous for fronting the extremely technical progressive metal band Behold... The Arctopus, in which he plays a Warr guitar, or for his work on bass guitar in the post-rock trio Dysrhythmia. Marston produces, masters, and mixes for artists such as Genghis Tron, Child Abuse, Normal Love, Make A Rising, and Orthrelm, as well as his own bands.

1 Bands
2 Gear
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Bands

Behold... The Arctopus - (technical metal with jazz influences).
Dysrhythmia - (experimental post rock).
Byla - (ambient/drone soundscapes with guitar melodies).
Indricothere - technical death metal with various metal influences
Infidel? / Castro! - (abstract electro/acoustic, conceptual metal with George Korein).
Wrong Way Out - (Colin's first band, self-described as "sloppy funk").
The Bulgarian Rhythm Kings - (Colin's second band, an Avant-prog outfit).
Vegan Death - (Colin's solo death metal project with vegan cooking recipes for lyrics).

[edit] Gear

In Dysrhythmia Marston plays an Ibanez BTB 6-string bass guitar with a pick into a Hartke 3500 head with an Eden 410 XLT cabinet and a Roland JC-120 guitar combo. In Behold... the Arctopus he plays a 12-string Raptor Warr guitar (which has been discontinued) into the same amps plus an extra Crate 2x12 combo. He uses various distortion and delay pedals in both bands.^[1]