Coprofago

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Coprofago
Origin Santiago, Chile
Genre(s) Technical death metal
Thrash metal (early)
Years active 1993–present
Label(s) Candlelight
Website www.coprofago.com
Members
Pablo Alvarez
Felipe Castro
Marcelo Ruiz
Sebastián Vergara
Former members
Rodrigo Castro
Pablo Solari
Ignacio Suit

Coprofago is a technical death metal band formed in Santiago, Chile on June of 1993. The name of the band is taken from Greek ("copro" referring to feces and "fago" meaning "eat"). Sebastián Vergara, Pablo Alvarez, Pablo Solari and Ignacio Suit founded the band.

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[edit] Biography

With that young line-up (all still at school), the band recorded a standard death metal demo that sold out immediately, getting the attention of some magazines in Chile, but generally without good reviews. With the addition of Marcelo Ruiz on drums and Felipe Castro on bass, the band started to develop a faster and more progressive sound, due to Pablo’s growing interest in Jazz-fusion at that time. With the release of 1997's "Images of Despair", and later 2000’s "Genesis", the band started to get more attention and was invited to share stage with the death metal band Krisiun, local band Criminal and other Chilean bands.

Silently, but always increasing, the band started to get media and fan attention all over the world and forums, receiving comparisons with technical bands like Cynic, Meshuggah and also words of praise from Atheist, Darkane and even Watchtower members. Those words finally reach the ears of the French label Sekhmet that signed the band and release the "Genesis" album in Europe. Great reviews from all over the world were received.

Few weeks before the European release, Marcelo and subsequently Pablo moved to Sweden, which led the band to a period of inactivity until mid 2003, when they came back and started to write the music for their following album, "Unorthodox Creative Criteria", released on July 2005. The rather uncommon mixture of death metal with progressive rock bordering at times with jazz fusion was the biggest success in band's history, leading them to play in one of the biggest festivals in Europe.

[edit] Band members

[edit] Current members

  • Pablo Alvarez – Guitar, Guitar Synth, Keyboard, Vocals (1993–)
  • Sebastián Vergara – Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals (1993–)
  • Felipe Castro – Bass (1993–1999, 2004–)
  • Marcelo Ruiz – Drums (1995–)

[edit] Former members

  • Rodrigo Castro – Bass (2000–2003)
  • Pablo Solari – Bass (1993–1996)
  • Ignacio Suit – Drums (1993–1996)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio albums

[edit] Demos

  • Demo I (1994)

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