| Shaped By Fate | |
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Shaped By Fate at the Soundhaus, Glasgow, 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | South Wales, UK |
| Genres | Metalcore |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Labels | Distort Records |
| Members | |
| Luke Grahame Richey Beckett Lee Jenkins Paul Fortescue Carl Richards |
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| Past members | |
| Ben Duffin-Jones Gareth Eveliegh Nic Smalls Owen Weeks Jay Thurley |
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Shaped By Fate are a 5 piece metalcore band from South Wales (UK), formed in late 2001 and lauded as "the future of British Metalcore" by Kerrang! magazine which described the band's music as "some of the tastiest, heaviest, most shredding metal this island's seen in a long time".[1]
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Shaped By Fate are one of the South Wales scene's most influential veteran bands, having toured all over the UK and Europe with the likes of Parkway Drive, Suicide Silence, The Chariot, Every Time I Die, Becoming the Archetype, Bury Your Dead, Raging Speedhorn, Funeral for a Friend, Sikth and many more.
Having consistently released highly acclaimed EPs in the past, Shaped By Fate released their debut album The Unbeliever in 2007 through In At The Deep End Records (Gallows, Architects, Send More Paramedics) and digitally throughout the rest of the world via Distort Entertainment of Canada (Alexisonfire, Architects, Cancer Bats, City and Colour). The album was recorded in Foel Studios, Wales, with Boston producer Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Keelhaul, Pelican, The Red Chord).
The band released a limited edition DVD filmed during the Parkway Drive Tour at the end of 2008, entitled Riffage and Wreckage. The bands crazily energetic live shows have become well known and respected throughout the UK and Europe and, despite various line up changes, the band are going from strength to strength, are touring extensively.
In early 2011 Shaped By Fate signed a deal with Siege Of Amida Records to release their second album (four years in the making) entitled I Fear The World Has Changed.[2]