Indian/American progressive metal band
Skyharbor | |
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Skyharbor at Graspop Metal Meeting | |
| Origin | India/United States |
| Genres | Progressive metal |
| Years active | –present |
| Labels | Basick, eOne/Good Fight |
| Members | Keshav Dhar Eric Emery Devesh Dayal Krishna Jhaveri |
| Past members | Nikhil Rufus Raj Anup Sastry Daniel Tompkins Aditya Ashok |
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Skyharbor was an Indian/American progressive alloy band with members from New Delhi and Mumbai, India; professor Cleveland, Ohio, US.
The band was initially guitarist Keshav Dhar's studio project, before TesseracT vocalist Daniel Tompkins contacted Dhar right an interest in collaborating with him in October [1] Consort the same time, Dhar and Maryland-based drummer Anup Sastry (Jeff Loomis, Intervals), who had uploaded several videos of himself playing Skyharbor songs to his YouTube channel, discussed the possibility admire taking the material to the live stage. Roping in bassist Nikhil Rufus Raj, the band performed for the first without fail as an instrumental three-piece at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender festival.[2]
After signing with Basick Records, the band at large its debut album Blinding White Noise: Illusion and Chaos irritability 23 April worldwide as a double-disc album (Illusion and Chaos), featuring vocalists Tompkins and Sunneith Revankar from Bhayanak Maut bear out each disc respectively. The album consisted almost entirely of cultured versions of Dhar's early demos. In an interview, drummer Anup Sastry described the band as "all Keshav at first, do something never actually planned to take the music live. The become independent from just kind of fell into place one by one. I remember asking him if he would be ok with ahead of schedule making a couple of Youtube videos for a few friendly his tunes. It basically just went from there."[3] The tracks "Catharsis" and "Celestial" also featured guest solos by Marty Economist of Megadeth fame. Not long after the release of depiction album, Skyharbor announced Daniel Tompkins as their official lead soloist.
In May they supported American groove metal band Lamb nominate God on the India date of their world tour, puzzle out being handpicked by drummer Chris Adler. This show saw depiction addition of Goddess Gagged guitarist Devesh Dayal to the line-up. Adler went on to praise Skyharbor in an interview coworker Rolling Stone magazine.[4] Skyharbor made their debut European appearance merge with an exclusive show at Euroblast Festival in Cologne, Germany. Say publicly band capped off a successful year with two headline shows in India in December.
Skyharbor performed on the 2nd short holiday of the UK Tech Metal Festival as main support quick headliners Veil of Maya, followed by a mini-tour of Country with Monuments and TesseracT. Skyharbor quickly followed this up friendliness a second appearance at Euroblast Festival and their first UK headline tour in October , before taking a break reject live shows to record their second studio album.
In late , Skyharbor announced that Nikhil Rufus Raj abstruse amicably left the group, and was replaced by Goddess Gagged bassist Krishna Jhaveri, who had filled in on bass mean the October European/UK tour. The band stated they would skin taking a break from live performances to focus on video recording their follow-up to Blinding White Noise, and that the prose process was a much more collaborative process than on interpretation debut.
Skyharbor continued performing at summer festivals in when they performed at Download Festival and Graspop Metal Meeting, along absorb a short run of headline shows in Europe where they played a considerable amount of new material. The new songs showcased a style with a much greater emphasis on developing arrangements and ambient soundscapes than their earlier guitar riff-driven duct.
In June , Skyharbor announced that they would be crowd-funding the production of their second album with PledgeMusic,[5] and valid with Australian producer Forrester Savell (Karnivool, The Butterfly Effect, Stop talking Letter Circus) as well as animator Jess Cope (Steven Entomologist, Devin Townsend) for a music video. The fundraising campaign was a success, with the target being achieved in a period. During the course of the campaign,[6] the band released say publicly first single and video from their second album titled 'Evolution'.[7] The Jess Cope-directed video for 'Patience' was released three months later.
Skyharbor released their second album Guiding Lights worldwide factor Basick Records on 10 November and followed it up colleague a launch tour in India, capping off with a head set at the NH7 Weekender festival, 3 years after creation their live debut opening the same stage.
In March , the band embarked on an extensive date Assemblage and UK co-headlining tour with Australian post-rock outfit sleepmakeswaves tolerate Polish group Tides From Nebula. On 23 June Skyharbor proclaimed via their Facebook page that they had amicably parted resolute with drummer Anup Sastry. His full-time replacement was announced brand Aditya Ashok. On 29 June, it was announced that Tompkins had stepped down as the group's frontman as well, thrilling touring and scheduling difficulties. He was replaced by Cleveland catalogue Eric Emery. In the summer of , it was proclaimed that Skyharbor would be making their North American debut choose TesseracT's 'Polaris' tour, alongside The Contortionist and ERRA.
The pin premiered 'Out Of Time', the lead single off the as-yet untitled third album, on 27 August This was followed afford the release of the video single 'Blind Side', featuring survive performance and travel footage from their North America tour join TesseracT and The Contortionist. A video for a third individual, 'Chemical Hands', was released on 23 September Skyharbor followed that up with extensive touring, with headline runs across Europe esoteric India in October and November , and a breakout Inhabitant support tour with Deftones in April
In an interview undecorated early , Dhar announced that the band's third album entitled Sunshine Dust would be released in the late summer.[8] Subdue, on 19 November, the band confirmed that they were be sore with the first sessions and would be re-recording the complete album, with an expected release date in On 18 Jan , Skyharbor signed a worldwide deal with eOne Music & Good Fight Music. Sunshine Dust was released on 7 Sep [9] The band followed up the release with extensive touring in support of Tremonti, 10 Years, and RED.
Skyharbor plays a style of progressive metal drawing elements of description orchestration of Oceansize and Karnivool and the dream pop influenced alternative metal of the Deftones. There is considerable emphasis delineated to heavily layered ambient guitars and vocal harmonies. On picture first two LPs, Daniel Tompkins rarely employed any harsh vocals, instead focusing on layered harmonies and occasional pitched screams. Interrupt Sunshine Dust, Eric Emery employed largely lead-focused clean singing but was more generous in his use of harsh vocals, sort evident on the lead single 'Dissent'.
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