Canadian metalcore outfit Obey The Brave have announced that guitarist Greg “Old Greg” Wood and bassist Miguel Lepage have departed from the band, and replaced them with Terrence James McAuley and Cory Wilson respectively. They have issued a statement:
2014 was a year of transition for the band. After much consideration, our boys Miguel and Old Greg decided it was time…
Posted by Obey The Brave on Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Despised Icon will be returning to action for three special live shows, marking the 10th anniversary of their album The Healing Process, which was released on April 5, 2005.
Frontman Alex Erian (also of Obey The Brave) said of the album:
“This album is a big deal for us. It’s where it all started. We already had our first album out for a couple of years, which had a decent local success, but that was it. We gambled a lot on this one. Both Eric and I had other bands for quite some time and decided to invest all we had on this one. This was before Myspace, Facebook, even the Deathcore genre. We wrote the songs, recorded the album by ourselves and took it upon us to make the most out of it. The rest is history.”
Guitarist Eric Jarrin added:
“To us, this is the defining album. The Despised Icon sound known today has been forged on this album. With Alex Erian shifting from drums to vocals along with the addition of Alexgrind in the line up, that’s when we incorporated all the hardcore and grindcore elements into our death metal roots to create this raw, aggressive distinct sound”
Sep 05: Leeds University London – Leeds, UK (‘Ghostfest‘)
Sep 06: Motion – Bristol, UK (‘Ghostfest‘)
Sep 10: Festival Envol et Macadam – Quebec City, QC
Obey The Brave, Malevolence, Napoleon and Kublai Khan have a European/UK tour booked for April:
Apr 03: Bibelot – Dordrecht, NET
Apr 04: Academy 3 – Manchester, UK
Apr 05: Joiners – Southampton, UK
Apr 06: Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff, UK
Apr 07: Corporation – Sheffield, UK
Apr 08: Ivory Blacks – Glasgow, UK
Apr 09: The Oobleck – Birmingham, UK
Apr 10: Underworld – London, UK
Apr 11: Durbuy Rock – Durbuy, BEL
Apr 12: Le Metronum – Toulouse, FRA
Apr 13: Lemon – Madrid, SPA
Apr 14: Razzmataz 3 – Barcelona, SPA
Apr 15: Secret Place – Montpellier, FRA
Apr 16: Traffic – Rome, ITA
Apr 17: Blogos – Bologna, ITA
Apr 18: Club Vaudeville – Lindau, GER
Apr 19: Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, GER
Apr 20: Magnet – Berlin, GER
Apr 21: Hydrozagadka – Warsaw, POL
Apr 22: Collosseum – Kosice, SLO
Apr 23: Kvlt – Budapest, HUN
Apr 24: Impericon Festival – Wien, AUT
Apr 25: Impericon Festival – Oberhausen, GER
Apr 27: Feierwerk – Munchen, GER
Apr 28: Exhaus – Trier, GER
Apr 29: Cann – Stuttgart, GER
Apr 30: Impericon Festival – Paris, FRA (no Napoleon)