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Andrew Tompkins
Andrew Tompkins is the lead vocalist and bassist for the Australian doom metal band Paramaecium, which was considered to be the biggest Christian doom metal band. Andrew has a daughter named Enara. Tompkins' cousin is Mark Orr, former drummer of Paramaecium. Tompkins has also written a book entitled "Within the Ancient Forest". The Paramaecium album of the same name was based on this novel. When Tompkins was asked whether or not he believed in Christianity anymore, he stated "...As to whether I'm a practicing Christian, I usually tell people I'm a practicing Christian but not a believing Christian." Biography Science career At the end of 1994 Andrew had completed a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours in Anatomy and went on to work as a research scientist in the fields of bone marrow transplantation and reproductive immunology; a field in which he has published research in the leading US reproduction journal. In 1998 Tompkins completed a Master of Bioethics degree specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramaecium
Paramaecium (sometimes typeset as Paramæcium) was an Australian death/doom metal band formed in 1991. There is use of instrumentation like flutes, cellos and violins on some albums. Paramaecium is one of the few doom metal bands that focus on Christian lyrical themes and Christian concepts. According to Doom-metal.com, "what sets Paramaecium apart from other bands in the doom metal scene, is the fact that they are the only Christian death/doom band that made it to the top of the genre." History In 1993, Paramaecium released their debut album, ''Exhumed of the Earth''. The band consisted of Andrew Tompkins on vocals and bass, Jason De Ron on guitar, and Jayson Sherlock on drums. The music was inspired by Cathedral, early My Dying Bride and Anathema. The band incorporated flute and violin sounds as well as a soprano alongside the usual musical offerings of death and doom metal. Paramaecium added rhythm guitarist Chris Burton in 1995 and released their second album, ''Within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Within The Ancient Forest
Paramaecium (sometimes typeset as Paramæcium) was an Australian death/doom metal band formed in 1991. There is use of instrumentation like flutes, cellos and violins on some albums. Paramaecium is one of the few doom metal bands that focus on Christian lyrical themes and Christian concepts. According to Doom-metal.com, "what sets Paramaecium apart from other bands in the doom metal scene, is the fact that they are the only Christian death/doom band that made it to the top of the genre." History In 1993, Paramaecium released their debut album, '' Exhumed of the Earth''. The band consisted of Andrew Tompkins on vocals and bass, Jason De Ron on guitar, and Jayson Sherlock on drums. The music was inspired by Cathedral, early My Dying Bride and Anathema. The band incorporated flute and violin sounds as well as a soprano alongside the usual musical offerings of death and doom metal. Paramaecium added rhythm guitarist Chris Burton in 1995 and released their second album, ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repentance (EP)
Paramaecium (sometimes typeset as Paramæcium) was an Australian death/doom metal band formed in 1991. There is use of instrumentation like flutes, cellos and violins on some albums. Paramaecium is one of the few doom metal bands that focus on Christian lyrical themes and Christian concepts. According to Doom-metal.com, "what sets Paramaecium apart from other bands in the doom metal scene, is the fact that they are the only Christian death/doom band that made it to the top of the genre." History In 1993, Paramaecium released their debut album, ''Exhumed of the Earth''. The band consisted of Andrew Tompkins on vocals and bass, Jason De Ron on guitar, and Jayson Sherlock on drums. The music was inspired by Cathedral, early My Dying Bride and Anathema. The band incorporated flute and violin sounds as well as a soprano alongside the usual musical offerings of death and doom metal. Paramaecium added rhythm guitarist Chris Burton in 1995 and released their second album, ''Within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InExordium
Paramaecium (sometimes typeset as Paramæcium) was an Australian death/doom metal band formed in 1991. There is use of instrumentation like flutes, cellos and violins on some albums. Paramaecium is one of the few doom metal bands that focus on Christian lyrical themes and Christian concepts. According to Doom-metal.com, "what sets Paramaecium apart from other bands in the doom metal scene, is the fact that they are the only Christian death/doom band that made it to the top of the genre." History In 1993, Paramaecium released their debut album, ''Exhumed of the Earth''. The band consisted of Andrew Tompkins on vocals and bass, Jason De Ron on guitar, and Jayson Sherlock on drums. The music was inspired by Cathedral, early My Dying Bride and Anathema. The band incorporated flute and violin sounds as well as a soprano alongside the usual musical offerings of death and doom metal. Paramaecium added rhythm guitarist Chris Burton in 1995 and released their second album, ''Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revulsed
Revulsed is a technical/brutal death metal band that originated in Australia in 2010. Revulsed's debut album '' Infernal Atrocity'' was featured on No Clean Singing and Trevor Strnad of the Black Dahlia Murder's best albums of 2015 lists. History After the demise of the Christian doom metal band Paramaecium (later inExordium), Jayson Sherlock and Sheldon D'Costa formed Revulsed in 2010. The band wrote their debut album for five years with Justin "Yowie" Smith formerly of fellow Australian Christian death metal band, Metanoia, still in search for a vocalist. For a brief time they had Peter Ball of Those Who Endure as their vocalist; it was not a good fit and Ball left. He was replaced by Konstantin Lühring of Defeated Sanity and they finished recording their debut album. In October 2015 '' Infernal Atrocity'' was released via Permeated Records. Sherlock felt that "I always wanted to outdo those earlier albums of mine in terms of speed and overall brutality." Belgian music c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortification (album)
''Mortification'' is the debut studio album by Australian Christian extreme metal band Mortification. It was released on 12 October 1991. This album leans more towards death metal than the band's demo album ''Break the Curse'', but retains thrash metal elements. Five songs from the demo album were re-recorded for ''Mortification''. In 2002, ''The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music'' described the album's sound as "punk-meets-metal grind-core". A bundle containing ''Mortification'' and ''Scrolls of the Megilloth'' was released on KMG Records in 1998 and on Rowe Productions in 2015, with the latter being exclusively on cassette. Soundmass Records re-released the album with five bonus tracks in 2020, and again in 2022 with new remastering and nine bonus tracks recorded at Q.U.T. Campus Club in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 27 September 1991. Although not as popular as its 1992 follow-up album ''Scrolls of the Megilloth'', ''Mortification'' became reputive in both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrolls Of The Megilloth
''Scrolls of the Megilloth'' is the second studio album by Australian Christian extreme metal band Mortification. It was released on 28 August 1992. The band's most famous release, this album is full-on death metal, with the thrash metal roots barely showing, and possibly their most extreme album to date. According to AllMusic, the album "garnered the band some attention from the heavy metal underground" and contains "some of the most frightening vocals ever recorded." In 2010, ''HM Magazine'' ranked ''Scrolls of the Megilloth'' number 17 on the Top 100 Christian Metal Albums of All Time list with Van Pelt stating that "Though the band has been living it down ever since, this album raised the standard of Christian grindcore to almost unattainable levels." Several reissues of ''Scrolls of the Megilloth'' have been released on various record labels. It was bundled with Mortification's 1993 album ''Post Momentary Affliction'' on Nuclear Blast and included two live bonus tracks, rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Anatomists
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Jason De Ron
Jason De Ron (born 1973) is a musician from Melbourne, Australia, most notable for being the former guitarist for the death/doom band Paramaecium and co founder and guitarist of the avant garde/progressive metal band Altera Enigma. Biography Jason De Ron was born in about 1973, he began playing guitar in 1987 after hearing a guitar solo by Dave Murray of Iron Maiden, and joined Paramaecium in 1992. Jason first met Andrew Tompkins in a cemetery one night in 1991. He was there with Colin "Mosh" Mynard who was a friend of his, and Paramaecium's original guitarist. They were there to photograph the grave for the cover of the ''Silent Carnage'' demo. Paramaecium Jason got to know Andrew further when he attended a Paramaecium rehearsal as they prepared for an upcoming gig with Mortification. That same night Jason also met Jayson Sherlock and the two have remained close friends ever since. When "Mosh" left Paramaecium in 1992, Andrew spoke to Jason about joining, and after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Atheists
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Australian Former Christians
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