Ashley "Ellyllon" Jurgemeyer (born July 30, 1984) is an American

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and

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for the band Orbs and was the former pianist of

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bands

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and of

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Biography

Ashley Jurgemeyer was classically trained on piano since age six. She got her bachelor's degree in Music Composition and Theory from

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and then started her career as a founding member of the band

in 2005. Jurgemeyer left the band in 2009 after becoming the new keyboardist for

, replacing Rosie Smith. She recorded two releases with Abigail Williams, which are ''

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'' and ''

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''. Ellyllon is also a part of the

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Orbs along with Dan Briggs of

Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me, often abbreviated as BTBAM, is an American progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2000, the band consists of Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. (lead vocals, keyboards), Paul Waggoner (lead guitar, backing ...

and Adam Fisher of

Fear Before Fear Before (formerly known as Fear Before the March of Flames) is an experimental rock band formed in Aurora, Colorado. As stated on their Alternative Press podcast, their name originates from a Denver Post newspaper headline about the 2002 H ...

(Fear Before the March of Flames). She is also working on a solo classical piano album.

Abigail Williams

Jurgemeyer was the keyboardist for the Abigail Williams from 2005 to 2008. During that time, she recorded two albums with the band. In early 2007, the band split. They later decided to resume Abigail Williams that same year, with Plaguehammer returning to bass guitar, Zach Gibson and Bjorn Dannov rejoining, and also Kristen Randall (

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) joining the band. After a tour in late 2007, Kristen Randall left the band and joined

, to which Jurgemeyer rejoined them. She toured with the band in Europe and the United Kingdom in summer 2008.

Orbs

Jurgemeyer along with Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me) and Adam Fisher (Fear Before the March of Flames) formed Orbs. The band released their debut album, ''Asleep Next to Science'', on August 17, 2010.

History

The band began in fall 2007 as an online project working across the United States in a similar fashion of

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. The band has a similar sound to the progressive rock of Between the Buried and Me and the later experimental sound of Fear Before the March of Flames. According to their official site, the sound and lyrics represent space and nature. '' Asleep Next to Science'' was released on August 17, 2010, on Equal Vision Records with a tour to accompany it. Orbs released a single entitled "These People Are Animals" on October 20, 2014. A second album, ''

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'', was released on July 15, 2016.

Band members

= Current members

= * Adam Fisher – vocals, guitar * Dan Briggs – guitar, bass guitar * Ashley Ellyllon – keyboards, vocals * Chuck Johnson – bass guitar, vocals * Matt Lynch - drums

= Previous members

= * Clayton "Goose" Holyoak – drums

Discography

* '' Asleep Next to Science'' (2010) *''

'' (2016)

''Asleep Next to Science''

'' Asleep Next to Science'' is the debut studio album by American

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

band

Orbs Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), created and run by Alan Brown in New Zealand, was one of the first DNS-based Blackhole Lists (DNSBL), a means by which an internet domain may publish a list of IP addresses, in a database which can ...

. It was released on August 17, 2010 through

Equal Vision Records Equal Vision Records is an independent record label based in Albany, New York. It was founded in the early 1990s by Ray Cappo, singer for the punk bands Youth of Today, Shelter, and Better Than a Thousand. The label originally existed solely to ...

and was produced by Jamie King, known for producing

and

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= Background

= Orbs entered the studio at The Basement recording studio in Winston-Salem, N.C. in February 2009. It was produced by Jamie King, who worked with Between the Buried and Me on Colors and The Great Misdirect. On April 4, 2010, the band released a free download of two songs from the album to fans who signed up to their mailing list. The band describes the album as "the product of long-distance friendships linked through an appreciation for music, nature, and a mutual desire to defy common song structure." A tour in support of the album began on August 19, 2010 in Greensboro, N.C.

= Reception

= The

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review by Ned Raggett awarded the album 3 stars stating "Asleep Next to Science, the group's first full release, is both a familiar enough supergroup-styled effort thanks to the bandmembers' various backgrounds in acts like Between the Buried and Me and Abigail Williams and a modern version of it given that their work grew out of Internet-based collaboration. The album almost resists criticism in a way, though, because it is exactly all that -- come in expecting theatrical compositions, metal-tinged and emo-tinged and more besides, and you'll get it down to the concluding piano flourishes on 'Sayer of the Law,' not to mention plenty of keyboard breaks throughout courtesy of Ashley Ellyllon. The descending break and coda to 'Something Beautiful' show that the quintet can hit the epically melancholy heights with the best of them, and if such moments aren't always constant throughout the album, they happen enough times to set a good tone. Adam Fisher's vocals are the make-or-break point throughout -- there's something sweetly, strangely inspirational about hearing his thin, almost dorky whine riding the arrangements on songs like 'A Man of Science,' and a few times he makes it work unexpectedly, much like Billy Corgan did with his own out-of-place singing. At other points it's more hair-pulling, however, though song titles like 'Megaloblastic Madness' and the two-part 'The Northwestern Bearitories' might cause more double takes in the end -- or the line 'Chupacabras on the wing' in 'People Will Read Again.' "Raggett, N.
Allmusic Review
accessed March 23, 2011

= Track listing

= Personnel

= Orbs * Adam Fisher –

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, electronic programming * Dan Briggs –

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*Ashley Ellyllon –

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* Clayton Holyoak –

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*Chuck Johnson - Additional vocals on "We the Animal" and "Lost at Sea" Production * Produced by Jamie King *

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by Jamie King *

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by Ben Tuttle

Cradle of Filth

Jurgemeyer joined Cradle of Filth in 2009 after Rosie Smith's departure from the band, Jurgemeyer then joined to play keyboards and do backing vocals for the group.

Discography

Abigail Williams

*''

'' (2006) EP *''

'' (2008) *'' Becoming'' (2012)

Orbs

*'' Asleep Next to Science'' (2010) *''Past Life Regression'' (2016)

Cradle of Filth

*''

Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa ''Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa'' is the ninth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 1 November 2010 by record label Peaceville and is a concept album centred on the demon Lilith. It is Cradle of Filth's o ...

'' (2010)

Carnifex

*'' Until I Feel Nothing'' (2011)

Ryann

*'' Girl Ep'' (2012)

References

External links

Ashley Ellyllon Official Facebook

Official MySpace

Official Website
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