Fragments of Unbecoming is a

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...

band from Laudenbach,

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. The band's guitarist Sascha Ehrich is also a renowned artist in the metal world, having designed album covers for bands such as

Necrophagist Necrophagist was a German technical death metal band founded and fronted by guitarist and vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez. The band used baroque music-influenced compositions paired with extreme metal drumming. The name originates from the Greek ro ...

. The band's name was taken from the lyrics for the

Edge of Sanity Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band that, alongside Opeth, is commonly regarded as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock. The group was founded by Dan Swanö in 1989 and ende ...

song "Darkday".

Band members

Current line up

* Sam Anetzberger −

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

(2004−present) * Stefan Weimar −

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

(2000−present) * Sascha Ehrich −

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(2000−present) * Ingo Maier −

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s (2000−present) * Christopher Körtgen -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

(2009−present)

Former members

* Wolfram Schellenberg −

(2000−2009)

Guest appearances

* Todd Douglas Collins (Lord Gloom of Afterlight) − Infinite Scream on "A Faint Illumination"

Discography

* '' Bloodred Tales – Chapter I – The Crimson Season'' (EP, Sylphony Creations, 2002) * '' Skywards – A Sylphe's Ascension'' (full-length, etal Blade, 2004) * ''Sterling Black Icon – Chapter III – Black but Shining'' (full-length, Metal Blade, 2006) * ''Everhaunting Past Chapter IV - A Splendid Retrospection'' (full-length, Cyclone Empire, 2009) * ''The Art of Coming Apart'' (full-length, 2012) * ''Perdition Portal - Chapter VI '' (full-length, 2018)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fragments Of Unbecoming Musical groups established in 2000 German melodic death metal musical groups Musical quintets