Rinoa was an English

post-metal Post-metal is a music genre rooted in heavy metal but exploring approaches beyond metal conventions. It emerged in the 1990s with bands such as Neurosis and Godflesh, who transformed metal texture through experimental composition. In a way simil ...

group, formed in

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

in 2007. Their line-up consisted of vocalist Perry Bryan, guitarists Matthew Holden and Jozef Norocky, bassist David Gumbleton and drummer James May. The band split in November 2010, with most of their members going on to different musical projects.

History

Rinoa was formed in Essex in 2007, following the break-up of the members' previous bands, Crydebris, Chariots and Symmetry. They named themselves after

Rinoa Heartilly is the fictional character and co-protagonist of Square's (now Square Enix) 1999 role-playing video game ''Final Fantasy VIII''. She is a teenaged member of a resistance faction known as the Forest Owls. After she recruits protagonist Squall Le ...

, a character from the video game

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. The band released their self-titled EP, ''Rinoa'', in 2008. This was followed with a split EP with Bossk, released in 2009. The band performed at

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later that same year. Their debut full-length, ''An Age Among Them'', was released in 2010 to positive reviews, including being named one of the best albums of 2010 by ''

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''. In October 2010 Rinoa announced their intention to split at the end of their headline UK tour and played their last ever show in

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in November. Following their split James May joined

dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

group Tek-One, and Jozef Norocky joined London band

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, with Matthew Holden and David Gumbleton joining a new

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called Ancients.

Band members

*Perry Bryan -

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 ...

*Matthew Holden -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*David Gumbleton -

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 ...

*Jozef Norocky - guitar *James May -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Discography

Studio albums

*''

An Age Among Them An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian a ...

'' (2010)

EPs

*'' Rinoa (EP)'' (2008)

Splits

*'' Bossk / Rinoa'' (2009)

Singles

Sol Winds Sol or SOL may refer to: Astronomy * The Sun Currency * SOL Project, a currency project in France * French sol, or sou * Argentine sol * Bolivian sol, the currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864 * Peruvian sol, introduced in 1991 * Peruvian ...

" (2010)

References

{{reflist English post-rock groups Post-metal musical groups Musical groups established in 2007 Musical groups disestablished in 2010