''Formless'' is the second album from

progressive metal Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal music, heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression" and amplified electric guitar, guitar-driven sound of the former with t ...

band Aghora, released in December 2006. This is their first album with vocalist Diana Serra.

Track listing

# Lotus – 1:14 # Atmas Heave – 5:10 # Moksha – 5:29 # Open Close the Book – 4:58 # Garuda – 2:53 # Dual Alchemy – 5:36 # Dime – 7:00 # 1316 – 5:30 # Fade – 4:40 # Skinned – 6:41 # Mahayana – 7:16 # Formless – 12:31 # Purification – 1:45

Credits

Aghora

*Diana Serra —

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

Santiago Dobles Santiago Dobles is a Venezuelan guitarist, songwriter, producer and son of Venezuelan symphonic composer Gustavo Dobles. He is best known as the founding member of tech-prog-fusion metal band Aghora. He has produced with Dan Escuariza, and Neil ...

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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 ...

Banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

, fretless guitar, programming *Alan Goldstein —

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

*Giann Rubio —

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(tracks 2-3, 7, 11-12),

tabla A ''tabla'' is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. Since the 18th century, it has been the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music, where it may be played solo, as an accompaniment with other instruments a ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Sean Reinert Sean Landon Reinert (May 27, 1971 – January 24, 2020) was an American musician. He was the drummer for the rock band Æon Spoke and the drummer and cofounder of the progressive metal band Cynic along with Paul Masvidal until leaving the ba ...

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(tracks 4-6, 8-10) *

Additional personnel

*Alan Douches — Mastering *

Eliran Kantor Eliran Kantor (; born 13 September 1984) is a Berlin-based Israeli artist and illustrator known mostly for creating album covers for metal bands such as Testament, Soulfly, Helloween and My Dying Bride. Album cover illustration credits Source: ...

— Artwork and design *

— Producer/Engineer * Neil Kernon — Producer/Mixer *Travis Huff — Drums Tracking *Daniel Escauriza — Additional Engineering and Tracking *Jeff Lewis — Assistant Engineering *Colton Pasker — Assistant Engineering *Nick Bati Grubisich — Assistant Engineering

References

External links

''Formless'' Album Review
2006 albums Aghora (band) albums Albums produced by Neil Kernon Albums with cover art by Eliran Kantor {{2000s-metal-album-stub