Talk:Devolved (band)

message: The band was formed in late 1996 by John Sankey (Drums, samples) and Brett Noordin (vocals, guitar). Soon, Mark Walpole (guitar) and Joel Graham (vocals/bass) joined and later Nik Carpenter (lead vocals) joined to complete Devolved's line-up. The band began playing locally on that year and started to record a two-track demo entitled truth in 1998. The release would receive radioplay in Australia by Triple J which would lead them to a recording contract with MGM Australia. 
In 2000, the band began headlining their own shows in various parts of Australia and gained widespread attention. After the headlining shows, the band decided to take time out of their schedule to begin recording their debut release Technologies. Technologies was released through Biotech Records and MGM in 2001, the album was well received by press and fans alike as one of the countries' top metal acts. After Technologies was released, the band started to headline festival tours and local club shows to promote the album. The band is then voted number one album of the year and Triple J votes them as metal act of the year on the national award show as some 1.5 million people listen to Triple J. The album was also voted number one album of the year by Outsider Magazine, which are one of the countries' largest alternative music press publications. Later the band made a music video entitled; "Distorted", it received high rotation play on various music television stations.
In 2002, due to an incident at one concert the band had to deal with legal threats and were forced to include epilepsy warnings on all their releases and promotional material. In the year, the band became the first extreme metal act to be featured on national daytime radio when Triple J began an advertising campaign to promote their album and it received rapidly increasing success. Afterwards, Wayde Dunn was replaced by Joel Graham on bass. Later, the band recives widespread international attention and sign a recording contract with UK based label Copro Records and Japanese-based label 1138 Records and Technologies gets distributed to the UK, Europe and Japan. The band then starts writing for an EP named Automation 001 and then is released primarily in Australia with 3 new tracks and a live demo track of "Fallen Cities" and also featured on the CD are; live footage interviews, band images and a video clip for "Distorted". The EP gained rave reviews and Devolved became Australia's premiere metal band. Touring then took place and the band took part in over 50 shows in UK, Europe, Japan and Australia as part of their World Chaos tour. The band then makes their own headlining shows with metal acts such as; Machine Head, Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Arch Enemy and Opeth. 
In 2003, drummer John Sankey relocates to Los Angeles for the duration of the year and begins to work on a project with former Fear factory guitarist Dino Cazares. The band then prepared for its next full-length release Calculated and in late 2003, John returned to Australia for pre-production of the next album. During its production, Patrick Brown is added to the Devolved line-up as the band's sampler. 
In 2004, while recording for the album, the band was outreached by Sony Records and Modern Music Australia for their past successes and again become the only extreme metal act associated with Sony Music in Australia. Later in the year, Calculated is released and once again gain rave reviews by fans and press alike. Afterwards, John and Brett travel to the USA for a number of record company meetings and decide to relocate the band to Los Angeles where they will base the band to further their international success. Afterwards the band goes on tour in Australia again and headlined their Calculated tour to promote the album and toured continuously on the road for many months playing at sold-out venues in all major cities in the country.
In 2005, the band finish up their tour with a series of one-off sold out shows in Australia as a farewell tour before heading back to the USA. John, Brett and Patrick all relocate permanently to Los Angeles and add new members which is now the current Devolved line-up, which includes; Brett Carpio on guitar, Leighton Kearns on bass and Kyle Zamenek on lead vocals. With the new members, Devolved rehearses intensely and then began a tour in the USA in early 2006 and are now planning to release a limited-edition release of their "Automation 002" EP in Australia featuring rare songs, cover tracks and video footage.
CircafuciX 06:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
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