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Origin | Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Genres | |
Years active | 1997−present |
Labels | DVS, Century Media |
Associated acts | Iced Earth |
Website | Intoeternity.net/ |
Members | Amanda Kiernan Tim Roth Matt Cuthbertson Troy Bleich Bryan Newbury |
Past members | Stu Block Jim Austin Steve Bolognese Rob Doherty Chris Eisler Chris Krall Scott Krall Christopher McDougall Daniel Nargang Justin Bender |
Into Eternity is a Canadian progressive metal band from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was formed in 1997 by Tim Roth, Scott Krall and Jim Austin.
History[edit]
First five albums[edit]
Into Eternity was formed in 1997 by founding members Tim Roth, Scott Krall and Jim Austin and later released an eponymous, independent album in 1999, with the addition of Chris Eisler and Chris McDougall. The band signed to Century Media Records a year later and then re-released their debut album.
In 2001, the band returned with their second album Dead or Dreaming, an album which saw a more pronounced integration of progressive and death metal. The trend continued on 2004's Buried in Oblivion and even further on 2006's The Scattering of Ashes.[1]
Into Eternity performed on Gigantour 2006, which kicked off in Boise, Idaho on September 6, 2006.[2] According to Soundscan, The Scattering of Ashes sold a little over 2,000 copies in the US during its first week of release.[3] During the summer of 2007, Into Eternity (along with progressive metal band Redemption) toured in support of Dream Theater during their North American leg of the Chaos in Motion tour.[4] Their new album entitled, The Incurable Tragedy, which is a concept album, was released on August 25, 2008 in Europe and on September 2, 2008 in North America.
The Sirens and deaths[edit]
On March 9, 2011, Into Eternity announced the addition of drummer Bryan Newbury.[5] Also in 2011, Stu Block joined the band Iced Earth.[6]
In February 2012, Amanda Kiernan joined the band as their new vocalist. In late 2012, Into Eternity began demoing new material with both Block and Kiernan.[7]
On May 4, 2012, their former guitarist, Rob Doherty, died at the age of 41.[8] On December 5, 2016, their former drummer, Adam Sagan, died from cancer at the age of 35.[9]
In an interview in late 2013, Tim Roth confirmed that Stu Block was no longer a member and that they would continue on with Amanda Kiernan as a full-time vocalist.[citation needed] In May 2014, guitarist Justin Bender announced his departure from the band and that Untimely Demise guitarist Matt Cuthbertson would be his replacement. He also confirmed that Into Eternity's currently untitled sixth studio album was in the post-production stage and should see a release later in the year.[10] On June 15, 2015, Into Eternity signed a worldwide record deal with Italian label Kolony Records.[11] The band planned release its sixth studio album The Sirens in late 2015, but after being delayed for a few years, the album has been announced to be released on October 26, 2018.[12]
Musical style[edit]
The band employs a wide range of elements across the metal spectrum, including classic or melodic metal styling, thrashing riffs, neo-classical composition, power metal-style clean vocals,[13][14] high to low-pitched death growls[13][14] and black metal shrieking,[15] fast tempoed death metal drumming with blast beats and sometimes interwoven with acoustic guitar playing.[14] Into Eternity provides a sound that is considered to be rather difficult to describe, but the most common description of Into Eternity's music is progressive death metal.[1][16]
Band members[edit]
- Current members
- Tim Roth − guitar, clean/death vocals (1997−present)
- Troy Bleich − bass, clean/death vocals (2005−present)
- Bryan Newbury − drums (2011−present)
- Amanda Kiernan − lead vocals (2013–present; touring member: 2012–2013)
- Matt Cuthbertson − guitar (2014−present)
- Former members
- Vocals
- Chris Krall − clean/death vocals (2003−2004)
- Dean Sternberg − vocals (2004)
- Stu Block − clean/death vocals (2005−2013)
- Guitars
- Chris Eisler − guitar (1999)
- Daniel Nargang − guitar, clean vocals (2001)
- Rob 'Smiley' Doherty − guitar, death vocals (2003−2005) (R.I.P. 2012)
- Collin Craig − guitar (2006)
- Justin Bender − guitar (2006−2014)
- Bass
- Scott Krall − bass, backing vocals (1997−2005)
- Keyboards
- Chris McDougall − keyboards (1999−2001)
- Drums
- Jim Austin − drums, death vocals (1997−2004, 2006)
- Adam Sagan − drums (2004−2006)
- Steve Bolognese − drums (2006−2011)
Timeline[edit]
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
Date of release | Title | Label | Heatseekers peak | US sales |
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1999 | Into Eternity | DVS | - | |
2001 | Dead or Dreaming | - | ||
2004 | Buried in Oblivion | Century Media | - | |
2006 | The Scattering of Ashes | 45[17] | 1,800 | |
2008 | The Incurable Tragedy | 17 | 1,900[18] | |
2018 | The Sirens | M-Theory Audio |
Singles[edit]
Date of release | Title | Label |
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2011 | 'Sandstorm'[19] | Century Media |
2012 | 'Fukushima'[20] |
Music videos[edit]
- 'Spiraling into Depression' (2004)
- 'Severe Emotional Distress' (2006)
- 'Timeless Winter' (2007)
- 'Time Immemorial' (2008)
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Into Eternity official website'. Web.archive.org. February 6, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- ^'Into Eternity official website'. Web.archive.org. February 5, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- ^'Современная музыка - джаз, рок, поп, downtempo, dubstep, electronic , трип-хоп, drum and bass'. Pyromusic.Net. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^'Dream Theater Announce Philadelphia Live Date - in Metal News'. Metalunderground.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^'Into Eternity Announces New Drummer'. Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 2016-12-06.[permanent dead link]
- ^'BLABBERMOUTH.NET - ICED EARTH Announces New Singer'. Web.archive.org. March 18, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- ^''Into Eternity Continues Demoing New Material, Plays Album Fundraising Show''. Blabbermouth.net. 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
- ^'R.I.P. Rob Doherty 12/21/1970 – 5/4/2012'. intoeternity.ca. 6 May 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^'Drummer ADAM SAGAN Loses Battle With Cancer; WHITE EMPRESS, CIRCLE II CIRCLE And INTO ETERNITY Bandmates Pay Tribute - 'The World Has Lost A Good Soul''. Bravewords.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^'INTO ETERNITY Guitarist Justin Bender Calls It Quits, UNTIMELY DEMISE's Matt Cuthbertson Confirmed As Replacement'. Bravewords.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^'Into Eternity Signs With Kolony Records'. Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^'INTO ETERNITY To Release 'The Sirens' Album In October'. Blabbermouth.net. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ^ abSerba, John. 'Allmusic review of Buried in Oblivion'. AllMusic. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
- ^ abc'Into Eternity - 'The Scattering Of Ashes' CD Review - in Metal Reviews'. Metalunderground.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^Henderson, Alex. 'Allmusic review of The Incurable Tragedy'. AllMusic. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
- ^'Into Eternity official website'. Web.archive.org. November 5, 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- ^'Into Eternity - Chart history'. Billboard. 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^'INTO ETERNITY: 'The Incurable Tragedy' First-Week Sales Revealed'. Blabbermouth.net. 2008-09-10. Archived from the original on 2008-09-13. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ^Sandstorm Teaser. YouTube. 24 June 2011.
- ^Into Eternity - Fukushima Teaser #1. YouTube. 17 January 2012.
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Into_Eternity_(band)&oldid=948755000'
On a structural level, this is the single most important film in the franchise. You could call the fourth movie the pilot episode, setting the tone for the bigger-and-better movies that followed. Original stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return, joining with Tokyo Drift team Justin Lin and Chris Morgan. And the first scene of Fast & Furious is a great demonstration of Lin’s talents as an action filmmaker. But there’s no way of getting around it: Fast 4 is also a total bummer. Killing off Letty sends Dom on a mission of Death Wish vengeance, which should feel melancholy but just feels mopey.
(In Bond-movie terms, this is Quantum of Solace.) Also not helping matters: A running action motif where the main characters follow “directions,” which plays out like an inadvertent advertisement for Waze. Is awkward, but essential for everything that came next. Controversial opinion: is not bad.
Even more controversial opinion: 2 Fast 2 Furious is pretty okay. Most controversial opinion of all: The spirit of 2 Fast 2 Furious makes the later films even better. One-off director John Singleton doesn’t seem to have any interest in making an action movie; instead, he turns the second film into a parody of the first one. Every drag-racer is color-coded in neon clothes to match their neon cars, and Ludacris is the big-haired King of Miami, and Tyrese Gibson rips his shirt off so you can admire his glistening physique while he punches in a window, and never has there been a more hilarious unconvincing Argentine drug lord than Carter Verone. CARTER VERONE!
Vin Diesel wrote and directed this 20-minute prologue for the fourth film. What could’ve been a just-for-fans Easter egg is actually a charming, weirdly abstract short. The movie starts with Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tego Calderon talking about corporations holding back the electric car, right before he escapes prison to hang out in a bar with Dominic Toretto. Letty shows up, and Dom takes her to the beach.
It’s very film school-y - diegetic music, ambient conversation, long shots of young lovers driving - but it’s also a curiously sincere alternate-universe Fast movie. (Call it Slow & Mildly Bemused.) I dunno, don’t you wish Jeremy Renner could make a 20-minute short film about Hawkeye? The eighth is unquestionably the biggest Furious. With a reported $250 million budget that could pay for two Fast Fives, everything onscreen suggests oversized decadence run amok. There are returning long-timers like Tyrese Gibson and Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, and the always-delightful Kurt Russell now has Clint Eastwood's son as a handsome-goof sidekick, and one-time antagonist Jason Statham reappears with his own unexpected connections.
That's not to mention new baddie Charlize Theron, a full-fledged Bond Villain with a global plot that oddly/topically/inevitably involves the Russians.There are great showcases for individual players – especially Statham, whose turn toward heroism is both an affront to Fast history (what about Han?) and the source of this movie's most delightful action setpiece. And there's a neat idea in the basic idea of turning Dom against his beloved family – although Dom's unsurprisingly noble motivations alleviates the essential drama of that betrayal.
No one onscreen even seems to really consider that Dom has turned evil. And anyone hoping for a reprise of Fast Five's Diesel-Rock antagonism will have to stick to the gossip pages; the film's two biggest stars barely appear onscreen together.Director F.
Gary Gray has the broadest comedic instincts of any Fast filmmaker. That serves him well with some characters – Hobbs' superstrength officially approaches Hulk levels in Fate, and he gets mileage from the bantering Rock-Statham bromance – but it leaves Theron and Diesel stranded in a bummer arc that's less dramatic than depressing.
There was always going to be comedown after the true-life emotionality that powered Furious Seven – and Fate seems to be seed-planting toward the already-announced ninth and tenth films. Let’s be clear. Justin Lin’s Fast swan song features one of the single greatest moments in movie history: Letty flying off the tank to certain death, and Dominic Toretto crashing his car so he can fly into her. (Don’t worry; there’s a car to break their fall.) And the sixth Furious movie also has one of the best action scenes ever: The final race down the neverending runway. Any director who makes an action movie should study the plane scene: How it pays off every subplot, cutting between a massive cast and steadily building the thrills until the final crash.Good stuff? So it doesn’t really matter that Furious 6 is less a movie than a victory lap, a job-well-done chance for the Fast Five team to do the same again but moreso. It’s great to see Rodriguez back in the franchise, but the amnesia plotline keeps her locked away from the drama.
Likewise, it was a weird decision to banish Brian for an Act 2 Fast 4 epilogue. (In Harry Potter terms, this one’s Goblet of Fire: A mess of subplots alongside standout showcase scenes.)In conversation, Lin and Morgan have both described this movie as essentially the second half of the previous film, which actually does explain why the first half drags while the final climax rocks. (If you’re keeping track, that also means the fifth and sixth movies comprise a single movie titled Fast Five Furious 6.). In which Justin Lin and Chris Morgan turn a pile of spare parts into a 10-second car.
The over-delivering starts early in the third Fast film, when Sean Boswell (the oldest-looking high school student in movie history) races football jock Clay (the oldest brother from Home Improvement!) through a construction site. It’s a playful site gag that’s also a genuinely exciting car chase - an essential preview of the unique Arnold-Schwarzenegger-meets-Buster-Keaton mixture of muscle-car wild action and geometric precision that Lin brought to his films.Once the film moves to Japan, Tokyo Drift positively soaks in the atmosphere. Of all the Fast films, this is the one that feels closest in spirit to genuine car culture - and the best parts of the film are practically anthropological.
(Drifting really does look cool.) All that atmosphere helps cover some of the film’s problems - namely, the almost-complete lack of compelling personalities. I say “almost” because Tokyo Drift lucked out with Sung Kang. His world-weary Han would appear in all the future films until Furious Seven, but this is his showcase - his Bandoleros, if you will - and he gives the film a genuine heart.The final action scene hasn’t aged well - whoa, cameraphones! -but Tokyo Drift is Fast & Furious reduced to its bare essentials, lean and mean. (In X-Men terms, it’s The Wolverine.). The first movie should look so modest in comparison.
Everyone is young, normal-sized. There are only a few big action scenes, none of which involve tanks or planes or bank vaults. Later films put whole cities at risk; the scariest part of Fast 1 is the possibility that Brian O’Conner might ruin his friendship with Dominic Toretto.But Fast 1 runs on huge emotions and sky-high ambitions. Walker plays the role of nice-guy outsider protagonist, which means everyone else gets to have fun.
Vin Diesel becomes Vin Diesel, playing ex-con Toretto as a broody car-Christ. The first big racing scene is mythmaking at its finest, complete with a Ja Rule cameo and Diesel's 'You never had me!' Rick Yune's Johnny Tran is the second-best Fast villain - and if you retroactively think the Rock's a good guy in Fast Five, he's the best, full stop.Director Rob Cohen doesn't have Lin's verve for action scenes, and Fast 1 is a clear victim of age-so-poorly bad CGI. But Cohen was smart enough to let dynamic young performers like Diesel and Rodriguez pretty much play the version of themselves they'd be playing forever.
So although the later movies are wilder and crazier and bigger, they're also all chasing the franchise's Big Moment: Vin Diesel, in the shadows of a garage, explaining that he lives his life quarter-mile, tcetera. If The Fast and the Furious is the band's debut album, then Furious Seven is the double-sided concept-album mixtape with guest stars and interludes and sometimes Taiko drums just for the hell of it. ( Fast 1 is to Furious Seven as Meet the Beatles is to The White Album.) From the very first scene - an extended introduction to new villain Jason Statham, walking through the ruins of a hospital he practically destroyed - the newest film announces itself as a complete hyperbolization of everything that has come before.Everything that can be done gets done twice.
Statham has a hand-to-hand fight with The Rock and a hand-to-hand fight with Diesel. Cars fly out of a plane, and fly off a cliff, and through a building, and through another building. In the wrong hands, this could get enervating - too much too muchness, like the Transformers films. But James Wan brings a light touch, scattering little moments inside the big scenes. Like the moment when two cars fly off a cliff, and while they fall through the air, birds chirp in the background.There's a proud incoherence to Furious Seven.
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None of these movies' plots make sense, but Seven clearly bears the marks of the midstream loss of Paul Walker. To counterbalance his death, the film shuffles through A-plot goals and B-plot arcs in an explicit attempt to keep things moving; Kurt Russell turns an extended cameo into a scene-stealing showcase, popping up every 20 minutes or so. (Nominal villain Djimon Hounsou is shot like Darth Vader, but most of his role is screaming from the front seat of a helicopter.)This is the franchise’s take-it-to-11 moment - complete with a telenovela-worthy Dom and Letty arc - but it's also the first film that seems aware that these films can't really go over-the-top.
(In Evil Dead terms, this is Evil Dead 2.) And for all the awkwardness, the film is also a sincere tribute to its fallen lead actor - with a four-hank coda unimaginable in any other action-movie context. The killer app. The film that retroactively argued that four essentially unrelated movies were all worldbuilding towards a final act. Fast Five is one of the best pure entertainments of the decade, with at least three hall-of-fame action scenes: The train heist, the Rock-Diesel showdown, and the final bank-vault robbery. Hell, there are great action scenes within those action scenes: The train heist leads into the cliff dive, while the final scene double-climaxes with Dom transforming the bank vault into an anti-police-car cudgel.As Luke Hobbs, Johnson is the kind of genuine-equal antagonist most films never bother with. (Which makes it even more goofy-profound when he agrees to partner up with Dom at the end.) And where the next couple of Fast movies keep sending the cast to further-flung locations, Five benefits from a single strong setting: Rio de Janeiro, imagined herein as a metropolis of sweaty favelas and malevolent dictator-druglords. In his finest outing, Lin brings a mix of beefcake camp and street-level grittiness to the proceedings: When the Rock chases Diesel across the rooftops, it’s like watching Bourne Ultimatum remade by Vince McMahon.But there's a core generosity of spirit to Fast Five, which speaks to the weird wonder of the franchise as a whole.
Star-producer Diesel has never looked bigger or more messianic - 'THIS IS BRAZIL!' - but Fast Five is democratic enough to find room for the stars of non-Diesel outings 2 Fast and Tokyo Drift. Although it's easy to forget now, Fast Five was partially conceived as a potential conclusion to the franchise - who knew it'd run forever? And so the final sequence of the movie is one of the most ebullient conclusions of the franchise era: Don Omar's 'Danza Kuduro' rides the characters off into eternity.
They finished their last job; now they can rest. Until the next last job.
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