Taking a group of multifarious musical influences and making them into something cohesive is not something that every band can do. It takes a truly unique group of songwriters to pull off experimentation and diversity in one album without losing site of what the band should be, and without losing its audience along the way. While most bands attempt to progress from album to album, Orchid’s Curse demand progression. Listening to their debut EP Goodbye is When The Casket Closes (2006 – Diminished Fifth Records) through Voices: The Tales of Broken Men (2010 – Diminished Fifth Records) to now, the growth is obvious, palpable and powerful. A beautiful amalgamation of brutal metal, progressive melody and intelligent thought provoking lyrics, Orchid’s Curse refuse stagnation and orders the full attention of your auditory cortex.
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Since forming in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 2005, Orchid’s Curse have positioned themselves at the forefront of the highly under rated East Coast metal scene in Canada. Ensuring that every show left the band drained of all they had and every album was created with the absolute best they could find. For Words, the third release from Orchid’s Curse, the band took themselves to Coda Pop Studios, wisely choosing the production team: engineer Erien Eady-Ward and producer Jason Vautaur (Pith) who took the project on initially with mixing by Shaun Thingvold (Darkest Hour, Strapping Young Lad, Etc.) and mastering by the much sought out Jamie King (BTBAM, Glass Casket, Etc.).
Orchid’s Curse has accumulated accolades from around the globe and Voices spent two months in the Top 10 loud rock radio charts on Earshot in 2010. With Words, Orchids Curse continue with a more diverse song writing style, bringing in elements of doom, hardcore, and of course progressive and death metal, but also a little bit of traditional metal and dirty rock and roll. In 2013, Orchid’s Curse release Words, an authoritative statement of metal which will move the band from the position of ‘One of The Leaders of East Coast Metal’, to ‘The Forefront of Canadian Metal’.
Since 2005 Orchid’s Curse has shared the stage with an incredibly diverse line up of heavy bands including, The Black Dahlia Murder, Children of Bodom, Exhumed, Cancer Bats, 3 Inches of Blood, Fuck the Facts, Misery Index, Baptized in Blood, Martyr, Beneath the Massacre, Vilipend, Ion Dissonance, Neuraxis, L’Espirit du Clan, Unexpect, Trigger Effect, Ninjaspy, Unbreakable Hatred, Misguided Aggression, Greber, and many, many more. Beer, Beards and Heavy Metal. Indeed.