Formed in 2014 just to rub shoulders with the Ottawa / Montreal scenes, Beyond Deviation quickly got noticed by Arrogance Management. Thanks to this important artistic management agency for the deathcore scene, the band’s notoriety begins to establish itself and shine beyond the local scene.
A first mini-album, White Noise, published in the fall of 2015; then a second in 2017, The Plague King, with two different singers: Guillaume Villeneuve, then Matthew Krawchuk (an ex of Suffokate), the original singer having left the group due to “creative differences”.
A more ambitious record, Dark Passenger, “Concept album dealing with dissociation and anxiety”, was born after a third singer, Fred Nylist, joined the band.
The break is marked: Beyond Deviation is moving away from its original style, note the fans of the first hour, but the album allows to coax a new wave of aficionados, indicates the biography of the formation.
The mini-album follows Bridge To Extinction, released at the end of 2020 – in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – and designed in collaboration with another local group, Martyrs.
Guillaume Villeneuve has since reconciled with his elders chums, and rejoined the group at the end of 2020, to make Beyond Deviation a group now composed of two singers, alongside Fred Nylist.
It is also Villeneuve who, with his voice “endowed with great power and aggressiveness”, begins the vocal “hostilities” on the new extract.
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