{"id":81381,"date":"2020-06-18T14:01:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=81381"},"modified":"2020-06-18T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:01:52","slug":"revocation-guitarist-quits-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=81381","title":{"rendered":"REVOCATION – Guitarist Quits Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After a decade in the band, guitarist Dan Gargiulo has departed REVOCATION<\/strong> to “focus on other aspects of my life and other musical endeavors.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargiulo issued the following statement via Instagram:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have been reluctant to post anything about myself in the midst of what’s going on in the world, but I feel the need to so that my bandmates can move forward. I’ve decided to leave Revocation to focus on other aspects of my life and other musical endeavors. I know they’ll continue to succeed and I’m excited to see who steps up to replace me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pushing both the death metal and progressive elements of their signature sound harder than ever, The Outer Ones<\/em><\/strong> represents Revocation<\/strong> at their boldest, most aggressive and most complex. “I knew that I wanted to go in a darker direction, and this is our most death metal album to date,<\/em>” states vocalist\/guitarist Dave Davidson. “Sometimes when death metal bands go down the prog route they lose some of that edge, but we wanted to keep the aggression at the forefront of what we do while still pushing our boundaries.<\/em>” Moving away from the societal and historical themes that informed 2016’s Great is Our Sin<\/em><\/strong>, this time Davidson has immersed himself in the fantastic, evoking one of the great writers of the sci-fi\/horror genre. “The title is my ode to H.P. Lovecraft and the entities of pure cosmic horror that rule that universe he created. Since the new music we were writing was so evil and spacey in sections it seemed to be the right title to fit the overall vibe. But while the lyrical content is largely influenced by such writings, in every allegory there is of course some reflection of the real world, so I enjoy writing in a way that could have one overlaying meaning and then another deeper, symbolic meaning as well.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the four members of Revocation<\/strong> – Davidson, guitarist Dan Gargiulio, bassist Brett Bamberger, and drummer Ash Pearson – are spread around North America without the convenience of being able to jam, this does not impinge on the creative process. If anything, this ensures that they make the most of the time spent together, and they maintained an even greater level of quality control than on The Outer Ones<\/em><\/strong> predecessors. “The songs came together pretty naturally, however, this album has the most revisions to riffs and song structures that we’ve ever had. I had a lot of material written, and had a good amount of time to work on it between tours, so I used that time to really dissect every part of each song. I might be feeling one riff one day and then the next day have some sort of revelation and would go in a totally different direction. All of those revisions definitely benefitted the final product.<\/em>” True to Davidson’s promise that it is their most death metal release, its abrasiveness is evident on first exposure to both devout followers and those new to Revocation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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