Featuring THREAT SIGNAL’s Travis Montgomery, NOCICPETOR delivers the goods with pummeling, unrelenting groove metal. Mandatory for all djentlemen.
On Among Insects, Montgomery, along with partners in crime JD Schmidt (vocals), Scott Allen (bass) and Michael Eskandari (drums), heave massive amounts of groove-laden and diverse progressive metal and anyone fortunate to be within earshot. Recommended for fans of MESHUGGAH, NEVERMORE, and TESSERACT, Dallas, TX-based NOCICEPTOR is a band simultaneously recalls the skills of their masters, while pushing them aside in an effort to expand the boundaries of the genre.
Recently signed to Pivotal Rockordings, NOCICEPTOR will officially release its debut EP, Among Insects, via all major digital retailers in June 2011. The EP was recorded by guitarist/founder Travis Montgomery (THREAT SIGNAL) himself at his home studio in Dallas and was produced by Chris Purvis.
Intro
The Fell
Emergence
Botfly
Mollusk
Pornoholocaust
Cuntagion
Angus McGillicuddy
ATTN PRESS:
Digital promo copies of Among Insects are available for review, interview and airplay purposes. Please note that this is a digital-only release and physical promos/retail copies will not be made available. The band is eagerly awaiting your interview requests. Please get in touch at ClawhammerPR@gmail.com for any and all press inquiries.
ABOUT NOCICEPTOR
no·ci·cep·tor: Pronunciation: \-ˈsep-tər\ Function: noun
: a receptor for injurious or painful stimuli : a pain sense organ.
The rather dark expression of pain through music is not an uncommon thing.
Nor is it an expression limited only to darker, heavier, or more “metal” bands.
What makes Nociceptor a unique outlet for this is the potent combination of intelligence and artistic expression. Knowledge is power….and knowledge, focus, and concentration of energy is what makes Nociceptor powerful.
To simply fill you in on our history over the six years we’ve been in existence, such as bands we have shared the stage with, and bands we are influenced by, would be the contrived run-of-the-mill approach to describe it all.
2008’s The Sum of all Scars LP, and a new EP, titled Among Insects, needs neither complex definition through written description, nor do they need to be fully completed pieces in order to demonstrate their potency. They need only to fall on open ears to become a menacing outlet for the dark, painful expression of their very precise and surgical approach to music.
The music of this band has been toiled over…through many long hours…not necessarily with the wild, blunt abandon of a bull in a china shop…but with planning and premeditation, which isn’t always associated with metal bands. Wild abandon is far from a dismissed subject within the realms of Nociceptor, but rather than let loose with no real sense of control, its brutality is channeled. It is concentrated. It is precise, and therefore given the very sharpest point it can obtain.
Nociceptor is grace through the absurd conglomeration of ferocity and delicate patience. It is the polarized contrast between chaotic brutality and beautiful order, and the violating, disturbing rupture of pulsing groove and force.
Ultimately, how Nociceptor’s music is defined is up to you. We simply praise you on your own taste, and patience, to let it infest, and grow as it will within your own dark confines, and therefore become something unique inside each host that takes it in.
We hope you get as much out of it as we did.
Either way, it was cool of you to open your door and face it.
Nociceptor is:
Scott Allen: Bass
Travis Montgomery: Guitar
Michael Eskandari: Drums
J.D. Schmidt: Vocals
