Symphony X, Rhapsody of Fire, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Rush, Ayreon (Arjen in general), Turisas, Nobuo Uematsu, Within Temptation, Danny Elfman, Dream Theater, etc.
Clockwork Illusion began in 2007 when Chen Xi (guitars) and Matt Di Giordano (guitars/synth/vocals) and began their vision of epic progressive powermetal influenced by bands such as Symphony X, Dream Theater, and Within Temptation. Mary Shurtz became their first singer and they did their first show: Rockstock in Provo.
Soon after, the band acquired Jeremy Carter on drums, who brought in his cousin Kyler Stoneman on bass, while Mary left the band. Following Mary's departure, Jin Di Giordano came in on violin and Lennika Johnson, who was majoring in opera performance, also stepped in, completing the lineup. After several months of shows in Utah county, Jeremy and Lennika both moved out of the area and it was time to re-group once again.
Kyler brought in Tyson Nordgren to take over the drums, and after several shows the band acquired Jordan Jennings on keyboards. Corey Ostler was recruited on vocals in the summer of 2009, and Clockwork Illusion is now getting ready to gig as they finish the mixing on their first album: Dreams and Simulacra.
Thematic Influences:
Most songs are based on literary works, such as The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan ("Weaves of Time"), The Lord of the Rings ("Pool of Prophesy"), and HP Lovecraft stories ("Dreamquest," "Angles of Evil"). "Agony," on the other hand, is based on the video game Final Fantasy VII.
Hey! haha its going good. how about you? and i dont just enjoy your tunes, i think there hella sick haha. yea and um... no your brother and i dont jam, the last time i jammed was a couple months ago when i was in a band. i live in colusa, a tiny town thats like an hour and a half away from lincoln. i met your brother at shady creek when we were both counselors. your brothers hella cool.
Hey, there! Thought you might like to know The Invasion is playing 2 great shows this weekend: Friday : Knitting Factory : Benefit for Pulse Radio Sunday : Visual Arts Collective : Built to Spill Tribute & Jensen Family Benefit Hope you can make it!
Hey Matt. I just checked out "A Vampire's View", that Battlelore song(I don't remember the title), and "Dreams and Pyres". I thought the first song was way amazing. The vocals were maximum gnarly, and it did sound very vampiresque. Especially the part where there's some interesting piano stuff going on near the end of the song. Anyways, it's great. I didn't care to much for the Battlelore song to be honest. I thought it sounded fairly average, but on youtube the sound quality of that song didn't sound very good I thought. Maybe it'd be better on the CD. The Falconer song was way good too. It doesn't seem like something I would imagine them doing, but it was still way awesome. Anyways, that's what I thought about the songs. Tomalo facil...?haha
Hey Matt. How's it going? I hope you're well. I'm happy to hear that you dug the new song. I'm pretty happy with it myself. It's true, the ending of it was pretty epic. haha. I'll be here up through the very end of August, assuming I can get my loans out, which I should do tomorrow. I'll give you a call tomorrow and see what's up. Take it sleasy.
Ah yes yes I see. It'll be good to see you guys too. We are moving to Boston in July. We leave on tour July 24 if you guys want to come. It will be more of an acoustic experience rather than full blown electric shit but still. If your interested awesome, if not that's totally cool too. Its a piss load of money for hotels food merch... etc.
For sure for sure. We actually thought we were playing Thursday with you guys. Our good friend Jake Haws from Muse in Provo wanted us to play on the 23 with Grand Cross and I'm pretty sure he said your group as well. Either way, it's always good to make friends. If we jam Thursday that would be super cool, if not, also cool. We should definately book a show together another time. Good luck writing and rehearsing.
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