With their savage grind-metal assaults, DECEMBER offer controlled glimpses into a whirlwind of bitter intensity. An astonishing musical sense underlies DECEMBER's aggression; painstakingly crafted song structures, startling rhythmic precision, and a devious manipulation of melody prevail throughout their vitriolic onslaughts. With unbounded rage and musicality, DECEMBER stand in league with such contemporaries as Dillinger Escape Plan, Burnt By The Sun, and Lamb of God.
Frontman Mark Moots extraterrestrial vocal range runs from demonic rasp to guttural bark; he switches up voices with lightning speed, like so many weapons in his arsenal... Drummer Jason Thomas melds ferocious blasts and sinister polyrhythmic grooves... Bassist Zac Hatjakes dominates the bottom end, his rolling basslines plowing along with the determination of a bullet train... Guitarist Julian Peach lays down the twisted riffs that lie at DECEMBER's cancerous heart.
Nevada's metal scene was stagnant when four friends joined forces as DECEMBER in late 1994, but it is thriving today thanks mainly to this band's unrelenting toil. Years of headlining clubs and basements, as well as opening for heavyweights like Neurosis, Dillinger Escape Plan, Drowningman, V.O.D., and Today is the Day, have honed DECEMBER's sound to razor sharpness.
After two independently released CDs, 1996's 'Rise of the Fall'on Clutchmove Records and 1998's 'Praying, Hoping, Nothing' on Negative Attention Records, DECEMBER signed on with rock-n-roll porn king Matt Zane's fledgling Inzane Records in October 1998. Zane released a remastered version of 'Praying, Hoping, Nothing' with additional tracks and artwork by the prolific Travis Smith (the artist behind such bands as Opeth, Death, and Nevermore) in 2000. Also in 2000, Ian Glasper's Blackfish Records released a split CD with English metal-core band Unite for the European market. Both discs received rave reviews in such publications as Terrorizer, Metal Maniacs, Kerrang, and Unrestrained.
In January 2001, after touring the West Coast with such luminaries as Crowbar, SOD, Skinlab, and Hateplow, DECEMBER recorded a demo of four new songs. It was this demo that caught the attention of Earache Records.
Says Earache US top dog Al Dawson, DECEMBER represents the beginning of Earache's new era. We are building a new family of the best American bands over here, and we are proud to welcome DECEMBER into it.
Since signing with Earache, DECEMBER have completed two coast-to-coast tours of the US and Canada, with such bands as Kreator, Destruction,
Cephalic Carnage, and Pissing Razors. In February 2002, Earache released DECEMBER's Earache debut, 'The Lament Configuration'. Produced
by Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad), 'The Lament Configuration' was described by England's Kerrang! Magazine as The first great extreme metal record of 2002. A sequence of mind-blowing aggro-tech assaults, 'The Lament Configuration' showcases DECEMBER's unbounded rage and astonishing musicality like never before. As Adrian Bromley wrote in Unrestrained! Magazine, „This record just crushes the competition.
In February 2003, DECEMBER embark on a UK tour with The Haunted and Stampin' Ground, followed by a full European tour with labelmates The Berzerker and Corporation 187.
Across 10 songs of staggering complexity and brute physical power, this four-piece proceed to purify and refine a whole history of heaviosity from the post-hardcore death/thrash consensus right through to the cubist avant-rock horror of yer Drive-Ins and Fugazis, all shot at your face with a songwriting ferocity that seems to come from all angles Metal Hammer
An eye-gouging, gut-punching noise-rock/ post-hardcore unit. Alternative Press
With music ranging from blistering to gloomy, Reno-bred December coversall the bases from the sinister and ferocious to the subtly intense butvery twisted... Hit Parader
A break-neck plunge into depraved musical turmoil... Terrorizer
With extremely unique drumming styles and a passion for start/stop technicality, DECEMBER brings new rules to the genre of hardcore. Heckler
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Wow, is this an official profile by the band? I thought you'd split up. If not, we're in dire need of a new album. The Lament Configuration was incredible.
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