Arsis
Arsis is an American technical melodic death metal band from Virginia Beach, Virginia, formed in 2000. The band is currently signed to Nuclear Blast.
Biography
Demos and Willowtip era (2000-2006)
Arsis was started by James Malone and Mike Van Dyne in 2000, who met while attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston. They recorded two demos independently in 2001 and 2002 (which were later officially released via Negative-Existence Records), signed to Willowtip Records in 2003, and performed their first live shows with Kalibas, Beaten Back to Pure, Pyrexia, Daath, Ion Dissonance, Six Feet Under, Full Blown Chaos, The Red Chord, and Dying Fetus. Arsis released two full-length albums and an EP from 2004 to 2006. During this time, Arsis performed on their first national tours with Misery Index, Incantation, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Alarum, Dead to Fall, Misery Signals, The Faceless, All Shall Perish, Napalm Death, and A Life Once Lost, as well as performed on the main stage at the 2006 New England Metal and Hardcore Fest and the First Annual California Metalfest.
Podcasts:
Arsis
ALBUMS
- Unwelcome released: 2013
- Starve for the Devil released: 2010
- We Are the Nightmare released: 2008
- As Regret Becomes Guilt released: 2007
- United in Regret released: 2006
- A Celebration of Guilt released: 2005
Unwelcome
Released 2013- Unwelcome
- Carve My Cross
- Handbook for the Recently Deceased
- Choking on Sand
- Let Me Be the One
- Sunglasses at Night
- Martyred or Mourning
- No One Lies to the Dead
- I Share in Shame
- Scornstar
- The Face of My Innocence
- Haunted, Fragile and Frozen
- Six Coffins Wide
- Veil of Mourning Black
- A Tearful Haunt, Condemned
- Carve My Cross
- Denied
As Regret Becomes Guilt
Released 2007- Elegant and Perverse (2002 demo)
- Wholly Night (2002 demo)
- Worship Depraved (2002 demo)
- Seven Whispers Fell Silent (2002 demo)
- Veil of Mourning Black (2002 demo)
- Fortune's Envy (2001 demo)
- Close (2001 demo)
- Painted Eyes (2001 demo)
- Elegant and Perverse (2002 alternate take)
- Seven Whispers Fell Silent (2002 alternate take)
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by Arsis
Worship Depraved
by: ArsisStained by the wine
A celebration guilt in ordinary time
Profaneness enshrine, the abode of the blessed
Abode of the blessed
And we shall be the bearers
Of the untainted darkness
That descends for all time
Let Mary sleep forever
Sordid dreams, she must be bound
Once faithful followers scream
"Set Barabbas free!"
The chilling chants of the carcass choir
Rosaries inverted and strung upon the razor wire
Scream out, and proudly wear the mark
We, the bearers of the untainted dark
So stain the cloth forever
Sordid dreams of lust be bound
Commence the ceremony