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Rings of Saturn

Rings of Saturn is a progressive, technical deathcore outfit who call Texas home. Emerging in 2009, the band's 2010 debut long-player, Embryonic Anomaly, introduced audiences to their labyrinthine meld of thrash and technical death metal with lyrics about alien life forms. Dubbing their style "Aliencore," their music is fast, loud, and aggressive, while the clean, digital sheen of their production allows listeners to observe the details in their video game-influenced tunes. After Embryonic Anomaly and 2013's Dingir, the band amassed an impressive cult following. They explored more complex themes on the 2017 concept album Ultu Ulla, and dispensed with lyrics altogether on 2022's all-instrumental Rings of Saturn. Rings of Saturn was founded by Lucas Mann, who plays guitars, bass, and keyboards and has been the sole constant member throughout the group's history. Mann was still attending high school in Northern California's Bay Area when he started looking for fellow musicians online and found vocalist Peter Pawlak and drummer Brent Silletto, and they soon began playing local shows. The band made their recorded debut with the digital single "Abducted," followed soon after by "Invasion" and "Seized and Devoured." They followed it with the self-released full-length Embryonic Anomaly in 2009, the same year Mann graduated from high school. The set was recorded with engineer Bob Swanson at Mayhemeness in Sacramento, and attracted the attention of the Unique Leader label, which signed them and reissued Embryonic Anomaly in 2010. As the band set out to tour in support of the album, they added guitarist Joel Omans to the lineup, who would have one of the longest tenures in the group besides Mann. By the end of 2011, both Pawlak and Silletto had left the band. Both the bass and drums would become revolving-door positions in the group, with Mann often handling bass and percussion programming himself on studio projects and touring musicians hired to hold down those tasks on-stage. Ian Bearer came aboard in early 2012, just in time to record the band's sophomore effort Dingir, which was also engineered and produced by Swanson. Originally scheduled for release in December of 2012, the leak of an unmixed version prompted Bearer to upload the finished track on his YouTube channel, and Unique Leader to advance stream it on Total Deathcore. The set was issued in physical form in February of 2013. Despite the leak, the album reached the industry charts and earned international attention for the band on its subsequent tour. Lugal Ki En, Rings of Saturn's third album, was announced in July of 2014. Produced by Brette Ciamarra, it was released in October on Unique Leader and preceded by the issue of the video single "Senseless Massacre." The album appeared in October and entered at number three on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, hit the Top Five on various metal charts, and won a spot on the Top 200 list. The band toured relentlessly over the next year-and-a-half. In July 2016, Rings of Saturn announced that they had finished writing a new album and would be entering the studio. In early June of 2017, they released Ultu Ulla and a video for the single "Inadequate." Mann explained the concept: "The album name Ultu Ulla means 'Time Immemorial' in Sumerian Cuneiform. Ultu Ulla is about aliens transcending space and time and uncovering an ancient incomprehensible entity that threatens the fabric of universal existence." The cover artwork by Mark Cooper was made up of a triptych painting that continues the story from Lugal Ki En. He commented that "the general idea was to create a scene where gods from beyond time and space are invading 3-D reality and taking over. They are chaotic beings that can take any form at will and manifest anything with their imaginations." Ultu Ulla was released by Nuclear Blast in July and became the group's highest-charting release to date. 2019's virtuosic Gidim continued to explore the group's myriad sci-fi mythologies, and featured guest spots from Enterprise Earth vocalist Dan Watson, Berried Alive 's Charles Caswell, drummer Marco Pitruzzella, and Japanese shredder Yo Onityan. Mixed and mastered by Mark Lewis, the set hit number 22 on the Top Current Albums Chart. Gidim would prove to be Rings of Saturn's last album for Nuclear Blast, and after parting ways with the label, they opted to remain an independent act, issuing their own material. Around the same time, vocalist Ian Bearer left the lineup and Mann took the opportunity to reshape Rings of Saturn as an all-instrumental act, eliminating the need for a lead singer. In 2021, the band self-issued a re-recorded version of their debut LP, Embryonic Anomaly Remake, which featured mixing and mastering by Sammy Morales and a returning Pitruzzella on drums. Morales stayed onboard for 2022's Rings of Saturn, their first all-instrumental effort that added elements of world music, choral vocals, piano, and strings on their technical death metal and electronic attack. Pianist, orchestral producer, and composer Virginia Leo and producer and composer Jake Bratrude guested on the album, alongside the core duo of Mann and Omans. After its release, Rings of Saturn set out on their Cyber Shred Tour 2022, performing material from the self-titled set as well as material from their back catalog, reworked into instrumental arrangements.
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