IN-QUEST
“Our festival showed: heavy, trash, black, folk, gothic, death and IN-QUEST!” (quote from an underground magazine)
This quote proves that IN-QUEST is a band hard to describe and categorize. Being active more than ten years in the underground scene, the band gradually chose to leave it’s cult Grind/Death status behind, taking a new path and evolving to a whole new level of musical maturity, lyric wise and imagery wise.
The one constant IN-QUEST have maintained during this musical challenge is the completely diverse sound that refuses to accept standard categorization. People have described it as an enlightened form of Death Metal, over Progressive Metal up to Nu Metal. All put together, IN-QUEST manages to create a pounding vibe of modern fresh melodic energy while maintaining a high level of intense technical creativity not easily found elsewhere.
The evidence of this can be heard on their fourth full length album 'The Comatose Quandaries', without doubt their most mature and aggressive release to date. Being a true statement of renewed extreme music, this release shows experienced musicianship and the unique craft of blending music styles, combing furious blast beats, mechanical rhythms and catchy grooves. 11 New tracks prove that IN-QUEST have fine-tuned their unique sound once more, resulting in chunky, pounding compositions spiced with aggressive breakdowns and their typical hypnotic, melodic touch.
The album also shows the band's new singer Mike Löfberg, whose diverse and powerful vocals blend in seamlessly with IN-QUEST's music, making it sound like a unit more than ever. Due to this and other new influences, IN-QUEST managed to somewhat break away from their traditional 'death' roots, crossing over to more mainstream genres in the vein of Fear Factory, Hatebreed and Pantera.
After a successful mini-tour with Fear Factory, and a lot of headlining shows in 2004, the band's renowned stage presence and tightness opened the borders for even more foreign shows. Soon, IN-QUEST agreed headlining two band packages, pushing the band’s career in it’s neighbour countries. Meanwhile, in their home country, IN-QUEST played the Graspop Metal Meeting, Belgium's biggest metal festival. But more was to come.
With 'Epileptic' and 'The Comatose Quandaries' behind their teeth, IN-QUEST was ready to tour extensively. This happened in september/october 2005, when the band supported American metal legends Nile on their European tour. Day after day, critics were amazed...
Back home, IN-QUEST got selected by national radio station Studio Brussels, for doing an exclusive show in front of an insanely enthusiastic crowd, broadcasted directly on air. On top, their previous release 'Epileptic' got its re-release, making IN-QUEST one of Belgium’s best selling metal bands ever.
After being nominated best album of the year by radio station Studio Brussels and reaching an annual top level sales score in BeNeLux’s most reknown metal shops Metal Zone, the band spawned their first ever official promovideo "Systematic Arhythmetic Hate“. Tons of American website hits followed, reaching a total average of 500 visitors per day.
Spring 2006, the band went on the road again for a small minitour with Fear Factory. Meanwhile, many headlining shows followed, climaxing in their Marquee performance at Graspop Metal Meeting 2006. Recently, the band has agreed on new packages but at the same time the band has started work and business preparations for their upcoming album.
GET COMATIZED NOW!
For fans of Chimaira, In Flames, Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Nile & Morbid Angel.
This quote proves that IN-QUEST is a band hard to describe and categorize. Being active more than ten years in the underground scene, the band gradually chose to leave it’s cult Grind/Death status behind, taking a new path and evolving to a whole new level of musical maturity, lyric wise and imagery wise.
The one constant IN-QUEST have maintained during this musical challenge is the completely diverse sound that refuses to accept standard categorization. People have described it as an enlightened form of Death Metal, over Progressive Metal up to Nu Metal. All put together, IN-QUEST manages to create a pounding vibe of modern fresh melodic energy while maintaining a high level of intense technical creativity not easily found elsewhere.
The evidence of this can be heard on their fourth full length album 'The Comatose Quandaries', without doubt their most mature and aggressive release to date. Being a true statement of renewed extreme music, this release shows experienced musicianship and the unique craft of blending music styles, combing furious blast beats, mechanical rhythms and catchy grooves. 11 New tracks prove that IN-QUEST have fine-tuned their unique sound once more, resulting in chunky, pounding compositions spiced with aggressive breakdowns and their typical hypnotic, melodic touch.
The album also shows the band's new singer Mike Löfberg, whose diverse and powerful vocals blend in seamlessly with IN-QUEST's music, making it sound like a unit more than ever. Due to this and other new influences, IN-QUEST managed to somewhat break away from their traditional 'death' roots, crossing over to more mainstream genres in the vein of Fear Factory, Hatebreed and Pantera.
After a successful mini-tour with Fear Factory, and a lot of headlining shows in 2004, the band's renowned stage presence and tightness opened the borders for even more foreign shows. Soon, IN-QUEST agreed headlining two band packages, pushing the band’s career in it’s neighbour countries. Meanwhile, in their home country, IN-QUEST played the Graspop Metal Meeting, Belgium's biggest metal festival. But more was to come.
With 'Epileptic' and 'The Comatose Quandaries' behind their teeth, IN-QUEST was ready to tour extensively. This happened in september/october 2005, when the band supported American metal legends Nile on their European tour. Day after day, critics were amazed...
Back home, IN-QUEST got selected by national radio station Studio Brussels, for doing an exclusive show in front of an insanely enthusiastic crowd, broadcasted directly on air. On top, their previous release 'Epileptic' got its re-release, making IN-QUEST one of Belgium’s best selling metal bands ever.
After being nominated best album of the year by radio station Studio Brussels and reaching an annual top level sales score in BeNeLux’s most reknown metal shops Metal Zone, the band spawned their first ever official promovideo "Systematic Arhythmetic Hate“. Tons of American website hits followed, reaching a total average of 500 visitors per day.
Spring 2006, the band went on the road again for a small minitour with Fear Factory. Meanwhile, many headlining shows followed, climaxing in their Marquee performance at Graspop Metal Meeting 2006. Recently, the band has agreed on new packages but at the same time the band has started work and business preparations for their upcoming album.
GET COMATIZED NOW!
For fans of Chimaira, In Flames, Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Nile & Morbid Angel.
2007 FYU 5 (compilation cd)