Deep within the winding woods and hills of INDEPENDENCE, Kentucky, is Recurrence. Formed in 2008 with the goal of writing catchy melodic death metal and making every live show memorable.
While the band pulls influence from melodic death metal bands such as Dark Tranquillity, Soilwork, The Duskfall, and Amon Amarth, they also incorporate other hardcore and metalcore influences such as Bury Your Dead, Bleeding Through, and God Forbid. Their sound combines a little bit of that ‘something for everyone’ feeling, and includes beautiful melodic guitar riffs, the heaviest of heavy breakdowns, chilling piano and choirs, ‘disco’ synths and folk instruments, and to top it off, a range of vicious vocals from death metal gutturals, hardcore shouting, and even cleanly sung male and female vocals. All of this in turn results in some of the heaviest, happiest, evilest, most melodic metal out there right now.
Recurrence hit the stage in 2011, by hosting their own local metal festival called “MadFest” (named from the legendary Covington venue The Mad Hatter), and has played over 30 shows and counting in major neighboring cities including Cleveland, Columbus, and Louisville and opening for headliners and personal inspirations such as Evergrey, Korpiklaani, Sabaton, Nightrage, Spineshank, Týr, and The Bunny The Bear.
After accomplishing a self-funded demo and EP in their earlier years, Recurrence is now setting out to venture into the forefront of melodic death metal, but this time, with a sight set much further than the Midwestern United States. With their debut album "The Exit" mixed and mastered by JF Dagenais (Kataklysm) in JFD Studio in Dallas, Texas and artwork designed by Niklas Sundin (ex-Dark Tranquillity), the rest of the world will be able to hear crowd favorites such as “The 900”, “Sleep”, and “Equilibrium” that always had the audience jumping and moshing along with them.
“Every song, even every riff, should tell a story,” explains The Antidote, “but most importantly, people should want to listen to it again and again and really connect with the music”. Stay tuned as Recurrence prepares to leave a mark in history as THE unstoppable force of melodic death metal!
