Local/Live: March 17 – Ara POSTED:: March 11, 2015
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In-Studio Performances, Interviews, Local/Live
FILED UNDER:: In-Studio Performances, Interviews, Local/Live
Ara is a four-piece progressive/technical death metal band, featuring members of the bands Northless and Concentric. Ara began in early 2012 as a culmination of the desires of one Jerry Hauppa and Erik Stenglein to play in a death metal project that borrowed from their influences, without being mere carbon copies.
Both Jerry and Erik have/had played in multiple Milwaukee area bands throughout the last twelve years, enjoying performing and creating various styles of music, but they had never realized their goal of creating stark, dissonant, yet strangely melodic brutality until deciding to try and play some death metal riffs together one day in their practice space. This jam led to full songs and of course, the inception of Ara. Soon after, Jerry recruited longtime musical collaborator James Becker (Concentric, ex-Forever Is Forgotten) and Adam Bujny (ex-Gaspar Minga) on bass and vocals, respectively, and they filled out the sound in a way that led to the formation of material found on The Blessed Sleep EP, and the newest offering, Devourer of Worlds.
Recently, the band has added long-time friend and respected local musician Jon Liedtke (Cannabinol Synapse, ex-Shroud of Despondency) to their lineup, completing the circle of death metal brutality that the band has longed for. Ara are now poised to spread their lecherous sound to the unwitting masses!
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