Horatius D
A progressive rock band dabbling in the electronics of industrial and with an affinity for concept albums. Currently vocal-less.
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The Descent The Descent
The opening track to our concept album about Dante's Inferno. A straightforward rock song with a calm intro.
War and Peace War and Peace
Another straight-forward rock song, but with an added second half of muffled guitar noises and sfx dealing with the concept for the album.
Urbs Ex Machina Urbs Ex Machina
A more industrial oriented track. Very reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails, and uses a lot of construction tool samples to form the beat.
Bloodflow Bloodflow
Another industrial type track. This one is fast, raw, and has a lot of frantic beat changes in it, as well as an unusual beat in the verse.
The Frozen Below The Frozen Below
A Pink Floyd-esque song in 3/4. Features a lot of cool echo-ing guitar effects.
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Horatius D is two people, Gavin Allen (Guitars, Bass, FX, Producing) and Alex Rubin (Percussion). A mixture of rock and roll spirit with electronic precision, our music is like a cross between a mullet and a robot. Some even go so far as to call it robo-mullet. Some don't.Band/artist history
We first formed as part of a project in a Medieval Literature class in which we did a project to write a rock soundtrack to Dante's Inferno. We haven't played any live gigs to date, and we're both going to different schools come fall of 2005.Have you performed in front of an audience?UPDATE: We have, in fact, played some songs live now. We played War and Peace and March of Fire at a live show in august 2005 to great effect; it even surprised us how much more impactful both the songs were when played in a live situation. No word yet on if we'll ever try the more difficult pieces, such as Urbs Ex Machina or Bloodflow.
Your musical influences
Nine Inch Nails
A Perfect Circle
Spinal Tap
Jefferson Airplane
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
John Coltrane
The Mars Volta
Incubus
Led Zeppelin
Stone Temple Pilots
Foo Fighters
The Police
AC/DC
Rage Against The Machine
System of a DownWhat equipment do you use?
For electronic parts of our songs (as well as the general sequencing) I used samples run through Acid 4.0, though I rarely, if ever, use it as a looping program. The "chopper," combined with the program's wide variety of FX plug-ins, allowed us to get some pretty unique sounds. I haven't contemplated how to recreate these sounds live yet. As for standard equipment, the guitars (Epiphone Les Paul Elite Hollowbody) and bass (Fender P-bass, stock) are both run through a stock Behringer V-Amp2 and directly in to the mixer, sometimes with amp/cabinet sims, sometimes without. The drums were recorded with various Shure microphones.Anything else?
Contact us if you want to buy a cd. The $5 cost goes to pay for the cds themselves, as well as cover art and additional production costs.Contact
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