| Augury | |
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| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Technical death metal, progressive death metal |
| Years active | 2001 onward |
| Labels | Nuclear Blast, Galy |
| Associated acts | Quo Vadis, Negativa, Neuraxis, Atheretic, Kralizec, Foreshadow, Spasme, Humanoid |
| Website | www.augurymetal.com |
| Members | |
| Patrick Loisel Mathieu Marcotte Dominic "Forest" Lapointe Antoine Baril |
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| Former members | |
| Arianne Fleury Gabrielle Borgia Étienne Gallo Mathieu Groulx Philipe Cousineau |
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Augury is a technical death metal band from Montreal, Canada who released their debut album, Concealed in September 2004 on Galy Records, and a follow-up, Fragmentary Evidence, in July 2009 on Nuclear Blast Records.
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Although the idea to create the band had been in discussions between members since they met 1997, the actual formation of Augury didn't take place until 2001 when lead guitarist Mathieu Marcotte left his former band, Spasme, and began to audition drummers. He was soon joined by Dominic "Forest" Lapointe of Atheretic fame on bass, and Arianne Fleury on vocals. Vocalist and guitarist Patrick Loisel joined in February 2002 after taking his former band, Kralizec. Former drummer of Adenine, Mathieu Groulx joined the band in June 2002 and completed the line-up.[1]
With this line-up, Augury wrote their first six songs and played their first show but soon Mathieu Groulx departed due to a lack of time and different musical taste. The band, however, continued to write more songs and began to add strings to their compositions. Soon after, Étienne Gallo joined as a drummer and in September 2004 Concealed was recorded and released by Galy Records.[1]
The writing process of Fragmentary Evidence was spread over four years due to line-up changes. In 2006 drummer Étienne Gallo left and Augury decided to work with another drummer for a year but scheduling problems led to Gallo being called back. Gallo learnt all the songs and helped record them but it since it was a temporary, drummer Antoine Baril was recruited. Mathiu Marcotte said of the delay "..for sure we would have wished to release the album before, but we made a good out of the bad and we perfected the songs and added more details to them." The band also diversified their sound since Patrick, Forest, and Mathieu each wrote a third of the album.[2] It was during the writing process for Fragmentary Evidence that Nuclear Blast was introduced to Augury by Kataklysm, who had heard a few Augury songs online. Impressed, they signed Augury onto the label and let them retain their sound.[3] Due to songs like "Jupiter to Ignite" and "Oversee the Rebirth" being very layered, complex and lengthy, Augury do not play the former and only play the first half of the latter.[4]
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