Biography
Moscow band Calmed By The Tides Of Rain (CBTTOR) has been formed by Artyom ROY (vocals) and Alexander (drums:Violent Coldness) in the summer 2008 and rapidly began searching for other musicians.
Originally the band planned to play downtempo metal/hardcore in vein of Suffokate, Emmure, The Acacia Strain, concentrating on brutal vocals and groovy basis. The long searches have ended successfully: Alexander (ex-One Of The Words) and Dmitry (ex-All Opressions Of The Inner Essence, ex-Emo Pigs) joined the band. Searches of the second guitarist were unexpectedly long, and only in the winter 2009 Vladislav (I Wish You Were Here) became the second guitarist. So this is the original line-up for Calmed By The Tides Of Rain.
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The sound has partially changed under the influence of such acts as The Yellow Sign, The Ocean, The Contortionist, and now you can hear some post-metal and sludge fragments in the music, so the style of CBTTOR has evolved, but still it hasn't gone far from the roots.
The first release - Self-Titled EP was mastered on Anthropocide Studio, was out on November, 16, 2009 and at once has received plural positive responses in the internet, as a result the band got an offer from a large Saint-Petersburg label to release a full-length album.
The debut LP album "PHAETON" was released on April, 2012, on SoulFlesh Collector (SFC Records).
The next 3 songs was released on EP "Hives" on November, 2013.
After releasing a new single "Where We Are No One " in 2018, Artyom and Alexander, the former musicians, has left the band. The story if the band ended with this state.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.