Soundscape

Soundscape biography SOUNDSCAPE is a progressive metal act formed in 1995 in Southbury, Connecticut, United States. The band was formed by lead vocalist/ keyboardist Rob Thorne (Rob Volpintesta), Guitatist/ vocalist Todd Rose, bassist/ vocalist Scott Waite and drummer Phil Suarez. Phil Suarez would later be replaced by Lou Caldarola. SOUNDSCAPE´s debut full-length studio album "Discovery" was completed in June 1996 and released in 1997. The band recorded their second full-length studio album "Grave New World" in 1998 but due to various difficulties the album was not released until the 23rd of June 2009 in a remixed and remastered form. SOUNDSCAPE is not a classic progressive metal act ( Read: not a DREAM THEATER clone), but rather draws influences from many genres. Bands like EXTREME and GALACTIC COWBOYS could be references. SOUNDSCAPE´s inclusion in the Prog Archives database was approved by the Progressive Metal Team. ( Biography written by UMUR)

it's nice to see them added to this site's website, and I would hope it will allow more people to get to know and like their music. For that, I applaud PA.

I'm curious though, while the bio there is rather brief, I'm wondering about the source.

is "UMUR" someone who is on this site? And if so, I mainly am wondering about the 2nd-to-last paragraph.

SOUNDSCAPE is not a classic progressive metal act ( Read: not a DREAM THEATER clone), but rather draws influences from many genres. Bands like EXTREME and GALACTIC COWBOYS could be references.

which I would agree, they do not sound like "classic progressive metal" (if there is such a thing) and they draw from many influences. I don't recall being aware those specific influences being Extreme nor The Galactic Cowboys.

Having been one of their biggest fans and supporters for over 10 years, I would personally not list those 2 groups as strong (or much if any) influence on them. Who might be? For starters, Fates Warning. They even played on the Fates Warning tribute cd "Through Different Eyes" (recording a cool synth-driven version of "Fata Morgana").

Among others, Queensryche and Rush would certainly make more sense to me. Extreme and TGC might fall in there, in mainly the fact they have an 80's Hair Metal element at times and namely Thorne, their singer/keyboardist also is known for his work with 80's Metal band Sacred Oath.

But honestly, those are more secondary. I'd even say groups like Kansas or Marillion their sound shares more in common with rather the smaller points of 80's Metal that one might notice in their sound.

The biggest point I guess is, someone who reads that bio might think they have more of an influence from that style of Metal than they actually do. So, it would be my suggestion to add-to their bio about that or modify that 2nd to last paragraph.

I´ve thought it over and deleted the mentioned paragraph from the bio. The offer about writing additional lines for the bio of course still stands.

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