Despite Behavior

Hi guys, i´d like to suggest the band Despite Behaviour from France to be added on this page. they produced only one album with 24 min length so far but their sound is great i think!

has there to be a signing with a label to be added here? because these guys are self produced i think...

free download from their debut on their offivial page: http://www.despite-behavior.com/ep/

im looking forward to your review :)

edit: oh sorry, i just read, that they have to be signed... you can listen to it anyways if you want ;) i find them really decent


Edited by Mind_Drive - September 24 2011 at 09:04

Interesting stuff! Do you know any other samples the band may have posted? Three 30 second samples from here aren't very conclusive, although from what I can hear it sounds like nice prog metal.

Cool stuff, thanks. I'll alert the PMT, but like I said, they may not evaluate them simply because they don't have enough material released.

The band don't seem to have added any content to facebook: http://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/Despite-Behavior/201178619346 since July 2010, or to myspace: http://www.myspace.com/despitebehavior since November 2010. However there are three live videos of them performing the whole of the "Dementia In Three Acts" EP on YouTube:

Edited by yam yam - September 23 2011 at 19:41

And now some useless information, just for the hell of it. The guy behind Despite Behavior (Steeves Austin) is in fact an active member of progarchives.com. His username is hostin: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=27397. He introduced his EP in the unsigned bands forum on 1st January 2010. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63993 He made two posts on that day, but has not been seen on here again since the 10th of that month! The reaction to his music was quite positive back then too, it seems. The band were also "mentioned in dispatches" on 27th of March that year - Rivertree used the EP title as a response to Gentle Giant's "Three Friends" on page 76 of Album Game IV: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=62456&PN=76. You might normally be able to get hold of full mp3 samples of all this fellow's music via pm, but since he hasn't been to the forums in almost 20 months, it might be a while before he picked up the message...   

Just bought the EP, going through it now, enjoying the hell out of it. Solid stuff.

^  It is us who should really be thanking YOU for raising the topic in the first place! If you had not done so we may never have gotten to hear this fine music at all! These progarchives threads tend to feature quite prominently in google searches for key words and phrases in the topic title a few days after they are placed on line, so what I WOULD suggest is that you edit the topic title to remove the 'u' from the word 'behaviour'. Maybe Steeves, or someone who knows him, will stumble upon the topic that way, realise that they are being evaluated (or might even have been approved for addition by then) and he may get in touch again. The google search may well throw out the thread even with the slight difference in spelling, but anything to improve the chances of this happening has to be worth considering, I feel.

Edited by yam yam - September 24 2011 at 07:35

Thanks for doing this. It's a very minor matter, I know - but I have a feeling that Steeves will be as pleased as punch if he finds the thread and realises that his music may be about to get the recognition it so richly deserves. Maybe it will help rekindle the enthusiasm he obviously had when he originally made these recordings, and bring him back onto the scene to perhaps take things further. It's a shame that the original post he made only received three replies. I would have expected more people to have downloaded his stuff and commented on it after he so kindly made it available free. Perhaps the fact that this didn't happen was a significant factor in his apparent early 'retirement' after just one EP? Success often has a lot do do with 'fate' - and doing the right thing in the right place at the right time to enable your stuff to get noticed. Of course you have absolutely no control over this whatsoever, but the more stuff you can get out there, and the more places you can find to show it off, the more chance you've got. This guy certainly has the talent - he just needs that bit of luck imho.

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