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As Of Today
9+ albums
Progressive metal
about
As Of Today are a progressive metal act from London, United Kingdom. Their sound has been described as a mixture of Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Pink Floyd and Agalloch. As Of Today is a name with its origins in early 2003, although the bands timeline can be traced back much further than this. With ex-members from Labrat, Kilkus, Anoxia, De Profundis and more, As Of Today is a band with a long and turbulent history. Signs of the bands present form and line-up began to show back in 2004, with ex-members PJ Close and Ravi Paul on guitar and bass, Jamie Lee-Furlong on guitar, David Clark-Waugh on drums and former bassist Craig Donoghue taking up the position of vocalist. At this point the band was busy hitting the dives of London to perform tracks from their melodic death metal EP Demo(n). It was also around this time that the band was moving into their own purpose-built studio, as well as making plans to begin their first full-length album. Fortunes changed early the next year when PJ Close parted ways with the band owing to musical differences, followed soon after by bassist Ravi Paul who decided to leave in order to pursue his own interests. Unwavered by this double blow, the band pressed on with rehearsals and auditions, and it wasn’t long afterwards that De Profundis members Charles Allin and Roman Subbotin stepped into the vacant roles on guitar and bass. From this point the band ploughed ahead with renewed determination, greater musical prowess, and a new, more p
