The Faceless - Are Officially Singer-less

As was rumored on the webernet for eons, The Faceless frontman Derek Rydquist has left the US technical death metal band.

Derek Rydquist officially confirmed his departure on Lambgoat earlier today: "As you Internet sleuths have deduced, I have left The Faceless. I left the band a couple months ago, and we were waiting until they had everything sorted out on their end before saying anything about it, but I guess I'll take it upon myself to break the news. I am no longer emotionally or artistically fulfilled by being the vocalist for the group, and that's how I arrived at my decision. Touring's luster has worn off, and I have found myself reconsidering the role I would like to take in creating and presenting music. Also, being a 'professional musician' was kind of ruining my love for music because when you rely on this stuff to make you money, as with anything, it is easy to become bitter towards it. Not that it was all bad, I had the best times I will ever have being in this band, but it is time for me to move on.

I'd like to thank the band and the friends I've made through the band for making this not only a life altering experience, but a life shaping one. There is an immense amount of talent in this band, and the new vocalist they have is doing a great job, so please keep supporting The Faceless. I can now join you in anticipating the new album.

If you're interested, I'm now playing in another group with some dudes from some awesome bands. Check it out at this location. We're mixing the album right now, so we should have some music up soon."

Just in case you're wondering, Geoff Ficco (Kamikabe, Orgone) has apparently been singing for The Faceless since Rydquist's departure.

Source:

lambgoat.com

Posted: 20.05.2011 by Thryce

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sbgmetal Posts: 818 From: USA	Permalink 20.05.2011 - 23:05 sbgmetal Posts: 818 From: USA Dont care or know that band but.... lol at the title of the article Loading...
morsus Posts: 20	Permalink 20.05.2011 - 23:49 morsus Posts: 20 Written by sbgmetal on 20.05.2011 at 23:05 Dont care or know that band but.... lol at the title of the article the band is awesome. if you like death metal or extreme metal in general, you should check them out Loading...
I_Die_Often Posts: 697 From: USA	Permalink 20.05.2011 - 23:51 I_Die_Often Posts: 697 From: USA I am not sorry to see him go... I am not a fan of this band ---- Old enough to be your Daddy... speaking of which... you look familiar... do I know your mother??? Loading...
I_Die_Often Posts: 697 From: USA	Permalink 20.05.2011 - 23:55 I_Die_Often Posts: 697 From: USA Written by morsus on 20.05.2011 at 23:49 Written by sbgmetal on 20.05.2011 at 23:05 Dont care or know that band but.... lol at the title of the article the band is awesome. if you like death metal or extreme metal in general, you should check them out I love death metal and extreme metal, but this band is more of a crappy "core" band IMO. I have ranted about my dislike for them many times. ---- Old enough to be your Daddy... speaking of which... you look familiar... do I know your mother??? Loading...
qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537 From: Hungary	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 00:04 qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537 From: Hungary Planetary Duality is a good tech death album, "core" influence almost went out on. The guy has a good voice for this kind of music. ---- Loading...
Kuroboshi Posts: 1168 From: Sweden	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 00:44 Kuroboshi Posts: 1168 From: Sweden This band is pretty dull, and their singer was pretty lousy, so I guess it's for the best. Loading...
ExhumedShadow Posts: 1 From: Portugal	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 00:56 ExhumedShadow Posts: 1 From: Portugal Throwing The Faceless into the deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens pot is utterly wrong. I'm a critic of d american and german recent wave of retarded hardcore mets metal, but cannot say this band is this category. If you like necrophagist, obscura, spawn of possession, visceral bleeding, gorod and similar tech death bands, the only reason you won't like The Faceless is cuz' of a misconception or malformed opinion. On the topic, it's not a great lost just a normal mutation in a band, and any decen vocals will do just fine in a band with such talented musicians. Loading...
Sepulchre Lord Hypnos Posts: 189 From: USA	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 02:37 Sepulchre Lord Hypnos Posts: 189 From: USA Sad news... Loading...
The Voyager The Table Posts: 152 From: USA	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 02:42 The Voyager The Table Posts: 152 From: USA Written by ExhumedShadow on 21.05.2011 at 00:56 Throwing The Faceless into the deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens pot is utterly wrong. I'm a critic of d american and german recent wave of retarded hardcore mets metal, but cannot say this band is this category. If you like necrophagist, obscura, spawn of possession, visceral bleeding, gorod and similar tech death bands, the only reason you won't like The Faceless is cuz' of a misconception or malformed opinion. On the topic, it's not a great lost just a normal mutation in a band, and any decen vocals will do just fine in a band with such talented musicians. +2, echoed my thoughts for both of your paragraphs Loading...
psykometal A staff guy... Posts: 6101 From: USA	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 06:06 psykometal A staff guy... Posts: 6101 From: USA Written by The Voyager on 21.05.2011 at 02:42 Written by ExhumedShadow on 21.05.2011 at 00:56 Throwing The Faceless into the deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens pot is utterly wrong. I'm a critic of d american and german recent wave of retarded hardcore mets metal, but cannot say this band is this category. If you like necrophagist, obscura, spawn of possession, visceral bleeding, gorod and similar tech death bands, the only reason you won't like The Faceless is cuz' of a misconception or malformed opinion. On the topic, it's not a great lost just a normal mutation in a band, and any decen vocals will do just fine in a band with such talented musicians. +2, echoed my thoughts for both of your paragraphs +3 Their first album did have some deathcore influences on it and that's where the grand misconceptions of them being a " deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens" band came from but with Planetary Duality they left all that behind and are now more of an amalgamation of tech/prog death styles, think if Cynic and Obscura got together to write an album and that's about what PD sounds like. As for the title of this piece of news, how are they singer-less? The news states 2x that they have a vocalist, that does strike me as being very singer-less... ---- ~Zep, Database and Forum Moderation~ Loading...
DoomGuard Posts: 368 From: USA	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 07:18 DoomGuard Posts: 368 From: USA Written by psykometal on 21.05.2011 at 06:06 Written by The Voyager on 21.05.2011 at 02:42 Written by ExhumedShadow on 21.05.2011 at 00:56 Throwing The Faceless into the deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens pot is utterly wrong. I'm a critic of d american and german recent wave of retarded hardcore mets metal, but cannot say this band is this category. If you like necrophagist, obscura, spawn of possession, visceral bleeding, gorod and similar tech death bands, the only reason you won't like The Faceless is cuz' of a misconception or malformed opinion. On the topic, it's not a great lost just a normal mutation in a band, and any decen vocals will do just fine in a band with such talented musicians. +2, echoed my thoughts for both of your paragraphs +3 Their first album did have some deathcore influences on it and that's where the grand misconceptions of them being a " deathcore, crapcore, pseudo metal for teens" band came from but with Planetary Duality they left all that behind and are now more of an amalgamation of tech/prog death styles, think if Cynic and Obscura got together to write an album and that's about what PD sounds like. As for the title of this piece of news, how are they singer-less? The news states 2x that they have a vocalist, that does strike me as being very singer-less... Since i've seen them live 3 times and listened to them a few times I can throw them in that deathcore pot, cause that's exactly what they played live....right? I can do that safely right? cause they came out and played breakdown metal, not really...metal metal...lol Loading...
Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504 From: New Zealand	Permalink 21.05.2011 - 17:27 Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504 From: New Zealand Title gave me the impression they'd decided to take the instrumental path. Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, IMO... ---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays Loading...
JD Account deleted	Permalink 22.05.2011 - 13:07 JD Account deleted Written by Syk on 21.05.2011 at 17:27 Title gave me the impression they'd decided to take the instrumental path. Same here. Loading...
Thryce Retired Staff Posts: 4346 From: Belgium	Permalink 23.05.2011 - 11:21 Thryce Retired Staff Posts: 4346 From: Belgium Written by Guest on 22.05.2011 at 13:07 Written by Syk on 21.05.2011 at 17:27 Title gave me the impression they'd decided to take the instrumental path. Same here. You're both idiots. ---- Your favorite band sucks. Loading...
Elodie Artour Slania Posts: 1175 From: The Netherlands	Permalink 26.05.2011 - 02:36 Elodie Artour Slania Posts: 1175 From: The Netherlands Written by Thryce on 23.05.2011 at 11:21 Written by Guest on 22.05.2011 at 13:07 Written by Syk on 21.05.2011 at 17:27 Title gave me the impression they'd decided to take the instrumental path. Same here. You're both idiots. I don't see what's so wrong about people having a different sense of humor/being totally misguided. ---- Speak up dear 'cause I cannot hear you... Loading...