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Into The Moat is an american technical metal band from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Band history

Initially starting as Matthew Gossman's one-man project in May 2001, the band became a full quintet in January 2002. After writing material for about a year, the debut EP was released on Lovelost Records in May 2003. Bringing the guys a lot of attention, a record deal was signed with major metal label Metal Blade and their first full-length album was released March 2005.

Into The Moat's music

Into the Moat is representative of the Mathcore genre, although band members prefer the term tech metal. As a sub-category of the tech hardcore or "chaos-core" classifications, at first impression their music is merely chaotic noise. Upon further listening, their technical musicianship comes to the fore. Some of their compositions recall Stravinsky in that they appear almost primitive with atonal notation and rapid rythmic changes. Moreover, their music often paints a "tone picture" as Mussorgsky's thematic music does. Their songs are not, however, tone poems in the true sense of the word, but can be likened to Disney's use of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" and Mussorgsky's "St. Johns' Night on Bare Mountain" (more commonly known as "Night on Bald Mountain") in the film Fantasia. As with Fantasia's soundtrack evoking clashing dinosaurs and dancing demons, ITM's progressive compostions paint a brutal, changing dynamic in an unworldly landscape. Employing unpredictable rhythms and guttural lyrics, the agonizing screams of soldiers dying in combat are forced into the mind's eye as ITM's instruments inject acoustic mahem into those internalized visuals. Images from Dante's Inferno and The Terminator's futuristic warfare scenes are conjured up during the ensuing melee. Employing the song "New Noise" by Refused to establish a menacing mood for the impending battle of high school football teams in the film "Friday Night Lights" is a similar approach to the use of musical composition (heavy metal music in this case) as a contemporary tone poem in present-day theatrical soundtracks.

ITM have released two albums, the latest on Metal Blade, and have a music video featured on MTV's Headbanger's Ball as well as Fuse TV's Metal Assylum. These musicians, all either 20 or 21 as of this writing, have a profound grasp of their instruments and are already mentioned in some circles as world class song crafters, arrangers, and musicians in their chosen genre.

Current lineup

• Earl Ruwell IV - vocals
• Kit Wray - guitars
• Travis LeVrier- guitars
• Vacant- bass
• Matthew Gossman - drums

Discography

• (2003) Means By Which The End Is Justified (EP) - Lovelost Records
• (2005) The Design - Metal Blade

External link

• Into The Moat homepage