Aug. 19 - Bar Le Magog - Sherbrooke, QC
Aug. 20 - Bar L'Octobre - Quebec City, QC
Aug. 21 - Club Soda - Montréal, QC
Aug. 22 - Maverick - Ottawa, ON
Aug. 23 - L'App'Art - Trois-Rivières, QC
Aug. 27 - Salle Gaston Mandeville - Drummondville, QC
Aug. 28 - Sneaky Dee's - Toronto, ON
Aug. 29 - Music Hall - London, ON
Aug. 31 - Crocks - Thunder Bay, ON
Sep. 01 - Royal Albert Arms - Winnipeg, MB Sep. 02 - The Exchange - Regina, SK
Sep. 03 - The Distillery - Calgary, AB
Sep. 04 - The Mead Hall - Edmonton, AB
Sep. 05 - Third - Prince George, BC
Sep. 06 - Red Room - Vancouver, BC
Sep. 07 - V-Lounge - Victoria, BC
SYSTEM DIVIDE recently completed work on its full-length debut,
"The Conscious Sedation", for a tentative late 2010 release via
Metal Blade Records. The CD was recorded at
Conquistador studios in Cleveland, Ohio and was mixed and mastered by
James Murphy (
OBITUARY,
TESTAMENT,
DEATH).
Commented the band: "Expect the album to have 11-12 tunes of heavy extreme metal madness with blazing guitar leads, crazy kick patterns, blasts, grooves and melodies along with our own brand of extreme and clean vocals."
SYSTEM DIVIDE has already completed a video for the song
"The Apex Doctrine" off the band's current EP, which will also be on the band's full-length debut. Check out a trailer for the new video below and be sure to head over to
SYSTEM DIVIDE's
MySpace page to listen to the tracks
"The Apex Doctrine" and
"(n)Ether".
SYSTEM DIVIDE's
"The Collapse" EP was produced and engineered by guitarist
Cole Martinez and was mixed and mastered by
Jacob Hansen.
"The Apex Doctrine" video was filmed in New York with director
Kevin Custer (
HATEBREED,
TESTAMENT,
DYING FETUS,
SUFFOCATION).
According to a press release,
SYSTEM DIVIDE "unites a myriad of sounds, going from
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD,
SOILWORK,
LACUNA COIL,
DIMMU BORGIR,
CHIMAIRA to even
MORBID ANGEL. Prepare for the unexpected!"
Founded in summer 2008,
SYSTEM DIVIDE set out to revolutionize the conventions of the over-saturated melodic death metal genre, proving that extreme metal can have more depth than blast beats, while female vocals do not have to conform to the precepts of the "goth" genre. In mixing many styles,
"The Collapse" breaks all the rules of extreme metal and is a landmark release for the young band.
As opposed to interjecting simple, predictable clean choruses into contrived song structures,
SYSTEM DIVIDE unites serene female vocals and extreme vocals driven by lyrical themes that confront and seek to break everyday themes of disillusionment, societal materialism, and individual apathy. Musically, the band delivers myriad styles of riffing and grooves, while augmenting the entrancing soundscapes with hard-hitting drums and intricate bass lines. These elements together define the unique, spell binding, hypnotic sound of
SYSTEM DIVIDE.
SYSTEM DIVIDE will make its live debut on July 21 at the
Summer Carnage Fest in Israel alongside
ABORTED,
WHORECORE,
THE FADING,
PHANTOM PAIN and many other bands.
