Completed in May 2002, the album was widely available on the internet before being released on October 8, 2002. The band used three producers, Ron Saint Germain, Tim Palmer and Jim Scott, on the record, adding another layer of diversity to the album. The majority of the album was recorded at Skywalker Ranch. When the band began writing material for the new album, they secluded themselves in the deserts around Palm Desert. Several songs on the album even included lyrics taken directly from the letters. As they had done with the liner notes of Leitmotif, Dredg chose not to include the lyrics instead, they printed letters sent to them by people suffering from sleep paralysis. Initially intended to revolve around Salvador Dalí's Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, the band expanded the focus to include sleep paralysis after learning of Dalí's own influences. Like its predecessor, El Cielo was a concept album. With the re-release of Leitmotif, Dredg toured nationally and internationally in support of the record with bands such as Alien Ant Farm, Pressure 4-5, the Apex Theory, Taproot, Deadsy and Onesidezero.Īfter signing to Interscope Records, the band began work on their major label debut, El Cielo. As part of the deal, Leitmotif was re-released by Interscope on September 11, 2001. In February 2001, Dredg was offered a deal by Interscope Records. The band began sending out a demo tape to several labels with four new songs intended for their next album, "Of the Room", "Redrawing the Island Map", "Running Through Propellers" and "The Papal Insignia". Over the next two years, Dredg toured mostly within California, slowly expanding their fan base. Written by Roulette, the band had planned to release a movie of the story however, upon the death of the lead actor, the project was scrapped. The story was included in the liner notes, in lieu of the actual lyrics. In May 1998, Dredg independently released their first full-length, Leitmotif, a concept album about a man traveling the world to cure his moral disease. With the release, Dredg slowly built a name for themselves in the Bay Area, as well as on the East Coast, such as in Boston and New York. Additionally, the track "Kayasuma" shares its title with the name of the shaman in Leitmotif's liner notes for "Lechium". It includes the group's first instrumental track, "Orph". In 1997, they released what would become the early stages of their musical transition, the Orph EP. Currently, very little information has ever been released about these demos. In 1996, Dredg recorded and released their first demos of original material, the Conscious EP, garnering them exposure as far away as Boston. The band's logo can be found in the book The I Ching and The Genetic Code The Hidden Key to Life by Dr. Honestly, we don't even like the name anymore. But it didn't - In 2005, Campanella added, "It was so long ago that we named it I can't even remember. The name Dredg comes from the initials of the band members put together by Drew Roulette after changing members and needing a new name from BiStandard - Dredg stands for - Drew Roulette Engels Dino Gavin - it may have come from the English word dredge, which in its verbal usage means to unearth or widen/deepen a river or channel dredg is also the name of the device used to perform this function. After Engles and Campanella graduated to Los Gatos High School, older friends Hayes and Roulette joined the group. While attending middle school in Los Gatos, Engles and Campanella started playing together. *2 Musical style *3 Members *4 Discography *5 References *6 External links Dredg released El Cielo in 2002, Catch Without Arms in 2005, The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion in 2009, and Chuckles and Mr. The band established themselves in the indie scene with their 1998 release of the concept album Leitmotif, landing them a deal with Interscope Records. The band consists of vocalist Gavin Hayes, guitarist Mark Engles, bassist Drew Roulette and drummer and pianist Dino Campanella. Dredg (stylized as dredg) is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Los Gatos, California.
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