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AUTHOR & PUNISHER, named, “one of the most prolific acts in aggressive music,” by Noisey, has just released his first album on Relapse Records entitled “Beastland”.  His newest and most intense album recalls Ministry, channeling Godflesh, traversing through dark, uncompromising, and often disturbing soundscapes, with occasional detours into rich melodies and splinters of light. After leaving a career as mechanical engineer in Boston to focus on art and sculpture, Tristan Shone, the creator and sole artist behind AUTHOR & PUNISHER, moved west to pursue his MFA in Southern California. In the metal and machine shops of University of California, San Diego, Shone forged a relationship with design, sound and fabrication that ultimately yielded AUTHOR & PUNISHER‘s first music and mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made, precision machinery. Shone used his technical knowledge, along with his artistic background to create what Wired Magazine has hailed as his own “special brand of doom metal.” All aspects of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER sound begin with physical movement, limbs struggling in unison to coordinate a wall of electronic rhythm and oscillation, ultimately conditioned by an organic and loose quality absent of sequencing and plastic perfection. AUTHOR & PUNISHER performances are a real amalgamation between man and mechanisms. They are direct, physical, heavy experiences that have amassed praise and intrigue from a wide array of audiences. Pitchfork styled him “immediate but mysterious,” Stereogum described his “chilling, unrecognizable form,” and NPR hails him as “a thrill [who] fires on all cylinders.”
“ In the contiguous realms of metal nerds and gear nerds, Shone possesses semimythical status. He performs within a semicircle of frightening homemade machines that seem at once futuristic and medieval.“ – The New Yorker (2016).

A classical pianist raised on 80’s thrash metal and has produced a musically schizophrenic hybrid of chaos and tranquility. Kyle has made a name for himself crafting a blend of classically-infused, video game inspired, Scandinavian metal that is led by shimmering, majestic piano.  This aggressive twist backing a typically soft instrument has created a unique genre that can only be called: PIANOMETAL.

Combining modern technology with traditional composition, Kyle has created a genre of music that puts the focus on an often overlooked instrument within a chaotic setting. “The piano is such as diverse instrument. It is my life’s work to push it into unknown territory.”

With the release of Lore of the Immortals in 2016, Kyle created the first ever Pianometal Concerto in three movements. After overwhelmingly positive reception and reviews, Kyle wasted no time in crafting the full length album that would truly define the iconic sound.

It was the 2017 release of Pianometal that completely solidified Kyle’s vision. A colossal 12 song album featuring 12 guest musicians from around the world that took the metal world by storm, earning multiple nominations for album of the year from various publications; an extraordinary feat for an instrumental album. From the brutality of “Hymn of Blasphemy” and “Eye of the Storm” to the power metal infused “The Road to Eternity” and “Orion’s Curse,” Pianometal reaches over the top for a massive cinematic experience.

Kyle Morrison has previously fronted the metal outfits TRIPHON and SHATTERSPHERE as both the vocalist and keyboardist. He has been a sponsored Casio Artist since 2011 and endorses the Privia series. Kyle has worked with Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Soilwork), Francesco Ferrini (Fleshgod Apocalypse), Elias Holmlid (Dragonland), Sean Zatorsky (Sinsaenum, Chimaira, Daath), Adrienne Cowan (Seven Spires, Winds of Plague), producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe), and many more notable musicians.

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The musical life of Brad Frost, which often involves playing music with his wife and brother.

If light vibrations, technology, and space-time converged into a symphony of beats.

Just posting my ideas and works-in-progress. 

I play bass, guitar and program drums. Until I can get a place to record vocals, I only sing in the shower...

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