In the bleak Sheffield winter of 2004 we first saw Opinicus rear its head to the world when Adam and Jesse decided to start a straight up metal band combining Adam's love for death metal, thrash and doom and Jesse's love of technical super heavy riffs.
A few weeks, riffs and calloused fingers later Po was recruited as our drmmer. At the first practice with Po he brought his mate Tom along who just so happened to have his guitar and amp in the back of his car, he then proceeded to wow Jesse and Adam with his super dextrous fast forwrd style of playing.
After a few more weeks we had written a handful of songs and iby the early summer of 2005 Dirty (OOOYEAHHHMM!) Mike joined as our vocalist and we've and we started gigging in Sheffield. We then went on to record a demo of 4 of our songs in November of '05 plus two more tracks (Bererker and Defiance) which showed an even more epic and adventurous side to the band in the summer of '06.
In early '07 we parted ways with our original drummer Po which then lead to a thankfully brief drummerless period of time. After those few weeks we were put back in touch with an old mate of ours James Magennis (who Adam, Tom and Jesse have played with separately in past bands/projects a number of years back) James was quicky on board and is now establishing himself as a important part of the band and the driving beats behind Opinicus.
In the future we hope to continue the band for as long as we can keep it up with a view to taking things as far as we can take them, and take our music to as many people as possible. We are looking to get signed to help finance plans for more recording and for touring.
THE BURDEN OF IMMORTALITY - UtB '07
BERSERKER - UtB '07
FROM THE ASHES - UtB '07
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