Mother Died Today is a melodic doom/death metal band from Victoria, BC, drawing its main influences from such acts as Opeth, Amorphis, Type O Negative and October Tide, among the other myriad and obvious inluences like Metallica, Megadeth and Death. The group was formed originally in 2003 by David and Dylan (now of Archon Legion) with two other Shawnigan Lake-area musicians but folded quickly due to drummer issues. In spring 2005 David went on to record the material that was found on the initial demo with drummer Tim Hagberg, and then resumed work on putting together a band with Dylan. Over the following year Andrew (also of Archon Legion) joined the fold, living Shawnigan Lake legend Curtis began learning to play synth and signed on shortly after that, and David's longtime musical co-hort Paul (of The Switchblade Valentines and Lesbian Fist Magnet) began playing drums for the group. This incarnation played a few shows before Paul left to concentrate on the Switchblades, and was soon replaced by Darius to complete the line-up. The band set up a quick 1-week BC tour for November of 2007 which went extremely well, and followed it with a first 'true' recording that was released in early April of 2008 and a subsequent 2-week tour of BC and Alberta.
Line-up changes have slowed the bands activities as Curtis, Dylan and Andrew left the band to pursue other bands and school in May of 2008, and while those of us remaining (Darius and David) were sad to see them go, we are excited for the dark night ahead: we have found some extremely talented musicians and great people to join this crusade, and are confident that with this new line-up we will surely deliver a tighter, darker shade of black.
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