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about soul eXistence
"In constructing the sound of soul eXistence we've taken aspects that reflect on the visions of life as a being or in groups focusing on things in reality that are not only forms of mind, nor physical, but showing that the negative, neutral, and positive things in our lives can be used to create this form of love we five take part in...
We are products of our own environments therefore we strive to inject five distinct personalities into songs we hope will take our listeners on an epic journey into themselves. Often trying but never trivial the composition process tends to run rather smoothly as we are tasked into touching those areas of our audience's psyches they didn't know existed.
With members from extremely varied backgrounds and influences our band is proud to produce music with far-reaching impact and appeal - at least that's our intent.
We invite you to delve into that which we ourselves are still trying to discover. Come with us as we explore the depths of our soul's existence..." (Jam)
soul eXistence began on December 16, 2002 and debuted with all five members, at the time, in Bullhead City, Arizona on January 17th 2004. In 2007 the band had a major change with the departures of drummer Jeremy Barragan and vocalist Mark Burnett from the band. The band decided to bring on Jam's little brother Billy Pippin to play drums full time. He recorded the songs that are up on this site.
We just recently hired a new singer. His name is Patrick Bell. He's singing on the song Infinite Blue which is finally available to stream and download. Please let us know what you think. Thanks, soul eXistence.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/10/2006
Band Website: http://www.soulexistence.com
Band Members: Matt Grosse - Lead Guitar
Luke Portugal - Bass
Jam Arnold - Rhythm Guitar / Backup Vocals
Billy Pippin - Drums
Patrick Bell - Vocals
Influences: JAM:

Nirvana
S.O.A.D
American Head Charge
Mudvayne
Slipknot
Snot
At the Drive-In
Dillinger Escape Plan
Deftones
Tool
A Perfect Circle
The Mars Volta
Fear Factory
Opeth
Marilyn Manson
Nuclear Rabbit
Pantera
Incubus
Radiohead

MATT:

Joe Satriani
Metallica
Dream Theater
Opeth
Megadeth
Death
Shadows Fall
Buckethead
Stevie Ray Vaughan
All That Remains
Yes
Tool
Steve Vai
DevilDriver
Mudvayne
Cradle of Filth
Slayer
Pantera
Michael Hedges
Chimaira
Fear Factory
Days of the New

LUKE:

Tool
Sepultura
A Perfect Circle
Ministry
Soulfly
Deftones
Nirvana
Pantera
Slayer
Rage Against the Machine
Primus
The Mars Volta
Isis

PAT:

Tool
A Perfect Circle
Michael Hedges
American Head Charge
Metallica

BILLY:

Slipknot
Faith No More
Mr. Bungle
Nirvana
Megadeth
Death
Chimaira
Phil Collins
Michael Hedges
CKY
Buckethead
Stevie Ray Vaughan
DevilDriver
Mudvayne
American Head Charge
Marilyn Manson
Pantera
Fear Factory

Sounds Like: Bi-Polar Progressive Metal
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Week in recording - Weeks 17 through 21 (by Matt)

Weeks 17 through 21   Monday April 13th through Tuesday May 19th     Well this blog is pretty much going to be a short summary of the past four weeks, or so. Jam has been hard at wor...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 03:33:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Week 16 (by Matt)

Monday April 6th through Saturday April 11th On Monday, Jam got started on the longest song on the CD, Another Day in Paradox. We didnt get started till about 6:30 PM that night. Needless to say we...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:35:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Weeks 11 through 15

First off, I would like to apologize for the lack of blogs in the past month. Its been a weird month as far as scheduling goes. We had to wait two weeks for my two guitars to be finished getting work...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:10:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Week 10 (by Matt)

Saturday Feb. 21st through Saturday Feb. 28th The last time Luke and I recorded we found out that I had to redo my guitar tracks for 7 & 10. Since Luke couldnt record on Saturday, I decided I wante...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:59:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Week 9 (by Matt)

Monday - Feb. 16th through Wednesday  Feb. 18thOn Monday Luke and I got to Studio D at about 1:30 PM. We ate lunch and got started on Helpless Evidence. We were able to get through about half the...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:34:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Week 8 (by Matt)

Monday - Feb. 9th through Saturday  Feb. 16thOn Monday, Luke and I were more than ready to get going on My Only Obsession. We started a little later than we wanted, but we still got the song done w...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:37:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Week 7 (By Matt)

Monday - Feb. 2nd through Saturday  Feb. 8thOn Monday Luke and I decided to get started on The Shallows. After setting up and talking about what we want to get accomplished for the day, we eventual...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:56:00 GMT

The Week in Recording - Weeks 5 & 6 (By Matt)

Monday - Jan. 19th through Saturday - Jan. 31st  Luke and I got to Studio D at about 12:30 PM on Monday. Luckily I didnt have too much set up to do. Luke decided to use his little practice amp rath...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:10:00 GMT

The week in recording - Week 4 (By Jam)

Saturday - Jan. 10th through Saturday - Jan. 17th  Tracking Down MattWith drums finished and well into the editing process, it was Matts turn to lay down his main rhythm tracks. He will be doing ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:56:00 GMT

The week in recording - Weeks 2 and 3 (By Jam)

Saturday - Dec. 27thWell after a weeks break, we were more than ready to get back in the studio. Billy, who at this time was still feeling the after affects of being sick, was happy to be back behin...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:50:00 GMT