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Aethea

About Me

Once upon a time in a basement in a valley far, far away there was a band called Aethea who were formed in June/July 2005 by Sam (guitars), Jed (bass) and Hayes (drums). A large cyst growing on their collective ass became Quinn, whos beautiful haunting voice lead to him singing for them. They played some gigs in late 2005 until Hayes left to start an engineering course in Orcaland. Jared jumped onto the vacant drum stool while it was still warm.
After failing in their auditions for New Zealand Idol the band set about writing originals with a more brutal death metal feel.
The band spammed hard for years playing gigs all over the place to gypsies, tramps and thieves. Somehow along the way they also scored prestigious supports with the likes of The Amenta, Psycroptic & Dismember, making them undoubtably one of the greatest bands of all time.
Aetheas music is a mix of death & grindcore with a twist of groove and inhuman gutteral pig noises. The music will stretch your ring but you'll feel better afterwards.

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Member Since: 29/03/2006
Band Members:
Sammy Curr - Guitars

Mr Krinkle Van Ewijk - Bass

Thanatos - Vokills

Jayrodeo - Drums

Influences: Influenced by Nile, Mr Bungle, Gorerotted, Napalm Death and early Nasum. Some other shit too.
Sounds Like: The delicate sound of thunder
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

DISMEMBER NZ TOUR - July 2008

We're rather chuffed to announce we'll be supporting Swedish legends DISMEMBER on the Wellington leg of their NZ tour, with Kiwi legends Malevolence. This will thereby break our draught of gigging but...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Gigging Hiatus & The New Album

After our shows in May we will be taking a leave of absence from gigging to focus on recordings for our new album. This may take some time due to our combined limited brain capacities and slow reflexe...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 17:46:00 GMT

AN AUDIENCE WITH THE DEVIL 6 - OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

An Audience With The DevilPresented by RW EntertainmentEach year, a call rings out over the seedy streets of Auckland City and into the dark underbelly of the New Zealand music scene. Each year that c...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:31:00 GMT

Sanctuary Sounds Music Festival - ’Back To The Garden’

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Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:01:00 GMT

The Aethea Curse!

After the brutal car crash on the weekend coming home from a show where we were merely filling in for another band at Valve on Friday that should mark the end of 'The Aethea Curse'!Jared got a disloca...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:30:00 GMT

Aethea out of action again/cancel tour!!

We regret to inform you that Aethea will be on hiatus again due to injury... Quinn has torn he muscles in his leg and will be out of action for a few months thus cancelling our North Island Tour. Sorr...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:15:00 GMT

Aethea article in Captial Times next Wednesday...

For those of you in the Capital of New Zealand from whence we were spawned from, check out next weeks 'Capital Times' local newspaper for an article on Aethea & next weeks 'Black Friday Black Meta...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:29:00 GMT

Aethea interview on MuntFM - Thurs March 8 @ 9pm

Sam, Jed, Quinn & Jared will be thouroughly interrogated on Munt FM's 'TNT' metal/punk show this Thursday March 8. The shows between 9-11pm and they'll be playing live Aethea tracks plus stuff fro...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:48:00 GMT

UNDERGROUND METAL III photos

A couple photos here from Underground Arts December 1st, courtesy of trigger -  http://www.myspace.com/triggerpc - Chur!
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:58:00 GMT

Aethea No-show at Underground Metal

Apologies for not being able to make it to Underground Arts last night, at the gig the night before Quinn tore a muscle in his shoulder during soundcheck screaming too hard, so as it was we had to pla...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:12:00 GMT