Colin Marston
Colin Marston (born September 13, 1982) is an American record producer and musician residing in New York City. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and owns Menegroth The Thousand Caves Recording Studios in Woodhaven, Queens while not on tour with one of a number of bands.[1] He is also known for his performances in Behold... The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, Krallice, and the reunion lineup of Gorguts. Marston has produced, mastered, and mixed music for artists such as Imperial Triumphant, Cleric, Genghis Tron, Kayo Dot, Jarboe, Capillary Action, Origin, Panopticon, Altar of Plagues, Liturgy, Pyrrhon, and Orthrelm, as well as for his own bands. Marston is multi-instrumentalist; he plays guitar, bass and keyboards.
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Birth name | Colin James Marston |
Born | September 13, 1982 |
Origin | Philadelphia, U.S. |
Genres | Technical death metal, black metal, avant-garde |
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Years active | 2004–present |
Website | thethousandcaves |
Works
- Behold... The Arctopus – (technical metal with jazz influences).
- Dysrhythmia – (experimental post rock).
- Byla – (ambient/drone soundscapes with guitar melodies).
- Krallice – (avant-garde/experimental/progressive black metal featuring Mick Barr of Orthrelm).
- Indricothere – (technical death metal with various metal influences and ambient soundscapes, formerly known as "Vegan Death").
- Infidel? / Castro! - (abstract electroacoustic, conceptual metal with George Korein).
- Gorguts – (technical death metal, bass in Gorguts reunion line up).
- Domestigrind – (grindcore)
- Encenathrakh – (technical death metal)
Performance discography
Infidel?/Castro!
- 2000: Infidelicacy (Self-released/independent)
- 2001: Case Study In Bioentropy (Self-released/independent)
- 2003: Infidel?/Castro! And Friendly Bears – A Split Experience (Epicene Sound Systems / Rice Control)
- 2005: Bioentropic Damage Fractal (Crucial Blast)
Behold... The Arctopus
- 2003: Arctopocalypse Now... Warmageddon Later (Epicene Sound Systems)
- 2005: Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning (Troubleman Unlimited)
- 2006: Split with Orthrelm (Crucial Blast)
- 2007: Memphis 6-3-06 (s.l.a.p.)
- 2007: Skullgrid (Black Market Activities)
- 2012: Horrorscension (Black Market Activities)
- 2016: Cognitive Emancipation
- 2020: Hapeleptic Overtrove
- 2023: Interstellar Overtrove
Dysrhythmia
- 2006: Barriers And Passages (Relapse Records)
- 2007: Split with Rothko – Fractures (Acerbic Noise Development)
- 2009: Psychic Maps (Relapse Records)
- 2012: Test of Submission (Profound Lore)
- 2016: The Veil of Control (Profound Lore)
- 2019: Terminal Threshold
Solo
- 2007: Colin Marston – 200220032004 (Self-released/independent)
- 2007: Indricothere – Indricothere (The Sacrosanct Opuscule)
- 2013: Indricothere – II (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2013: Indricothere – XI (Self-released/independent)
- 2015: Indricothere – Plagued (Self-released/independent)
- 2015: Indricothere – XI. (Self-released/independent)
- 2016: Indricothere – III. (Self-released/independent)
Krallice
- 2008: Krallice (Profound Lore Records)
- 2009: Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore Records)
- 2011: Diotima (Profound Lore Records)
- 2012: Years Past Matter (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2015: Ygg huur (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2016: Hyperion (EP) (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2016: Prelapsarian (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2017: Loüm (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2017: Go Be Forgotten (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media)
- 2019: Wolf EP (Self-released)
- 2020: Mass Cathexis (Gilead Media)
- 2021: Demonic Wealth (Self-released)
- 2022: Crystalline Exhaustion (Self-released)
- 2022: Psychagogue (Self-released)
Sailors With Wax Wings
- 2010: Sailors With Wax Wings (Angel Oven Records)
Pyramids
- 2009: Pyramids With Nadja (Hydra Head Records)
- 2015: A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore Records)
So Is The Tongue
- 2012: Child of Divorce (Nefarious Industries) – Warr Guitar
East of the Wall
- 2018: Farmer's Almanac (Nefarious Industries) – Warr Guitar
Gorguts
- 2013: Colored Sands (Season of Mist)[2]
- 2016: Pleiades' Dust (Season of Mist)
Sabbath Assembly
- 2014: Quaternity (Svart Records)
Encenathrakh
(All self-released)
- 2013: Respekt the Demo
- 2015: Encenathrakh
- 2019: The 2 Song Promo 19
- 2020: Live Album
- 2020: Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake
- 2021: Studio Album
- 2022: Ithate Thngth Oceate
Withered
- 2016: Grief Relic (Season of Mist) – Bass
M Lamar & Mivos Quartet
- 2017: Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche – Guitar
Panopticon
- 2019: The Crescendo of Dusk (Bindrune Recordings) – Additional Keys
References
- Moore, Doug (October 6, 2014). "Q&A: Colin Marston Of Krallice/Gorguts/Dysrhythmia On The Ins & Outs Of Engineering And The Realities Of Running A Recording Studio". Stereogum. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
- "M.C. Escher Would Appreciate the Cover of Gorguts' Colored Sands". MetalSucks. June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2013.