Colin Marston

Colin J. Marston
Birth name	Colin James Marston
Born	September 13, 1982 (1982-09-13) (age 29)
Origin	Philadelphia, United States of America
Occupations	Musician, producer
Instruments	Bass guitar, electric guitar, Warr guitar
Associated acts	Behold... The Arctopus, Byla, Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Indricothere, Infidel?/Castro!, Krallice
Notable instruments
Warr Guitars

Colin Marston (born September 13, 1982) is an American musician and record producer residing in NYC. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and runs The Thousand Caves Recording Studios, located in Woodhaven, Queens, while not on tour with one of his four active bands. He is perhaps most famous for fronting the progressive metal band Behold... The Arctopus, in which he plays a Warr guitar, or for his work on bass guitar in the progressive metal trio Dysrhythmia. Marston produces, masters, and mixes for artists such as Genghis Tron, Kayo Dot, Jarboe, Capillary Action, and Orthrelm, as well as his own bands.

Bands

• 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, formerly known as "Vegan Death".
• Infidel? / Castro! - (abstract electro/acoustic, conceptual metal with George Korein).
• Gorguts - (Technical death metal, bass in Gorguts reunion line up)
• Domestigrind - (grindcore)

Gear

In Dysrhythmia Marston plays an Ibanez BTB 6-string bass guitar with a pick into a Hartke 3500 head with an Eden 410 XLT cabinet and a Roland JC-120 guitar combo. In Behold... the Arctopus he plays a 12-string Raptor Warr guitar (which has been discontinued) as well as a "Metal" Series Warr guitar into the same amps plus an extra Crate 2x12 combo. He uses various distortion and delay pedals in both bands.^[1] In Krallice, he uses a pre-2008 Ibanez Iceman guitar.

Performance Discography

Infidel?/Castro!

• 2000: Infidelicacy (Self Released)
• 2001: Case Study In Bioentropy (Self Released)
• 2003: Infidel?/Castro! And Friendly Bears - A Split Experience (Epicene Sound Systems / Rice Control)
• 2005: Infidel?/Castro! - 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)

Byla

• 2005: Byla - Byla (Translation Loss Records)
• 2007: Byla + Jarboe - Viscera (Translation Loss Records)

Dysrhythmia

• 2000: Contradiction self-released
• 2006: Barriers And Passages (Relapse Records)
• 2007: Split with Rothko - Fractures (Acerbic Noise Development)
• 2009: Psychic Maps (Relapse Records)

Solo

• 2007: Colin Marston - 200220032004 (Self released)
• 2007: Indricothere - Indricothere (The Sacrosanct Opuscule)

Krallice

• 2008: Krallice (Profound Lore Records)
• 2009: Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore Records)

Gorguts

• 2011(Release date is unknown): Upcoming Gorguts album (Unknown Label)^[2]

Production credits

• 2004: Dysrhythmia - Live from the Relapse Contamination Festival (Relapse Records)
• 2005: Child Abuse / Octis split (Forge Records)
• 2005: Atheist - Elements (remaster) (Relapse Records)
• 2005: Atheist - Piece of Time (remaster) (Relapse Records)
• 2005: Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (remaster) (Relapse Records)
• 2005: Orthrelm - OV (Epicene Sound Systems)
• 2005: Octis / Ocrilim - Untitled (Troubleman Unlimited)
• 2006: Battletorn - Burn Fast (Mad at the World Records)
• 2006: Beret! - Une Tête Pour Deibler (Self Core)
• 2006: Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda split (Holy Roar Records)
• 2006: Monocle - Lounge Act (Pralaya)
• 2006: Astomatous - The Beauty Of Reason (Independent)
• 2006: Weasel Walter / Mick Barr / Sam Hillmer release (Epicene Sound Systems)
• 2006: Child Abuse / Miracle Of Birth split (Lovepump United)
• 2007: Zs - Arms (Planaria Recordings)
• 2007: Cleric - Cumberbund (Sound Devastation Records)
• 2007: Time Of Orchids - Namesake Caution (Cuneiform Records)
• 2007: Octis / Ocrilim - Neerdeth (Independent)
• 2007: Stylofone - Nighttime 9Young and Lost Club)
• 2007: Monocle - Outer Sunset (Hidden Shoal Recordings)
• 2007: Rosetta - Wake/Lift (Translation Loss Records)
• 2007: Octis - The Social Club No. 6 (The Social Registry)
• 2008: Ocrilim - Annwn (Hydra Head Records)
• 2008: Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward (Hydra Head Records)
• 2008: No Neck Blues Band - Clomeim (Locust Music)
• 2008: Pyramids - Pyramids (Hydra Head)
• 2008: Jarboe - Mahakali (The End Records)
• 2008: Ocrilim / Octis - Ment (Brown Sounds)
• 2008: Rich Bennett - Music For Underwater Supermarkets (Hidden Shoal Recordings)
• 2008: Jarboe - Pandora's Box (Season of Mist / The End Records)
• 2008: Extra Life - Secular Works (Planaria Recordings)
• 2008: Winterfylleth - The Ghost Of Heritage (Profound Lore Records)
• 2008: Zevious - Zevious (Independent)
• 2009: Battletorn / Double Negative split (Volcom Entertainment)
• 2009: Altar of Plagues - White Tomb (Profound Lore Records)
• 2009: Liturgy - Renihilation (20 Buck Spin)
• 2009: Noveller - Paint On The Shadows (No Fun Productions)
• 2009: Capillary Action - So Embarrassing (Discorporate Records / Natural Selection Records)
• 2009: Kevin Hufnagel - Songs For The Disappeared (Nightfloat Recordings)
• 2009: Zevious - After the Air Raid (Cuneiform Records)
• 2010: Vasaeleth – Crypt Born & Tethered to Ruin (Profound Lore Records)
• 2010: The Howling Wind - Into The Cryosphere (Profound Lore Records)
• 2010: Extra Life - Made Flesh(Loaf)
• 2010: Zs - New Slaves (The Social Registry)
• 2010: Orthrelm - Orthrelm (ugEXPLODE)
• 2010: Cleric – Regressions (Web of Mimicry)
• 2010: Drunkdriver – Drunkdriver (Independent)
• 2010: National Sunday Law – The Fifth Ape (Saw Her Ghost Records)

References

1. ^ Marston interview
2. ^ Black Bubblegum Brooklyn Vegan. "Gorguts is back" (Statement from Luc Lemay), 2009-03-16

External links

• The Thousand Caves Recording Studios

Persondata
Name	Marston, Colin
Alternative names	BLAH
Short description	awesometacular
Date of birth	August 13, 1997
Place of birth	Goffstown, New Hampshire USA
Date of death	N/A
Place of death	N/A