EPK – Eaten By Sharks – Eradication (2022)
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“Eradication toes the line of music and concept, metal meets shark. The album delivers seven tracks, lyrically depicting the horrors of mankind using oceanic imagery. It represents our best fin forward, pulling out all the stops to get the listener to Drop anchor and experience the package as a whole. Lots of tasty treats in our instrumental approach, progressively chomping through each song with razor-sharp riffs and bone-crunching rhythms. Lyrically, taking the con to steer the narrative into the nautical hell that is Eaten By Sharks. Additionally, topping it off with Christian Donaldson’s sonic production, the rattles your existence like a mega-tsunami.” – Eaten By Sharks
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“Shit, did they put on a solid show and constantly required crowd interaction. They seamlessly blended classic and modern death metal with some technical flare here and there. I was thoroughly impressed with this awesome band, and can only add another solid band to the ever-growing laundry list of opening bands that may or may hit hit the spot…..and Eaten By Sharks fucking shredded!” – Technical Music Review (Live Review – Eaten By Sharks Opening for First Fragment – St. Catharines, ON -12-2-18)
“They groove a ton, with some sweet guitar licks for good measure to keep your ears engaged. They’re a mix of classic and new death metal, and just as ferocious.” – Technical Music Review
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Album Title: Eradication
Release Date: August 26, 2022
Label: Self-Release
Track Listing:
1. Shallow Water – 4:16
2. Dead Weight – 3:12
3. Kill and consume – 4:06
4. Same Face, Different Mask – 4:26
5. Depth Charge – 3:07
6. Apex Predator – 3:20
7. Megalodon – 4:55
Album Length: 27:24
Album Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Eaten By Sharks
• All songs written by: Eaten By Sharks
• Produced by: Christian Donaldson
• Mixed by: Christian Donaldson
• Mastered by: Christian Donaldson
• Album Artwork by: Shindy Design
• Member of SOCAN
• Canadian Content (MAPL)
Album and Live Band Line Up:
Matt Sherriff – Vocals
Chris Chaperon – Lead Guitar
Dan Okowinsky– Rhythm Guitar
Tyler Abrams – Bass
Justin Whitehead – Drums
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The album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Tells a story of nautical destruction.
Matt went to invoke feelings of fear and bring you along as a first-person, a victim of society in a merciless assault of sharks infiltrating a people’s world.
Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Shallow water — The lyrics for the opening song of this EP sets the scene for some nautical mayhem. Depicting a breach of humans imposing their presence in a shark’s home. Not liking this invasion, the Sharks bite back attacking, creating fear and madness. Humanity, desperate to save itself, exacts its revenge but mistakenly after the kill, doesn’t realize it was the children of a gargantuan Mother. She then returns to punish their greedy actions and finishes them once and for all, puny humans.
Deadweight – this song hits quickly, revealing some of the hells we face out on the open waters, alone out in the elements, what will you do to survive. Having to fight for our lives, fighting off infection and the madness that ensues. After losing complete control of the mind, you’re left with fewer limbs than you started with, begging for better days.
Kill and consume – PSA – don’t eat shark soup. After being cursed for the poor choices of humanity you are left wishing for the only release possible. Death.
Same face, different mask — this song is a little less nautical, instead of focusing on the aspect of being like a shark. A ruthless, unstoppable predator, unable to deal with its petty surroundings. It’s time to take matters into your own hands and attack.
Depth charge — for this song we go right back into the first-person view of the horrors of a shark attack. Dragging you down into what could be the mouth of hell. Escape is not possible. All hope fades as the light from the surface disappears leaving you with nothing but a broken shell of a body, until even that gets devoured.
Apex predator — the POV of this song switches from the victim, to the victor. Become the apex predator. Leave nobody alive.
Megalodon – this last song reminds you that none of us are safe. After the endless curiosities of mankind bring us deeper into the depths, we realize we have awoken what can only be called hell. The megalodon is back and hungry after centuries of deep rest. The hope of escape is quickly cut off by the jaw of the colossal beast. Escape is the only chance to live. Will you survive?
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BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:
1. Cats are Jerks. “Playing a Metal fest, in Hamilton, We were getting ready to go onstage and the switch over time was really tight. Chap opened up his guitar case to find his cat and left him a surprise; he had pissed all over the fretboard right before he had packed up. The singer from one of the headliners caught the moment and said, “Yeah I saw the guy open the guitar case, look concerned, then he picked up the guitar, smelt it, looked up into the sky and yelled FUUUUUUCK!!!” 30 seconds later Chap is in the bathroom with mounts of single-ply toilet paper, the guitar in the sink, water running, and people wondering what the fuck is going on. He was able to take the stage for the set just in time but every time he had to do some finger tapping he felt like he was grinding the piss into the fretboard, nobody shook his hands for a week after that. Cats are jerks, stick with fish!”
2. When we found Matt he was recording vocal playthroughs of Archspire songs, on Facebook. I showed the video of him to the rest of the band and we said let’s take a chance, even though he shot it on a cell phone from 1999 you could tell this kid has chops!. Turned out to be quite the talent and a sweetheart of a guy, on the surface anyway…..
3. We were supposed to record the album Spring of 2020 but the Pandemic hit and it caused us to postpone the recording a few times. A year and a half later, we finally got up to Montreal and recorded with Christian Donaldson. It was such a strange time leading up to the recording, however, with the extra waiting, we were able to squeeze a few more tracks in and get super tight. It was the fastest that we have ever completed tracking which gave us time for some RnR and to go to some sick breweries, sampling some amazing craft beers!
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L-R – Tyler Abrams (Bass) | Justin Whitehead (drums) | Matt Sherriff (Vocals) | Chris Chaperon (Lead Guitar) | Dan Okowinsky (Guitar)
Photo Credit: Lisa Thompson
A different type of beast has emerged from the murky depths of the Niagara metal scene. Eaten By Sharks is prepared to usher in a new wave of aquatic brutality, and devastate the landscape with a perfect blend of technical precision and unbridled aggression. The wait is over. There is blood in the water. The feeding frenzy is about to begin…..
Eaten By Sharks: is
Matt Sherriff – Vocals
Chris Chaperon – Lead Guitar
Dan Okowinsky– Rhythm Guitar
Tyler Abrams – Bass
Justin Whitehead – Drums
Shared Stage with:
Revocation, The Faceless, Dying Fetus, First Fragment, Beyond Creation, Emmure, Upon A Burning Body, Beneath the Massacre, Brought By Pain
Discography:
2022 – Eradication
2013 – We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat – EP
Festivals:
2013 – SCENE fest – St. Catharines, ON
2013 – Southern Ontario Metal fest – Hamilton, ON
2013 – Chaos fest – Hamilton, ON
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