Empyrean Sky

nd from the darkness there came light… to the east from the wind swept wasteland of the Midwest rises the Empyrean Sky. Gaze upward and behold a metal band that defies boundaries at every turn. The troupe born of wildly different backgrounds create a meld of music where genres disappear and only music remains.

With styles ranging from classical to jazz, blues to rock, power to prog, thrash to death metal, and everywhere in between, each member contributes influences that shape and mold what they call «Storm Core.» Picture Shakespeare writing songs with Shadow’s Fall, Iced Earth, Opeth, and Exodus. The group is comfortable combining elements rarely seen together, if at all, like three talented 7-string guitarists playing real three part harmonies and polyrhythms, catchy hooks and well placed leads, vocals of desperation and despair beneath mellifluous melodies, all acting out stories of love and lust packed into symphonic compositions of epic length.

Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, but with fans around the world, Empyrean Sky have been perfecting their craft since 1997. Now armed with their first full length album they are poised to unleash their assault.

Prepare yourself, the storm is here!

Empyrean Sky has been featured on college radio stations, and web-cast radio. They spent weeks in the top 10 on BroadJam.com in various categories including Midwest Region, Instrumental, and Rock and were frequently in the top 40 on mp3.com for instrumental metal.

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Wormwood Productions is actually John Welborn’s studio in Oak Lawn, Illinois, and also co-designed a local author’s first collection in 2004. They started out not having a drummer as a four piece using three guitarists and a bassist where the drums don’t sound programmed. They shared stages with Withering Soul, Earthen Grave and Novembers Doom. John in a conversation on AIM would say that he was also inspired by Believer’s Dimensions in terms of taking the sound of the band. He can sing clean and growl in the same track. Been described as Shakesphere doing heavy metal with Iced Earth or Shadows Fall.