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Artist: Pelican
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Pelican

Group Members:

Bryan Herweg, Trevor de Brauw, Larry Herweg, Laurent Lebec

Similar Artists:

Transmission0, Jesu, Mouth of the Architect, Red Sparowes, Party of Helicopters

Influenced By:

Neurosis, Isis, Black Sabbath, Sleep, Tortoise, Pink Floyd, Melvins, Slint, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Sonic Youth

Followers:

Across Tundras

Formal Connection With:

Tusk
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "After the Ceiling Cracked

Biography

The secretive instrumental art metal outfit Pelican was formed in Chicago by guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Lebec, as well as bassist Larry Herweg and his sibling drummer, Bryan. Owing a great debt to pioneering forefathers Neurosis and often compared to Boston's Isis, Pelican coincidentally also found a home at Isis mastermind Aaron Turner's Hydra Head Records. After making their debut with an eponymous four-song EP in 2003, Pelican expanded their epic, otherworldly trance-metal with 2003's critically acclaimed Australasia, followed in 2004 by The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw. After heavy touring, the quartet took a much-deserved break. They returned to the studio in 2006 and released City of Echoes in June 2007, followed by the live CD/DVD After the Ceiling Cracked later that December. What We All Come to Need, the band's fourth studio effort, appeared in 2009. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia & Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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Pelican

Pelican performing live at Sant Feliu Fest, 2004
Background information
Origin Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres Post-metal, sludge metal
Years active 2001–present
Labels Hydra Head, Southern Lord
Associated acts Tusk, Isis, Russian Circles
Website Hydrahead Records site
Members
Trevor de Brauw
Bryan Herweg
Larry Herweg
Laurent Schroeder-Lebec

Pelican is a four-piece instrumental band from Chicago who have since relocated to Los Angeles.[1]

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Biography and description

The band is known for its dense combinations of different melodies and extended track lengths. Their distinctive sound draws from stoner rock, doom metal as well as post-rock and many other influences. Larry Herweg, Trevor de Brauw, and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec also make up three-quarters of the band Tusk.

Previously signed to Hydra Head Records (which is owned and operated by Aaron Turner of Isis), Pelican is now part of the Southern Lord Records roster.[2] The label has also announced that Pelican will embark on a tour with new labelmates Wolves in the Throne Room and that their first release for their new label is an EP entitled "Ephemeral", which was released June 6, 2009[3]. Trevor de Brauw stated that the new material would be darker, heavier and more "riff oriented" than on previous recordings, and Southern Lord stated that an undisclosed guest guitarist who "is very influential to the band" would be making an appearance on the new recording as well. What We All Come to Need was released on October 27, 2009.[4] Greg Anderson and Aaron Turner both appeared on the album.

On October 9, 2009, Pelican announced via press release that the "Pelican Burger" was now being served at Kuma's Corner, a Chicago restaurant known for its menu of burgers named after heavy metal bands. The "Pelican Burger" is a ten ounce Kobe Beef patty with pan seared scallops and lardons, in a garlic white wine sauce on top of a parmesan crisp, and served with white wine-garlic aioli.[5]

Genre

Regarding the band's genre, de Brauw said, "I don’t think of Pelican as a metal band... I feel like we're part of a trajectory of Midwest bands that kind of blend aggression with a pop sensibility, so while it's easy to classify us with instrumental bands, we're not instrumental by design. We just didn't know how to put vocals in our music and for it to sound right."[6]

Speaking on the plethora of labels used to describe Pelican's genre, bassist Bryan Herweg states that "it's flattering, really", and that "I take that as nobody being able to classify what we're doing. I really don't want to be fixed in one genre."[7]

As for the instrumental nature of the band, Herweg states that "I think there are limitations that come with having a vocalist. If we had some big burly man in front screaming, we'd be classified as metal. If we had some scrawny guy we'd be emo. As it is, no one can pin us down."[7] Touring has evolved the band's style from "drawn-out... slow-building" to "more direct and faster, and straight to the point" material to provide more energy on stage.[6]

Current members

Discography

Full lengths

EPs

Splits

DVDs

  • Live in Chicago 06/11/03 (2005)
  • After the Ceiling Cracked (Live in London) (2008)

Multi-Format Sets

Notes

  1. ^ Andrew Parks (July 2007). "Pelican: "Pelican speak softly and carry more than just big riffs on the monolithic City of Echoes"". Decibel Magazine. http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/pelican.aspx. Retrieved 2007-11-07. 
  2. ^ "Pelican joins Southern Lord, plans new EP". idiomag. 2009-02-12. http://www.idiomag.com/peek/64358/pelican. Retrieved 2009-02-13. 
  3. ^ "Pelican announce "Ephemeral" EP". Punknews.org. 2009-04-23. http://www.punknews.org/article/33234. Retrieved 2009-05-03. 
  4. ^ PELICAN Completes Work On New Album - Aug. 4, 2009
  5. ^ Unknown (2009-10-09). ""PELICAN Announce In-Store Performances; Pelican Burger Unveiled; CD Pre-order with exclusive content begins Tuesday"". Southern Lord blog. http://blog.southernlord.com/?p=214. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
  6. ^ a b Mike Diver (2007-03-27). "Pelican: "We're neither trend setters nor trend followers"". Drowned in Sound. http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1801290. Retrieved 2007-03-29. 
  7. ^ a b Allan Wigley (2006-06-14). ""Pelican's music tough to categorize"". Ottawa Sun. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/06/14/1631268.html. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  8. ^ PELICAN Completes Work On New Album - Aug. 4, 2009

Additional reading

Andrew Parks (July 2007, issue 33). "Pelican". Decibel. http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/pelican.aspx. 

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