ORBS is a progressive rock supergroup formed in 2007, featuring Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me), Ashley Ellyllon (Abigail Williams), and Adam Fisher (Fear Before). The project serves as a creative outlet for its members to explore sounds outside their primary metal and hardcore affiliations, leaning heavily into avant-garde piano arrangements and space-rock atmospheres.
Their sound identity is defined by the interplay between Ellyllon's classically-influenced, often honky-tonk or baroque piano and Briggs' technical guitar work. Culturally, they occupy a niche within the 'experimental' wing of the post-hardcore scene, bridging the gap between the math-rock complexity of the 2000s and the more melodic, conceptual art rock of the 2010s. Critical consensus highlights their debut, 'Asleep Next to Science', as a high-water mark for the genre, praised for its unique lyrical focus on biology and nature. The band's influence web connects the technicality of North Carolina's prog-metal scene with the vocal eccentricities of the experimental hardcore movement.
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