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Biography

maudlin of the well (commonly abbreviated as motW) was an Avant garde metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their music contained elements from many different genres including doom metal, indie rock, progressive metal and new age. They released three full-length albums before disbanding in 2003, these albums included: 1999's My Fruit PsychoBells...A Seed Combustible and 2001's Bath and Leaving Your Body Map. These last two albums were considered companion albums. The band had a consistent core membership, which consisted of Jason Byron, Greg Massi, and Toby Driver. Throughout its career a sort of "revolving door" of members and session musicians participated as needed. Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Motto: Official website: www. ... It has been suggested that sludge metal be merged into this article or section. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Progressive metal (shortened to prog metal when differentiating from progressive rock) is a genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including; use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A revolving door is a type of door that, as its name suggests, revolves in its frame. ...

Maudlin's music, lyrics, and atmosphere dealt predominantly with the subject of astral projection. The band tried to find music rather than compose it. This was done through practicing astral projection and lucid dreams, from which the band were purportedly able to "bring back" pre-existing music from the astral plane (as stated by Toby Driver in the liner notes included with the reissued Bath and Leaving Your Body Map). This idea is similar to the common dogmatic notion that "all good things come from God", but with a new-age spin. Astral projection (or astral travel) is a controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences (OOBEs) achieved either consciously or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of psychotropics. ... Lucid dreaming is consciously perceiving and recognizing that one is in a dream while one is sleeping, and having control over the dreamscape, or the faux-reality dream world within a dream. ... The astral plane, also called the astral world or desire world, is a plane of existence according to various philosophies and belief systems. ...

In late 2001, the band began working on a fourth studio album. During this time, several longtime members of the group lost interest, and the band's labels were changed, and the remaining members renamed themselves to Kayo Dot. This fourth album was later released in 2003 as Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye. Kayo Dot is an avant-rock group that was formed in 2003 by Toby Driver. ...

Band members

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Discography

Demos

• Through Languid Veins - 1996
• Begat of the Haunted Oak: An Acorn - 1997
• For My Wife - 1998

Albums

• My Fruit Psychobells...A Seed Combustible (1999)
• Bath (2001)
• Leaving Your Body Map (2001)

See Also

• Kayo Dot

Kayo Dot is an avant-rock group that was formed in 2003 by Toby Driver. ...

External links

• Kayo Dot's offical website
• Offical MySpace Account