Progressive metal band EXIST featuring members of CYNIC, DEATH TO ALL and former NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis' backing group has just released its debut album titled "Sunlight". Copies are available in both digital ($2 or name your own price) and physical ($10 CD) format via link textwww.existband.com. EXIST is:Max Phelps (guitar, vocals)Alex Weber (bass, vocals)Matt Clise (drums)Regarding the songwriting process in EXIST, Phelps told Decibel magazine: "The compositions are just based on ideas that I have in my head, sometimes with the guitar, but they're intuitive ideas that I just really like and get attached to. And then I try to just build the compositions around that. It's a pretty natural process, one of those things where it kind of felt like it wrote itself. Maybe that seems cliché to say, but it wasn't a forced process, it was just that I liked these ideas and I played them over and over in my head and it just formed itself after a while. I don't know if there were really literal concepts as much as ideas that kind of built. And I guess the improv thing is part of it 'cause that's just how we play. [Some of it] might have been the result of toying around with a chord progression that I already. I think some of [the improv] comes out because that's what we do already. We jam a lot. When we have a rehearsal, we'll stretch that stuff out, explore things
not even productively, just for fun. [laughs]"
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