Orchard

Orchard was formed in late 2007 in Sackville NB,Canada inspired by bands such as Kyuss,Sleep and Cathedral.The original lineup was Marcel B. - Vocals,Bruce Zwicker - Drums,Kyle Arsenault - Bass and Sylvain Francoeur - Guitars.There were many practices during this lineup and songs started taking structure fast,i was there for a few jams and engineered their first recording,pretty soon we were talking about me joining in on second guitar.We tried this out once and i found the songs structures on guitar a bit to advanced for me,though i was certain i could pull the vocals off.As the band covered "Utopian Blaster" by Cathedral and me being a longtime Cathedral fanatic they eventually parted with Marcel and took me in as singer.It was in 2008 that we made the recordings with my cousin Ian Ryan of Slough of Despond days as engineer.Things didn't go all that great with the recording, there were a few complications and we did the best we could with what we had to work with.The end result was really poorly mixed and uploaded on myspace anyway and it did get us some notability.In February of 2009 we played the first and last show with Orchard,not really knowing it was gonna be our last.Though the show that nite had went down extremely well for us,our plays on the myspace player went up a considerable amount and there was a buzz going around the Orchard name for a bit.Bruce and i had done a interview with Earthdog promotions (aka Doommantia) prior to doing the show.Well its really sad to say that Orchard didn't live on to make a full length album as tensions with members arose and a spiraling demise was evident.Bruce and i have continued on playing doom metal with Father,while Sylvain went on to join his cousins band Dischord and Kyle played with These Colors Bled.Recently i put the songs through a small editing process cleaned up what i could and added bass and compression to the mix.I think it turned out ok definitely better then the first mixes so i updated the myspace with the new revamped tracks.Here is a video i made with pictures of the show we played and the song Ride through the decay.