Completed in May 2002, the album was widely available on the internet before being released on October 8, 2002. The band used three producers, Ron Saint Germain, Tim Palmer and Jim Scott, on the record, adding another layer of diversity to the album. The majority of the album was recorded at Skywalker Ranch. When the band began writing material for the new album, they secluded themselves in the deserts around Palm Desert. Several songs on the album even included lyrics taken directly from the letters. As they had done with the liner notes of Leitmotif, Dredg chose not to include the lyrics instead, they printed letters sent to them by people suffering from sleep paralysis. Initially intended to revolve around Salvador Dalí's Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, the band expanded the focus to include sleep paralysis after learning of Dalí's own influences. Like its predecessor, El Cielo was a concept album. El Cielo (2002–2004) Īfter signing to Interscope Records, the band began work on their major label debut, El Cielo. With the re-release of Leitmotif, Dredg toured nationally and internationally in support of the record with bands such as Alien Ant Farm, Pressure 4-5, the Apex Theory, Taproot, Deadsy and Onesidezero. As part of the deal, Leitmotif was re-released by Interscope on September 11, 2001. In January 2001, Dredg was offered a deal by Interscope Records, and the band signed to the label in February 2001. The band began sending out a demo tape to several labels with four new songs intended for their next album, "Of the Room", "Redrawing the Island Map", "Running Through Propellers" and "The Papal Insignia". Over the next two years, Dredg toured mostly within California, slowly expanding their fan base. Written by Roulette, the band had planned to release a movie of the story however, upon the death of the lead actor, the project was scrapped. The story was included in the liner notes, in lieu of the actual lyrics. In May 1999, Dredg independently released their first full-length, Leitmotif, a concept album about a man traveling the world to cure his moral disease. With the release, Dredg slowly built a name for themselves in the Bay Area, as well as on the East Coast, such as in Boston and New York. Additionally, the track "Kayasuma" shares its title with the name of the shaman in Leitmotif's liner notes for "Lechium". It includes the group's first instrumental track, "Orph". In 1997, they released what would become the early stages of their musical transition, the Orph EP. Currently, very little information has ever been released about these demos. In 1996, Dredg recorded and released their first demos of original material, the Conscious EP, garnering them exposure as far away as Boston. Honestly, we don't even like the name anymore. In a 2005 interview, when asked about the origin of the band's name, Campanella said, "It was so long ago that we named it I can't even remember. After they graduated to Los Gatos High School, older friends Hayes and Roulette joined the group. While attending middle school in Los Gatos, Engles and Campanella started playing together. In January 2018, the band announced that they had reunited and have since been writing material for their sixth studio album they are planning to record the album in the winter of 2022. Following the conclusion of the album's promotional tour in May 2014, the band went on an "extended hiatus". Squeezy (2011), was a stylistic departure for the band and received a negative response from the band's fanbase. Following their departure from Interscope in 2009, Dredg independently released The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion, which saw the band reach their highest charting positions yet. The band experienced mainstream success with Catch Without Arms (2005), which became the band's first album to chart in the United States, and the band received exposure on MTV with the single "Bug Eyes". Dredg's major label debut, El Cielo (2002), was lauded by critics and helped establish a wider cult following for the band. Originally starting out as an alternative metal outfit, Dredg established themselves in the indie scene with their debut album Leitmotif (1999), which showed the band stylistically moving into progressive rock and art rock the album's local success landed them a deal with Interscope Records in 2001, who re-released the album later in the year. The band's lineup consists of vocalist Gavin Hayes, guitarist Mark Engles, bassist Drew Roulette and drummer and pianist Dino Campanella. Dredg (stylized as dredg) is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Los Gatos, California.
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