Friday, March 21st, 2008
AGALLOCH/GRAYCEON/IN MEMORIUM
@ Chop Suey, Seattle, WA

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
AGALLOCH/RED SPARROWES/GRAYCEON
@ Berbati’s Pan, Portland, OR

January 30th, 2008
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Grayceon is pleased to announce the official release of our split 7″ record with our friends, California-based eclectic doom rockers, GIANT SQUID, on The End Records. Available through the Grayceon web store, this is the first new material heard from either band since our respective 2007 debut releases.

The 7″ release is limited to 500 copies, 250 in Maroon color, 250 in Sand color. Track listing: The West (Grayceon) and Sutter’s Fort (Giant Squid). They look and sound awesome, so get ‘em while they’re hot! Preview the new song on our MySpace page.

Grayceon is appearing on this release courtesy of Vendlus Records.

December 8th, 2007
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GRAYCEON
(Vendlus)
9/10

EXPERIMENTALLY EPIC: Fans of Giant Squid and Amber Asylum will recognize the name of cellist Jackie Perez Gratz. Those who don’t will never forget it after hearing the genre smashing anomaly known as Grayceon. Rounded out by Walken members Zack Farwell and Max Doyle, Grayceon has created a sound that comes across as both awe inspiring and boldly unique. Refusing to stand still long enough to be lumped into any particular category, Grayceon plays hopscotch across the boundaries of both style and emotion, and builds a richly textured wall of sound so thick that it’s a shock to know that this is a band with only three members. One moment melancholic, the next maddening, the sonic web woven by the cello/guitar combo is mind-boggling in its innovation and intricacy. Similarly, the harmonized vocals of Gratz and Doyle fuse together with haunting results. The fast paced “Song For You” is Romanian folk music’s answer to thrash metal, while the more measured “Sounds Like Thunder” creates feelings of both doom and enlightenment all in the same series of moments. Clocking in at exactly 20 minutes, the epic “Ride” is a journey that leads down many paths, but definitely worthwhile in the end. Expanding a vast musical universe that gets deeper with each listen, this is your new favorite record.

- Ryan Ogle

August 29th, 2007
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Grayceon is pleased to announce we will be traveling and performing up the Northwest Coast this coming September. Here are the dates and locations we have so far. Please check back for updates:

September 12, 2007: GRAYCEON/LA FIN DU MONDE/TBA
Cafe Coda, Chico, CA

September 13, 2007: SOUL SCYTHE/GRAYCEON/TBA
Samurai Duck, Eugene, OR

September 14, 2007: LESBIAN/GRAYCEON/GREY/BLACK BREATH
The Comet Tavern, Seattle, WA

September 15, 2007: LESBIAN/GRAYCEON/TBA
Satyricon, Portland, OR

September 16, 2007: ISCHEMIA/GRAYCEON/NYE
Musichead Record Store, Medford, OR

September 19, 2007: FLAMETAL/GRAYCEON/VIETUS MORTIIS
Elbo Room, San Francisco, CA

August 10th, 2007
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Smorgasbord anyone?

“The End Records is slipping. They nabbed Giant Squid, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Estradasphere, but somehow missed Grayceon. How could this be? Are the stars misaligned? Well, what The End blunders, Vendlus benefits, ’cause Grayceon’s potluck rock is captivating, smart and challenging. It’s the sort of left-of-center approach to heavy (mental) music that comes out of Eastern Europe, but considering the acid-soaked specter of Haight-Asbury still haunts San Fran’s music scene, Grayceon are wondrously peculiar in all the right places.
Comprised of Amber Asylum and Walken members, this is a power trio of a different magnitude—cellist/vocalist Jackie Perez Gratz is prominently featured throughout, fluently weaving in and out of guitarist Max Doyle’s skronk-folk and Zack Farwell’s unobtrusive but excellently played percussion work. Frolicking comfortably somewhere between the post-rock of Slint, the Canterbury Sound, King Crimson (In the Wake of Poseidon-era) and Neurosis-like semi-dirges, Grayceon’s four-song, 45-minute debut isn’t too far removed from unsung Czech wonder-kids Silent Stream of Godless Elegy. While not metallic or aggressive, Grayceon’s no slouch. Nor are they particularly progressive in traditionalist’s thinking. The last 30 minutes of the album are dense, diverse and dynamic, as well as organic, open and warm. It’s the kind of music for kids in tight pants to feel “worldly” to, or roan-haired prog-heads to come back to Earth for a minute or two. If you can imagine a group as much at home with Beggars Opera as they are Isis, Grayceon’s oddball, inviting style should be more familiar than foreign.” —Chris Dick, June 2007 Issue

August 10th, 2007
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“Billing Grayceon as ‘Jackie Gratz from Amber Asylum’s metal band’ is a bit of a misnomer. The guitar/drums/cello instrumentation driving this band falls outside metal’s confines, as does guitarist Max Doyle’s finger-picking style, masterful as it may be. There are, however, moments of pure metallic bombast provided by Zack Farwell’s punishing battery, while the eerie moan of Gratz’s cello trading off with Doyle places heavier, uptempo tracks like ‘Song For You’ somewhere in line with Apocolyptica, Neurosis, and neo-classical thrash of The Fucking Champs. Excellent, regardless what you call it.” - April 2007 Issue

August 10th, 2007
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Amazing Interview and Review can be found here

Delicate and mesmerizing and yet somehow adventurous is how I envision Grayceon’s self titled debut. Grayceon has taken the novel idea of incorporating a cello (courtesy of Amber Asylum’s Jackie Perez Gratz) into the mix rather than a bass guitar and then “the low end” function is traded back and forth between the guitar and the Cello. But interesting and astonishingly enough that also means that the leads are traded off between the two as well. Grayceon makes some spectacular compositions and they start the album off in stellar fashion with Sounds Like Thunder which is grand and brooding with a sense of frailty and threads of melancholy intertwined. This makes for some original sounding musical passages and these themes carry on throughout the album’s entirety…. Somehow I just feel I cannot say enough how great this album is how much it moves me whenever I hear it…..

March 8th, 2007
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Please come to one of our upcoming performances if you are in the area! We’ll bring it to the stage and have CDs and t-shirts for sale as well. Here are the dates and locations:

March 9, 2006: LUDICRA/GIANT SQUID/BLACK ELK/GRAYCEON
Blue Lamp, Sacramento, CA

March 10, 2007: LUDICRA/GIANT SQUID/BLACK ELK/GRAYCEON
Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA

March 16, 2007: SXSW: INVINCIBLE CZARS/STOLEN BABIES/SHAOLIN DEATH SQUAD/GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON/TWO STAR SYMPHONY/SPAIN COLORED ORANGE/GAYLORD
Daytime show 12pm-7pm The Hole in the Wall, Austin, TX

March 18, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Rudyard’s, Houston, TX

March 19, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
The Doublewide, Dallas, TX

March 20, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Downtown Music, Little Rock, AR

March 21, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Springwater, Nashville, TN

March 22, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Ravari Room, Columbus, OH

March 23, 2007: GRAYCEON
Luna Music, Indianapolis, IN / In-Store performance 6-6:30pm only!

March 23, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON/LLANGE
Radio Radio, Indianapolis, IN

March 24, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Mac’s Bar, Lansing, MI

March 25, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON/KALON/IN THE WAKE OF GIANTS/THEM ROARING TWENTIES
Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA

March 26, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
The Metal Bar, Toronto, Ontario - CANADA

March 27, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON/TBA
Zoo Bizarre, Montreal, Ontario - CANADA

March 29, 2007: GIANT SQUID/CHEATER PINT/GRAYCEON/JASON BENNETT AND THE RESISTANCE
Abbey Lounge, Boston, MA

March 30, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Asterick, Brooklyn, NY

March 31, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
LIT, New York, NY

April 1, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
The Khyber, Philadelphia, PA

April 2, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Wharehouse Next Door, Springfield, VA

April 3, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
The Reservoir, Chapel Hill, NC

April 4, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Tasty World, Athens, GA

April 5, 2007: GIANT SQUID/GRAYCEON
Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA

March 7th, 2007
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link to MetalReview amazing review

“It’s obviously somewhat difficult to capture Grayceon’s sound on paper, but trust me: this album is a treasure trove for those with a taste for the unusual and enough patience to tolerate long, multi-segment songs. Honestly, the heartbreakingly mournful ending of “Sounds Like Thunder” and the four minutes of riff brilliance that constitute the final third of “Into The Deep” are worth the price of this disc alone. Grayceon have released an inventive and vivid debut that easily bests most metal released this year.”

February 22nd, 2007
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Link to full review here

With Grayceon we go through the span of many styles and melodies. From sad, heart-string tugging melodies at the beginning of Sounds Like Thunder and Into the Deep to the latter song breaking out with a gypsy dance before collapsing in a slow dramatic finish, from the ominous cymbal and acoustics anticipation to rocking gallop ruckus in Ride, from meandering finger-picking jam to heavy riffing on Into the Deep, from funeral marches on Into the Deep to fast folky thrash on Song for You, from Neurosis to Giant Squid to Skyclad to Scorpions – this album has got it all, I have simply run out of epithets.

February 20th, 2007
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