Embodyment was a Christian rock band from Arlington, Texas. The group formed in 1992 and were first known by the name Supplication where they originally played death metal. The band changed its style for its debut album Embrace the Eternal, which is credited as one of the earliest deathcore releases. Following their debut full-length the band would completely abandon all their extreme metal elements thereafter, pursuing instead an alternative rock/nu metal style with their album The Narrow Scope of Things and subsequently became lighter with each proceeding album.
The band frequently performed shows with touring acts such as Living Sacrifice, Zao, Training for Utopia, P.O.D. and No Innocent Victim.
History
Embodyment started out as a death metal band known as Supplication, with the lineup of Andrew Godwin on lead guitars, Jason Lindquist on vocals, Kevin Donnini on bass, and Jason Donnini on drums. However, quickly thereafter, Jason Domini quit the band and ran away from home. Lindquist knew Mark Garza from school and asked him to play drums. Garza joined the band with the stipulation that his friend Taylor Smith joined the band on rhythm guitars and vocals. This album was the band's first step away from any of the heavier metal subgenres. Instead, their sound on the album was adjusted to alternative metal with hard rock influences and featured actual singing and some screamed vocal parts rather than any form of death metal vocals.
Embodyment's third and final album for Solid State, Hold Your Breath, continued in the direction seen on The Narrow Scope of Things toward more alternative and hard rock stylings. Hold Your Breath was Embodyment's first album that featured no screamed vocals, only singing vocals. Embodyment's last album, Songs for the Living, was much the same, showing even less of the dwindling metal influence heard on Hold Your Breath.
Embodyment had shopped the Songs for the Living material around as an Industry Demo, looking for a new label, but after finding being given the idea that there was more interest than there was, they released it as an album on XS Records.)
- Andrew Godwin – lead guitar (1992–2004), rhythm guitar (2003–2004) (ex-The Famine, Pyrithion, Hope Deferred)
Previous members
- Kris McCaddon – vocals (1994–1999) (ex-The Famine, ex-Demon Hunter, ex-Society's Finest)
- Taylor Smith – rhythm guitar, vocals (1992–1994)
- James Lanigan – rhythm guitar (1997–1999)
- Kevin Donnini – bass, backing vocals (1992–1998)
- Mark Garza – drums (1992–2003) (ex-The Famine, Lhoist, Constant Seas)
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Discography
Studio albums
- Embrace the Eternal (1998, Solid State, Reviews:HM Magazine, The Phantom Tollbooth)
- [1993-1996] (1999, Independent)
- The Narrow Scope of Things (2000, Solid State, Reviews: The Phantom Tollbooth)
- Hold Your Breath (2001, Solid State, Reviews: Jesus Freak Hideout)
- Songs for the Living (2002, XS Records, Reviews: Jesus Freak Hideout)
- Forgotten EP (2011, Reviews: Jesus Freak Hideout)
Demos
- Persistent Sin (tape under the band name "SUPPLICATION") - 1993
- Corrosion Of The Flesh - 1994
- Embodyment (3-song demo) - 1996
- Industry Demo (an early version of Songs for the Living) - 2002
Non-album tracks
- "Halo of Winter" from This is Solid State Vol. 1 (1998)
- "Breaking News", "And Then Some", "Spilling Over", "The Answer", and "Hindsight", all released online in 2003 and 2004 as parts of what would have been Embodyment's fifth full-length record.
- As of 2011, these five never-before-released songs have been officially released on Apple iTunes and Amazon.com, under the album title "Forgotten".