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Arcitectural Metaphor is an American space rock band formed in summer 1984 in the Boston area and still extant today in 2021. Originally a quintet consisting of founders Paul Eggleston and Bill Buitenhuys, they expanded to a sextet with Bob Foley, Barry Corbett, Chris Mogan and Dave Gorrill. Their first releases were private cassette releases-Innervistas, Music for Mensas, 3rd and Short in 1984 - 1986. The first release on vinyl was an appearance on the XXX records compilation Drastic Perversions. By 1987, Deb Young had joined on percussion and space whispers. They began the recordings of Odysseum Galacti in 1987-these recordings formed the bulk of Odysseum Galacti CD of 1994. Greg Kozlowski replaced Bill Buitenhuys on guitar. Second album Creature of the Velvet Void was released on Black Widow Records in Italy as a trio-Eggleston, Kozlowski and Young. Third album was the limited Strange Daze 1998 CD with Amy Risley as second vocalist. Fourth album was Viva, recorded live in 2000 at the Quarkstock festival. Deb Young was replaced by Murph from Dinosaur Jr on drums and the band continued as a trio on Other Music. Andrea Aguayo joined as vocalist for Everything You Know is Wrong (2013). Galactus Interruptum from 2016 is their most recent release and... Read More ... consists of the trio of Eggleston, Kozlowski and Murph.
Appearances on tribute albums to King Crimson-Schizophrenic Dimension, Genesis-the Fox Lies Down (both on Cleopatra) and Space Box-1970 and Beyond (Space, Krautrock and Acid Trips) multi CD space rock history. They also appeared on Not of This Earth, a 3 CD Black Widow compilation of unreleased tracks with a sci-fi theme.
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