CONTRARIAN - USA

Polemic – 2015 – Willowtip
To Perceive Is To Suffer – 2017 - Willowtip
Their Worm Never Dies – 2019 – Willowtip
Only Time Will Tell - 2020 - Willowtip
Sage Of Shekhinah - 2023 - Willowtip

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Members
Vocals
Abdicate, Goemagot, Animals Killing People>>Cody Mcconnell>>Goemagot, Animals Killing People – Solo>>George Kollias>>Solo - Abdicate, Goemagot, Animals Killing People, Dissonant Seepage>>Cody McConnell>>Dissonant Seepage - Psykotribe>>JAKOB SIN [JACOB HARRISON]>>Psykotribe

Guitar
Manic, Delirium Endeavor>>JIM TASIKAS>>Delirium Endeavor – Sulaco>>BRIAN MASON>>Sulaco – Sepia Dreamer, The Senseless, Imperator, Mithras, Sarpanitum>>Leon Macey>>Mithras, Sarpanitum

Bass
Manic, Delirium Endeavor>>Ed Paulsen>>Delirium Endeavor – Freya, Toxik, Inhumatus, Flotsam And Jetsam>>BILL BODILY>>Flotsam And Jetsam

Drum
System Shock, Nightfall, Sickening Horror, Extremity Obsession, Cerebrum, Solo, Nile, Burnt City>>George Kollias>>Solo, Nile, Burnt City – Aeolia, Circuit Of Suns, Hunt The Dinosaur, Dei Aemeth, The Faceless, 2X4, A Devil’s Daydream, Abigail Williams, Shadow Of Intent, Elisha>>Bryce Butler>>Aeolia, Circuit Of Suns, Abigail Williams, Shadow Of Intent, Elisha, Ariah, Mortem Obscuram - Hung, Imperial Triumphant, Pyrrhon, Proxima Control, Pyrexia, Belltower, Malignancy, Epistasis, Involuntary Convulsion, Nader Streak, The Hudson Horror, Abuse, Aeolian Winds, Karnage, Afterworldsmen, Cognitive, Reincremated, Embodied Torment>>ALEX COHEN>>Malignancy, Epistasis, Involuntary Convulsion, Nader Streak, The Hudson Horror, Abuse, Aeolian Winds, Karnage, Afterworldsmen, Cognitive, Reincremated, Embodied Torment




History & Biography
This Rochester, New York, USA band was formed in 2014. A demo, called Predestined was quickly issued in 2014.

The death metal band, which featured members of Nile, Sulaco, Mithras, Goemagot, Delirium Endeavor and others, had an album called Polemic through Willowtip Records. Kolias took over the vocals upon McConnell’s departure. USA-based Contrarian issued the Their Worm Never Dies album through Willowtip Records on 15.03.2019. McConnell returned in 2019. The band toured with Pathology and Narcotic Wasteland in 2019. Bryce Butler added Contrarian to the cadre of bands he would join. Suffocation and Atheist announced the Forces Of Hostility – North American Tour 2022 beginning in April 2022. Openers for the tour were Soreption and Contrarian in the USA and the former in Canada. Singer Jakob Sin and drum-for-hire Alex Cohen joined in 2022. The act issued Demos & Oddities: 1995-1999 independently in mid-2023.


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