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Glen of the Downs, Ireland (2002 – present)

God is an Astronaut are a 4 piece who hail from Glen of the Downs, Ireland. They took their name from a line in Clive Barker’s film ‘Nightbreed’, the band was formed by twin brothers Niels and Torsten Kinsella in 2002. After recording their first demos, and with numerous labels offering deals (yet looking for the band to add vocals to their music) they instead decided to set up their own label ‘Revive Records’ to release their debut album ‘The End of the Beginning’ in 2002. This crucially allowed the band to remain in complete creative control. Speaking on their debut, which was originally intended as the bands farewell to the music industry, the band say “we just wanted to finish on a release we were really proud of, we had no expectations at all.” Over the next couple of years after the album’s low key release, the band started to pick up interest mainly through word of mouth on-line with rave reviews on blogs. Both video singles from the album “The End of the Beginning” and “From Dust to the Beyond” received airplay across Europe on MTV. This was when the world was first exposed to the bands strong usage of visuals to enhance their music.

To this point God Is An Astronaut was purely a studio project. With word spreading, the band wanted to get out and to start playing the material live and so enlisted Lloyd Hanney (who was trained by the late jazz drumming legend Johnny Wadham) to join on drums.
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  • CoconautRecords

    back then i had no fear

    6 hours ago

  • 8bits_bmx

    ОХУЕННЫЕ

    7 hours ago

  • LuanAlvesCobain

    Perfect for the dawn. <3

    yesterday evening

  • barium62

    Regardless of whatever god actually is, I'm sure he's pretty fucking impressed with this band.

    yesterday morning

  • Eradictor

    New work is not planned?

    Sunday morning

  • Ashei

    their first and second albums are perfect... what inspired them to get so boring?

    Saturday evening

  • Dyomaeth

    The best thing about them is that they are a bit more rock oriented than most post-rock bands.

    Saturday afternoon

  • b3ndr

    I fall and dissolve in this music.

    Friday evening
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