Origin: Montreal, Canada

Born in the end of september 2004, Shaolin is a six-piece metal outfit from Montreal. Composed of ex-members of Days of Redemption, Camilla Rhodes, On the Edge of Tears and Collapse of the Sky, Shaolin employ elements of grindcore, jazz, metal and hardcore to shatter established conceptions of melody and dissonance. The result is a dizzying construct of extreme heaviness and heart-wrenching harmonic beauty.

Montreal is a rising cradle of novel heavy music, spawning acts such as Ion Dissonance, Despised Icon, Tears from the Sky, Beneath the Massacre, Cryptopsy and Neuraxis, to name but a few. Shaolin is no exception. The bands fearsome double-pronged vocal assault has quickly earned their peers stamp of approval after many intense local shows all across the Province sharing the stage with many of the aforementioned bands.

The band's debut "Gaining Freedom at The Expense of Virtue" is another concrete example of why bands from Quebec are turning so many heads lately.

For fans of Between The Buried And Me, Misery Signals and Unearth.