Avrigus

Avrigus is a Gothic metal band from Sydney, Australia. The group has released an EP and one full-length album to date. A second album has been a work in progress for many years; in May 2007 the group's remaining member posted a message on the Avrigus forum speculating that this album will be released in 2008 . Avrigus had its origins in 1990 when Sydney musician Simon Gruer recorded some thrash metal songs. The following year he formed a band wit... more

Avrigus is a Gothic metal band from Sydney, Australia. The group has released an EP and one full-length album to date. A second album has been a work in progress for many years; in May 2007 the group's remaining member posted a message on the Avrigus forum speculating that this album will be released in 2008 . Avrigus had its origins in 1990 when Sydney musician Simon Gruer recorded some thrash metal songs. The following year he formed a band with guitarist Leif Gregory, drummer Kane Jarvis and bass player Steve Caruana. The line-up was only together a short time however. Gregory later featured in various other Sydney bands including Destrier, Aftermath and Dark Order and Jarvis and Caruana formed a grindcore band called Vomit that later became Volatile. In 1993 Gruer began to work as a sound engineer for the Sydney doom/death metal band Cruciform and in late 1993 joined the group when their bass player left. Gruer played keyboards and took over the lead vocal role. The band recorded... less