The story so far (by Jarru 20.2.2007):
The start of something insane and totally weird, aka Depth Beyond One's, goes back to 2003 when Jarru and Jani were introduced to each other by a good friend of Jarru, Marko "Mosse" Moilanen, who was their armybuddy at the time. Jarru and Jani found a guitarist Juho Rikberg to join to play one big gig in the end of the service. Band ruled the asses of armygreenlings. After the gig, the band broke up and the idea was put aside for some time.
One and a half years went by and Jani had moved to Oulu to study a higher degree. Jani and Jarru contacted each other to play more of that "Rosolli" -chaos they had played earlier, both recalling the easiness and good groovy feel of the song and the gig back in 2003. They started to train wicked progressive rhythms and riffs together. The last half of the year 2005 was quite intense training and composing, and 3-4 pieces of instrumental music was created. Strangely, the band still consisted only of a bass player and a drummer. At the time, it felt like a good idea to practice the bass licks to match with Jani's drumming before processing forward.
Then came the year 2006, and Jani and Jarru planned to get more members. A guy was found from the internet (from a forum for musicians in Finland). Young, virtuoso guitarist named Mikko Logrén joined the depths of the progressive abyss. Immediately after Mikko was tested (and approved of course!) by Jarru, the band started to train the older pieces and composing of new material. Mikko had (and still has) billions of riffs up his sleeves and everything started to work.
Two weeks of thoughts and several band meetings brought an idea of a demo to the bizarro mind of the bass player and Jarru told his feelings to other bandmates: "I love you guys. We are going to record a demo next month." And that's the thing they really did. The material was created in six weeks from point zero to ready. Vocalist was easily found from Jarru's other band, Mental Voice. The singer, writer, composer and an excellent guitarist named Antti Karhu agreed to do the vocals after a small chat with him. As a session and gig vocalist, Antti is giving more spice to our music. Synths on the songs "A Shrill" and "Stowaway" were played by a band member from finnish prog metal act Random Mullet. Raine Oikarinen did excellent job.
On the brink of the year 2006 changing to 2007 the founding DBO-trio entered K Sound Studio again to record guitar, bass and drum tracks for our second album named 'Ebb'. Then Raine and Antti came back and filled the songs with their talent and ambition. 21th of February 2007 the deviant 'Ebb' is published through our website for all the world to enjoy and feast upon!
You are now blessed with over an hour of free music. And the band isn't even one year old yet when I'm writing this!
A glance at this moment, and yes, everything is still looking just fine.
Source : http://www.dboband.com/
