Shogun

The math-hardcore outfit, <a href="spotify:artist:5gNojKZVDZxYYODoftq4YD" data-name="Shogun">Shogun</a> originated in 1998 in Boulder, Colorado. Known for odd-time evolving riff-driven song structures melded with resolute melody, the five-piece echoed elements of metal-hardcore progressives like <a href="spotify:artist:7kHzfxMLtVHHb523s43rY1" data-name="Converge">Converge</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2T8rmKa2k1uot2okGULagY" data-name="Coalesce">Coalesce</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5m2NwwPj4pzGQC0PQwMBWi" data-name="Cave In">Cave In</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4kRYDoAbgDL7nqeqZhJlA3" data-name="Botch">Botch</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7IGcjaMGAtsvKBLQX26W4i" data-name="The Dillinger Escape Plan">The Dillinger Escape Plan</a>.

Shogun’s initial line-up featured Trevor Graham (lead vocals), David Heinrich (guitar), Jesse Johnson (guitar, vocals), Charles Levingston (drums, vocals), and Joe Nepomuceno (bass). After the band’s initial EP, Everything I Love Kills Me in the End (Not Bad Records), Warren Zeger (lead vocals) and Brian Pennington (bass) replaced Graham and Nepomuceno, and helped produce Enter the Equation (Chainsaw Safety Records), Iconoclast (Goodfellow), and What Sin Has Twisted (Goodfellow).