keyboardist. A rough mix of a new track, "Equilibrium", was released on the band's Myspace page on October 25, 2008. In late 2009, Trevor Birnie left the band's line-up and was replaced with Matthew Sweeney in early 2010 on vocals. Musical style and influences The band was heavily inspired by Metallica and Megadeth, since they started out by covering them, as well as Carcass, Death, hard rock, classical music, thrash metal. The Quo Vadis Demo and Forever... featured violin interludes and female operatic vocals, but by the band abandoned these for Day into Night as both those things had become prevalent in metal music, according to the band members. Day into Night was more aggressive and technical than the band's previous offerings, partially due to improved musicianship. Also, guitarist and vocalist Arie was taking guitar lessons from Alex Skolnick of Testament and as a result, he played a few solos on Day into Night and added a Testament influence to the band. One of Bart's biggest influences is Chuck Schuldiner, and Gene Hoglan's playing on Individual Thought Patterns and Sean Reinert's playing on Human are two of Yanic's biggest influences. The album Defiant Imagination features two songs written about Chuck which are also dedicated to him. For bass duties on Defiant Imagination, Bart had contacted Steve Di Giorgio who had played on Death's Individual Thought Patterns. Members Final line-up Matthew Sweeney – vocals (2010–2011) Bart Frydrychowicz – guitar (1992–2011), vocals (1992–2002) Marc-André Gingras – guitar (2008–2011) Roxanne Constantin – bass (2008–2011), keyboards (2003–2008) Patrice Hamelin – drums (2008–2011) Former members Arie Itman – guitar, vocals, violin (1992–2002) Yanic Bercier – drums, vocals (1992–2008) Remy Beauchamp – bass (1995–2002) Stéphane Paré – vocals (2003–2008) Trevor Birnie – vocals (2008–2009) Daniel Mongrain – guitar Session and guest musicians Alex Auburn – guitar (2002, 2005) Steve Di Giorgio – bass (2003) Dominic "Forest" Lapointe – bass (2004–2008) Sebrina Lipari – vocals William Seghers – guitar (2003–2008) Discography Quo Vadis Demo (1995) Forever... (1996) Day into Night (2000) Passage in Time (2001) Defiant Imagination (2004) Defiant Indoctrination (2005, DVD) Live in Montreal (2007) References External links Canadian melodic death metal musical groups Canadian technical death metal musical groups Musical groups established in 1992 Musical groups disestablished in 2011 Musical groups from Montreal Musical quintets