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UTA student, along with band Olympus, perform Saturday

Written by Jason Boyd, The Shorthorn Scene editor

Wednesday, 03 February 2010 05:18 PM

Olympus will be playing Saturday at Dreamworld Music Complex. The band includes criminal justice junior David Foster. (Courtesty Photo: Olympus)

Criminal justice junior David Foster, guitarist for Fort Worth-based Olympus, will help bring technical metal to the Dreamworld Music Complex stage Saturday.

This show will be the first time in a while that the group is headlining its own show, Foster said.

The technical side of the band comes out especially in the new songs the band is writing, which feature complex and exotic time signatures, he said.

Part of the inspiration came from a Finnish band called Circle of Contempt, but mainly it’s just what has been coming out from the band during the writing stage, Foster said.

Olympus’ MySpace page describes its music as “riddled with choppy breakdowns, constantly changing technical riffs and deep vocals.”

And the fan base is responding, with more than 100,000 page views on the MySpace since its July 2008 creation.

“We actually have a lot more core fans than I thought we would, back when I started,” Foster said.

He said the band’s on-stage energy is mainly handled by singer Noah Driggers. Foster said he’s more focused on just making the music sound well, which moving around too much could hinder.

Information

Where: Dreamworld Music Complex, 3102 W. Division St. Arlington, Texas 76012
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Price: $10, ages 18 and up only

“Our singer is really good at stage presence,” Foster said. “He’s always jumping around and trying to get the crowd into it.”

Foster recently joined the band, and Saturday’s show will be his second with Olympus. But Foster said he’s been playing guitar for about a decade.

Metal wasn’t always his interest. He started out learning oldies, songs his dad liked, on the guitar. He progressed into pop-punk, like Blink-182, and then Taking Back Sunday. Hard metal band Norma Jean sold him on the genre.

“I don’t really like ’80s metal,” he said. “I don’t really like Metallica, really. I like a lot of new metal.”

Foster does like the bands opening for Olympus like Lizard Professor, the band scheduled to take the stage right before Olympus.

He said Lizard Professor is one of the most talented bands in the area.

“Within every minute of every song you’re hearing something different,” he said.

And he said all the songs he’s heard from Urizen, which plays earlier in the night, sound as though they came straight out of a video game sound track.
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