The Congregation Presents Entheos and Crystal Lake

There are 5 bands named Entheos. 1) - Entheos Progressive Death Metal/Technical Death Metal from Santa Cruz - California, USA https://www.facebook.com/entheosband https://www.instagram.com/entheosofficial/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZBgVz7Pg5ZAX7pZjURSOI?si=JEPYw1ZCSIyXXrF7pqn9rA Entheos is an American Technical Death Metal/Progressive Death Metal super-group formed in 2015 by ex-members of Animosity, Animals as Leaders, and The Faceless. They released their debut EP Primal in March 2015 and their debut album The Infinite Nothing in April 2016. The band announced their return to the studio in March 2017 and released Dark Future in November of the same year. They toured with Archspire, Inferi, and Vulvodynia in 2022 before releasing their third full-length album, "Time Will Take Us All" on March 3rd, 2023, preceded by four singles. The album greatly outperformed their previous releases, and featured a more updated style of production, maintaining their core sound from the first two albums, but also incorporating the use of Chaney's clean vocals on certain songs, leaning more into progressive death metal with large spurts of technical death metal. On April 3rd, 2024, the band released new single "An End to Everything" with an accompanying music video. Progressive death metal duo ENTHEOS has announced a new EP, "An End To Everything", scheduled for release on October 25, 2024 through Metal Blade Records. Members: Chaney Crabb- vocals (2015–present) Navene Koperweis - drums, synthesizers (2015–present), guitars (2020–present), bass (2019–2021) Current live/touring members: Brian James – lead guitar (2022-present) Robert Brown – rhythm guitar (2022–present) 2) - Entheos Trip-Hop, Alternative, Ambient, Acoustic from Ohio, USA http://entheosband.bandcamp.com/ Carl Shepard - vocals, guitars, bass, programming Alison Shepard - vocals, percussion, keyboard This brother and sister team have been singing together since grade school. "For us, performing together is a really natural thing," says Carl. "It's a kind of dynamic conversation, between each other and our audience. Though I'm also a visual artist, I realize that words and music are sometimes a more powerful form of communication," Alison explains. Duos and Dichotomies Listening to the band you get a sense of their expansive emotional territory: Bliss and sorrow, sadness and wonder. College professors would call this a dichotomy, or perhaps even a paradox. But Alison and Carl aren't seeking intellectual answers. Entheos is looking to pull something deeper from their passionate audience, something from within, using sound. Entheos and Etymology Spirit and enthusiasm are energies the band and their audience share for one another, and also contribute to the meaning of entheos, both as a word and a musical force. entheos has in fact, derived their name from the greek etymological root of the word, enthusiasm. Because of that spirit and enthusiasm, entheos enjoys a growing and returning crowd. For the band, playing to their audience isn't just another gig. "It's a real event, a happening," Carl says. Continues Alison, "It's something special. We're making an authentic connection with our audience every time." 3) - Entheos Folk-core from Ireland http://entheosirl.bandcamp.com 4) - Entheos Atmospheric black metal from Québec http://entheosqc.bandcamp.com

Crystal Lake is a Japanese metalcore band from Tokyo, formed in 2002. The band comprises guitarists Yudai Miyamoto and Hisatsugu Taji, bassist Mitsuru, and drummer Gaku Taura, who is a former member of Nocturnal Bloodlust. After Shinya Hori's departure, Miyamoto is the only member of the original line-up who remains in the band. Crystal Lake have released five studio albums. Their latest studio album, The Weight of Sound, was released on 23 January 2026.