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Here you'll find information about the band, its members and partially its history:

Daniel (drm), Felix (gtr,voc) and Anne (gtr).

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Deviated Presence is versatile melodic death metal originating from the Ruhr-area. The music is self-willed, doesn't really fit in any category and is characterized by dynamics and a rich variety. If you were to describe it more closely the music is formerly melodic death metal, meanwhile black-death-thrash-power-prog-metal with jazz and classic influences... Our main idea is to provide people with exactly the music that emerges from us without commercial interest or other ulterior motives. Therefore many songs may not convey themselves at first.

Originally brought into being as a solo-project of Felix Gebhart, Deviated Presence became a "real band" after a long search in early 2002. The following 4 years were challenged in a foursome at first with Hubert Popiolek on the guitar and Frank Pirnay on the bass, then, after the leaving of drummer Hartmut Stoof in 2004, in a threesome with a drum computer. During this time the release of the cd-albums "Fall's Passage" (2004) and "Eerie Sphere" (2005) and several concerts took place. In October 2006 Hubert Popiolek on guitar and Frank Pirnay on bass left the band because of work-related lack of time.
After a further phase as a solo project Deviated Presence began to form up again in 2007: Anne Schaefer (16 at that time) with only three years of playing experience and lots of talent succeeded Hubert on the guitar, and 2008 the line-up finally became fit for the stage with drummer Daniel Dickmann, thus the drum-computer became redundand. Although still hardly involved artistically, both work with best efforts on the reconstruction of the band and the release of the third album in April 2009. With 80 minutes "Fractured Mind" is the longest album in the band's history, bursting with ideas and surprises while at the same time electrifying and catchy. Listen samples at Music.