But the experimenting didn't last long for Zircon, Elda and Olivier "Merzenya" Genest quietly left UnexpecT for personal reasons in 2001. UnexpecT finally entered studio for the first time in the summer of 1998 with their debut album Utopia (1999) resulting, the album made it to far flung places like Philippines, Brazil and Russia without distribution (except for their website). It was soon after discovered that having only four in the membership, and believing their music lacked texture, they recruited two other childhood friends of Syriak and Lunorin in the form of: Olivier "Merzenya" Genest (keyboards) and Charles "Le Bateleur" Crépeau (violin) another acquaintance, Véronique "Elda" Michaud (Female vocals), later joined. The old material created to this point was almost completely scraped as the band reshaped old songs and composed new material in the European vein with their new influences of bands At the Gates, In Flames, Moonspell, Dissection and Dark Tranquillity. By then end of 1997 the drummer was fired due to personal divergences so Lunorin, an old time friend of Syriak Chapados, joined. It was in this period that the band's name became UnexpecT by deforming the original word to nullify the original meaning while keeping the succession of letters. By the end of the year, Eryk "Syriak" Chapados and a drummer Ben Gélinas joined the ranks. The band was then called Unexpected and was influenced by American bands like Metallica, Death, Slayer and Megadeth. In 1996 Stéphane "Artagoth" English (guitar) and Mathieu "Zircon" Phaneuf (bass) played together as a thrash metal act with young unknown musicians.
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A torrent of diverse feelings, UnexpecT is a band fitting as much for an energetic-frenzied-slam-in-a-sweaty-infernal-pit-oozing-impure-pagan-blood session than for a lazily-sitting-on-a-water-cloud-smelling-astral-fruits-to-hypnose-an-elf-with-a-pretty-ladie's-finger-in-your-ass moment." Different destinations breathing on the same vessel. Soul-travel being one of the prime reasons of music's existence they give attention to the individuality and personality of each song,to better sail these multiple emotional states of ours. Featuring 7 beings who, in their own words were/are a bunch of "daydreamers and lunar people" attempting to "travel in their art, related to the imagination and the inherent creative power of all human beings, subjective faraway fantasy tales, trance like sensory exploration, undercover denunciation of social aspects and subconscious realities. NexpecT mixed everything from progressive metal, black metal and death metal into ambient sound and even circus music to create a style they dubbed as a "Metal Laboratory" that innovated according to the human shifting mood.
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