With a focus on crafting ambience and building power through heavy riffs, Canyoneer produce a listening experience influenced by soundtrack arrangements, and genres both inside and outside of metal realms. The forthcoming EP, Disarmer, is set for release on October 4th, 2024.
Project mastermind Joe Henao comments on the musical inspiration:
“My comfort music is admittedly pop-punk, emo oriented music, and I do think this reflects in the melodies through a lot of my chorus sections; While I love metal, I need melodic sections to liven up the usual driven, almost drone like heavier sections, so I try and employ both.” Henao continues, “I also love mixing up compositional organization, and long building bridge sections – though sometimes this leads to the music feeling wayward and random. It ends up being a balancing act between what I want I want the audience to hear first, and organizing music the way I want personally.”
Formed in 2021 out of Brooklyn, NYC, Canyoneer draws from array of genres notably, emo/pop punk, acoustic singer-songwriter artists, and video game soundtracks, alongside musical influences from metal including the likes of Mastadon and Cloudkicker. 2022 saw the release of the first offering You, Only to Scale, followed by Kittfall and The Forks of Cheat album in the former and latter halves of 2023.
