An experimental post-hardcore five-piece from Salt Lake City, Utah, Eidola surfaced in 2012, fusing metalcore textures with progressive and post-rock elements. Through Blue Swan Records the group delivered a pair of well-received full-lengths—Degeneraterra in 2015 and To Speak, To Listen in 2017—before the label’s merger with Rise preceded the band’s charged fourth album, The Architect, in 2021.
Drawing parallels to Dance Gavin Dance, Russian Circles, and the Dear Hunter, Eidola was established in 2011 by vocalist Andrew Michael Wells, guitarist-vocalist Brandon Bascom, bassist James Johnson, guitarist-vocalist Matthew Dommer, and drummer Matthew Hansen. The outfit independently released its debut, The Great Glass Elephant, in 2012. Two years afterward the members signed with Blue Swan Records, the independent imprint run by Dance Gavin Dance guitarist Will Swan, and put out Degeneraterra. Early in 2017 they issued the standalone track “Amplissimus Machina” to herald their third studio album, To Speak, To Listen, which included appearances by Joey Lancaster, former A Lot Like Birds bassist Matthew Coate, and saxophonist Nicholas Pope. Shortly following that record’s release, guitarist Brandon Bascom departed and was succeeded by Sergio Medina. In 2021 Eidola returned with the intense single “Counterfeit Shines,” its first new song in four years, which anchored the Rise-released fourth album The Architect.
