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Burden of Atlas is an enigma. Part metal, part melody-driven rock, part white-boy soul and totally uncompromising. This fivesome started with a core of highschool friends and has matured into a band that knows where they are going and wants to get done. Spicy. In May of 2006 the band was put together as follows, Austin McPherson on guitar, Josh Carroll on Bass, and Matt Dudley on drums. The band started out with the name “Swander” which was a name that Dudley, and Carroll created. The trio began to write music together incorporating heavy and melodic styles with odd time changes that would form their sound. As the trio progressed throughout the months ahead they had created a mixture of songs that would define the bands original sound. Now that the songs had been created the band ventured out in search of a singer. After a few failed attempts Dudley called up long time friend, and former band mate Ryan Lee to see if he could fill the shoes that no one else could. After that phone call Lee entered a few practices and was inducted into the band in January 2007. The band then called a friend from their previous band to thicken up the sound with some backing guitar work. Jarrod Cox, who played with Dudley, Mcpherson, and Lee in the band Central, joined the group and now rounds out the family. Now that the band was complete, they began writing together and molding the band into what it is today. Burden of Atlas is an imperceptible mixture of lilting vocals, ethreal guitar, and crushing rhythms who think for themselves and answer to no one. Lyrically diverse and soncially brutal, Burden of Atlas personify what it takes to let go and let the music do the talking.