Colin James Marston (born September 13, 1982) is an American record producer and musician residing in New York City. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and owns Menegroth The Thousand Caves Recording Studios in Woodhaven, Queens, while not on tour with one of a number of bands. He is also known for his performances in Behold... The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, Krallice, and the reunion lineup of Gorguts. Marston has produced, mastered, and mixed music for artists such as Imperial Triumphant, Cleric, Genghis Tron, Kayo Dot, Jarboe, Capillary Action, Origin, Panopticon, Altar of Plagues, Liturgy, Pyrrhon, and Orthrelm, as well as for his own bands. Marston is multi-instrumentalist; he plays guitar, bass, and keyboards.
Works Behold... The Arctopus. Dysrhythmia – (experimental post rock). Byla – (ambient/drone soundscapes with guitar melodies). Krallice – (avant-garde/experimental/progressive black metal featuring Mick Barr of Orthrelm). Indricothere – (technical death metal with various metal influences and ambient soundscapes, formerly known as "Vegan Death"). Infidel? / Castro! - (abstract electroacoustic, conceptual metal with George Korein). Gorguts – (technical death metal, bass in Gorguts reunion line up). Domestigrind – (grindcore) Encenathrakh – (technical death metal)
Performance discography
Infidel?/Castro! 2000: Infidelicacy (Self-released/independent) 2001: Case Study In Bioentropy (Self-released/independent) 2003: Infidel?/Castro! And Friendly Bears – A Split Experience (Epicene Sound Systems / Rice Control) 2005: Bioentropic Damage Fractal (Crucial Blast)
Behold... The Arctopus 2003: Arctopocalypse Now... Warmageddon Later (Epicene Sound Systems) 2005: Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning (Troubleman Unlimited) 2006: Split with Orthrelm (Crucial Blast) 2007: Memphis 6-3-06 (s.l.a.p.) 2007: Skullgrid (Black Market Activities) 2012: Horrorscension (Black Market Activities) 2016: Cognitive Emancipation 2020: Hapeleptic Overtrove 2023: Interstellar Overtrove
Byla 2005: Byla (Translation Loss Records) 2007: Byla + Jarboe – Viscera (Translation Loss Records)
Dysrhythmia 2006: Barriers And Passages (Relapse Records) 2007: Split with Rothko – Fractures (Acerbic Noise Development) 2009: Psychic Maps (Relapse Records) 2012: Test of Submission (Profound Lore) 2016: The Veil of Control (Profound Lore) 2019: Terminal Threshold
Solo 2007: Colin Marston – 200220032004 (Self-released/independent) 2007: Indricothere – Indricothere (The Sacrosanct Opuscule) 2013: Indricothere – II (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2013: Indricothere – XI (Self-released/independent) 2015: Indricothere – Plagued (Self-released/independent) 2015: Indricothere – XI. (Self-released/independent) 2016: Indricothere – III. (Self-released/independent)
Krallice 2008: Krallice (Profound Lore Records) 2009: Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore Records) 2011: Diotima (Profound Lore Records) 2012: Years Past Matter (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2015: Ygg huur (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2016: Hyperion (EP) (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2016: Prelapsarian (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2017: Loüm (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2017: Go Be Forgotten (Self-released/independent; vinyl on Gilead Media) 2019: Wolf EP (Self-released) 2020: Mass Cathexis (Gilead Media) 2021: Demonic Wealth (Self-released) 2022: Crystalline Exhaustion (Self-released) 2022: Psychagogue (Self-released) 2024: Inorganic Rites (Self-released)
Sailors With Wax Wings 2010: Sailors With Wax Wings (Angel Oven Records)
Pyramids 2009: Pyramids With Nadja (Hydra Head Records) 2015: A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore Records)
So Is The Tongue 2012: Child of Divorce (Nefarious Industries) – Warr Guitar
East of the Wall 2018: Farmer's Almanac (Nefarious Industries) – Warr Guitar
Gorguts 2013: Colored Sands (Season of Mist) 2016: Pleiades' Dust (Season of Mist)
Sabbath Assembly 2014: Quaternity (Svart Records)
Encenathrakh (All self-released) 2013: Respekt the Demo 2015: Encenathrakh 2019: The 2 Song Promo 19 2020: Live Album 2020: Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake 2021: Studio Album 2022: Ithate Thngth Oceate
Withered 2016: Grief Relic (Season of Mist) – Bass
M Lamar & Mivos Quartet 2017: Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche – Guitar
Panopticon 2019: The Crescendo of Dusk (Bindrune Recordings) – Additional Keys
References
External links The Thousand Caves Recording Studios