Skullgrid is the first full-length studio album by Behold... The Arctopus

Behold... The Arctopus

Behold... The Arctopus is an experimental metal band from Brooklyn, New York, United States.-Biography:Behold... The Arctopus was formed by Colin Marston and Mike Lerner, who had been playing guitar together for over a year-and-a-half by the time they found a drummer. Their demo We Need a Drummer ...

, released in 2007 on Black Market Activities

Black Market Activities

Black Market Activities is an independent record label which was founded in 2003 by Guy Kozowyk, the singer of the Boston, Massachusetts, based metal band The Red Chord.-History:...

. It contains seven studio recordings of previously unreleased original compositions.

The album was released on CD and two different versions of vinyl. The first version was a red/black splattered vinyl colour limited to 300 copies and the second was a white/red splattered vinyl colour limited to 200 copies. Both versions of the vinyl came with a copy of the CD as well. The CD and both LP versions were released by Black Market Activities, but only the CD was distributed by Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

.

The Jordan Rudess solo in Transient Exuberance samples from his portion in Dream Theater's "Octavarium"

Track listing

1. "Skullgrid" - 1:07
2. "Canada" - 5:31
3. "Of Cursed Womb" - 2:58
4. "You Are Number Six" - 8:50
5. "Some Mist" - 3:47
6. "Scepters" - 3:43
7. "Transient Exuberance" - 7:37

Personnel

• Colin Marston
  Colin Marston
  Colin Marston is an American musician and record producer residing in NYC. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and runs The Thousand Caves Recording Studios, located in Woodhaven, Queens, while not on tour with one of his four active...
  
   – Warr guitar, recording, mastering, mixing
• Mike Lerner
  Mike Lerner
  Mike Lerner is an American metal guitarist best known for his work with Behold... The Arctopus.-Career:Lerner began playing the piano when he was five years old. He attended New York University where he received a degree in jazz composition and also met fellow musician Colin Marston. The two began...
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , additional recording, additional editing
• Charlie Zeleny
  Charlie Zeleny
  Charlie Zeleny is a New York City session drummer, music director, producer, and band leader most popular for his work playing duo with Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater and his drum duet work with Terry Bozzio for The Drum Channel and playing a nonstop 8 minute Drum Solo called "Drumageddon" up an...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , additional recording, additional editing
• Dani Koesterich - Recording (Rudess solo)
• Terry Grow - Artwork
• Stacy Wakefield Forte - Layout

Guest Musicians

• Mick Barr
  Mick Barr
  Mick Barr is an American avant-garde metal guitarist. Notable for his relentless speed and agility on his instrument, he is most well known for being one half of the band Orthrelm, currently signed to Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings label....
  
   – Guitar solo
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   ("You Are Number Six")
• Jordan Rudess
  Jordan Rudess
  Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.-Biography:...
  
   – Continuum solo
  Continuum (instrument)
  The Continuum Fingerboard or Haken Continuum is a music performance controller developed by Lippold Haken, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, and sold by Haken Audio, located in Champaign, Illinois....
  
  ("Transient Exuberance")