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Simmering away under the radar for the past couple of years with members involved in projects such as Brisbane’s own ‘Red Aster’, Kaloptic is ready to hit the scene with a bang, describing their sound as “Hard rock with a dark, grungy edge”. The four piece, comprising of Mark Egginton (guitar/vocals), David Blythe (guitar/backing vocals), Tina Furlanetto (bass) and Ben Blythe (drums), draw heavy influence from Queens of the Stone Age, Tool and Black Sabbath which has fuelled their sound and given birth to a catalogue of songs with unique structure and intensities. Brothers David and Ben Blythe have decades of bashing away together in various cover projects, forming a strong rhythm based style. Mark and David came together in the last few years and found they were the perfect guitar team through their complementary songwriting ability when playing together. Completing the rhythm section, Tina added the perfect last element - adding unique, jaw-dropping basslines into the mix -