MENISCUS is a post-sludge metal / post-rock band from Sydney Australia. According to the band, "MENISCUS began as an concept to write, arrange, and perform music that focused less on subject matter and conclusive themes, rather exploring expression of moods, feelings and emotions to tell a story without the use of words. Using organic influences, Meniscus have shaped their sound around the free-flowing and soothing properties of water, to the chaotic force of violent storms, with the ability to meld these ideas in a single track." Forming in 2005,Meniscus spent their time painstakingly arranging, rehearsing and refining their own original material. Playing their first live show at the Marquee, the band received extremely positive responses and began a string of live shows throughout their native country that carried them through most of 2006. The band spent most of 2007 recording their debut EP, playing only a handful of live shows in the interim and released the "Absence of the I" EP in late 2007. With new drummer Cameron Brennan joining Marty Wong, Daniel Oreskovic, and Alison Kerjean, the band released an impressive full length album in 2011, "War of Currents." This album however is more post rock focussed, with less of the overt metal sound of the debut. http://meniscusmusic.bandcamp.com/