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Before Nightfall
Before Nightfall is a melodic death metal band from Brisbane, Australia. They fuse the modern tone and tunings of death metal with the theory and skill used in classical music.

History
Before Nightfall originally formed in the mind of young Michael Varlet, a guitarist and writer who, simply, just enjoyed playing music. After composing many songs in many styles, Varlet found his true calling in the Melodic Death Metal scene.

At the age of 15, Michael started a band called 'Crescent Moon', in which he released a few songs, played some small local gigs and made it into the newspaper and 'Quest magazine'. Crescent Moon quickly disbanded leaving Michael eager for more musical opportunities.

Michael Varlet decided to make another band to get his music out to people. On a quest for other musicians, Varlet stopped at nothing to find the perfect members for his project. Brent Harman was soon discovered through Michael's brother's band 'Insinner'. Brent quickly joined after hearing a song Varlet had recorded in his bedroom at the age of 16 which blew him away. Harman had to be a part of this exciting new sound and soon the magic between the two began.

Smiling At Your Sorrow
On December 14th, 2011, Before Nightfall released there first full length, CD. Smiling At Your Sorrow. Smiling at your sorrow is a Melodic death metal Album consisting of 2 Guitars, Drums, Bass and Keys (sampled). This album consisted of 8 Songs and the full album goes for 40 minutes and 8 seconds only just qualifying to be a full length Studio album.

Smiling At Your Sorrow was based around a story and each track was placed to correspond with the order of the story. The First track Beneath The Smile was a crowd favourite. The melodic riffs and the heavy tone seemed to react with the fans deeply. The plot of the song is that a man's brother was cheating on him and his wife. This enraged the main character and he eventually got convinced by his conscience to torture his wife and crucify his brother with nails in a wall. Lyrics that reffered that the man's partner was his wife lays within the song for Beneath the Smile, where he says " Are you fucking touching my wife again If you do it again I'll show you your end!" Michael said that he doesn't understand why Beneath the Smile is such a favourite. He claimed he never really enjoyed listening or playing it as much as other tracks. He still doesn't mind though as he wants to get his music out to other people.

Other tracks include This Is My World, the battle between the man and his brother and Blood for two, a song about the man being crucified as his wife watches. The band is also considered as gore-metal and plain death metal as the bloody violence seen in the Blood for two video clip and the gorey lyrics.

Track list for "Smiling At Your Sorrow"
1.	 Beneath the Smile	               05:53

2.	 Perception	                       03:56

3.	 Devotion Destroyed	               05:27

4.	 This is my World	               04:47

5.	 Blood For Two	                       04:38

6.	 Can You Feel It Now Motherfucker?! 03:32

7.	 As The Rope Wears Thin         	06:05

8.	 Smiling at your Sorrow	               05:50

Total length 40:08

=Members=


 * Current members
 * Michael Varlet – Lead Vocals, guitar (2007–present)
 * Trent Powell – guitar (2012–present)
 * Matt James – bass guitar (2012–present)
 * Brent Harman – drums (2007–present)


 * Former members
 * Lewis Court (Bass)
 * Jim Davidson (guitar)
 * Jason Varlet
 * Daniel Tannett (keys)
 * Douglas Mabbutt (Guitar)