Joe Occhiuti — American bassist — is part of Ice Nine Kills in the line-up that took the band from the margins of metalcore to the American charts. His function in the repertoire is more complex than in conventional bands of the genre. Ice Nine Kills' tracks adapt specific horror films and change character several times within the same piece — heavy riff, wide melodic chorus, orchestral sections, spoken passages and theatrical stretches recreating the atmosphere of the original. The bass has to hold the harmonic foundation through all those changes, keeping the track coherent while everything else transforms. He was on The Silver Scream (2018) and The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood (2021), the concept albums that defined the band's identity and took it to an audience far beyond its circuit of origin. The tours add another demand: Ice Nine Kills stages each song with sets, costumes and effects, which means performing technically precise material while taking part in a full theatrical presentation — a format unusual in metal, and one few bands manage to sustain without the music slipping into the background.
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