From Beyond is a Houston heavy music project centered on guitarist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Robert McCarthy. Its early recordings, including the One Year EP (2012), combine doom metal with psychedelic repetition and the atmosphere of horror soundtracks. McCarthy cited Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka as an important influence and recorded much of the instrumental material himself, with drums supplied separately. Work at Digital Warehaus and performances at Fitzgerald’s placed From Beyond within Houston’s independent metal community, where its dense amplification and cinematic approach linked classic heavy rock to electronic-era horror imagery.
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Held artifact from Day for Night 2016, an edition the act played. Day for Night 2016 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet with the concentric teal circular mark, reading DEC 17–18, 2016, Houston, TX and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list opens Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Björk Digital, Kaskade, Travis Scott, and Nick Murphy, and the LIGHT list opens United Visual Artists, Björk Digital, Golan Levin, and Nonotak, beneath the Consequence of Sound quote "America's most exciting new festival". Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
One appearance documented on a Free Press Houston bill. Records are kept to the lineup sources the archive holds; nothing beyond them is stated.
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Free Press Houston's own announcement, held in this archive, names Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Kaskade, Travis Scott, Butthole Surfers, John Carpenter, Marcel Khalife, Kamasi Washington, S U R V I V E and the Welcome To Houston bill, and states that the music lineup was curated by Omar Afra and Chris Wise. The held 2016 lineup poster carries the same headline order. The full roster below is the announced lineup as recorded by JamBase; it is a documented lineup, not a verified record of performance.
Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name From Beyond. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
