Anathema Midiband info

<p>Anathema&nbsp;are a&nbsp;British&nbsp;rock&nbsp;band from&nbsp;Liverpool. The line-up consists of singers and guitarists&nbsp;Vincent&nbsp;and&nbsp;Daniel Cavanagh, their brother Jamie Cavanagh at bass, siblings John and Lee Douglas, respectively drummer and singer, and keyboardist&nbsp;Daniel Cardoso&nbsp;since November 2012.</p> <p>The band was founded as&nbsp;Pagan Angel&nbsp;in 1990 by the three Cavanagh brothers, John, and singer&nbsp;Darren White, as a&nbsp;death/doom&nbsp;band. At the time White was the only singer of the band. The following year, Jamie left and was replaced by&nbsp;Duncan Patterson. Under this line-up, Anathema released their first EP,&nbsp;The Crestfallen&nbsp;(1992), and their first album,&nbsp;Serenades&nbsp;(1993). However, White left in 1995; Vincent decided to act as Anathema's vocalist in addition to his guitarist function in the albums&nbsp;The Silent Enigma&nbsp;(1995) and&nbsp;Eternity&nbsp;(1996), which were going into a more&nbsp;gothic metal&nbsp;direction.</p> <p>In 1997, John left the band, and was replaced by&nbsp;Shaun Steels&nbsp;for the album&nbsp;Alternative 4&nbsp;(1998). Both Patterson and Steels left the same year, replaced by&nbsp;Dave Pybus&nbsp;and a returning John Douglas, while former&nbsp;My Dying Bride&nbsp;keyboardist and violinist&nbsp;Martin Powell&nbsp;also joined the band (Daniel Cavanagh was also acting as the band's only keyboardist, and shared this position since). The only album released with this line-up wasJudgement&nbsp;(1999): the same year Powell switched positions with&nbsp;Cradle of Filth's keyboardist&nbsp;Les Smith&nbsp;who joined Anathema, and Lee Douglas, John's sister, was added to the line-up as a backing and occasional lead vocalist.</p> <p>The band released their sixth album&nbsp;A Fine Day to Exit&nbsp;in 2001, turning to an&nbsp;alternative&nbsp;sound. Shortly after the release, Pybus announced his departure and was replaced by the band's original bassist, Jamie Cavanagh, reuniting the three brothers in the band for the first time since 1991. There were no new members for the next ten years, with the albums&nbsp;A Natural Disaster&nbsp;(2003) and&nbsp;We're Here Because We're Here&nbsp;(2010) all being recorded and released by the same line-up, with the sound turning even more towards&nbsp;progressive rock; however, Daniel Cavanagh left Anathema in 2002 to join&nbsp;Antimatter, returning in 2003. Smith left Anathema in 2011, and Vincent and Daniel both assumed the function of keyboardist for the band's ninth album,&nbsp;Weather Systems, in 2012. The same year, Cardoso, the band's live keyboardist since 2011, joined as a full-time member.</p> close