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By Michelle WisbeyOctober 6 2016 - 9:00amBy Michelle WisbeyOctober 6 2016 - 9:00amFacebookTwitterWhatsappEmailCopyGET VOTING: The Examiner's Falls foster band for 2016 is Launceston metal

act, Zeolite. The Falls Festival is back again this year and The Examiner’s foster band, Zeolite, is competing for a spot on the main stage.  

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band is made up Fraser Mainwaring, Patrick Haas and Lucas Tolputt – with each person adding to the band’s dark, chaotic and technical compositions.

The act made its live debut in 2014 and has since gone on to support acts such as Chelsea Grin and Boris the Blade.

In 2015, they became one of the first tech-metal bands to play at the Falls Festival on New Year’s Eve. 

In February of the same year, they released a single having toured in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

They backed up the single this year with the release of their self-titled debut EP. 

Haas said it was hard to define their style, but it could be described as something like technical death metal with a groove element. 

“I think to be able to progress as a band you’ve got to have this constant process of self-reflection and actually change what you do,” he said.

Haas said that for those people who have not been fans of metal music in the past, they should give it a listen.

“It’s like any sort of music – if you want to get into it you have to train your ear to listen to it,” he said.

“I can’t write unless I’m emotional about something and I tend to write the songs or the instrumental pieces with a subject in mind.”  

The band said to be able to play on the main stage of the Falls Festival would be a “bucket list moment” for the act.

Mainwaring said if they were to play, it would bring a bit more variety to the Falls line-up.

“For a mainstream festival like Falls to start dabbling in having a few more heavier bands it might bring in a few more people,” he said. 

“Hopefully a few people in the crowd who haven’t heard the style of music before will listen in.” 

Each year, media outlets from across Tasmania pick a local up-and-coming band in a bid to get onto the main stage at the Falls Festival at Marion Bay. 

Voting for the Falls Foster a Band competition closes on October 31, to cast your vote head to the Marion Bay festival website.

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