History Music / Cognitive

* FilkSong: [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream "Eniac"]], [[Franchise/{{Halo}} "The Maw"]], and [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain "To Feed the Worms"]].

* FilkSong: [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream "Eniac"]] and [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain "To Feed the Worms"]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The band is notorious for their gigantic and ever-growing cast of live fill-ins due to the work schedules of most of the band; aside from Rob and Tyler, it is likely that at least one member will be a fill-in on a given tour.

* FanNickname: "Robnitive" for Rob.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A hard 10 for their entire career, dipping into a soft 10 on their absolute lightest songs.

* BaldOfAwesome: Rob Wharton and Ian Bainbridge.

* ButtMonkey: Rob's tendency to make shortsighted and impulsive posts on social media has made him the butt of many a (friendly) joke.

* WickedWitch: The initial antagonists in ''Deformity''. Unfortunately for the townspeople who killed them, they were essentially avatars of a far worse being, and with the witches dead, things go FromBadToWorse.

* BadassBeard: Ian Bainbridge and Armen Koroghlian.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), Matt Tillett (Wormhole), Vishnu Reddy (The Summoned), RJ Bunda (Alukah), Sanil Kumar (Wormhole), Tadpole Jones (Anisoptera), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian, Tyler Capone-Vitale, and AJ Viana were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), Matt Tillett (Wormhole), Vishnu Reddy (The Summoned), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian, Tyler Capone-Vitale, and AJ Viana were eventually welcomed in as full members, while Ansh and Matt Tillett are Rob's current on-call fill-ins due to Harry and AJ's particularly inconsistent availability.

* RevolvingDoorBand: To the point where Rob is the only remaining founder. The turnover is mostly due to members with heavy and inflexible work schedules that do not allow them to be out on the road for more than a couple of weeks at a time.

* GenreBusting: They're not a straight example of technical death metal by any means, but they mix in elements of slam, brutal death, deathcore, and mathcore in a way that keeps them from really fitting in any other subgenre.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), Matt Tillett (Wormhole), Vishnu Reddy (The Summoned), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian, Tyler Capone-Vitale, and AJ Viana were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), Matt Tillett (Wormhole), Vishnu Reddy (The Summoned), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian, Tyler Capone-Vitale, and AJ Viana were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), Matt Tillett (Wormhole), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian, Tyler Capone-Vitale, and AJ Viana were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* RevolvingDoorBand: To the point where Rob is the only remaining founder.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian, Tyler Capone-Vitale, and AJ Viana were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* AscendedExtra: Armen Koroghlian and Tyler Capone-Vitale.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian and Tyler Capone-Vitale were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Tyler Capone-Vitale (Dismal), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian and Tyler Capone-Vitale were eventually welcomed in as full members.

* AscendedExtra: Armen Koroghlian.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]], and Sanjay Kumar (Perihelion, Wormhole) have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko, Darren Liwen (The Kennedy Veil, Dismal), Jon Warfish (Disgorgement), Dylan Potts, Russell Carollo (Hejira), [[Music/{{Malignancy}} Alex Cohen]], AJ Viana (Hath), Alex [=DeRose=] (Bog Wraith), Tyler Capone-Vitale (Dismal), Anshuman Goswami (Perihelion, Wormhole), and the aforementioned Sanjay Kumar were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian was eventually welcomed in as a full member.

* SpecialGuest: On the album front, Ray Mazzola (Full Blown Chaos), [[Music/MiseryIndex Mark Kloeppel]], Will Smith (Artificial Brain), and [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]] have all done vocal guest spots. On the live front, Elijah Masiko and Darren Liwen were strictly fill-ins, while Armen Koroghlian was eventually welcomed in as a full member.

Formed in 2011 by Scheenier Ramirez (vocals), Rob Wharton and Jake Iannaco (guitars), and Mike Castro (drums), the band initially went without a bassist before finding Pete Ware the following year. Not ones to waste time, they quickly put out the ''The Horrid Swarm'' EP in July of 2012 before going on a brief East Coast run. Ware didn't last, however, and was gone by the end of the year. Not ones to let a lack of a bassist hold them back, they soldiered on without him and managed to get Elijah Masiko to fill in for a few shows, but he was never a full-time option. A very short fall 2013 run with Music/{{Wormed}}, Infernal Revulsion, and Condemned was next; immediately after this "tour", Ramirez was thrown out. Not long after this tour, the band filled the vocal and bass slots with Jorel Hart and Art Sikora, and the recording process for their full-length debut had officially kicked off. Their self-titled debut was released in April of 2014, and several self-funded tours and one-offs followed. 2015 brought a major shake-up; Iannaco had decided to step down because he wasn't really able to commit, and Sikora (who was also an accomplished guitarist) moved to fill his vacant slot. Ian Bainbridge came along a little later to fill the bass slot, but Sikora didn't last much longer and left by the end of the year. In his place came Harry Lannon, and the band quickly finished up writing their second full-length and recorded it. Not long after recording it, Mike Castro announced in 2017 that he was stepping down, citing a need to focus on his newborn child. After a brief search, Armen Koroghlian (who had previously been a live fill-in) was welcomed in as Castro's replacement, and the band announced that fall that they had signed to Unique Leader Records and would be putting out ''Deformity'' (their second full-length) that October. 2017 brought a short Northeastern run with Artificial Brain around the beginning of the year followed by a US tour with Seeker, and while Hart left after the Artificial Brain run (being replaced by Shane Jost), the band is already preparing for a third full-length and additional touring.